QUALIFICATIONS

  • in progress PhD Creative Writing (exploring the ways that myths and folk stories intersect with place towards conceptions of home and belonging); Chichester University

  • MA Travel & Nature Writing (specialising in place writing), awarded with Distinction; Bath Spa University

  • BA / MA English Literature and Language with Anglo-Saxon (focusing on British mythology, nature narratives and women’s writing), winner of the Charles Massey Prize for Literature; University of Oxford

  • Postgraduate Diploma European Culture and Belief, 1450-1850

  • Postgraduate Diploma Creative Writing and Poetry

  • Diploma Celtic Mythology and Beliefs

  • Diploma Periodical Journalism (NCTJ)

Shorter Courses:

  • Living Heritage and Sustainable Development (UNESCO)

  • Investigating Place with Psychogeography (OCA)

  • Bardic Grade Druidry (OBOD)

  • Ecotherapy Guide Certification (ECONOVA)

  • Magic in the Middle Ages

  • Old Norse Mythology

  • Celtic Treelore

  • The Mythic Imagination

  • Women in Celtic Mythology

  • Ancient Archetypes, Female Narratives and Nature Traditions

  • Myth and Herbal Medicine

  • Oral Storytelling

  • Landscape and Identity: Scottish Heritage Sites

  • Reading the Woodland Landscape

Memberships:

  • Member of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment 

  • Member of The Folklore Society