It was the year David Bowie died, the year of Donald Trump’s election, the year of an extremely divisive referendum … More
Category: Columns
Ways of Seeing: Climate Change and ‘A Plastic Ocean’
Around this time last year, I was lucky enough to get to travel to the Great Barrier Reef and submerge … More
The EU Rambling: On Loneliness in Success – the Grande École Problem
What they did not tell me when I applied for Erasmus in Paris is that I would be surrounded by … More
From the Tiber to the Clyde: A Roman’s Life in Glasgow – Glasgow Before Glasgow
On 3 March 2017 at around 7.10 a.m., a very sleepy me opened her inbox to discover she had received … More
Chai Chats: Trying Very Hard to be Moderately Happy (An Ode to Living your ‘Okayest’ Life)
Everything I’ve ever written that has been vaguely… not awful has been rattled out whilst sprawled on the kitchen floor, … More
The EU Rambling: On the Fake Perks of High-Functioning Anxiety
It has been two months since then, but I can still feel my cold hands.
Ways of Seeing: Ai Weiwei’s ‘Human Flow’ and the Crisis of Humanity
While on student exchange at the University of Sydney, I started working at the University call centre as a student … More
Neurodiversity at University: One Year On
It was almost exactly a year ago today that I found out that I was going to be a columnist … More
Part 8: Home
A brief history of Glasgow in 8 columns, part 8: Home.
Neurodiversity at University: On Perfectionism
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been obsessed with control. At nursery, I’d spend ages tidying up, making … More
