Profile pieces

Monitor on Psychology - the magazine of the American Psychological Association

Mac Smith uses his psychology training to help Google better understand human behaviour

Matt Miller's career is dedicated to supporting the military and preventing veteran suicides

Business Quarter Scotland

Business Quarter Scotland ran a quarterly lunch feature, where I interviewed a high profile business person (and got a nice lunch):

Ed Monaghan of Mactaggart and Mickel housebuilders (Pages 1, 2 and 3)

Dougal Sharp, of Innis and Gunn (Pages 1, 2 and 3)

Nick Price of Bright Purple IT and financial recruitment company (Pages 1, 2 and 3)

Colin Temple, head of Schuh (Pages 1, 2 and 3).

I also wrote about the  ScotGold mine at Cononish, page 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Supercomputing Wales

I wrote the case studies on Supercomputing Wales site, giving examples of where high performance computing is used. While this is ‘copywriting’ rather than journalism, it gives good examples of my ability to translate very complex, technical situations into readable stories.

Other journalism

The Connexion - French news and views

Connexion France: experiences of applying for a carte de séjour July 2018
Connexion France: Take the high speed train to Spain May 2018
Farmer hit by complaint about cows blocking road 26 Oct 2017
New fees introduced for doctor visits 26 Oct 2017
Anti-Parisian stickers cause controversy in Bordeaux 26 Oct 2017
Cross must be removed from statue of Pope 26 Oct 2017
Storm warning continues for Hérault and Aude 19 Oct 2017
Complaints site for telecoms and delivery services 19 Oct 2017
Organic baby follow-on milk recalled by Intermarche 19 Oct 2017
Bourges pizza maker world champion of dessert pizzas 12 Oct 2017
Taxe foncière due by October 16 12 Oct 2017
Paris to ban petrol cars by 2030 12 Oct 2017
Facebook appeal finds apartment for homeless man 12 Oct 2017
Flu vaccinations available from Friday 5 Oct 2017
Almost half of Levothyrox stocks sold in two days 5 Oct 2017
Start up aims to produce chicken-friendly eggs 5 Oct 2017

Scotland Outdoors

Read about audaxing, and the Mille Alba 1000km audax (Page 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5)

IDG News Service

I was senior correspondent at IDG News Service in London from 2001 to 2004, assigning stories and writing news stories, columns and features. These are a few sample articles:

Department of Energy buys fastest Linux system
PeopleSoft aims hosting services at midmarket
MIT, HP to build quantum computer

Other work

I have also written for Scientific Computing World, Planet HPC, and the Digital Systems Knowledge Transfer Network, the Scotsman and CA Magazine but the pages have moved/ been removed and so my work is lost to the mists of time. (I’m sure I have copies on Word, if anyone is really interested…)