2026
(forthcoming): Book review: 'Somebody Else's Kids' by Torey Hayden (1981).
Book review for the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care.
Obituary: Gurmeet Mattu (1955-2026), Scottish Indian author and project co-ordinator of the Glasgow Mela and Pollokshields Mela from 1990-1993.
2025
Book review: 'The Trauma Recovery Handbook' by Betsy de Thierry.
Book review for the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care.
Book review for the Scottish Journal of Residential Child Care.
2024
Learning more about Scotland's Virtual Schools
A blog piece for CELCIS on our research with the Virtual School Head Teachers' Network in Scotland, the first peer-reviewed research on Virtual Schools in a Scottish context. Co-written with Michael Bettencourt.
2021
A blog piece for CELCIS, discussing how teachers and the broader education landscape in Scotland respond to the needs and circumstances of adopted children.
2020
Finding the 'invisible' adopters.
A blog piece for CELCIS, exploring what routinely published statistics on LGBT+ adopters really tell us, and what they don't.
2017
A blog piece for CELCIS, looking at the character background of Bill Potts, played by Pearl Mackie, as companion to Peter Capaldi's 12th Doctor. A version was also published by the Guardian Social Care Network.
The whys and why nots of taking primary pupils on a farm visit
A blog piece for the British Educational Research Association, based on my PhD research around the use of farm visits as a context for outdoor learning and how these can align with Scotland's 'Curriculum for Excellence'. Co-written with Dr Bethan Wood.
2016
PhD thesis: Farm visits: interdisciplinary outdoor learning for primary school pupils and Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence. (University of Glasgow, School of Interdisciplinary Studies.)
