Writing

Funding

The politics of funding for international students: subsidising the wealthy and excluding the poor in a country that wants "fresh talent."

Gentrification

The politics of student accommodation: examining Edinburgh council's proposal to limit student housing.

Freshers' Weeks

Cultural differences between students in Edinburgh and Glasgow: demographics, class, and attitudes.

Indentured Servitude: The Real Tragedy of Student Debt

My personal experience with student debt, and the wider politics it reveals. Published in WireTap Magazine, and on AlterNet.

Tuition Fees Create a Debtor's Prison

The reality of student debt in America, its effects on wider society, and hard questions for Scotland. Published in the Scotsman.

Power of the Pen

Exploring the role of writers in social movements, focusing on the frameworks writers build and how they can recreate the dominant paradigm, or empower us to see the world differently (final essay for my Spiritual Activism module).

The Personal is not Necessarily Global

Review of The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight by Thom Hartmann, exploring the interplay between personal and global transformation (essay for my Self & Society module).

Greetings from the Twilight Zone

Letter to my peace movement friends in Italy at the supposed finish of "Operation Iraqi Freedom."

Guilt of a White Girl

How the internalized voices of war undermine the struggle for peace.