Writing

Labour Exploitation in Academia

Is exploitation acceptable when it comes with the prestige of a PhD?

Unconventional Solutions

The Centre for Human Ecology is feeling the financial crunch that's squeezing all of higher education. Its response is to call upon its most valuable resource: its graduates.

Useful for whom?

Universities pursuing the advancement of society -- or the advancement of business interests?

Luck and the Waiting Game

In the scramble for limited funding, it's a game of hurry up and wait -- for students and departments alike.

Venture-Capitalism and Higher Education

In many sectors, we invest in the areas that promise the greatest short-term rewards. Is this an appropriate model for educational funding?

Fundraising and Pride

The reality of American universities' fundraising strategies.... Does Scotland really want to cultivate a "culture of giving?"

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.

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.

Just Get a Job

On the politics of work and study.

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.

The Reality Gap

Grant allocations, double standards, and student advice websites.

Portrait of a Civilized Country

On what Scots take for granted.

Making Sense of “Operation Iraqi Freedom”

Looking at the economic reasons behind the Iraq war from a multipartisan perspective (final essay for my New Economics module).

Deconstructing Punk Economics

Socratic dialogue, exploring strategic activism within our economic system (originally written my New Economics module).