Freelance Writer, Editor & Postdoc Turned Tutor

I am a freelance writer, editor and postdoc specialising in medicine and healthcare. I originally did my master’s degree at the University of Aberdeen between 2008 & 2012, focussing on Formal Logic, Moral Philosophy, Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Metaethics, Ontology, Pragmatics and Philosophy of Science. In my time there, I also worked on continental rationalism and spent far too much time reading Friedrich Nietzsche. While at Aberdeen, I also majored in English Literature. While at Aberdeen, I often leapt between Scotland and Switzerland, where I had family, interning as a journalist working in the pharmaceutical industry, specifically in pharmcometrics at Novartis Pharma AG. It was there that I developed a good working knowledge of biochemistry, disease pathology, biotech and the drug development process.

I later did my PhD at the University of Birmingham, focussing on Metaethics and Philosophy of Language, pioneering a non-realist account of moral discourse called Expressive Fictionalism, which portrayed moral language as a means of communicating emotions, and projecting these onto the world through utterances, using a constructed morality narrative as a contextual platform for self-expression. Basically, I spent six years talking about why kicking cats was still wrong, even if the universe didn’t care. In the meantime, I formed working relationships with many within UoB's archeology department, in so doing building on an already fairly sophisticated understanding of (and unbridled fascination with) history in terms of both its content and its methodologies in terms of research, namely via cross referencing of sources and forensic examination following excavations.

These days, my normal day job involves advising and helping clients in the pharmaceutical industry write up reports, manuscripts, presentations, conference transcripts and other documents on the design and analysis of experimental studies to generate suitable data for deducing the posology for new medicines. I also provide advice for those seeking to publish and promote their investigations.