About

I like to work in the difficult and complicated.

I am a Scottish African racial construct analyst, researcher, writer, and trainer. For twenty-five years I have been asking one question: why does the architecture of discrimination keep reproducing itself, even among people who know better, even inside systems designed to prevent it? Everything I do is an attempt to answer that question, and to make the answer impossible to ignore.

My work moves between registers that most people keep separate. I have a PhD in geospatial analysis mapping the relationship between climate stressors and child vulnerability in Ghana, an MSc in geophysical hazards focused on sea-level rise and forced population relocation, and an MSc in globalisation and development whose centrepiece was football, race, and human rights. I hold a postgraduate diploma in education, am an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and am completing an immigration advice qualification. My first degree was in American and Latin American Studies, with a year split between Brazil and Cuba.

I have worked in conflict and post-conflict environments with Peace Brigades International in Guatemala, providing physical accompaniment to threatened activists and feeding analysis directly into EU and UN human rights reporting. I have worked in China with VSO, in Spain, in South Korea, and across the Pacific conducting original research into the suppressed origins of surfing. I currently coordinate support for asylum seekers navigating integration systems in Scotland.

My two flagship training programmes, The Neuroscience of Discrimination and Britons to Brexit, take the science of how discrimination works and make it undeniable. Not through guilt. Not through simplified messaging. Through mechanism: the cognitive and structural architecture that makes discrimination self-sustaining even when everyone in the room has good intentions.

The writing here does the same thing through different means. Civilisational analysis through unexpected entry points. The history inside the thing nobody is looking at. The suppressed origin. The inconvenient continuity.

I came with a name that doors do not open for. That knowledge is not incidental to the work. It is the work.

PGDE, PhD, HEA Associate Fellow, MSc, MSc, BA (Hons). DBS checked for vulnerable adults and children.