Now the rush of term-end is behind me, I can afford time to document some of the projects I’ve been up to between my Academy studies.

FLUIDITY is an experimental short film improvised one weekend in February 2026 with the Academy of Live Technology’s Postgraduate cohort, at the behest of visiting Multimedia Artist-Engineer Diana Scarborough. A Cambridge-based creative whose work blends science, art, and ecology, her Sounds of Space project is an inspirational extension of concepts I’ve used in my own work.

The film presents a meditation on water, flowing around a spoken word performance by student Dami Olagbegi. Soundscape and Foley were recorded by contact mics and hydrophone, capturing the sound of underwater instruments, percussion, and melting ice. Suitably swirly visuals were then evoked by filming a tray of water through an old-style desk projector while adding different colour pigments with a pipette.

My part was to blend these elements together, along with separately supplied stock footage and a little alchemical flavour. Layering down a simple synth soundtrack to mix the recordings into form, and editing the video against an unyielding deadline.

Using GarageBand and DaVinci Resolve on iPad to record and edit, and shooting the projections with a SmallRig-ged iPhone, the tools to hand ensured swift turnaround from idea to image. Although I could have used some extra time to polish things properly on home hardware, I’m happy with the raw honesty of the result.

It was a great pleasure to be invited to work alongside the Postgrad students, to get a feel of what awaits my own Masters journey, and to play without expectation for the joy of creating art.

https://youtu.be/UeOFbDiJMMc

Diana Scarborough: dianascarborough.co.uk
Sounds of Space: soundsofspaceproject.bandcamp.com

The Self in Travel Writing and the discourse of travel

https://daveydreamnation.com/non-fiction/essays/the-self-in-travel-writing-and-the-discourse-of-travel/

New Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme Piloted in Orkney

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://theorkneynews.scot/2026/03/22/new-postgraduate-scholarship-scheme-piloted-in-orkney/

Just spreading the word about our great MA in Contemporary Literature and Culture at Loughborough University. As it happens, I met with our wonderful students this morning to talk about the current state of the literary market and the diversity deficit in publishing on an amazing module called 'The Market, Literary Prizes and Canon Formation'.

https://www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/masters-degrees/a-z/contemporary-literature-and-culture/

We also offer an MA in Creative Writing.

#MA #Masters #postgraduate #publishing #culture #English #lboro

Just spreading the word about our great MA in Contemporary Literature and Culture at Loughborough University. As it happens, I met with our wonderful students this morning to talk about the current state of the literary market and the diversity deficit in publishing on an amazing module called 'The Market, Literary Prizes and Canon Formation'.

https://www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/masters-degrees/a-z/contemporary-literature-and-culture/

We also offer an MA in Creative Writing.

#MA #Masters #postgraduate #publishing #culture #English #lboro

Start of our 2nd Semester PGR Info Fair showcasing all the different services available to our doctoral candidates/postgraduate researchers.

#postgraduate #DoctoralCollege #GraduateSchool #phd #PostgraduateResearch #researcherdevelopment

If you are still looking for a last minute stocking filler for those researchers and students in your life, today is the last day where you can pick up the kindle version of It Shouldn't Happen to a PhD Student for only 99p. #lessthanacupofcoffee

#research #researchers #PhD #postgraduate #student #healthcarescience

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shouldnt-Happen-PhD-Student-survive/dp/1806050757

Good news! I will start my first role within the mental health field the end of November as a counselor. This process took a lot longer than anticipated.

#postgraduate