World's Greatest/Scariest - Mentorn Media , United Kingdom
2012 - Assistant Producer
Series revealing some of the most extreme uncut footage ever caught on camera, including terrifying airplane landings in "World's Scariest Plane Landings". Conducted interviews with pilots and aviation experts, as well as survivors, in the US for Discovery re-version of the programme / second series of the show for Channel 5. Series Producer: Amy Walker (Discovery US / Channel 5, 4 x 45' )

X-Machines - Wag TV , Unspecified
2011 - Assistant Producer
Series following the world's most impressive machines on cutting-edge missions - from the world's largest moving machine mining coal in Germany to Russian-made helicopters installing anti-avalanche cannons at heights of 2,400m at the Sochi 2014 Olympic site. Found stories and set up filming in Europe, Russia and Singapore. Filmed sections for broadcast using Z5.
Series Producer: Greg Chivers (Discovery Channel 8 x 60' )


The Global Health Show (working title) - Rockhopper TV , Unspecified
2011 - Assistant Producer
Magazine programme bringing together developing world health stories from all over the globe. Spent 3 weeks in Lesotho with PD filming a soap-style collection of stories about how healthcare workers on motorbikes are changing the impact of HIV and TB on communities. Conducted interviews, shot 2nd camera, liaised with local contacts keeping schedule up-to-date and relevant. Series Producer: Alex Seaborne
(BBC World)

Factory Lines - WAG TV , Unspecified
2011 - Researcher
Researched factories in the UK, US and Russia, contacted some of the largest industrial producers, negotiated difficult access & found stories for this series following the life of a factory as they scramble to launch a new truck/train/airplane etc. Set up filming at very short notice showing electricity pylons being manufactured and assembled in tornado-ravaged Alabama. Series Producer: Jon Stephens
(Discovery Channel 10 x 30')


How Do They Do It? - WAG TV , Unspecified
2011 - Researcher
Worked across multiple stories on one of the world's most popular technology magazine shows, broadcast worldwide to over a billion subscribers. Found stories in a variety of locations, negotiated full access to manufacturing facilities and found characters appropriate to each story. (20 x 30'/ Discovery Channel)

Developed & set up filming for a Discovery pilot 'How Do They Do It: Animals'. Scoured online sources to find the world's most amazing animals, spoke to experts to find out scientific basis for their strange traits, and set up shoots in Tennessee (home of the 'fainting goat') and the French Alps (home of the fearless mountain-scaling Ibex).

Nobel Highlights 2010 - Blakeway Productions , Unspecified
2010 - Researcher
Documentary profiling this year's Nobel Laureates. I digested heavy scientific papers on physics, chemistry, medicine and economics in order to brief directors and the series producer on the main scientific points behind the Nobel prizes and their significance. Was on-hand to answer any science queries from the production team, including checking shooting scripts for accuracy. Liaised with laureates and institutions - as well as taking a more investigative approach - to get the best archive material for the programme. Series Producer: Leslie Woodhead (BBC World/PBS 1 x 60')


Tamasha - Clan Productions , Unspecified
2010 - Researcher
Weekly magazine arts & culture show for BBC Persian TV. Contributors range from film actors and authors to historians and political cartoonists; venues from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to the English National Opera. Fast-turnaround production involving getting access to personalities and performers, briefing interviewees, organising/running shoots and filming sections for broadcast using Z7 (2nd camera).

Alvin's Guide to Good Business - Rockhopper TV , Unspecified
2010 - Researcher
Series on social entrepreneurship throughout the developing world presented by Alvin Hall. Made initial contact with the presenter and contributors, was heavily involved in researching and structuring the narrative of each film alongside the series producer, obtained filming permission, compiled schedules and briefed presenter Alvin Hall on the relevant aspects of each programme. Set up shoots in Malawi, Japan, Cambodia, Zambia, India, Mozambique and Tanzania, arranging special permissions for filming at rural health clinics in Zambia and election centres in Mozambique.
Series Producer: Alex Seaborne
(BBC World 8 x 23')


Kill or Cure? Season 7 - Rockhopper TV , Unspecified
2009 - Researcher
Series on healthcare issues in the developing world, including:
Taking Fakes explores the deadly side of the counterfeit drugs industry. I set up filming for part of Dr Alexander van Tulleken's investigation into fake anti-malarials in Tanzania, with little government support, through local journalists. Co-ordinated with contacts at INTERPOL and the Kenyan and Ugandan governments in order to schedule a complicated 10-day, 3-country shoot.
Bittersweet follows urban migrants in India and Kenya to show that diabetes is far from a "western" disease. I was responsible for sourcing contributors in Kenya through local diabetes clinics and co-ordinating a filming schedule.
From the Heart looks at the treatment of irregular heartbeats, the main source of stroke deaths. I identified stroke clinics in London, contacted managers and negotiated sensitive access; I also liaised with the UCL Hospital in London to arrange filming with their progressive stroke unit.
Series Producer: Mark Turner
(BBC World 6 x 23')


The Ashden Awards International Winners short films - Rockhopper TV , Unspecified
2009 - Researcher
The awards acknowledge inspiring sustainable energy solutions in the UK and developing world and help ensure that they are spread more widely. I set up a series of intensive 3-day shoots in various locations in India (including Leh in Jammu & Kashmir) for a shooting PD.


Love in a Time of HIV: From Russia with Love - Rockhopper TV , Unspecified
2008 - Researcher
Series looking at 'ordinary' HIV positive couples starting families. I worked on the episode set in Russia, which has one of the highest rates of HIV in the world. Fluent in Russian, I spoke to members of an HIV support group in St Petersburg to find characters, most of whom - despite now seemingly normal lives - have painful stories to tell.
Director: Laura McNaught
(BBC World 23')


The Other America - Rockhopper TV , Unspecified
2008 - Junior Researcher
Series addressing poverty and its solutions in Latin America. Working alongside directors and the Production Manager, I was responsible for coordinating shoots in Bolivia, Nicaragua, Peru and Colombia incl. equipment hire, visa and permissions, safety assessments and post-production incl. digitizing, logging and arranging translation of material. I worked to tight budgets and deadlines.
Series Producer: Mark Turner
(BBC World 5 x 23')


Survival - Rockhopper TV , Unspecified
2008 - Junior Researcher
Series about the world's forgotten diseases. The international production spanned the DRC, Niger, Bangladesh, the Philippines, South Africa and Brazil. I worked across the whole production, incl. writing research briefs and safety updates, assisting in scheduling shoots, packing & checking equipment and provided office support on-location (hiring replacement kit in Brazil, re-scheduling flight sequence in Philippines due to delays).
Series Producer: Alex Seaborne
(BBC World 8 x 45')

WAG TV                                                               June - Nov 2011
Junior AP on Discovery Channel's 'X-Machines', following the world's biggest and oddest machines on incredible training or real-life missions all over the world.

Rockhopper TV                                                 May - June 2011
Location AP filming a soap-style collection of stories about how healthcare workers on motorbikes in mountainous Lesotho are changing the impact of HIV and TB on communities for a magazine programme bringing together developing world health stories for BBC World.

WAG TV                                                               Jan - May 2011
Researcher on Discovery Channel's popular series 'How Do They Do It?', pilot 'How Do They Do It - Animals' and brand new series 'Factory Lines'. 

Blakeway Productions                                    Oct - Nov 2010
Science Researcher on the official Nobel documentary profiling the 2010 Laureates.

Clan Productions                                              March - Oct 2010
Researcher on the series 'Tamasha' for BBC Persian Television

Rockhopper TV                                                  March 2008 - March 2010
Researcher on over 30 documentaries for BBC World, with films on subjects as varied as sustainable fishing in Japan, fake anti-malaria drugs in West Africa and ingenious irrigation methods in India.

Vivum Intelligent Media                                    Nov 2006 - June 2007
Development Researcher/ Assistant to Nick Rosen, award-winning TV producer, journalist, editor of www.off-grid.net

• Documentaries Researched ideas on current affairs subjects which included: preparing for the smoking ban, impact of golf courses on the environment and carbon monoxide safety in the home.
• Book "How to Live Off Grid" by Nick Rosen (Doubleday, 04/2007) Drew together information from newspaper archives, interviews and internet resources to provide corroborating evidence for key arguments in the book, which focuses on people living without mains water or power, the problems they face and the ingenious solutions they find. Organised promotion for the book, including the launch party
• Website Wrote daily pieces for www.off-grid.net - a leading resource for those wanting to go "off-grid" or already doing so. Wrote concise comment and news pieces to very tight deadlines, familiarised myself with the issues most interesting to readers.

Mentorn Television                                            July 2006
Development Researcher (unpaid)

• Developed and researched ideas, wrote proposal drafts, chose images and designed the overall visual style of treatments
• With pitches for Nat Geo and Discovery, was able to provide advice to the team on communicating difficult concepts to a scientifically-interested but not necessarily scientifically-literate audience

Imperial College London
MSc in Science Communication                                           2005 - 2006

• Explored current science topics generating controversy and interest in the press
• Made a short film, "Like Fishing", about metal detectorists in Kent searching for hidden treasure
• Researched interview technique for my written dissertation, "The Naïve Interviewer", engaging with leading scientists in the Physics Department during in-depth interviews, discussing current research and its significance.

Imperial College London
BSc Physics (2:2)                                                                   2002 - 2005
Areas of interest: Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Politics (Humanities Option)

Rye St Antony School, Oxford
A-levels and GCSEs                                                               1995 - 2002
Mathematics (A), Physics (A), French (A), History (A); AS-level: Art (A)
11 GCSEs, including A* in Maths, English and Double Award Science

Shooting
Shooting on Sony Z1, Z7, PMW-EX1, Canon 5D (own kit); confident with radio mics/boom