Published Work
My published work includes long-form journalism, interview-led features and policy-informed writing across charity and community platforms. I specialise in human-centred reporting on care, lived experience, social policy and the everyday impact of systems on people’s lives.
The work below represents a selected body of published articles. I continue to write regularly for Clothing Collective alongside independent projects.
Long-form & Policy-led Journalism
Look closely at these shoes. This photograph was shown to several people without any context. Before you read any further, ask yourself a simple question. What story do these shoes tell? Here’s the truth.
The immediate picture might be someone who has been poor for a long time. Someone unemployed, homeless or already receiving support. Someone whose need appears obvious. The evidence offers a more complicated picture.
Although clothing is not treated as a standalone policy area, several measures in the strategy could influence clothing poverty, depending on how they are implemented and how families experience the changes.
Children in the UK are being pushed to the side lines of sport not because they lack talent or interest, but because they lack sportswear.
Black Friday and Clothing Poverty in the UK: A Decade of Imported Consumption and Rising Deprivation
At one end of the market, households buy discounted fashion at unprecedented scale; at the other, millions cannot afford the essential clothing required for daily life.
Clothing poverty persists in the UK despite widespread surplus. This article examines how access infrastructure can exclude people with unseen disabilities.
What Absolute Poverty Means in the UK – and Why It Is Recognised Too Late
People being “in need of clothes” is a phrase that often passes without resistance. But what if we stopped to ask what that need actually consisted of?
Britain’s Clothing Poverty in a Global Consumption Paradox
This article forms Part 1 of a two-part series on Clothing’s Hidden Crisis, presented here alongside Clothing Consumption, Participation and Public Voice as a paired analysis.
Britain’s clothing poverty in a paradox of abundance without access
This article forms Part 2 of a two-part series on the Clothing’s Hidden Crisis, presented here alongside Clothing Consumption, Culture and Systems as a paired analysis.
The circular economy is a system-wide approach to managing materials, aimed at keeping products and resources in use for longer and reducing the need for new raw materials. But the government strategy increasingly presents it as a solution to environmental pressure from production and consumption
Additional articles for Clothing Collective are published on an ongoing basis and are selectively featured here. All published articles can be found here
Community Reporting & Commentary
Rowde entry
Cruelty Makes Noise, Kindness Makes Progress
A published commentary on everyday kindness, informal care and grassroots responses to social gaps.
Rowde Village News, December 2025
Columns & Essays
The Availability Heuristic: Why we think what we hear is the only thing happening
A reflection on one of psychology's most influential cognitive biases and its impact on how we interpret news, risk and social issues.
Rowde Village News, August/September 2026