“Mel did some great journalism at a formative stage of the Low Carbon Bulletin, writing articles to constant deadlines and managing to coax interviews from visionary people, typically too busy to be interviewed!”
- John Neame, Managing Director, Enterprise Events Ltd
“It’s often hard to get hold of quotes from hard-pressed local government professionals, but Mel always manages to search them out. Our magazines are enhanced by topical comment, put together in an effective and informative manner by Mel.”
- John Roberts, Editor, Institute of Revenues, Rating and Valuation magazines
Examples of published work:
Environmental sustainability:
- Feature on the use of thorium in nuclear power generation for The Times
- Feature on waste from the construction industry and related government policy, for the Guardian
- Feature on reuse of building materials and launch of new Building Materials Resource Centres for Scottish magazine (see pages 14 and 15 of linked document) from the CRNS, Towards Zero
- Feature on the UK’s original wood recycling project for self-titled ‘world’s leading environmental magazine,’ The Ecologist
- Interview with Dr Robert Watson, chief Scientific Advisor to UK government department Defra for Low Carbon Innovation Network’s bulletin, the Low Carbon Innovation Bulletin
- Feature on geothermal energy developments in the UK for Cleantech magazine
Government IT:- Feature on Estonian e-Government (now more frequently referred to as ‘transitional’ government in the UK) including interview with former Prime Minister of Estonia, Mart Laar, for the Guardian
- Chapters for E-Government Outlook (Buy it on Amazon!), published by Headstar, on government use of technology, including mobile technology, accessibility and Freedom of Information
- Conference reports eg for the Society of IT Management (SOCITM) annual conference
- Write regularly articles for the Institute of Revenues, Rating and Valuation’s (IRRV) Insight magazine. The example here is one on the case for government to use plain English when communicating with the public
Accessibility:
- Interview with Head of Accessibility at Microsoft Rob Sinclair on accessibility of Vista operating system to people with disabilities, for E-Access Bulletin, Headstar Publishing
- News story on (now sadly defunct) BBC Jam, programme of online educational games for kids with disabilities
Technology:
- Feature on Private Mobile Radio for Northern African Wireless Communications and Eastern European Wireless Communications, Kadium Publishing
- ‘How-to’ guide on how RSS feeds can help journalists for Mousetrap Media’s Journalism.co.uk
- Briefings on the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Networking Online Forum, part of the largest RFID event in Europe
Human interest:
- Article on joke telling as a cultural preservative and form of oral history, for the Jewish Chronicle
- Article on an allotment aimed at people with mental illness for Careline
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