My PhD focuses on Faroese poetic balladry, oral and written literature. Post my research residencies in Oslo and Shetland I divide my time between Tórshavn, Stockholm and Edinburgh.

My PhD studies began with my first residency at the North Atlantic Fisheries Institute, Scalloway UHI campus in Shetland. My research is within the discipline of Island Studies and my primary focus is on the Faroe Islands. The PhD is funded through the University of the Highlands and Islands Graduate School and the Institute of Northern Studies in Orkney.

I guest lecture at DIS Study Abroad in Scandinavia on the topics of Psychology (Psychology of Loneliness, Emerging Adulthood) in discipline of Human Development, Psychology and Sociology, Consent Law (Samtyckeslagen) Prostitution and Counter Trafficking at the Justice & Human Rights Program for the course Human Trafficking and the Sex Trade. DIS is a non profit study abroad foundation established in Denmark in 1959 with locations in Copenhagen and Stockholm. DIS provides semester, academic year and summer programs for upper division undergraduate students from North American colleges and universities.

I am undertaking a 2 month research stay funded by the University of Bergen led CAS funded project Ballads Across Borders: The Faroe Islands in the Norse Story-Telling World (BARD).

Consulting for the Head of Buying and Production to package Mini Rodini's Supplier package incl. Quality Manual and Measuring Guidelines.

Industry Leader for the Business Developer Program for the Module Leading Projects and People. A 72 hour industry sprint, clients to find, briefs to answer, teams to build and individual tasks to complete.

The Task Force against Trafficking in Human Beings (TF-THB) has been in operation since 2006. It honoured ten years of work in September 2017 with a performance of Try Human by Disa Krosness at the Tjarnarbío theatre in Reykjavík. The TF-THB is a multi-disciplinary group of ministry experts who meet three to four times a year to initiate protective and preventive work to counteract different forms of trafficking in human beings. The new TF-THB strategy up until 2025 was adopted under the Danish Presidency . The Task Force is supported by Secretariat functions. The TF-THB has just published the 2020 Baltic Sea Region Round-up report on Human Trafficking. In 2017 launched the awareness raising campaign Human Trafficking - A crime that is all of our responsibility.

I completed my period of employment under the Danish Presidency of the Council. Selected high-level eventsMinisterial Session 2018 chaired by Margot Wallström. High level Presidential and Ministerial event on the Rights of the Child. Ministerial Session of the Foreign Ministers for 25 years of the Council25 years of Nordic-Baltic Cooperation hosted by the Icelandic Minister of Foreign Affairs Ms. Lilja Alfreðsdóttir, Reykjavík, September 20167th Annual Forum of the European Union Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region held in Stockholm, 20169th Baltic Sea States Heads of Government Summit hosted by Dr. Angela Merkel, Stralsund, Germany on 30th-31st May 2012

The Balticlab Innovation Programme now has 300 alumni and a community of hundreds more.A development and learning programme which focused on prototyping, ideation and creativity, with a special focus on inclusion of women into innovation processes and leadership. Each year involved a large networking gathering in Stockholm followed by a series of week-long intensive residencies and workshops in different cities across the region. Balticlab has now become a network connecting talent from 13 countries, all of whom are drivers in their respective communities and fields. In December 2016 we brought half of them together across all four years.

The Project Support Facility is a seed funding mechanism of the Council of the Baltic Sea States to support regional partnerships strengthen and grow. The Selection Committee consists of the Committee of Senior Officials (CSO) Troika (preceding, current and future Chair of the CSO) alongside the Secretariat management (Director General, Deputy Director General, Head of Administration and Head of Media and Communication). The Selection Committee forwards their proposals to the Committee of Senior Officials for discussion and approval. Another €1million was agreed for the period 2017-2019 in December 2016. The previous €1million was awarded to 20 projects over the two year period 2013-2015. Meetings are currently Chaired by the Icelandic Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Department for Conflict and Humanitarian Affairs held a series of workshops for an e-learning tool. It gives embassy personnel training on human trafficking & identification and referral of potential victims.

I researched, compiled and authored the publication Prostitution Policy in Sweden - Targeting Demand, about the Swedish law criminalising the purchase of sexual services and its effects. It will support the Swedish Government Offices, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ambassador at Large for combating trafficking in persons, the Swedish Gender Equality Agency and authorities abroad in their work informing international actors about the Swedish model.

HOTROD was an avant garde arts and culture magazine - based out of Oslo, Norway.

Prospect Magazine is an essay based, current affairs monthly magazine.Attendance of the Hay Festival in Hay-on-Wye with the magazine for the Prospect Platform Attendance of the Prospect Manchester Debate - A region on the move? How can the North West raise its game? The debate was in association with the Northwest Development AgencyAttendance of the Global Development Forum for the Human Rights v. Basic Rights debateAttendance of the RSA Lecture Series in association with ProspectManaged the Prospect supplement Clear Thinking in association with The TimesMember of the Cultural Publications GroupAttendance of the Annual Think-Tank Awards hosted by ProspectManaged promotions with the London Review of Books, Weber Shandwick Public Affairs and the John F. Kennedy LibraryAttended the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool

Modern Painters celebrated 15 years with the publication of Writers on Artists, pieces ranged from academic Germaine Greer interviewing Paula Rego to author Siri Hustvedt writing on Morandi. Modern Painters was a Quarterly Arts Journal that turned monthly and is now under the Louise Blouin Media Group. I worked under the editorial leadership of Karen Wright

MacMillan Publishing House used to publish The Grove Dictionary of Art and the Grove Dictionary of Music. The Dictionaries Division is now part of Oxford University Press.

Curated auction space involving art wall and film projection with artist. All money raised from sale of prints (21 artists were involved including the Chapman Brothers, Tracey Emin, Damian Hirst and Bridget Riley) was donated to the UNICEF campaign in Kosovo.

Streetwise Youth London (now part of Terrence Higgins Trust under the name Swish) gives support services, advice, referral and assistance to young people involved in prostitution. During this time I was also Phoneline Operator and contributing editor to the AIDS Treatment Project bulletin. The AIDS Treatment Project was a non profit organisation that provided the latest research and information on new and existing treatments for HIV and AIDS. It ran a phoneline for help, advice and assistance. It was formed in the summer of 1996. The aim was to provide HIV Positive people and those involved in the treatment of HIV and AIDS with up-to-date and accurate information. With this in mind a collection of articles was compiled of Clinical trial results into a fortnightly document called "Doctor Fax". Each issue of "Doctor Fax" was faxed or posted to approximately 600 Doctors and Clinics throughout the U.K. i-Base was formed in April 2000 by the former publications, editorial and meetings team from the AIDS Treatment Project - HIV i-Base is a treatment activist group, HIV-positive led and committed to providing timely HIV treatment information to HIV-positive people and to health care professionals.

The Representative Officer is an elected post of the Student Union to represent and actively work to ensure that the views and needs of the relevant group are considered within the Student Union and University community. They sit on the Union Council and relevant committees and hold weekly drop-in sessions for students to discuss issues and challenges they face on campus or in their personal life. I saw the role as one of a coach. I also administered the Lesbian, Gay Bisexual and Transgender (Queer) awareness programme and coordinated regular speaker / listening schemes. My main role was to facilitated an on-site support group as well as to liaise with other agencies making provision for the groups personal growth needs. During this time I volunteered through a summer community-based project placement at the First Base Homeless Centre. First Base is an open door centre for homeless and vulnerable women and men in Brighton & Hove. I was providing an activity programme for young homeless and shadowed councillor and welfare benefit adviser with their support work on case basis.