I am a media & communications practitioner with three decades working across the media & education sectors in Australia and abroad. During 2021, I was on contract to the Australia Pacific Security College at the Australian National University to design and write a course for Pacific Island journalists on national and regional security reporting. The pilot program for Solomon Island journalists has now been completed and we look forward to bringing the training to our colleagues in other Pacific states.During 2021, I was also engaged by UNDP on an 8-month project designing and writing the first courses for a new media & public relations diploma at the Maldives National University.International clients include the United Nations Development Programme, UN Women and GFA Consulting (Germany). I have a track record in forming teams to implement complex media / educational projects, especially in the Pacific Islands and across the Indo-Pacific region.See a sample of a team portfolio below.

Design and delivery of accredited training in radio, audio production, video news, multimedia journalism and writing to Cert IV, Diploma and Adv Diploma in Screen & Media students

Research, design and delivery of course for Pacific journalists on ‘Reporting national and regional security in the Pacific’ (remote)

Research, design and writing of new diploma & degree courses in media and public relations at Maldives National University; design and delivery of teacher training to MNU staffdelivery of courses for

I conducted participatory training workshops with youth advocates recruited by UN Women PNG for the Safe Cities Programme. The major output is a Facilitators Guide to be used by advocates to run Gender Based Violence (GBV) workshops in schools and communities. As part of the project, I conducted media training on gender sensitivity to assist the University of Papua New Guinea incorporate GBV into their media curriculum.

I was training consultant to the UNDP in Maldives and trained journalism students at the Maldives National University and media personnel in reporting of elections. I also wrote a guideline publication for the media sector on Election reporting in the Maldives.

Director, Telinga Media Pty Ltd and owner/editor of telingamedia.com. Telinga Media was Implementing Partner for Pacmas's Pacific TVET Journalism Initiative - a media development project to strengthen curriculum and teaching at vocational (TVET) journalism courses in Fiji, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu from 2014 to 2015. See -http://www.pacmas.org/profile/telinga-media-to-deliver-program-of-activities-to-support-pacific-tvets/Institutions (public or private), media and non-government organisations, can hire the services of Telinga Media for special project work or short or long-term consultancies: research, writing, training needs assessment, project design, production of (multimedia) training materials (including for online delivery).Telinga Media specialises in design, training and media production for media & communication-for-development projects and initiatives in the Pacific and Asia.telingamedia.com is a multimedia site of professional reportage covering the history, politics, arts and culture of the southwest Pacific. Unchain my islands ! (until 2014)

Writing and delivering courses in broadcast journalism

Writing and delivering courses in broadcast journalism, editing, supervising production of radio, TV and student newspaper content.