With many years'​ experience as a journalist, I moved into higher education to pass on some of those skills to the journalists of the future. My career as a journalist saw me covering stories for the BBC for 25 years - from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the historic 2010 election count. I began my career in radio as a journalist in the World Service Newsroom at Bush House. I worked as a senior manager in the BBC and then chose to go back to hands-on broadcasting with roles in BBC local radio as Bulletins Editor, Reporter and Producer of the flagship Breakfast programme. My live reporting of floods in Shropshire and my role as a producer of a special programme from Scarborough helped two stations make the shortlist for industry awards.I taught an International Broadcast Journalism MA at Birmingham City University, before moving to Spain for five years where I edited an English language lifestyle magazine, covering anything from the history of flamenco and sherry, to homes & interiors or the two thousand-year-old art of fishing for tuna.On returning to the UK, I moved into HE to help shape the next generation of journalists. I am proud to have developed a training resource to help journalism students be resilient in the face of growing online abuse and harassment. The link to the published work is here: https://journalism-education.org/2021/05/a-modern-day-equivalent-of-the-wild-west-preparing-journalism-students-to-be-safe-online/ The series of short videos we created can be found using the hashtag #DontTakeTheFlak .I also helped develop an online resilience free e-learning course for the NCTJ https://www.nctj.com/cpd-courses/safety-and-resilience-for-journalists/I now volunteer for BCB radio, reporting on anything from local election counts to cultural events.