Between 2011 and 2015, I worked as a researcher then assistant-producer in documentary tv.

Starting out at Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s award winning, anthropology-inspired company KeoFilms, I conceived and developed the first BBC food show to explore Chinese cooking from within China. I was then deployed to a range of Keo productions, including Adam Nicolson’s super exploration of lesser-known Seventeen Century writers, before moving on to work for the BBC in-house.

I became adept at self-shooting — often supplying second-camera footage — and improved on editing skills learned during a graduate film degree at The New School in New York. But it was the ideas stage that kept drawing me back, culminating in a period with the BBC Current Affairs development team.

This leaning eventually combined with a long-held love of (and fear for) the natural world to lead me into print and online journalism. Yet I am always looking for ways to put my new experiences to use, and am keen to contribute to environmental development and production projects alike.