Who I am
I’m a Johannesburg-based writer, editor, and science communicator, with a particular focus on heritage science. I work at the intersection of science and narrative, bridging the space between research and the people it speaks to. Much of my work centres on supporting researchers and postgraduate students in the heritage sciences, helping complex ideas travel clearly and responsibly beyond their point of origin.
Where I Come From
I trained in archaeology and palaeontology, with research focused on the “golden age of mammals”: investigating evolutionary change over the last five million years and the processes that preserve fossil remains. I have published peer-reviewed research in leading scientific journals and have served as Editor-in-Chief of Indago.
Alongside this, I’ve worked as a research manager, facilitating scientific projects at both institutional and private levels. This means I understand the research process from multiple perspectives: as a researcher, an editor, and someone responsible for making projects function in practice.
My long-standing engagement with fiction, reading, and reflective writing has further shaped how I approach communication. It has given me a strong sense of narrative flow, journalistic principles, and a deep attentiveness to language. These are the skills I bring to both academic editing and science communication.
Writing as a Practise
I see writing as a reflective practice. For me, science communication, academic editing, and creative writing are not separate pursuits, but different ways of engaging with texts: making sense of complex ideas, strengthening how they’re expressed, and thinking carefully about audience, structure, and meaning. Alongside commissioned and service-based work, I deliberately maintain space for slower, more reflective writing, which continues to inform everything else I do.
Closing Note
This site brings those strands together in one place. While the work takes different forms, it’s united by the same commitment to thoughtful, well-considered writing.
If you’re here to commission work, explore collaboration, or simply read, you’re very welcome.
