When I moved from Calgary, Alberta to Edinburgh, Scotland in 2017 for my master’s degree at the University of Edinburgh, I was pretty anxious. Even though I had already been the to UK many times, and had friends here to help me out, moving overseas is difficult. The process of relocating is different for everyone […]

I’m now at the point of the writer’s journey where I look back at what I’ve made, and think: it’s time to get serious. But querying agents is such a bizarre feeling. It is especially weird because I have spent my career in advertising and PR, so I have won and lost many pitches over […]

It may seem out of place that I’ve taken a sudden shift in my blogging to go from something creative to something political, but this is one of the tools I have to formulate my thoughts on what is happening in the early days of February 2025. It’s not a surprise that Canadians are none-too-thrilled […]

I’ve thought about writing this post for awhile because I want to share all of the scholarships I applied for as a Canadian international PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. My goal with this post is to illuminate funding opportunities, and to help other Canadian researchers and potential doctoral students alleviate the financial stress […]