MA/PgCert - Data Journalism

"I honestly couldn't have done my job without the MA: I'm using R constantly and a lot of OpenRefine. The course taught me which sources I’d need to use to find data and how to accurately report what the figures mean."

"As part of a competition launched by 360Giving I built a data visualisation that showed themes, amounts and organisations funded by grant makers. My tutor Paul shared the competition details and he’s always encouraging us to try new things, so I thought it would be a good way to practise and develop some of the visualisation skills we’ve learned. When my work was selected as one of the winners I felt so happy and euphoric! I couldn't believe it as I wasn't an expert in this field and was awarded £4000!"

"I wrote a first draft during my two-week RSS work placement in London and developed it further over the summer, interviewing key sources in London, Cardiff and Edinburgh. The main article ran in the October issue of the RSS magazine, Significance. I also published a separate piece in The Daily Mirror on some scandalous British Coal memos I found in the National Archives."