Portfolio

It all adds up… laboratory campaign

An award winning campaign delivered in collaboration with Mike Young Designs and on behalf of Kimberly-Clark Professional

It all adds up health and safety mini guides

Delivering employee engagement tools to the KimTech sales force. This campaign conceived and produced multiple branded ‘mini guides’ to spread a simple understanding of complex issues such as biosafety and biohazard control and provide added value for key customers.

Malvern instruments

Technical and content strategy, project set up, application notes, web content creation, editing and SEO for malvern.com
In collaboration with Kapler Communications

Panalytical

Technical content creation and editing for web, application notes, editorial, and PR. In collaboration with Kapler Communications

panalytical.com

Dalton Nuclear Institute

Content creation and editing to strict deadlines
Report writing for the 2014 REF Framework.
In collaboration with ScientaScripta

dalton.manchester.ac.uk

War room on-demand copy production for The Countrywide Network’s Aella online estate agency application.

Project consultancy: 6-month term

On demand copy creation within strict style guidelines.

Functional UI/UX copy, auto emails, landing pages and features.

Live example: www.austinwyatt.co.uk

Clinical laboratories and Sexually Transmitted Diseases

On behalf of Labs are Vital

Test your resolve: Producing accurate DLS data analysis

On behalf of Malvern Instruments

Assessing dry powder inhalers by Mark Copley

On behalf of Copley Scientific

Materials talks

Set up, content creation, editing, client training and hand over.
In collaboration with Kapler Communications: materials-talks.com

Sample blogs:

• Konnichiwa Malvern Instruments Japan
• Celebrating 10 years of webinar success!
• My top ten predictions for the next decade: 2011 – 2020

Top 10 tips for raising independent children

I have always encouraged independence in my children. As did my own parents when raising me.

I suspect it has as much to do with regaining my own independence as quickly as possible and minimising the rather scary possibility of having a ‘clingy kid’ stuck at the end of my apron strings for too long. However, I also firmly believe that independence breeds confidence and self-motivation which ultimately lead to success.

How I taught my own kids to be independent

Having been brought up myself to respect, admire and pursue an independent lifestyle, learning how to teach my own children to be independent came rather naturally. In fact, I probably had to work a lot harder than many parents do when it came to ensuring I didn’t push them into too much responsibility too soon.

Remembering always that I am simply a mother to two healthy, independent boys (currently 15 and 20) rather than any sort of expert, I can offer the following practical advise for parents:

1. Always praise the positives to breed in self-confidence
2. Encourage your children to try new things
3. Be active in being seen to push yourself outside your own comfort zones at times
4. Don’t be frightened to work carefully with your teens as they explore beyond their own boundaries
5. Never jump to the conclusion that ‘it can’t be done’
6. Always be open to discussion
7. Foster an environment where all possibilities are researched before conclusions are drawn
8. Let your child be responsible for their own decisions wherever possible
9. Give your children an active role within your family group
10. Let them have a go alone before assuming they need help

How to teach a man to cook in 5 easy steps

The road to happy adventures is a happy, trust-filled marriage.

One of the best ways to keep your marriage happy and balanced is to make sure you both take responsibility for the daily household duties.

Of course, if one of you is the main earner and works long hours this may mean ‘sharing’ only happens at the weekends. This is, however, no reason not to pursue this compromise. Even the possibility of short breaks from having to face that daily challenge; ‘What should I cook for dinner today?” is worth a little effort up front.

Five easy steps to get your man cooking:

1. Buy him professional chef’s whites
2. Show him how to make a roux
3. Tell him he looks unbelievably sexy when he cooks
4. Eat absolutely everything he creates and tell him it tastes WONDERFUL!
5. Hide the chilies

This last is essential. For some reason there isn’t a male in the world who wont go through a phase of adding more and more and MORE chili into everything he cooks… it’s a man thing!