2022: Chosen for Edinburgh International Film Festival Talent Lab Connects development scheme.
2021: Chosen for the FLEX initiative for agile storytelling, with Screen Yorkshire.
2015 : Comedy script Karmic Kurtz, with co-writers James Fearnley & Phil Martin was in the top 14% of all the submissions received by the BBC for their 2015 Comedy Call Out.
2015: Longlisted for Channel 4’s Coming Up TV Drama Writing Opportunity, pitched a script to Touchpaper TV as part of the process.
2013 : Selected for Digital Storytelling for a change – a 2 day residency for storytellers to explore how our skills could influence an aspect of health & environmental wellbeing.
2013 : Selected for Regards Croises an international screenwriters workshop programme organised by Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) in partnership with the National Film and Television School (NFTS), L’Ecole Supérieure des Arts Visuels in Marrakech (ESAV) and the British Council.
2013 : Selected for The Triangle Scheme, a development opportunity for writers, directors & producers.
2013 : Long listed for Little Brother’s Big Opportunity , a TV initiative for drama writers.
2012 : Selected for Edinburgh International Film Festival Talent Lab
2010 : Writers’ workshop for BBC Scotland TV drama “River City” and selected for further funded training.
2010 : Selected for “Scotland Writes” master class (BBC Scotland new writers initiative)
2008 : MA in Screenwriting from Screen Academy Scotland
2007 : Training and Performance Showcase (TAPS) Nations Continuing Drama TV Writing Course- TV drama script “ A Score” short listed to second phase.
2007: Animation Finishing School course “Creating and defining memorable characters” co-tutored by Yvette Kaplan (Ice Age, Beavis and Butthead.)
2004 : Writer’s Factory 22 week course- Scriptwriting for short films.