I’ve published features in The BMJ, Metro, The New Feminist, All4Maternity and other platforms. Alongside journalism, I bring professional experience in strategic planning, public service design, enterprise development and place-based work. This informs how I capture nuance, translate insight, and explore how systems and governance shape everyday life.

I’m interested in how culture, governance and service delivery intersect, and in partnerships that support meaningful change. I’ve published peer-reviewed research on housing delivery, cultural context, governance and place, and also write professionally for organisations, writing insight-led reports, articles, plans and recommendations, with the aim of facilitating positive change.

A common thread throughout my work is exploring how decisions made within institutions affect people’s lives on the ground, particularly in relation to housing, health, justice and access to services.

Through this site I work with organisations, and through tessaspring.co.uk I support individuals navigating life and home transitions (including via organisations).

Pregnancy, health and a push for change

Following my own experience of Pregnancy Associated Osteoporosis (PAO), I began a journalism campaign to raise awareness and call for improvements in maternity and women’s healthcare.

I’ve written about the physical and emotional impact of delayed diagnosis, the experiences of other PAO mums, and the broader need for change in how the health system responds to women’s pain and postnatal health.

This led to a Newcomer of the Year nomination (2024) and a Student Journalist of the Year award from the Medical Journalists’ Association. I have since also become a trustee for the new charity PAO UK.

• Opinion feature: Pregnancy and breastfeeding broke my back, The New Feminist
  
• Opinion feature: We want change for mums with Pregnancy Osteoporosis, All4Maternity (the Practising Midwife blog)
  
• News feature: NHS is failing women with rare but serious pregnancy associated osteoporosis, The BMJ (flagged on cover of 25 May 2024 issue: ‘How the NHS is failing PAO patients’). PDF here.
  
• News feature: Being pregnant broke my back and left me disabled but midwives told me my pain was normal, Metro.co.uk.
  
• Interview feature: Staff shortages and policy changes force midwife to stop practicing: Hannah Sail shares her experience of midwifery and aspirations for the profession, mums-to-be and her career, TG News
  
• Personal experience feature: Pregnancy Associated Osteoporosis: I have 72-year-old bones, Kingston Courier.

UK national news

Reporting on health, justice and public policy with a focus on accountability and impact.

• Hope for British justice as Lords debate IPPs: a prison sentence described as psychological torture, Kingston Courier
• HPV vaccine combats cervical cancer in women – Kingston University professors pivotal in fight against HPV-induced cancers, Kingston Courier
• Calls for a men’s health strategy, Kingston Courier
• How spring and moving clocks forward impacts human life, Kingston Courier

Local news for Kingston, South West London

Reporting on housing, health, public services and community issues in Kingston, Surrey and south west London.

• Video: Dragon boat crew for breast cancer survivors wants new members, Kingston Courier
• Kingston Council using 4% of £3.8m developer contributions for new affordable housing, Kingston Courier
• Afghan families evacuated from Kabul now homeless – how Home Office management impacted health and housing chances, Kingston Courier
• Miscommunication at Kingston Council forces popular Manor Park cafe to cease trading, Kingston Courier
• Pregnancy Associated Osteoporosis: I have 72-year-old bones, Kingston Courier
• Kingston paddlers thankful for breast screening, Kingston Courier
• Seven-figure sum awarded to woman for string of errors at two London hospitals, Kingston Courier
• Kingston exhibition launches following King’s visit to New Malden Korean community, Kingston Courier
• XL bully ban: A balancing act for responsible owners, Kingston Courier
• Kingston punk guitarist and dance DJ forging her own path, Kingston Courier

Opinion: urban planning

A reflective blog written while volunteering in my local community to help establish a neighbourhood forum, alongside working at Renaisi supporting the Big Local programme.

• What neighbourhood planning can learn from Big Local, Freethinker.

Reporting from South Africa (GroundUp)

Early investigative reporting on labour rights, land, education and public health in marginalised communities.

• Groot Constanita workers complain of unfair treatment, GroundUp
• Altercation highlights farm tensions, GroundUp
• Professor Gary Maartens on public health in the Western Cape, GroundUp
• Waldorf school to open in Masiphumele, GroundUp
• South African students at forefront of massive astronomy project, GroundUp
• Nyanga Woman is fighting to get her Eastern Cape family home back, GroundUp
• Farmer accused of cutting electricity and food credit to break strike, GroundUp
• Farm workers prepare for general strike, GroundUp
• Showdown over police inquiry, GroundUp.