Callum is competing for PhD funding from the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science Student-led Open Competition 2024/25

Operating a public taxi from Academy Street ranks in Inverness since 2014, Callum has an eclectic background entailing private education, HM Naval Colleges & working mostly* for global investment banks including ANZ, DKB, HSBC, RBSI & UBS in London and the Channel Islands (1986 to 2006) - then in tourism in France & Scotland since 2008 (managing a holiday chateaux in Bordeaux, a yacht charter business in Montpellier then cheffing/managing the café at the Auchindrain open-air museum in Argyll). Degrees since attained with the University of the Highlands and Islands are in philosophy, politics & economics (PPE (HONS) 1st Class Distinction 2014-2018) and psychology (MSc 2019-2022); with graduate membership of the British Psychological Society (GMBPsS) gained in 2023, Callum is currently undertaking a PhD in Clinical and Health Psychology & competing for PhD funding via the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science SGSSS Student-led Open Competition 2024/25 (click the thistle→)

*freelance contracts (both client facing & developing asset management software with SQL/Visual Basic) interspersed with e.g.: dispensing technician NPA training (National Pharmaceutical Association) in London 1990-1992 (DNF); intermittent hospital, hotel, restaurant, bar & nightclub work; world travel; skydiving licence obtained in Cyprus 2004; training in France with the French Foreign Legion in 2011 as an infirmière for FFL Veterans, plus private care work for elderly women in Scotland in 2012 before (re)commencing academia in 2012 [Full C.V. available]