Jen Stout

CV summary

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Positions 

• Freelance Journalist: Sep 2021 - present

• Alfa Fellowship, Moscow; Nov 2021-Mar 2022

• Journalist, BBC Scotland; 2018-2021 ​

• Journalist, MDR, Leipzig (IJP intern); Oct-Dec 2019

• Reporter, Stranraer & Wigtownshire Free Press; 2017-2018 

• Reporter, CommonSpace, Glasgow; 2015-2016

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Education

• City of Liverpool College, January-July 2017
  Diploma, National Council for the Training of Journalists.

• University of Edinburgh, 2013-2015
  Sociology MRes (Postgraduate General Certificate) 

• University of Edinburgh, 2007-2012
   MA (Hons) Sociology (First Class) 

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Awards & Scholarships

• Shortlisted for the Foreign Press Association awards, arts and culture category, 2023

• Shortlisted for the Anne Brown Essay Prize, 2023

• Travelling Scholarship, Society of Authors, 2023

• Runner-up Reporter of the Year, Scottish Press Awards, 2023

• Shortlisted, Amnesty Media Awards 2023

• Shortlisted, Best Investigation, Freelance Journalism Awards 2023

• Rory Peck Trust training bursary, 2022

• Alfa Fellowship, Moscow, 2021-22 (cut short due to invasion of Ukraine)

• Offered Erasmus Mundus scholarship, Russian & East European  Studies, 2020

• George Weidenfeld Bursary, International Journalists' Programme,  2019

• Longlisted for Financial Times Paul McLean trainee programme, 2018

• Bakala Journalism scholarship, Prague - August 2017

• Scholarship + New Statesman internship, Journalism Diversity Fund, 2017

• Coverage of protests against deportations in Glasgow awarded ‘Highly commended’ by Scottish Refugee Council, 2016

• Final shortlist candidate for Channel 4 Dispatches traineeship, 2015

• Awarded 4-year ESRC PhD scholarship, 2012

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