Simon is a 4th Year MA (Hons) Modern History and Philosophy undergraduate at the University of St Andrews (1st).

Grade and Achievements
Simon achieved AAAAA grades in his Highers and AAAA grades in his Advanced Highers (English, History, Spanish and RMPS). Simon was listed in St Andrews Dean’s List 2024-2025. He was also commended in 2025 for ‘Best Feature’ at the SPAs, Britain’s largest annual student journalism awards.

Hobbies and Interests

I love running at sunset, learning Salsa and bouldering. Student journalism is a really big passion of mine too — I’ve edited my uni paper and this year my friends and I started a satirical magazine! I’m very big on learning languages in my spare time; currently I’m trying to pick up Lebanese Arabic! I’ve also started sketching trees and flowers on little orange post-it notes I stick up around my room.

Ambitions

I want to go into journalism after graduation, particularly foreign correspondence or feature writing. I’m also considering documentary-making; for my dissertation I’m making a year-long film.