Fergus Cooper

I'm a storyteller, passionate about stories that engage audiences and move people.  Often it's about the ONE!  The one who had the courage to stand up and to speak out for others. The one who made a real difference.  

I'm interested in exploring communal history.  Not the classroom texts that focus on kings and queens, empires, divine right, and imperial might.  But stories about ordinary people struggling to earn a living, and to raise a family.  The fight for equality and justice, for a fair wage and safe working conditions. Social history, the people's history, is all our history.

I've worked in the public, private and voluntary sectors and led 4 children's charities.  As a marketing communications professional, I've devised and led major public policy campaigns. I'm a media trainer running courses on TV interview training. I've worked locally and internationally and delivered specialist communications training to NGO personnel being deployed to conflicted countries.

I have a BSSc(Econ) from the Queen's University Belfast, a PGC in Marketing from the University of Ulster at Jordanstown, and an HND in Creative Media from the Northern Ireland Film & Television School. (See my LinkedIn profile).

I'm a 30+ year member of the National Union of Journalists.