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The Academic Record · 2020–2021

The thinking underneath the strategy.

Five graded university essays, recovered and published in full with their marks attached. Written between 2020 and 2021 — political economy, value creation, motivation theory, Brexit and who culture actually belongs to. The arguments the later work is built on, dated and checkable rather than asserted.

Awarded

First Class Honours

BSc Marketing & Management · Queen Mary University of London

The one completed-degree claim on this estate.
Stated once · exactly
The record, plotted · scale 60–90 20202021
70first-class line 73BUS233 78.8BUS244 80BUS133 83BUS130 85BUS220

Five per-module coursework marks · every one above the 70 first-class line · 7,016 words published in full + one exact PDF

The record · five entriesMarked · Queen Mary University of London
85% Mark awarded · highest

BUS220 · Persuasive Strategies in Marketing · 2021 Highest grade

MAGA Was Never About the Working Class

The highest-graded essay. Political economy decoded through marketing theory. What the movement sold, who bought it, and what they actually paid for. Offence intended.

Read the essay 1,000 words · in full
The thread · receipt → argument
2021Graded 85% · BUS220 2026Re-argued · The Journal

The receipt predates the argument by five years — “MAGA Was Never For You”, the 2026 Journal essay, re-argues what this coursework put on the record in 2021.

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83% Mark awarded

BUS130 · Business in Social & Historical Context · 2020

Value Creation vs Value Extraction: What Apple Taught Me About Building

The distinction between companies that extract value from communities versus those that create it. Shareholder value maximisation and who actually pays the price. Written in 2020. More relevant in 2026 than the day it was submitted.

Read the essay 1,818 words · in full
80% Mark awarded

BUS133 · Organisation Studies · 2020

The Art of Motivation: Why Managing People Like Machines Doesn't Work

Workers viewed as units of production. Brexit. COVID. Global uncertainty. A systematic deconstruction of motivation theory and what it actually costs to treat human beings as variables in a productivity equation.

Read the essay 2,197 words · in full
78.8% Mark awarded

BUS244 · European Business Context · 2021

What Brexit Taught Me About Going Global Before You're Ready

Systemic analysis of political branding failure applied to international market entry. The mistakes a nation made that any ambitious founder should study before expanding. The four freedoms. The hard border. The real cost.

Read the essay 2,001 words · in full
73% Mark awarded

BUS233 · Creative Industries · 2020 PDF only

Who Does Culture Actually Belong To? Richard Florida Got It Wrong.

Richard Florida's creative class theory under the microscope. Gentrification as a feature, not a bug. The creative economy built on the displacement of the people who made the culture in the first place. The question was never who creates — it was who benefits.

PDF-only — deliberate

This document’s embedded fonts drop ligatures on text extraction — “Crea ve” for “Creative” — so a transcription would misspell the prose. Published as the exact original instead.

The original record Exact PDF · unedited

Each essay is published as the original submitted document, unedited, with the mark it received. Marks are per-module coursework marks, not the degree classification — the degree award is stated above, once, exactly.

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