June 2021 – present
RESEARCH FELLOW IN SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS, UCL INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES, LONDON
Designing and conducting spatial and statistical analyses (in ArcGIS and R) to investigate impacts of food systems on the environment in the UK, India, and South Africa, for the international, interdisciplinary SHEFS project.
SHEFS Co-Investigator and manager: Dr Carole Dalin (University College London)
November 2018 – June 2021
POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, CENTRE FOR BIODIVERSITY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH, UCL, LONDON
Designing and conducting spatial and statistical analyses (in ArcGIS and R) to investigate impacts of agricultural land use on biodiversity in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Zambia, for the international, interdisciplinary Sentinel project.
Sentinel Co-Investigator and manager: Dr Tim Newbold (University College London)
April 2018 – November 2018
RESEARCH ASSISTANT, CENTRE FOR BIODIVERSITY AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH, UCL, LONDON
Part-time Research Assistant (alongside final six months of PhD) on the Sentinel project, with experiences including: scoping suitable data; conducting preliminary analyses; and participating in a stakeholder scenario-building workshop in Ghana, co-facilitating a session.
Sentinel Co-Investigator and manager: Dr Tim Newbold (University College London)
October 2014 – November 2018
PhD CANDIDATE, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON / NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE, SPITFIRE DOCTORAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP, SOUTHAMPTON
‘A trait-based approach to the biodiversity of deep-sea hydrothermal-vent communities’
Lead supervisor: Dr Amanda Bates (University of Southampton / MUN)
Co-supervisors: Dr Jon Copley (University of Southampton), Dr Adrian Glover (Natural History Museum, London), and Prof. Verena Tunnicliffe (University of Victoria, Canada)
October 2013 – October 2014
TRAINEE MODELLING SPECIALIST, OIL SPILL RESPONSE LTD.
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT INTERN, OIL SPILL RESPONSE LTD.
September 2012 – September 2013
MSc OCEANOGRAPHY, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON / NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE, SOUTHAMPTON
September 2009 – July 2012
BSc PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY with PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON
2012
WORK EXPERIENCE, BBC 2 / DISCOVERY SERIES ‘RISE OF THE CONTINENTS’, BBC LONDON FACTUAL
2008 – 2013
HISTORIC PROPERTY STEWARD, ENGLISH HERITAGE
2007
WORK EXPERIENCE, NYSE Euronext.liffe FINANCIAL FUTURES EXCHANGE