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• Education:

  I went to Cirencester Deer Park School in my hometown but wasn’t sure what I wanted to do after my GCSE’s, so I went to Cirencester College. I really enjoyed what I studied there and so carried it on at the University of Birmingham. I then wanted to specialise, so I continued my studies at Durham University, before doing a postgraduate course at Queen Mary University of London.

• Qualifications:

  I have the standard English, Maths, Triple Science, History, & P.E GCSEs ranging from A to C (with a near D in maths because I suck at numbers). I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do so I took a lot of different courses to try and find out, starting with a Public Services Btec Diploma, and Classics, History, and Psychology at A level before taking Anthropology and Archaeology at AS level in a third year. Here was where I found and fell in love with Anthropology, so I decided to study it at university and got my BA in Anthropology with Political Science. When I wanted to apply my studies I chose to specialise in healthcare, and went on to then study my MSc in Medical Anthropology. I’ve since gained a PGCert Health Data in Practice alongside my career.

   

   

• Work History:

  My first job was at an admittance gate to my town’s local water park. That wasn’t so great. Then I worked in a car dealership, so at least I was inside and dry that time. I had any random part time job I could get when I went to university, from catering to campus tours, and those were actually kind of fun. My first job after university was as a Research Assistant, and I’ve been some variation of Research Assistant/Associate/Fellow pretty much ever since. I’ve worked for a lot of universities, such as University of Aberdeen, The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Durham University, and University College London. I’ve also worked for the government a few times, at Public Health England before it was disbanded (RIP) and the NHS.

• Current Job:

  My current work is with a cancer research group at University College London. While they do all the brainy statistical stuff, I help with involving cancer patients and members of the public in our studies. So a lot of the time I’m meeting and talking to people about their experiences with their illness, and trying to work with other researchers to find ways to make our studies better and more reflective of what patients and their family members tell us is important.

• Employer:

  University College London