As a long-term resident of Broxbourne, I am proud to continue working with CA Broxbourne into my second 3 year term as Trustee, where I hope to continue to bring a young perspective to the strategy and governance of our board. My particular interests in the charity’s strategy are in helping to develop a dynamic and sustainable volunteer recruitment and retention programme, and to work on boosting our community presence, to ensure that our clients are able to receive the advice and support they need now and in the future.Led a fundraising campaign as part of Helping Herts 174 mile walk, a county wide fundraising event, resulting in £10,000 fundraised to cover core costs at our charity. Vice Chair and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion trustee lead.

Graduate Teaching Assistant within Department of Materials. Assisting and delivering workshops and laboratory sessions for Undergraduate and Masters students studying Materials Science, so far including sessions on: SEM use for materials characterisation, microscopy image analysis/Image J, bio-materials processing and titration laboratories.

As Student Programme Partner, I worked alongside a senior teaching fellow to help develop and improve graduate school courses related to Professional Development. This role focussed on the review, development and co-delivery of the Motivation and Independence module. Key improvements made as part of the project include:Conducting interviews on research independence with professors to be published as part of pre-course work to strengthen understanding, Improvements to course materials eg student workbook and delivery materials (PowerPoint).

I provide private tuition in science subjects, through delivering tailored sessions to a range of KS3, GCSE and A-Level students.

In this role, I am responsible for: • Organising community events within the School of Life & Medical Sciences, including personal and professional development seminar series• Acting as lead student representative to drive change and improvements to learning and teaching across the school • Attending meetings with Pro Vice Chancellor, Associate Dean and Programme Leads regularly.Successes: • SCO of the Month November 2020. • Planning and deliver of a Personal & Professional Development seminar series for students and staff• Vice Chancellors Student of the Year 2021/21

Responsibilities: • Greeting prospective students• Answering relevant subject-specific and general questions• Providing tours and talks• Answering student enquiries on the helpdesk/in the careers office• Assisting at Freshers Career Fair, to support local and national employers with setting up and signposting students to relevant employers• Assisting with interviewing potential careers advisors. Skills developed: Confidence, communication skills through public speaking, team working and being proactive.

I have spent my BSc Biomedical Science sandwich year at CPS to gain practical laboratory experience; most notably in the Histopathology specialism and to compile evidence towards the IBMS portfolio of competence.Responsibilities:• Booking in of histology and cytology specimens onto LIMS• Assisting with specimen dissection• H&E and Special Staining of specimens• Tissue block and slide retrieval and compiling cases for review or send away• General laboratory maintenance• Maintaining laboratory documentation upload and filing• Slide Scanner project- validation and acceptance.Skills developed: • Working independently and within a team• Excellent communication- written and verbal• Organisation and time management• Prioritisation and initiative thinking• Introduction to microtomy training.As a part of my placement, I presented a poster about the future of pathology; including digital pathology and scanning technologies, at the LMS Placement Showcase.

I was awarded a Harry Smith Summer Studentship by The Microbiology Society for an 8 week project at The University of Hertfordshire. My research project was focused on the sensitisation of C. difficile to phage infection by extracellular vesicle phage receptor transfer under the supervision of Dr Shan Goh.Skills:•Working with an anaerobic cabinet;•Aseptic technique;•Pipetting;•Bacteria culturing with varying media;•Phage assay/ propagation;•Staining and fluorescence microscopy;•Data analysis;•Filtration.I have presented my data and results to various groups, including to the Post Graduate Research Seminar cohort at my University which included post graduate researchers and academic staff.