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Thinking about and advocating for a mentally healthier nation.- Analysing data on local health and wider determinants, toward a mental health JSNA for Birmingham, Solihull and Greenwich.- Writing updated guidance on how to conduct an impactful mental health JSNA (soon to be published)- Collaborating with public health officers and decision makers, across the political landscape, to facilitate the implementation of mentally healthier policies.- Presenting at roundtables, seminars, and council meetings to advocate for mental health in all policies

Thinking about, and advocating for, a mentally healthier nation. - Investigating and advocating for preventative, wellbeing-focussed policies. This includes writing a policy report on the Mental Health Policy Test, and hosting a subsequent roundtable with key stakeholders.- Influencing policy makers to implement mentally healthier policies. This includes organising and attending online parliamentary events.- Writing briefings for sector stakeholders, local councillors, and parliamentarians.- Writing consultation responses for Welsh and UK government, about caring for people with long-term conditions, and the Tobacco and Vaping bill.- Analysing data on local health and wider determinants, toward a mental health JSNA for Birmingham and Solihull.- Working across the sector with other major mental health charities, and between teams within Centre for Mental Health.- Building and sustaining relationships with councillors, and council officers, to help coordinate the mentally healthier councils network. - Writing blogs for Centre for Mental Health, and Student Minds.

Delivering scientific workshops to inspire equal access to higher education:- Created and ran workshops which can be used to enthuse school pupils about science, and encourage them to pursue science in higher education. - Participated in and influenced the university’s widening participation initiative, leading sessions in schools which historically have low university uptake. - Made my research engaging and accessible to Non-experts. - Communicated complex ideas to school-pupils, in a way that empowers them to ask questions and learn more.- Produced and developed classroom resources for workshops, which can assist students with their curriculum.- Collaborated with other tutors to design and deliver workshops which address the scientific method more broadly. - Taught school children to code in Python, by introducing machine learning and the chance to “make their own brain” - Advocated for children from deprived communities to have equal opportunity to attend university.- Worked sensitively with children from different backgrounds, including those from vulnerable or deprived backgrounds.

Studying and investigating heterogeneity in the dopaminergic midbrain: Supervisors: Dr Paul Dodson and Dr Rui Ponte Costa- Trained in various experimental and computational techniques to elucidate the link between rewarding outcomes and the cues that predict them- investigated the role of distributional dopaminergic signalling across the striatum. - Independently developed and used reinforcement learning models to capture heterogeneity of dopamine neurons, drawing inspiration from Deep Mind's distributional reinforcement learning framework. - Developed and performed behavioural, and fibre photometry experiments, to investigate the functional significance of heterogeneity in the midbrain.- Honed problem solving skills to rectify malfunctioning equipment, and to direct research plans according to new information.-Analysed large-scale, time-series data using custom python packages. - Wrote scientifically to communicate research findings in academic papers and conference abstracts.- Worked in a high-paced team environment to curate and collect data, and produce a narrative which explains neurological phenomena

- Assistant and technician in a professional veterinary pathology laboratory. - Prepared and conducted veterinary pathology investigations, following cases through to diagnosis and treatment. - Helped organise and manage the office, including database management and digitalisation of important records.- Served as first point of contact for visiting clients and colleagues

Studied under and assisted a professional research teamSupervisor: Dr UIllrich Bartsch (Jones Lab)Project: Dreem/SPHERE validation study - Investigated applications of the sleep wearable device, ‘Dreem’, in the home healthcare environment, ‘SPHERE’. - Recruited and coordinated 11 participants across 22 study sessions. - Safely and appropriately applied 20-20 EEG arrays to human participants- Confidently and coherently explained experimental protocols to subjects. Analysed psychological questionnaire responses.

- Selected to participate in a collaborative research project between Exeter College (Reach Academy) and the Met Office. - Worked on large volumes of data collected from home weather monitoring hardware, to identify potential improvements in this system. - Collaborated with other students, and Met Office contacts, to develop experimental aims and analyse this data.- Findings were presented in front of industry experts.