Since March 2021, I've served as a project officer at EUSEA, spearheading communications and dissemination efforts for four Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe projects. These include initiatives like Our Space Our Future, aimed at inspiring youth from low science capital communities to explore space science careers, and ResBios, promoting the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) framework in European Bioscience research institutions. Currently, I focus on projects like Step Change, advocating for Citizen Science in conservation, health, and energy sectors, and IMPETUS, a Citizen Science accelerator aligned with the Green Deal and UN Sustainable Development Goals. My responsibilities span social media management, website administration, content creation, copywriting, and reporting. Through these projects, I've fostered collaborations across academia and public engagement, deepening my understanding of participatory research and the impact of RRI and citizen science approaches. Additionally, I contribute to organizing events, including the EUSEA conference, a premier science engagement gathering in Europe.

The Philtrum is a passion project to help recapture the wonderful in the everyday. The world around us is amazing, no matter where you find yourself. Epic discoveries in distances lands, and the little things you never thought about thinking about, at the heart of it all, there is a story to be told. Taking deep dives into shallow pools and looking at the personal stories of tiny cogs in giant engines.Whatever piques your curiosity, we will look into; Science, Art, Philosophy, Town Planning, Baking, absolutely anything.

SciCulture represents a collaborative initiative involving five European higher education institutions, dedicated to fostering a design thinking ethos in problem-solving while facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration among the arts, sciences, and entrepreneurship. To achieve this SciCulture organises intensive workshops where participants are encouraged to learn from each other and use lateral and creative approaches to solving wicked problems. SciCulture Ambassadors are then encouraged to run their design thinking events within their communities and help others adopt a trans-disciplinary approach to problem-solving.Within this SciCulture, I created and executed a bespoke communications plan for their 2020 workshop enrollment, which included curating and generating compelling content across diverse social media platforms, creating promotional materials, blog writing and interviews, all of which was disseminated through SciCulture's extensive communication channels.

A fantastic experience, collaborating with artists and researchers to present scientific concepts in a fun and hands-on fashion. Working within a small, dedicated team which organised, promoted and managed Malta’s largest science and art festival, dedicated to “The Science of YOU”. This was a fast-paced working environment that required high levels of creativity and organisations skills.Writing press releases and copy for the Festival’s website and social media pages.Organising and managing of the stage performers and art installations.Liaising with stakeholders and organising keypress events.Creating video and written content for the festival, including writing articles for their Science and Technology magazine and for The Times of Malta.

I was selected for the Internship programme at the Science Media Centre, Based at The Wellcome Trust. I gained considerable experience working in a busy press office focused on controversial science stories. Working with Scientists and journalists to ensure potentially complicated stories are covered in a clear and unsensationalised fashion. While working at the Science Media Centre, I created coverage reports and helped organise press briefings, as well as having the opportunity to sit in a Parliament Science and Technolgy committee on Science Integrity and attending the UK Research and Integrity Press Officers Day

I worked in the biology laboratory, conducting water quality tests throughout the water treatment process. This involved extensive laboratory and scope work as well as vigorous quality control. It included monitoring levels of chlorophyll, algae, and zooplankton within water samples. In addition, I monitored aquatic environments by conducting invertebrate sampling techniques and taking water samples from rivers and reservoirs. I also worked on a project to supplement the Environment Agency with information on the spread of invasive species throughout the reservoirs managed by Anglian Water.

I worked on a DEFRA-funded project to investigate alternative stale seedbed techniques and alternative treatments to encourage grass-weed germination and to break primary dormancy in Black-Grass (Alopecurus myosuroides) seeds, to synchronise weed emergence. Our main focus was to determine if the use of smoke-derived products which have been shown to stimulate plant growth and germination in a number of plant groups. This has involved extensive laboratory work, greenhouse experiments, and on-site field trails. I also presented the early findings of these experiments at the 2013 British Crop Protection Council Conference.

After my internship, I was offered seasonal employment with the Ecology department at RSK. This involved conducting Great-Crested newt surveys and checking pit-fall traps along the proposed route for the HVDC Western Link in Cheshire and the Wirral peninsula.

I was given the opportunity to work in the International Projects Group as a volunteer intern. This was an excellent learning experience, which allowed me the opportunity to witness the progression of large projects through the tender stages to the production of in-depth environmental impact assessments. I was tasked with conducting desktop research for a large proposed projects based in Eastern Africa and in the Mexican Gulf.

After an intensive week of software training, I was contracted to work on a number of projects. This involved the collating of large amounts of temporal and spatial micro-seismic data produced during hydro-fracking perforation events. This data was used to produce three-dimensional images using Madagascar software packages such as Paraview.

I worked to collect hydrological data and conduct invertebrate kick samples as part of a small team in the Oxfordshire area. This was to supply data to Thames Water to supplement their Drought Plan for this region. In September 2012 I conducted beach utilization surveys for an Environment Agency commissioned project. This involved repeated, unsupervised beach observation and surveying work to determine the popularity and utilisation of a number of beaches throughout the North-West of England.

I worked with the Cheshire Wildlife Trust on a voluntary basis, helping to conduct riparian surveys along the River Gowy in Cheshire to determine the prevalence of invasive plant species (Himalayan Balsam) along the river banks. Working with their Invasive Species Officer, I helped to coordinate volunteer groups and participated in the working parties tasked to remove Himalayan Balsam from waterways around Cheshire. Hopefully this will have had an impact on reducing the abundance of this highly competitive invasive species in future seasons. This work involved a number of training opportunities including health and safety procedures, communicating with volunteers of a range of ages to raise awareness of the threat these invasive species pose to native British habitats.