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London, England, United Kingdom

Huddle ADHD is an exciting Holistic ADHD Coaching Startup, established to help people with Neurodivergent conditions exceed their potential, whilst living full and happy lives - without having to compromise their authenticity.We take an innovative approach to integrating digital solutions, to enhance the quality of Neurodivergent support services in the public and private sectors.Digital Product Design and Service Design Partnership x Experience Haus.Funding Readiness Partnership x Barclays Eagle Labs & Capital Enterprise.Winner of QMUL Launch It AwardFinalist of Conduit Young Innovators Award (EdTech)Partnered with 5 Secondary Schools in Tower Hamlets, Queen Mary University of London, NHS NELFT and 42 London.

London, England, United Kingdom

2023 Civil Service Summer Diversity Internship with the Department for Business and Trade- Lead Phase 1 of the UK to ASEAN Dialogue Partnership upgrading through: 1) Researching how a selection of existing ASEAN dialogue partners (USA, Japan, China and Australia) best harness their dialogue partnership - to enhance economic, political, socio cultural and cross pillars cooperation with ASEAN, as well as support ASEAN institutional strengthening.2) Conducting inter and cross departmental stakeholder engagement to map equities and establish a cohesive DBT & UK-HMG approach to utilising and improving UK to ASEAN dialogue partnership.3) Produced a 10 page report with supplementary PowerPoints & slide decks, based on my research and stakeholder engagement. This enabled me to recommend to the Future Trade Policy Team & Ministerial Strategy Directorate how UK to ASEAN dialogue partnership could be improved through the UK's next ASEAN dialogue partnership review, refresh and subsequent Plan of Action.- Supported Phase 1 DBT Process Production Measures (PPM) Feasibility Review through:1) Analysing notifications of trade policies that leverage PPM's at the WTO through the EPING notification system.2) Providing in depth case law analysis of PPM driven trade policies disputed at the WTO, based on a wide variety of cases. This enabled me to produce recommendations on how to ensure that future UK trade policies that leverage PPM's are compatible with WTO trade requirements (GATTs, SPS & TBT).3) Conducted inter and cross departmental stakeholder engagement to map equities and coalesce a coherent government strategy for utilising PPM driven trade policies to pursue wider DBT & UK-HMG policy objectives (environmental protection, animal welfare and combatting forced labour).- Provided Administrative Support through:1) Providing meeting agendas2) Drafting meeting notes and summative readouts3) Creating activity and action logs for ASEAN and PPM projects

Mile End, England, United Kingdom

During my time working for QMUL Peer Assisted Study Support I provided 1-1 academic tutoring and support to groups of 20, 1st- 2nd and 3rd year Geography Undergraduates. This role involved:- Participating in a week long training course covering tutoring & mentorship organisation, techniques and strategy, safeguarding protocol, university services signposting, mock sessions and completing an assessment and safeguarding certification.- Supporting students digital module enrolment based on interests, field trips and prior experiences. This reduced the administrative burden for staff in explaining module contents and chasing up students for prompt selection. My support also enhanced positive student experience by stabilising module retention through students module awareness.- Helping students choose and access most relevant learning materials. Teaching practical note taking strategies. Providing guidance & directive questions to help skim reading and enable knowledge to be condensed and note organisation. This allowed students to cover a broader range of material in less time with better concision whilst learning processes conducive to heightened cognitive and memory based processing.- Teaching planning techniques and best structural practice in drafting essays. Coaching students to be more articulate, persuasive and evaluative in their writing as well as referencing with depth and breadth. This helped students stay organised, avoid last minute writing slogs and ensure high quality content, communication and citational practice in their essays.- Providing general guidance & administration regarding field trips, pre-enrolment, IT systems, life issues, international students matters, society engagement. When I wasn't able to generate solutions I would signpost students to the relevant university services. This gave students stable foundations to focus on and fully embrace their university experience by mitigating challenges and nipping issues in the bud.

Mile End, England, United Kingdom

2022 - 2023 Elected QMUL 3rd Year BA Human Geography Course Representative:- My manifesto addressed pressing school challenges and directed focus for my campaign. This alongside positive relationships with peers and staff resulted in my election.- I successfully campaigned for and supported transitioning teaching staff off compressed hours delivering hybrid learning, to return to a 100% in person taught program - as advertised, after overwhelming demands from fellow students.- I helped coordinate and participate in student/staff think tanks designed to reflect on academic experience and suggest recommendations on how it could be improved in the future. Additionally, I encouraged module convenors to implement mechanisms to ensure that the selection of module content was partially driven by students to maximise engagement and ensure up to date content.- I successfully campaigned for teachers to implement more innovative teaching practices such as: role play, situational thinking tasks, mini podcast making, provision of mixed media learning resources and more collaborative learning exercises. In addition, I advocated for and helped in the ideation & implementation of weekly, group-based dissertation workshops.- I helped reconfigure our extenuating circumstances process to enable early case flagging & interventions to prevent potential crises deteriorating into acute crises. This helped avoid & mitigate the negative experiences that accompany crisis management.- I held staff accountable over industrial strike actions and forced greater transparency in the decision making and communication of their decisions on industrial action.- I attended Student Staff Liaison Committee meetings prepped with student and personal feedback points. They enabled me to make contributions on a variety of student & staff matters. I thoughtfully considered and engaged other committee members talking points and helped them develop their ideas into meaningful actions.

Asira Ash-Shamaliya, West Bank

SkatePal is a British non-profit organisation that supports communities throughout Palestine, by promoting the social, health and wellbeing benefits of skateboarding to enhance the lives of local youth and build self sufficient skate communities. This involved:- Coordinating and undertaking fundraising activities to accumulate over £500 towards procuring skateboard hard goods to donate to children , building materials to build new skatepark in Al Bireh and raise awareness of SkatePals fantastic work in Palestine and in the UK.- Coordinating and running skateboarding lessons in Arabic to 20-30 children, adolescents and adults in Asira Ash Shamaliyah for 2 months. This service consistently provided recreational, educational, gender empowering and therapeutic experiences for those living near Asira Ash Shamaliyah via skateboarding.- Catalysing the final phase of opening a new skatepark in Al Bireh Girls Orphanage and locally distributing hard goods. This provided girls the space and materials they needed to safely learn to skate.

Bath, England, United Kingdom

University of Bath Psychology Department Research Assistant Work Experience:- Produced online surveys using Bristol Online Survey (BOS) for research into "Post trauma coping in the context of significant adversity: A study of young people living in an Urban townships in South Africa" (Hillier, Haligan, Tomlinson & Stewart, 2017).- Transcribed PhD students training in conducting the cognitive interview.- Experimental participation in a study to asses "Compensating for Distance Compression in Audiovisual Virtual Environments Using Incongruence" (O'Neil, Prolux & Finnegan, 2016).- Provided administrative assistance to the everyday functioning of the department.

Ba Human Geography, 1:1

Activities and Societies: 3rd Year Course Representative, PASS Mentor, Buddy Mentor, Q - Incubator, Geography Society, Skate Society.

A - Level: Sociology A*, Geography A, Psychology B

Activities and Societies: Founder of KS3 Basketball Club, 6th Form Psychology Award for Sustained Achievement