Here, I work both behind the bar and interacting with customers. My position involves delivering a high standard of cleanliness and customer care whilst running food. Working as a part of the Sail Loft team has hugely improved my ability to rapidly build rapport with customers in a fast-paced environment, making sure they have a great experience and can’t wait to come back.

This role requires me to be efficient, proactive and precise, as I ensure the highest standard of goods are picked for the customer. I have been able to transfer skills I have learnt in my other role (at The Sail Loft) to this role, which has further enhanced my ability to interact with customers, as well as fulfilling my role as a dedicated member of the team. In this role I have obtained the record for the fastest picker in my store, I strive to make sure to always better myself and increase my pick rate.

I was awarded a grant from this society to do a research project in the University of Nottingham’s endothelial and vascular imaging lab with Dr Kenton Arkill (https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/medicine/people/kenton.arkill). At the end of this period, I produced a full report for publication in the Royal Microscopical Society’s ‘infocus’ magazine and a presentation which will be available for viewing on their youtube channel. The title of my project is ‘3D Nanoanalysis of the Tumour Microenvironment: Subcellular Ultrastructure of Model Systems’. In this project, I analysed HIF-1 and 2 knockout 3D spheroids, I looked at the changes in the spatial organisation and cell proportion in these spheroids as well as the orientation of the cells, by analysing the diameter of mitochondria in the different knockouts. I imaged these along the diameter in both low magnification and high magnification to look at the ultracellular structure. I used Fiji and Prism for the quantitative and qualitative analysis of these images.I have had full training on the Tecnai 12, a transmission electron microscope, and am able to use it confidently and independently. I also able to help with imaging on a scanning electron microscope in transmission mode and the staining and embedding of my spheroids.