I am a postgraduate fellow (awarded a £20,000 grant) with the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) and the British Ecological Society working on the topic of sustainable agriculture, integrated pest management, pesticides and natural restoration in England. I will be working with OEP analysts to bring together evidence on the impacts of pesticides and of changes in their patterns of usage, primarily arising from IPM, on biodiversity, as measured by the Species Abundance Indicator, and the temporal and spatial scale of nature’s recovery.

I am the Partnerships Officer for the REED Network which sits under the British Ecological Society. The Network is a supportive platform for ecologists from under-represented and marginalised ethnicities. My role has been to develop more cross-pollination between equality, diversity and inclusion networks and initiatives both within and outside of academia. I have worked with the committee to organise our network events such as in-person meet ups, lunchtime skill seminars, workshops, grant applications and our annual general meeting.

I have helped out extensively with the Explorers Programme which is a pilot project of the Natural History Museum, that aims to develop events and resources to encourage and support students from marginalised ethnicities to pursue a career in Natural History research and the Environmental sector. I have helped out on events such as "The Explorers Family Festival Islam", "The Explorers Family Festival Caribbean Islands", "The Explorers "Build a Museum" workshop (x2), "The Explorers Night: Mind, Body and Soul" and "The Explorers Annual Conference".

Postgraduate teaching assistant on the following modules:Methods in Ecology and Evolution (1st year module), Ecology and Data Science Field Courseat the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park 2022 and 2023 (MSc/MRes), Bio-robotics and Animal MovementProject (KS2/3), Computational Methods in Biodiversity Research (BIOS002), Foundations in Ecology andEcological Monitoring (BIOS0003), Foundations of Citizen Science (BIOS0035), Sex, Genes and Evolution(BIOL0020), Nature-Smart Challenge (BIOS0033). Blakeney Point UCL Ecological Field Course.

PhD topic: How do anthropogenic threats reorganise insect communities?Supervisors: Professor Andy Purvis and Dr Tim Newbold Funding: The London NERC DTP• NHM Student Committee member: I help organise student events at the museum, in particular theStudent Conference which runs annually.• SciFri Committee member: I help organise events for SciFri which is a cross-departmental scienceseminar series and social event.

Co-created workshops, lectures, resources and materials in partnership with the Zoological Society of London, UCL and the Natural History Museum as part of their Environmental Summer School for 16-18 year olds from underrepresented groups in STEM. I developed and facilitated a workshop on the relationship between biodiversity, science policy and environmental justice for > 75 students.

Mentor on the London NERC DTP Undergraduate Research Experience Placements at the Natural History Museum.

3 month internship for the NatuRisk project at the Natural History Museum. • Gained skills in meta-analysis, e.g. searching and exporting, screening via metagear, quality-assurance and data-extraction via metadigitise).• Trained in the management and curation of meta analytical datasets.

3-month internship on the Keeping it Wild Training Programme with the LondonWildlife Trust.

• Gained skills in curation and collection management of herpetological specimens.• Trained in data management and curation, museum lab protocol and handling of wet specimens.• Broadened insight into the utility of museum collections for research.• Previous projects include: the digitisation of the amphibian true toad family (Bufonidae, > 600 spp.)

In 2017, I crowdfunded over £2,500 and was awarded a grant from the Jack Petchey Foundation tovolunteer as a research assistant.• In 2018 & 2019, I led forestry surveys in the Iwokrama and Surama Forests.• Surveys in pristine rainforest, ecotourism and reduced impact logging sites.• Teaching tropical ecology/field skills to 40 - 50 research assistants per field season.Field skills: Forestry: Identification of neotropical tree/plant species, inventory plots, measurement of functional traits. Entomology: Butterfly trapping, light trapping, malaise trapping, pitfall trapping and kicksampling. Herpetology: Venomous/non-venomous snake handling, visual encounter surveys. Ornithology:Mist netting (50+ birds ringed in the neotropics), point counts. Mammalogy: Bat mist netting (200+ extracted), camera trapping, point counts.

Volunteered in the Aquarium at London Zoo and trained in fish husbandry, responsible for freshwater section.• Tasks include: preparing food, feeding animals and cleaning enclosures.• Projects include: target training of Arapaima (Arapaima gigas) for relocation to a new site andmonitoring the health of multiple seahorse populations via regular nutrient and chemical dosingof enclosures and recording of abiotic factors.