EPSRC and CAFOD funded EngD student working on ‘Multi-hazard assessments for building sustainable and resilient communities in the Philippines’.  Primary supervisor: Dr Chris Kilburn; CAFOD supervisors: Dr Mike Edwards and Dr Jessica Mercer.

 

Environment Agency, February 2008-April 2009:

Flood Incident Management Team Member, Flood Warning Duty Office for the River Thames and its tributaries in the Reading, Oxford and Abingdon areas. 

University College London, September 2006-2007:

MSc Geophysical Hazards.  ‘Pre-eruption volcanic hazard communication in the Caribbean: a case study of St Vincent’.  Masters Dissertation fieldwork was carried out in Trinidad & St. Vincent, Caribbean, May-June 2007 (3 weeks), which looked at the effectiveness of volcanic hazard communication, particularly on the island of St. Vincent (qualitative research).  The work was carried out in collaboration with the Seismic Research Unit at the University of the West Indies.  

 

Quito, Ecuador – Venture Co, March 2006:

This was a 4 week volunteering expedition which involved building a large greenhouse in a school on the outskirts of Quito.  The aim of the project was to encourage the consumption of fresh vegetables by the children whilst enabling the school to provide this at a sustainable low-cost. 

Sinai, Egypt – Operation Wallacea, 10 July- 7 August 2005: this was a scientific conservation expedition in the St Katherine Protectorat and Ras Mohammed National Park.  I was involved in setting up a monitoring programme which consisted of recording plant and animal species. 

 

University of St Andrews, September 2001 – June 2005:

BSc (Hons) Geography First Class.  Dissertation: ‘The Origin and Transport History of Medial Moraines at Breiđamerkurjökull, Iceland’ (this piece of research involved quantitative analysis).