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Current Environmental Improvement Officer for Air Pollution & Climate Change in Local Government and part-time MPH student at UoB. Hard-working, motivated, and dedicated professional postgraduate with a vast background with volunteering experience and proven teamwork and leadership skill. Completed United Nations short course UNSSC-UNFCCC "The Paris Agreement on Climate Change as a Development Agenda" . 

Skills
Work​
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Environmental Improvement Officer for Air Pollution and Climate Change
Sandwell Council

Nov 2020- present​

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  • Prioritising climate change with a Public Health consideration

  • Air quality consultations for planning permission applications using Civica software

  • Co-authoring the Annual Status Report on Air Quality for DEFRA

  • Reviewing and analysing data from an extensive NO2 diffusion tube network

  • Management of FY2 medical student placements and graduate student placement

  • Managing a campaign on the heath risks associated with Fine Particulate Matter from wood burning stoves

  • Assisting with achieving Sandwell full designation as a Smoke Control Area

  • Working on a Defra-funded project to work with Faith Groups to improve air quality locally through behaviour change

  • Project management

  • Website design for the Council using Jadu software

  • Member of the Climate Change Champions group and Climate Change Officers Working Group

  • Presenting to key members and councillors on climate related matters

Ongoing projects:

  1. Defra Air Quality Grant: Working with faith centres to improve air quality via behavioural change

  2. Net Zero Innovation Programme funded by LGA with University of Birmingham: Changing public behaviour regarding climate change using a champion network

  3. UK Innovate and University of Birmingham: Low-cost acoustic sensor to monitor, analyse and predict traffic and vehicular emissions with Spatiotemporal Context (Traffic Ear AI)

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College of Science Postgraduate Taught Representative
Swansea University

​Sept 2019 - July 2020

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  • Education Committee, College Learning and Teaching Committee, Board of Studies, Staff-Student Committee, College-Subject Rep meetings

  • Coordinate and chair meetings

 

 

Unibuddy Ambassador

​Nov 2019 - July 2020

 

  • Answering questions from students about studying, life and my experience at university

  • Helping international students find the information needed to apply

 

 

Student Ambassador
Swansea University

​Sept 2017 - Sept 2020

 

  • Deliver ‘Geography at Swansea from a student perspective’ speech at open days

  • Working with Reaching Wider, helping students from disadvantaged secondary schools get involved with STEM

  • Representing Swansea University and the College of Science

  • Charity campaigning working with Swansea Mind, Crisis and Local Foodbank

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Temporary Administrative Assistant
Warwickshire County Council

​June 2016-Apr 2017

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  • Further developed Microsoft Excel skills

  • Data entry and office assistant

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Research Assistant Work Experience Week
Policy Studies Institute 

​July 2015

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  • Media analysis on the public view of a report on child independent mobility

  • Gathering research from various sources to collate reports for presentation

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CAD Work Experience Week
CHS Design

​July 2014

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  • Delivered detailed, highly specific drawings of scaffolding to code

  • Experience using high tech CAD systems and Design Plus

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Automotive Design Work Experience Week
Jaguar Land Rover

​July 2013

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  • Design and CAD experience at Gaydon Design Centre

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  • Civica

  • Jadu Website Building

  • Air Quality Consults for Planning Permissions

  • Microsoft Teams & Outlook

  • GAWK and Gnuplot

  • Data Analysis using R and SPSS

  • Microsoft Excel

  • Microsoft Word

  • Microsoft PowerPoint

  • QGIS

  • EIA Reports

  • Phase 1 Habitat Mapping

  • Satellite remote sensing using LiDAR, Landsat and AVHRR

  • Laboratory experience

 

  • Public speaking

  • Organisation

  • Social media management

  • Teamwork

  • Customer service

  • Time management

  • Leadership

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Work experience
Education
MPH Public Health
Ongoing (Part-time)
University of Birmingham

​Sept 2022 - Sept 2024

 

Modules include Epidemiology, Statistics and Research Methods, Practical Epidemiology and Statistics, Global Health, Health Protection, Sociology and Social Policy.

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The Paris Agreement on Climate Change as a Development Agenda
Ongoing (Short course)
United Nations System Staff College - Knowledge Centre for Sustainable Development and UN Climate Change 

May-July 2021​

 

Modules include Sustainable Development and Climate Change, Social Development and Climate Change, Environmental Protection and Climate Change, Economic Development and Climate Change, Peace, Justice and Institutions and Climate Change and Partnerships and Means of Implementation for Climate Change.

 

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MSc Environmental Dynamics and Climate Change
Merit 
Swansea University

​Sept 2019 - Sept 2020

 

Modules include Climate Change, Environmental Assessment and Management, ​Satellite Remote Sensing, Climate Science and Policy, Environmental Dynamics

 

Extracurriculars include College of Science Postgraduate Taught Representative, BUCS Captain of Women’s 2nd Volleyball Team, Conservation and Ecology Society Committee Social Secretary and Postgrad Rep, Geology Society, Geography Society, Ornithological Society, Student Ambassador, Unibuddy Ambassador

 

BSc Physical Earth Science

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Swansea University

​Sept 2016- July 2019

 

Modules include GIS, Geology, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, Climate of the Last 1000 Years, Geophysics and Data Analysis

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Extracurriculars include Student Ambassador, Geology Society, Geography Society, Conservation and Ecology Society, Student Mentor, Subject Representative, BUCS Women’s Volleyball Team, Environmental Volunteering

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