Although my official title is Departmental Assistant, I actually fulfil a varied number of roles at Land Economy, as I’m also the Visiting Scholar Coordinator, and LE's Sustainability Champion/Green Impact Coordinator and Wellbeing Advocate.

 

Before I started my 30-year career in education administration at Cambridge University I trained as a journalist and worked as a reporter on a local newspaper in Kent in the late 80s.  It was an exciting job for someone fresh out of sixth form college and I was fortunate enough to be there when they first cut through the Channel Tunnel and interviewed many leading politicians of the day including Edwina Curry MP during the salmonella egg crisis.  

 

I left the media to do an English Literature degree at Cambridge Anglia Ruskin University and have worked in various departments of the University (and Open University) ever since, including Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) and the GP Education Group at the Clinical School.  I have a Master’s degree in Education, specialising in adult learning and my dissertation was on the challenges of remote/hybrid learning long before the impact of covid on education delivery.

 

Away from LE, I live with my husband (a self-employed groundworker/landscaper) and one of our two grown-up daughters (who is Collections Assistant at the Cambridge Museum of Classical Archaeology), and our two dogs in Cambridge.  I enjoy swimming, gardening, cooking, baking, reading and photography :)