Experience

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  Maidstone and tunbridge wells nhs trust

  Jan 2000 - Oct 2002

  Registered nurse

  General nurse on rotation in Medicine, trauma orthopaedic and Intensive care wards

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  Ambition 24hours

  Oct 2002 - May 2006

  Registered nurse

  Agency nursing specialist in critical care

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  Self employed

  Jan 2011 - Apr 2012

  Registered childminder
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  Self-employed glitterbugs glass

  Apr 2011 - Jan 2012

  Designer maker

  Fused glass jewellery business, designing, making and selling jewellery and house ware. Also ran Arts and design workshops.

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  Vale of glamorgan council

  Feb 2012 - now

  Carer
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  Undergraduate studying for ba textiles at cardiff metropolitan university

  Sept 2017 - Mar 2022

  Student designer
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  Ouroboros textiles

  Jan 2019 - Jan 2022

  Graduate BA Textiles first class hons

  • Designer , entrepreneur ouroboros Textiles

    Jun 2019 - Jan 2022

  • Student

    Jan 2019 - Jan 2022
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  Ouroboros textiles, enactusuk

  Jun 2019 - Jan 2022

  Designer, entrepreneur, corperate relations executive enactus cardiff met
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  Cardiff metropolitan university

  Sept 2019 - Jan 2022

  Global design masters student, specialising in circular economy, design futures and community

  Researching community connections consumption and waste. Looking at design roles in transition to a fully circular economy.

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  Enactus cardiff metropolitan university

  Jan 2020 - Jan 2022

  Project manager
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  Biosphere designs

  Oct 2021 - now

  • Designer

    Sept 2021 - now

  • Researcher

    Sept 2017 - now

  • Freelance social futures designer

    Oct 2021 - Mar 2022
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  Cardiff metropolitan university

  Mar 2022 - now

  Social impact development officer
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  Circular economy innovation community

  Nov 2022 - now

  Lecturer in circular economics ceic cardiff metropolitan university cardiff

  Using action learning and design thinking to help build communities of change in the public sector. CEIC project brings together change makers from various sectors and works with them over 10 months to develop communities who work together and as catalysts of change in their industry. Researching pedagogy, relationships, attitudes and impact within the communities and longer term in their public sector roles.