Sophie Edwards

Experience

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  Global Vision International

  Apr 2011 - Dec 2011

  Field Staff

  Managed and trained a team of volunteers on base and in the field.Chief liaison officer between volunteers and senior staff communicating important information and any issues that had arose.Supported the management team.Maintaining a high standard of health and safety protocols.Assisted in base admin, being responsible for the weekly supply orders and budgets.Taught volunteers Level 1 BTEC. Collected and analysed research data.Analysis of Indo-Pacific bottlenose and humpback dolphin behaviour data with regards to seasonality, location and tides. Show less

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  PSA Peugeot Citroën

  Feb 2012 - Aug 2013

  Responded to PPI complaints and general administration complaints.Was involved in testing new complaints software. Office admin, including direct debit mandates and vehicle amendments.Producing settlement and termination figures. Developed customer service skills by handling inbound customer calls while maintaining daily call and administration targets. Responded to complicated customer queries ranging from, but not limited to, charges on their account, account changes and general enquiries.Sorting and filing all inbound post. Data entry for a credit based automobiles company

  • Complaints Advisor

    Mar 2013 - Aug 2013

  • Customer Services Advisor

    Feb 2012 - Mar 2013
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  University of Exeter

  Sept 2013 - Sept 2014

  MSc Animal Behaviour Student

  Dissertation, supervised by Professor Stephen Lea - Effects of chromaticity on the use of high or low spatial frequency information in current and subsequent discrimination tasks: experience of conditioning history.Experience with research permit applications, research proposals and ethical approval applications.Advanced statistics.JWatcher, Raven, measuring animal social networks.

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  Professor Stephen Lea Laboratory

  Oct 2013 - Aug 2014

  Research Internship

  Duties include running of cognition experiments and ensuring the correct parameters are being used.Check the health of the birds, through observation of their behaviour and weighing them before and after each experiment.Primary data analysis.

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  Limpopo Dwarf Mongoose Research Project

  Oct 2014 - Dec 2014

  Research Assistant

  Habituation of groups and training individuals to step on weights.Daily behavioural observations, collecting life history data and group social structure.Vocalisation, scent marking, social networking and playback experiments.Sound recordings using Marantz and experience using Praat software.

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  University of St Andrews

  Sept 2015 - Nov 2023

  • Associate Lecturer

    Jan 2020 - Nov 2023

  • Demonstrator

    Sept 2015 - Dec 2019

  • PHD Student

    Sept 2015 - Sept 2019
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  Public Health Scotland

  Nov 2023 - now

  Senior Information Analyst

  Analysed a variety of NHS datasetsResponds to information requests (IR), Parliamentary Questions (PMQs) and Freedom of Information (FOI) requestsProduced Official Statistical PublicationsDesigned and developed RShiny DashboardsStatistical analysis using R