Kate Errington

Experience

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  TJ Hughes

  Jul 2010 - Apr 2017

  Administration Assistant

  Office Team Leader (May 2015 – April 2017)Admin Assistant (2010-May 2015)Alongside my studies I worked within a busy team as an Administration Assistant. As an Office and Safe Key holder I have a high responsibility role within the store. My main duties were handling and managing large sums of money day to day, with weekly takings over £100,000. In terms of money management I conducted safe checks, counted store takings and worked to detect till discrepancies. I then input these figures into Excel spreadsheets to run reconciliation reports, cashbook records, discrepancy logs and budgets. Additional office duties included managing customer calls and switchboard, tannoy announcements, organising prospective employee interviews and general paperwork including recording invoices, filing and photocopying.In May 2015 I stepped up to the role of full-time Office Team Leader when a work colleague took ill and remained on long-term sick. Within this role I had to learn quickly and often as I worked, under very immediate pressure. As well as managing my team, I became responsible for managing the wages of all staff within the Newcastle branch (approx. 60-80 staff). Alongside this, I recruited and fully trained a new admin team member in preparation for my return to University, and thus my subsequent reduction in work hours and handover of responsibilities. Show less

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  Combined Honours, Newcastle University

  Feb 2014 - Sept 2014

  Research Intern

  This role included extensive independent research, contacting outside bodies, designing a website re-vamp and formulating a series of recommendations for the continuation and implementation of the project.Based on the merit of my first term as intern my contract was renewed for a second term. In this term I saw the implementation of my recommendations and enforced the redesign of the website. This redesign optimised the user experience of the website by editing and enhancing the layout and content. Not satisfied with what I felt was an incomplete project, at the end of my paid internship I continued the work as part of a Graduate Development module in my third year of University. In this module I project managed the design, production and editing of promotional videos for the department – videos which are now actively used by the department as part of their online recruitment campaign. Despite low production costs these videos are professional, mindful of Department branding and effectively communicate the information specified by the Head of Department. Show less

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  Newcastle University

  Jun 2018 - Sept 2021

  Provide a friendly and professional first point of contact for students and visitors of the University, both in person, over the telephone and email.Organise Careers drop-in rotas and wider team diaries using Outlook.Generate reports in order to collate service-user feedback to inform service improvement strategies.Work 1:1 with students to provide information and feedback on job applications and business start-up support.Enthusiastic and ambitious in role, consistently volunteering to take on additional activities, training and responsibilities in order to contribute to organisational goals. Show less Research project into Experiential Learning, culminating in a report and presentation to senior staff, making recommendations for a long-term transformative project strategy.Liaised with various stakeholders, from different levels of the University in order to collect and collate information, as well as build partnerships for future developments.Organised and delivered a student consultancy day in order to review current curriculum provision and assessment methods within a suite of vocational modules. Collated this information into a report to inform module review.Created online assessment materials on Blackboard, as well as module evaluations using various platforms.Delivered training to teaching staff to enhance accessibility of their learning materials. Show less

  • Learning & Teaching Administrator

    Jun 2019 - Sept 2021

  • Information Assistant

    Apr 2017 - Jun 2019

  • Information Assistant - Secondment Role

    Jun 2018 - Dec 2018
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  Birkbeck, University of London

  Oct 2021 - now

  Doctoral Researcher

  Joint institutional PhD between Birkbeck, UoL and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, funded by the Bloomsbury Colleges studentship.Researching the cultural history of pregnancy and maternity care with a focus on the development of risk in the mid-late 20th century. Using historical materials to facilitate contemporary health conversations in public engagement workshops.Sit on the Steering Group for the Birkbeck Centre for Medical Humanities.

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  Broadly Conceived Network

  Jan 2022 - now

  Co-Founder

  Co-Founder of Broadly Conceived, an interdisciplinary network for researchers interested in reproduction topics including pregnancy, (in)fertility, childbirth, maternity and more. In this role I co-ordinate and facilitate a series of academic events for postgraduates and early career researchers. These events include monthly online meetings and annual conferences. For further information on the network and to see full list of previous events, please see: https://broadlyconceived.wordpress.com/ Academic year 2023-24, funded by the Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-East England (CHASE) AHRC funded Doctoral Training Partnership.Academic year 2022-23, funded by the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research (NNMHR). Show less

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  The University of Sheffield

  Nov 2022 - Jul 2023

  Research Assistant

  Worked as a Research Assistant on the project 'Neoliberalism in the Nursery' with Dr Emily Baughan. Conducted archival research in relation to the project. This included:-Identifying appropriate archival stores, navigating catalogues, requesting access permissions etc.- Liaising with archivists and librarians, in-person and via email, to identify and consult relevant archival materials. Maintaining friendly and professional relationships with these contacts.- Developing research organisation systems to catalogue archive photographs and notes to refer back to at a later date, and without having to return to the physical resources.- Synthesise datasets from multiple archives into a coherent piece of writing. Show less