CAREERS FAIR
CAREERS FAIR To enable you to hear different perspectives in response to your questions, we have grouped speakers who have some aspects of their career in common. When you visit the Teams room, you can ask your questions in the chat function or listen to the answers that they are giving to the questions by other students.
ROOM 1: CREATIVE AND VISUAL ARTS Click here to join the meeting
Teresa Outhwaite (OR) Emma Luddington (OR) Craig Higgins
Art and Design Art and Design Art and Design
ROOM 2: FINANCE AND BUSINESS Click here to join the meeting
Catherine Archer (OR) Alexandra Rock (OR) Michelle Mittelsteadt (OR)
Business Business Finance
ROOM 3: PERFORMING ARTS AND TV Click here to join the meeting
Suki Stephens Caroline Lawrence (OR)
Performing Arts TV Production
ROOM 4: EDUCATION Click here to join the meeting
Katherine Cowell (OR) Harriet Kember-Whitfield (OR)
Education Education
ROOM 5: LAW AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Click here to join the meeting
Cristal Downing (OR) Ann Evans (OR)
Government and Politics Law
ROOM 6: MARKETING, WRITING AND PUBLISHING Click here to join the meeting
Camilla Nightingale (OR) Clare Pooley (OR) Holly Watt (OR)
Marketing and PR Publishing and Writing Publishing and Writing
ROOM 7: MEDICINE Click here to join the meeting
Alison Millward Natalie Green (OR) Sophia Williams (OR)
Emergency Services Medicine Medicine
ROOM 8: STEM Click here to join the meeting
Tasha Beretvas (OR)
STEM
ROOM 9: CHARITY AND GAP YEAR PROJECTS Click here to join the meeting
Georgia Walkden Elizabeth Burrowes (OR)
Charity Performing Arts
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ROOM 1: CREATIVE AND VISUAL ARTS
TERESA OUTHWAITE (OR) (Brach, House 1, 1985-91)
CEO OF FORST KIENBERG Teresa Outhwaite attended Central Saint Martins and the University of Brighton where she graduated with BA (Hons) in Fashion Textile Design. Teresa worked in the Fashion Industry for many years working as a freelance designer and running two fashion and textile businesses showcasing her own collections at London, Paris, Milan, New York and LA Fashion week as well as showing her work in Japan. Teresa also spent a number of years teaching Fashion and Design history in higher education. Teresa is currently the CEO of Forst Kienberg where she is involved in estate management and is currently designing and building Alpine holiday chalets. Additionally Teresa manages an international portfolio of properties across four countries and two continents and has extensive project management experience, including successful applications for EU investment grants and funding. Teresa has two teenage children, one of whom is currently at Roedean.
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ROOM 1: CREATIVE AND VISUAL ARTS
EMMA LUDDINGTON (OR) (House 2, 1984-90)
ARCHITECT AND FOUNDER OF LIVING WELL Emma Luddington is an Architect and Founder of multi-award winning homes consultancy, Living Well at Home Ltd. She has worked internationally, designing a subterranean community centre in Japan and a range of homes and government buildings in Brazil. Back in the UK she has worked on the Queens Gallery, Buckingham Palace, many of London’s theatres, a boat-shaped writer’s studio on top of the Southbank Centre and a glass restaurant suspended by a crane over the River Thames! Emma is currently building her own house and advises other people how to make their own homes future-proofed for when they are older. Emma was the first pupil from Roedean (on record at least!) to study Architecture and is now a RIBA Architecture Ambassador to schools.
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ROOM 1: CREATIVE AND VISUAL ARTS
CRAIG HIGGINS WOMENSWEAR DESIGNER Craig Higgins is a womenswear designer, course leader and trustee of the Graduate Fashion Foundation. He has worked in the high-end fashion industry and across the university sector for over 25 years. His work draws on interests in heritage skills and the artisanal methods used in the production of hand made goods and bespoke items. His current practice and course leadership at the University of Brighton explores interrelationships between technologies, techniques, conceptual thinking and design translation. Craig graduated from the University of Brighton in 1996 and has worked professionally at the top end of the Fashion Industry. Having exhibited and showed his own collections in London and Paris during the 1990’s, a collaborative partnership with a printed textiles designer. Together they produced womenswear collections fusing creative approaches to surface pattern and embellishment with innovative pattern cutting methodologies and tailoring. The collections featured in key press and sold internationally through high-end independent boutiques and department stores. His professional experience has also included working with top international fashion designers, Sonnentag Mulligan, John Galliano, Emma Cook and Roland Mouret, with whom he worked as a design and sampling consultant and creative pattern-cutter.
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ROOM 2: FINANACE, BUSINESS AND SUSTAINABILITY
CATHERINE ARCHER (OR) (House 1, 1986-92)
CEO OF JING TEA With over 20 years of experience in the food and drink industry, Catherine Archer is CEO of JING Tea, a premium tea company loved by foodies and served in the best hotels and restaurants around the globe. After leaving Roedean Catherine obtained a BA in Classics from Newcastle University and embarked on a career in consumer marketing, joining Reckitt & Colman (now Reckitt Benckiser) as a graduate trainee before moving into the food and drinks sector. Catherine has worked for a number of global organisations such as Cadbury, Bacardi and Unilever in local, regional and global marketing roles. Her roles have seen her focus on areas from new brand development, new product development and communications, winning a Cannes Lion for advertising, through to mergers and acquisition and she has had the opportunity to spend a number of years based in Asia and Australia through her work. After attending a start-up accelerator in Amsterdam, Catherine took the call to leave big business behind and move to a more entrepreneurial business, joining JING Tea, to take over from the founder and lead it from start up to its next stage of growth across the hospitality, travel, retail and ecommerce sectors.
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ROOM 2: FINANACE, BUSINESS AND SUSTAINABILITY
ALEXANDRA ROCK (OR) (House 4, 1974-82)
CO-FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR Alexandra Rock is Co-Founder and Director of Rock & Ruddle Ltd., a London based company manufacturing beautiful high quality hairbrushes and combs. The hairbrushes are sold both in the UK and internationally. Rock & Ruddle is growing fast each year entering new markets and creating new designs and innovations. Alexandra also qualified as a Nutritional Therapist at The Institute of Optimum Nutrition in June 2010. Alexandra holds a BSc in Biochemistry from Imperial College and is an Associate of the Royal School of Science. Alexandra loved studying sciences at Roedean. Alexandra is passionate about both business and a healthy lifestyle which she tries to ensure coexist in her life.
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ROOM 2: FINANACE, BUSINESS AND SUSTAINABILITY
MICHELLE MITTELSTEADT (OR) (Beretvas, House 2, 1985-8)
TALENT LEADER Michelle Mittelsteadt has over 20 years experience as a valuation professional and has spent over half of that period fully dedicated to the life science sector. Michelle is the Talent Leader for the US-East region for Ernst & Young where she oversees all aspects of talent management for staff through partners. She focuses on creating exceptional experiences for our people, leadership development and advancement and driving equity across our recruiting and career experience lifecycles. Previously, Michelle was the East Region Valuation, Modeling & Economics practice leader in EY’s Strategy & Transactions Group where she specializes exclusively in valuations for life science companies for financial and strategic purposes. Michelle received her BA Hons in Chemistry from Cambridge University, a PhD in Chemistry from the State University of NY and an MBA from Boston College. She holds the CFA designation.
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ROOM 3: PERFORMING ARTS AND TV
SUKI STEPHENS DRAMA TEACHER Suki Stephens trained at GSA (Guildford School of Acting) as an actress on the three - year acting course. After graduating, Suki undertook several acting roles on television and in the theatre, TV and Radio. Her theatrical productions have included: A Servant of Two Masters (Carlo Goldoni) Belvedere CastleTheatre, New York and One Dream Theatre, New York, Slag (David Hare) at the Edinburgh Festival, and the Finborough Theatre, London, Easter Parade (National Tour) and Mother Goose (National Tour), Black Comedy (Peter Shaffer), Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Diorama Theatre, London, The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Thorndike Theatre, Leatherhead. Dark Corners (Trevor Baxter), Theatre Royal Windsor, Three Sisters (Chekhov), Central St Martin’s, London, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, BAC, London and One Life (Dinos Aristidou), King’s Head, London. Suki has also made a couple of short films and on television, has appeared in The Bill, and as a presenter for Spy School, Ten Alps Productions, ITV and adverts for Cancer Research and Bisto! She has also voice - recorded for radio adverts and audio books. Suki was one of the founder members of Corpse Theatre Company, producing woman - only plays. They put on two productions in Edinburgh, one at the Finborough Theatre, London and one at The Man in The Moon, London. Suki now works independently as a Drama teacher, working with students of all ages, to prepare for Speech and Drama exams, Scholarship auditions and performance auditions. Historically, Suki has worked with a number of schools providing curriculum - based Drama workshops, after - school and holiday clubs. She has also written and directed many children’s shows. She is a mother of two children, Daisy, aged 14 and Nat, aged 12. She is married to an actor, Chris Larkin.
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ROOM 3: PERFORMING ARTS AND TV
CAROLINE LAWRENCE (OR) (House 4, 2000-7)
FILM PRODUCER Since 2015 Caroline has been working as a freelance Film Producer, having spent four years in-house at production company, Cuba Pictures. She began her freelance career by producing films for human rights charities such as Reprieve and Help Refugees. The first film Caroline made for Reprieve, Last Words, starred Olivia Colman and Jason Isaacs. A film for Help Refugees, Oksijan, starred Ella Purnell and was written & directed by Oscar nominated filmmaker Edward Watts. Caroline went on to produce two films for the BBC back-to-back. The first TV film, My Country, a work in progress, was written and directed by Rufus Norris, the Artistic Director of the National Theatre, and incorporated original works by former Poet Laureate Dame Carol Ann Duffy. The story takes us round the UK after the 2016 referendum, asking what it is to be British and what being part of Europe means. Caroline’s first ever job in film was as an actor’s assistant on Norris’ feature film Broken in 2012. To have gotten from assistant to Producer in six years is a feat she is extremely proud of. The film was critically well-received and launched Caroline onto her second BBC project, LOVE, which also began its life as a play at the National. Written & directed by Alexander Zeldin, the film tells the story of four families living in cramped temporary housing in the run up to Christmas. Norris was an executive producer, as was David Schwimmer. Zeldin and Caroline are currently developing his next project with BBC Films. Caroline recently produced a film adapted from the podcast Capital, written and directed by Freddy Syborn. Starring Charlotte Richie and Harry Enfield, the film imagines the UK voted to bring back capital punishment by 51% and is currently in talks to create a 6-part TV series. Among other projects, Caroline is developing a film based on the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and one young athlete’s journey from Birmingham to get there which has secured development funding and they are doing test shoots at the end of the year. 19
ROOM 4: EDUCATION
KATHERINE COWELL (OR) (House 3, 1965-71)
TEACHER Whilst in the Sixth Form at Roedean, Katherine Cowell studied Maths, Further Maths and Physics at A Level and went on to study Architecture at the University of Aston, but left after two years. Katherine then chose to study for a degree in Education from the University of Birmingham, because it enabled her to combine Mathematics with Music. Katherine started her teaching in Bishop Challoner School in Birmingham, an inner-city school - very different from Roedean! Katherine then taught in two grammar schools (Sutton Coldfield Girls’ Grammar and King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls in Birmingham), two comprehensive schools (Primrose Hill, Birmingham and Ousedale in Newport Pagnell). Her final fifteen years were spent as Head of the Mathematics Faculty at Northampton High, a small independent girls’ school. Katherine’s principal subject has been Mathematics. She has also taught Computing, Bookkeeping and Accounts and has taken part in many extracurricular activities including: running a chess club, performing magic tricks, tapdancing, acting in plays, playing bass guitar in a rock band and saxophone in a jazz group, teaching fencing, building a survival shelter, running a choir and even playing the organ for a carol service! Katherine is proud of the success of all her pupils at every level; students that have gained Oxbridge places and those for whom learning has been more challenging. Katherine believes you can foster the same love of your subject in a pupil that you have yourself, this is the greatest reward.
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ROOM 4: EDUCATION
HARRIET KEMBERWHITEFIELD (OR) (Kember, House 1, 2006-10)
TEACHER After leaving Roedean in 2010, Harriet Kember-Whitfield went to Greenwich University to study English and Drama. Harriet still very much wanted to act professionally and planned to go to drama school after her BA. During her degree, however, her love of literature flourished further and she decided to pursue teaching instead. Upon leaving university Harriet took a year out to volunteer in schools to gain experience. Harriet then undertook her PGCE in English at Canterbury Christchurch University and then began her teaching career at a comprehensive school outside of Cambridge. Harriet has since moved to a private school where she is Head of English and has completed her MA in Literature. In Harriet’s spare time she still loves to act in her local am-dram group and has a 6-month-old son who keeps her very busy too. Although Harriet had never imagined being a teacher whilst at school, Harriet now believes it is what she was meant to do and there is truly nothing more fulfilling.
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ROOM 5: LAW AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
CRISTAL DOWNING (House 1, 1995-2002)
CASE STUDY MANAGER AND DOCTORAL STUDENT Cristal Downing is Colombia Case Study Manager at the United Nations University Centre for Policy Research on the Managing Exits from Armed Conflict project. Prior to joining UNU-CPR, Cristal was Senior Policy Adviser at the Permanent Mission of the United Kingdom to the United Nations. She held a Security Council portfolio that included Colombia, Venezuela, and Women, Peace and Security, leading and representing the UK in Security Council processes including the drafting and negotiation of resolutions and other products, as well as delivering strategic policy advice and support within the Mission and across the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Cristal’s experience bridges research, policy, and practice, with a focus on conflict and violence in Latin America. She was an Analyst in the Disarmament, Demobilisation, and Reintegration programme of the International Organisation for Migration in Colombia, providing research and policy input to the government peace process with the FARC-EP and supporting DDR programming. She has also worked on research, advocacy, and programmes that address challenges including access to education in conflict, child recruitment from schools in Central America, the impact of conflict on Afro-Colombian and indigenous populations, and prisoner entrepreneurship in Bolivia. Cristal is a Doctoral student in the War Studies programme at King’s College London where her research focuses on the reintegration of former child soldiers in Colombia. She received her Master’s degrees from New York University and the Universidad de los Andes in Latin American Studies and Political Science and her undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania. 25
ROOM 5: LAW AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
ANN EVANS (OR) (Blackburn, House 2, 1965-72)
TRIBUNAL JUDGE After leaving Roedean in 1972, Ann Evans had little idea of what she wanted to do and with a lack of ambition was sent to study at secretarial college by her parents. Following this, Ann flitted from job to job including working at the BBC where Ann ended up working for a criminal solicitor who used to take her to Bow Street Magistrates Court with him to fill out Legal Aid forms. From the advocacy Ann saw there she knew she could do better than that. At 25, Ann went back to college and did a 2-year diploma in Law at Central London Polytechnic. Ann loved it, and was awarded a Scholarship in her Bar Finals, and at last she felt she had found her vocation. For the next 34 years Ann was a criminal barrister. In 2007, the BBC followed Ann as she prosecuted a seven-defendant murder at the Old Bailey. However, like many older women at the Bar Ann spent most of her time doing serious sexual offence cases. In 2018, Ann left the Bar and is now a full time Tribunal Judge sitting in three different jurisdictions: Special Educational Needs, Mental Health and Social Entitlement. Ann still loves every day at work and believes the work she does is a real privilege to do.
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ROOM 6: MARKETING, WRITING AND PUBLISHING
CAMILLA NIGHTINGALE (OR) (Johnston-Lyon, House 1, 1981-9)
DATA AND DIGITAL CONSULTANT Camilla is a well-respected Data and Digital Consultant. Her extensive experience has included Senior Management positions at luxury international retailers including Tiffany & Co. and Smythsons amongst others, where she shaped and developed their Digital commerce, Digital Marketing and Data Privacy programmes. Now an independent consultant, she delivers a broad range of consulting projects across Retail, Education, Hospitality and Charity sectors with projects covering digital strategy, digital marketing, data support and optimisation activities. She regularly hosts and facilitates workshops and seminars across a wide range of digital and data topics.
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ROOM 6: MARKETING, WRITING AND PUBLISHING
CLARE POOLEY (OR) (House 4, 1982-7)
AUTHOR AND BLOGGER Clare Pooley left Roedean in 1987 to read Economics at Newnham College, Cambridge. Clare then spent twenty years in the heady world of advertising, producing global and local campaigns for brands like Kit Kat, Boots the Chemist, Barclays Bank, Rolex watches, Persil, Oxo and many, many more. Recognising that she was drinking too much, Clare decided to give up drinking and started a blog called Mummy was a Secret Drinker. This blog became a runaway success and led to a publishing deal. Clare’s memoir – The Sober Diaries was published in December 2017, followed by a TEDx talk titled ‘Making Sober Less Shameful.’ Clare then turned to fiction. Her debut novel The Authenticity Project was published last year in thirty-one languages, from Croatian to Korean and Hebrew and spent several weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Clare is currently editing her second novel.
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ROOM 6: MARKETING, WRITING AND PUBLISHING
HOLLY WATT (OR) (House 3, 1995-20)
JOURNALIST AND WRITER Holly started her career at the Sunday Times, before moving to the Daily Telegraph. During six years at the Telegraph, she was the Whitehall Editor and jointly ran the investigations team. She then moved to work on the Guardian’s investigations team. Holly has been nominated for a wide range of journalism prizes, winning awards for her work on stories including MPs’ Expenses at the Telegraph and the Panama Papers at the Guardian. She has reported from a wide range of countries, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Libya, Jordan and Lebanon. As well as flying around the world on everything from Lynx helicopters to Air Force One, Holly also worked as an undercover journalist. Holly’s first novel, To The Lions, was published in 2019 and won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for the best thriller of the year. Her second, The Dead Line, came out in 2020 and was listed as one of the best thrillers of the year by The Times and the Financial Times. Her third, The Hunt and the Kill, is out in July 2021. The books have been optioned by the makers of The Undoing, which recently starred Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant, and The Night Manager.
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ROOM 7: MEDICINE
ALISON MILLWARD PARAMEDIC Alison Millward grew up in Kent, attending a Girls’ Grammar School, and then studying Civil Engineering at the University of Birmingham, before joining the Army on a Short Service Commission and passing out from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst as an Officer in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps. Alison served in the UK and Germany, only leaving because female officers were limited in the options open to them and she wished to specialise in a role that would have involved bomb disposal, which at the time wasn’t open to women. Alison took a role with a quarrying and motorway construction company and became qualified in civilian explosives instead; at the time she was the only woman in the UK to hold a commercial explosives licence. From there she moved sideways into Health and Safety Management, adding Environmental Management to subsequent roles, living in various parts of the UK and in New York. Reaching the age of 50, Alison decided she was ready for a new challenge and decided to join the Ambulance Service, qualifying first as an Associate Ambulance Practitioner, and then studying part-time at the University of Portsmouth to qualify as a Paramedic. Alison works full-time on a rotating shift pattern of ten-hour shifts; sometimes she is on an ambulance as part of a crew of two, and sometimes on an ambulance car as a solo responder. Alison loves the work because it is challenging, varied and interesting, and no two incidents are ever the same. She is based at an ambulance station in Eastleigh (between Winchester and Southampton) but can travel all over Hampshire in a shift, and sometimes further afield. Alison has two adult children who are both forging their own paths now. She lives in Winchester and has a narrowboat and two badly-behaved Romanian rescue dogs, all of which takes up most of her spare time. Alison also plays French Horn in the Hampshire Police Band and enjoys running, walking and skiing when she gets the chance. 35
ROOM 7: MEDICINE
Dr NATALIE GREEN (OR) (Schwaiger, House 1, 1996-2003)
OCCUPATIONAL PHYSICIAN Natalie trained at Balliol College, University of Oxford 2003-9, with an undergraduate focus on genetics and development. After completing her foundation training in London, Natalie went on to train in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine 2011-5. Within anaesthesia, Natalie developed an interest in the management of chronic pain. Natalie took a career break 2015-16 and worked with Imperial College School of Medicine as a clinical fellow to project manage a medical curriculum mapping system and a full scale curriculum review for undergraduate medicine across the five years’ of training. In 2016, Natalie made a career change to occupational medicine specialist training and spent four years at Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and undertook an MSc in Occupational Medicine at the University of Manchester. Natalie was awarded a distinction for her MSc in September 2020. In January 2021 Natalie moved to a training position at Cordell Health Ltd where she will complete her final year of ger occupational medicine specialist training until she becomes a consultant in 2022. As an occupational physician Natalie will diagnose, manage and prevent disease that has been caused or exacerbated by workplace factors, and is concerned with all aspects of the effects of work on health and health on work.
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ROOM 7: MEDICINE
Dr SOPHIA WILLIAMS (OR) (Borthwick, House 4, 1985-8)
PSYCHIATRIST Sophia’s route to becoming a psychiatrist has been far from ‘conventional’. She really enjoyed her time at Roedean as a music scholar, afterwards, going on to graduate from the Royal Academy of Music on the viola and violin and then playing professionally in London. Later, Sophia gained a PGCE at Cambridge University, working as a primary supply teacher in a number of inner-city primary schools in London and Sheffield and also worked with children in special education on the Autism Spectrum. Sophia studied for a double dissertation Masters in Music Psychology (absolute pitch) & Jewish music, then went on to gain a PhD at the University of Sheffield. Sophia was Head Senior Tutor with pastoral responsibility at Stephenson Hall University of Sheffield. During her PhD studies, she gained a BSc hons Psychology degree with the Open University, giving Sophia British Psychological Society (BPS) conversion status. After working for a year as an Assistant Psychologist in the NHS, she applied to Barts & the London Medical School, with the aim of becoming a psychiatrist. After graduating as a medical doctor in 2007, Sophia went on to complete her Foundation training as a junior doctor in North Central London. In 2016 she joined the North Central London Core Training programme in psychiatry. In November 2019, Sophia was awarded membership to the Royal College of Psychiatrists (MRCPsych) and, in September 2020, Sophia gained a place on the Great Ormond Street Hospital Higher Training scheme for child and adolescent psychiatrists. She is currently working as a Specialist Registrar with Waltham Forest Community CAMHS reviewing children and young people, treating a range of mental health issues. Recently Sophia was selected as the Higher CAMHS Trainee UK Representative for the Paediatric Liaison Network (PLN). Sophia also works as a helpline volunteer for STAMMA, having a stammer herself. She is currently undertaking postgraduate specialist training in psychodynamic psychotherapy for child psychiatrists at the Tavistock Centre, London.
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ROOM 8: STEM
Dr TASHA BERETVAS (OR) (House 2, 1979-84)
SENIOR VICE PROVOST Tasha Beretvas, PhD, is the Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and the John L. and Elizabeth G. Hill Professor in the Quantitative Methods program in the Educational Psychology department in the College of Education at the University of Texas at Austin (UT). After graduating from Roedean, Tasha took a year off before attending Duke University where she majored in Mathematics and Psychology. She then worked at IBM for five years as a programmer before enrolling in graduate school at the University of Washington in Seattle (UW). At UW, Tasha earned a Masters and PhD in Measurement, Statistics, & Research Design. Upon graduation from UW in 2000, Tasha joined the faculty at UT as a tenure-track assistant professor. Soon after her promotion to the rank of tenured full professor, Tasha was asked to serve as the inaugural Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies for the College of Education from 2013-16 and 2018-19. In the summer of 2019, Tasha was selected to serve in her current administrative role in the Provost’s Office at UT. As a methodologist, Tasha’s main areas of research interest focus on evaluation and innovative application of statistical models in the educational, health and social sciences. Tasha teaches undergraduate and graduate statistics courses to students from across campus at UT. She also teaches statistics workshops at national conferences. She was a recipient of the 2009 UT Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award, 2014 COE Dean’s Distinguished Teaching Award and the 2016 UT Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award. Tasha has co-authored more than 100 articles and book chapters. In 2017, she received the University of Washington’s Distinguished Alumnx award and was a Fulbright U.S. Scholar in 2018. Tasha was elected to be a member of the Society for Research Synthesis Methodology and of the Society for Multivariate Experimental Psychology.
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ROOM 9: CHARITY AND GAP YEAR PROJECTS
GEORGIA WALKDEN EVENTS AND MARKETING OFFICER Georgia Walkden is the Events and Marketing Officer at Raleigh International. Georgia started at Raleigh International in August 2018, following her Expedition to Tanzania in 2015. Since working for the organisation, she has travelled throughout the UK, to The Netherlands, and the United States to promote Raleigh International programmes. She also joined a Raleigh Expedition in Costa Rica in summer 2019. Raleigh International is a global youth action organisation that runs Expeditions to Costa Rica and Nepal. This year, they are also launching a brand new programme in the UK called Re:Green. Raleigh International programmes ignite, equip, and mobilise volunteers aged 17 to 24 with the skills, knowledge and experience to create lasting change in the world. They’ve have been going since 1984 and have had over 55,000 volunteers take part in their programmes.
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ROOM 9: CHARITY AND GAP YEAR PROJECTS
ELIZABETH BURROWES (OR) (House 2, 2002-7)
DIRECTOR OF MUSIC EDUCATION Lizzie was a Music Scholar at Roedean. She studied Music, English Literature, History and Drama at A Level and was granted a deferred entry place at Oxford University to study Music. She followed her time at Roedean with a Gap Year which included working in Holland and travelling South America. She joined Oxford as a student in 2008 with a Choral Scholarship to The Queen’s College. Lizzie was not thinking of her career path when she applied for University, but rather chose to pursue a subject that she was passionate about and looked for an institution with a strong choral music foundation as this was her preferred style of singing. Lizzie found a job as an intern in the Music Department at Magdalen College School in Oxford. After the first term, she was hooked and felt called to become a music teacher. She went on to be a Music teacher, then Assistant Director of Music at Reading Blue Coat School, before joining St Dunstan’s College in London as Assistant Director of Music, and later Director of Music. When teaching at Reading Blue Coat School, Lizzie discovered that a parent of one her students was the founder of ‘Brass for Africa’; a charity that strives to improve the lives of disadvantaged children and young people in sub-Saharan Africa through music education and life-skills training. Lizzie began spending school holidays in Uganda volunteering for the charity and over several years became deeply involved with its beneficiaries, educational methods and overall governance. In 2018, Lizzie was appointed Director of Music Education for Brass for Africa. In Uganda, Lizzie is responsible for the quality of the musical delivery and oversees the musical operation and direction of the organisation. The 1200 students of Brass for Africa are children and youth living on the streets, in slum communities, in orphanages, in juvenile rehabilitation centres, and many are also living with disability or with HIV/AIDs. 45