I am a sustainability champion both in my professional role as a teacher of English for academic purposes and as a sustainability enthusiast outside my working hours.
As a Teaching Fellow, since 2017 I have been incorporating my sustainability knowledge from the sustainability-related professional development I have completed incorporating into the course curricula. I find that students enjoy discussing sustainability and green skills as part of their learning experience.
As an enthusiast, on top of my professional role, I organise social and community events and activities for staff and students across the University of Edinburgh campuses to promote sustainability, health, and wellbeing, and encourage a sense of community. From coffee mornings, lunchtime walks, to flower planting, and stationery recycling, through my work I instigated connections between colleagues across the University, as well as connection to nature – two things that we tend to find less and less time for since the COVID-19 pandemic.