Experience

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  Ecodyfi

  • Machynlleth, Wales, United Kingdom

  • Interim Coordinator, Dyfi Biosphere

    • May 2024 - Present
    • Machynlleth, Wales, United Kingdom
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  Freelance

  • Aberystwyth

  • Writer, educator and facilitator

    • Aug 2015 - Present
    • Aberystwyth

    I offer education consultancy, editorial services and facilitation to the food and farming sector in Wales and I write about the food system generally at www.foodsociety.wales. I was the Wales coordinator for LEAF Education (formerly Farming and Countryside Education) from 2006 to 2019, making li...

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  Garden Organic

  • Aberystwyth

  • Senior Project Coordinator

    • Sep 2021 - Jul 2023
    • Aberystwyth

    I'm working on a project called Tyfu Dyfi, which aims to increase community involvement in gardening and healthy food in the Dyfi Biosphere. It is run by a partnership of local organizations. My role is to develop a Master Gardeners project - Prifarddwyr yn Gymraeg - to support volunteers to ...

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  Renew Wales

  • Coordinator

    • Apr 2019 - May 2022

    Coordinator for Renew Wales, see https://www.renewwales.org.uk/.

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  LEAF Education

  • Wales

  • Regional Education Coordinator

    • Jun 2006 - Jul 2019
    • Wales

    Developing links between schools and the farming sector in Wales, in order to deepen young people's understanding of where food comes from and how the countryside is maintained.

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  Aberystwyth University

  • Aberystwyth

  • Project Officer

    • Jul 2000 - Aug 2015
    • Aberystwyth

    I worked for Organic Centre Wales from its foundation in 2000, initially as information officer responsible for the website, publications and e-bulletins, and then working in public engagement, especially schools, including farm visits, school meals procurement and gardening. My activities includ...

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  National Botanic Garden of Wales

  • Llanarthne, Carmarthenshire

  • Assistant Education Officer

    • Nov 1999 - Jul 2000
    • Llanarthne, Carmarthenshire

    As assistant to the Head of Education, I helped develop education programmes and projects in the lead up to the Garden opening in May 2000, and thereafter led primary school visits in English and Welsh. I continued to work on the education programme as a freelance until 2002 and have been involve...

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  Lampeter Comprehensive School

  • Lampeter

  • Science Teacher

    • Sep 1998 - Jul 1999
    • Lampeter

    I taught science and maths to pupils aged 11-16 in this rural school.

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  Self-employed

  • Oxford, United Kingdom

  • Freelance Copyeditor

    • Apr 1989 - Aug 1997
    • Oxford, United Kingdom

    I worked freelance for a range of clients, including CABI, Macmillan (the RHS Dictionary of Gardening), Carfax Publishing, Blackwells and HarperCollins. I marked up typescripts of academic journal articles and books for typesetting, working with authors to settle queries and ambiguities and check...

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  CABI

  • Cambridge and Wallingford

  • Scientific Information Officer

    • Sep 1985 - Apr 1989
    • Cambridge and Wallingford

    Abstracting science journals for Plant Breeding Abstracts, and editing the repackaged journal Maize Abstracts. I read plant breeding journals all day, every day, selecting relevant papers and producing an abstract of each one, usually by taking the author's abstract and improving it so that i...