In 2015, I began reading Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, Wadham College.
This is where my passion for sustainability started. I specialised in environmental and civil engineering and my thesis focused on contaminated ground remediation to unlock unused freshwater resources for human use. Alongside my degree, I spent my time playing football and raising the profile for women’s sport; I played football for Oxford’s Blues and captained Wadham Women to their first promotion in 7 years. These years were transformative for women’s football (and my own confidence as a female football-playing-engineer!). Women’s football in the UK turned professional in 2017, and I lead the Oxford-Cambridge varsity match at the 6500 capacity Hive stadium in London as president of the University Football Club in 2017/18.
In 2019 I graduated with a Master of Engineering and joined an engineering consultancy as a Graduate Engineer. My career to date has involved a range of projects, from infrastructure design to decarbonisation studies. I have been responsible for analysis models for complex transport infrastructure projects, (building a technical background), as well as working on-site project managing refurbishment schemes for existing railway assets. I’ve progressed rapidly and I’m on course for chartership in 2024. Alongside this, my drive for embedding sustainability internally (I’m my division’s sustainability lead) has led to a variety of opportunities such as delivering the literature review for technical deep dive on the decarbonisation of bridges, or co-authoring the Decarbonising Transport, Let’s get moving Interchange Report for the London Transport Museum.