AboutSince I first watched The Flying Doctors in my early teens I’ve been committed to a life of dusty wide open spaces. My early 20s were a blend of ecology at the University of Edinburgh and visits to Australia as often as time/money allowed.
I moved to Australia permanently in 2006 and spent a couple of years working as warden at BirdLife Australia’s Broome Bird Observatory on Yawuru Country, where the wildlife bounces off the spectacular backdrop of Roebuck Bay. While in Broome I became interested in community development and moved to Arrernte Country in Central Australia and the Centre for Appropriate Technology (CAT), which works with Indigenous communities to develop sustainable livelihoods. After 2 years at CAT, I moved to a new role at Low Ecological Services, an ecological consultancy based in Alice Springs, where I reacquainted myself with Elliott trapping, pitfall trapping and plants (not that I was particularly capable in this regard in the first place), before moving to Ballarat to begin a PhD at the University of Melbourne’s Creswick campus in 2010. I submitted my thesis in 2014 and I've been working as a Research Fellow at Creswick since then. Dusty wide open spaces are thin on the ground on Dja Dja Wurrung and Wadawurrung Country, but life in Australia generally lives up to my teenage dreams, and I'm a grateful tenant of this land I call home. |
A coffee-condiment exchange between Australia and the UK could be mutually beneficial.
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