I work as a self-employed mountaineering, climbing and paddlesport coach and coach educator.

The main topic of my Fellowship was education, with my Fellowship project titled Social inclusion in Mainstream Education through Adventurous Activities. At the time of my Fellowship, I was a full-time secondary school teacher but was starting to use the outdoors with students as a way of actively engaging individual students with their own learning. My eight-week Fellowship allowed me to go and visit a range of different educational establishments – public and private schools, colleges, charities and community action groups.

Since completing my Fellowship I have moved schools twice, before completing seven years as a curriculum leader for outdoor learning at a large state school in Worcestershire, with responsibilities for extra-curricular outdoor learning and recreation as well as developing outdoor learning opportunities within the mainstream subject delivery – supporting departments in their 'learning outside the classroom' in a way that actively engaged students in their own learning and helping to add context to the topics that they were studying.