About my current job
I innovate services that support people living with and affected by cancer. Part service designer, part user researcher, part innovator!
How did my education influence my career path?
My interest in "people watching," and the desire to get underneath the skin of people's behaviours and experiences, was what led me to study Psychology. My time at Oxford served to reveal some of the answers but also how complex and fascinating we are as humans. Whilst I didn't go on to have a career in psychology per se, studying Psychology & Philosophy definitely deepened my interest in human behaviour, leading me to a career focused on understanding why people do what they do - whether buying washing detergent in a supermarket aisle, ordering a drink at a bar, or when faced with the very serious prospect of cancer treatment - and how to influence or improve that experience.
Fond memories of my time at EP
Some of my best and most long-standing friendships at Oxford came from EP. A few of us took on running Psychosoc, the department's student society, in our second year, which proved to be a lot of fun and to provide some great bonding experiences, like a very rainy trip to Chessington World of Adventures that only the Psychosoc committee attended! I also remember many an hour spent in the department's coffee area, drinking tea and eating Kit Kats whilst enthusing about Professor Bryant's latest lecture on child behaviour and putting off starting our latest essays. My arts-degree college friends were always envious of my psychology friends, as the department lectures and set-up enabled us to mix outside of our colleges in a way that arts degree students didn't get to do - and for that I was, and still am, very grateful!
