Month: July 2016

So tell us a bit about your background, where have you come from? My childhood was pretty STEM-free and my school life was tailored to becoming a music teacher, like my mum. I did, however, love being outside and getting dirty but not playing with rocks – horses. I took Geology in year 11 and 12 at school almost by accident, and kind of blitzed it. My Geology teacher was a woman of amazing strength and intelligence, although at the time we thought she was a bit of a T-rex.  Her down-to-earth (pardon the pun) style of information delivery and her logical approach to the observation of natural processes and systems simply made the subject seem easy. I changed my mind when choosing university courses in Yr 12, and chose geology over music despite my mother’s protestations that I would hate competing in a world full of men and living…