果冻影院

What is your role and what does it involve?

There are two elements to my role, as my job title is Departmental Manager and Executive Assistant. It involves ensuring the 果冻影院 Innovation & Enterprise offices are running smoothly, safely and are fit for purpose. Working with my Office Team we also ensure the same for our HR systems, facilities, estates, IT support, directorate level support and internal comms. As part of making sure the office functions well, I lead on Green Impact. Green Impact is a 果冻影院-wide environmental competition and accreditation scheme. The scheme brings people together as a department and encourages teamwork to focus on improving our environmental impact.

How long have you been at 果冻影院 and what was your previous role?

I鈥檝e been at 果冻影院 since 2006, initially in 果冻影院 Academic Services, then 果冻影院 Psychology and Language Sciences (PALS), and now 果冻影院 Innovation & Enterprise. I鈥檝e always been interested in sustainability, and I鈥檝e been a Green Champion in all of my roles as I moved through 果冻影院. When I started my current role in 果冻影院 Innovation & Enterprise the department hadn鈥檛 yet been involved with the Green Impact scheme. This was a great opportunity for me to share my expertise and learnings from my previous roles, in particular PALS as they have consistently scored Gold in Green Impact.

What working achievement or initiative are you most proud of?

This year at the 果冻影院 Sustainability Awards Ceremony 果冻影院 Innovation & Enterprise won the Gold Green Impact Office Award. We have won this award every year for the past four听years, and I鈥檓 proud of the change in our ways of working. When we started making changes to how we run the office in more sustainable ways four听years ago, we went straight from zero to gold. We鈥檝e built on that achievement, and now sustainability is embedded in how we work.

Thinking about environmental impact is now business as usual, rather than a one-off piece of activity. It鈥檚 part and parcel of what we do, and more people are getting involved year on year. It鈥檚 built into our processes, and has a broader reach, because it鈥檚 not just about what we do in the office but how we support sustainability activities across 果冻影院. From supporting with knowledge exchange funding, supporting student and graduate startups, partnering with externals to how we get involved with the UN Sustainability Goals. This work just happens without anyone having to push for change, which is exactly what I鈥檇 hoped for.

Tell us about a project you are working on now which is top of your to-do list?

At the moment I have two strands of projects coming together. I am getting staff ready for returning to campus, and also working with 果冻影院 Business and 果冻影院 Consultants, both part of 果冻影院 Innovation & Enterprise, to move into our new joint office at 90 Tottenham Court Road. The new office opens in September and we have a unique opportunity to establish how we can work best together and in a new hybrid model. This will include bringing sustainability good practice into one shared office space.

What is your favourite album, film and novel?

Hounds of Love by Kate Bush;
Lost in Translation;
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas.

What is your favourite joke (pre-watershed)?

What did the Tin Man say when he got run over by a steamroller?
鈥淐urses! Foil again!鈥�

Who would be your dream dinner guests?

Textile artist Kaffe Fassett, who creates incredible works with colour, as I鈥檇 love to get some colour inspiration. Maangchi, who is a Korean food YouTuber, to hear about Korean pickles and fermented foods. Bill Murray, because it鈥檚 Bill Murray. And finally, Michaela Strachan, as I鈥檝e grown up watching her on TV and she would be a great person to chat with about wildlife.

What advice would you give your younger self?

I鈥檇 give some practical advice, which is however delicious it is don鈥檛 eat the unpasteurised yogurt on your visit to India.

What would it surprise people to know about you?

There鈥檚 a statue of my ancestor in central London from 1867.

What is your favourite place?

In a traditional Japanese mountain onsen.

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