As a PGR student at Newcastle you get to experience some fantastic opportunities such as teaching on undergraduate modules related to your field of study. In the last week I have begun teaching on second and third year undergraduate tectonic geomorphology modules and am absolutely loving it! For these modules I aim to aid students with their understanding of the key processes and systems driving global plate motions and how these link to major landform development. Additionally, I am assisting on the second year undergraduate fieldtrip to Morocco to help students with their understanding of the structure, topography and geology of the Southern Piedmont of the Atlas Mountains, with a view to assessing the level of deformation caused by active faulting in the area. I have previously participated on this trip before as an undergraduate in my second year and am extremely excited to return to the Atlas Mountains. This is a very remote and beautiful part of the world and I highly doubt I would ever have gone independently as it is so difficult to access, so I am extremely thankful that through this university i’ve been lucky enough to go twice!

Aswell  as getting to visit fantastic places in the world, my teaching experience is also great for my cv and has allowed me develop excellent time management, organisation and leadership skills. Becoming proficient in time management and organisation stems from myself balancing my research degree and current teaching commitments. Whilst my leadership skills have advanced when leading seminar groups in conducting mapping and analysing journals, and will further benefit via the Morocco fieldtrip. These skills are essential for graduate jobs and furthermore, the experience has enabled me to decide what career path I would like to go down in the future!