Bio

Details: 24 from Swansea, UK

Imperial Course: MRes Biological and Physical Chemistry

Optional Modules: Attributes and Aspirations

Previous Education: BSc Biology, University of Reading, 2:1

Tags: Home, PGT, FoNS, Life Sci

Motivations and Frustrations

Motivations

Rhiannon enjoys been involved in a range of things including volunteering, playing music, lots of clubs and societies and supporting her family and friends. She enjoys talking to people and knows that she wants this to play a part in her future career alongside her interest in biology. It is also important to her that she can work in a field which will allow her to continue her other activities.

Frustrations

Due to her high marks and diligence her friends, family and tutors keep pushing her towards doing a PhD, but she knows she does not want to be stuck in a lab or researching. She does not know however what she wants to do and is frustrated that the jobs cannot see herself in any of the jobs that she has found.

Rhiannon's AA

Rhiannon uses Attributes and Aspirations the sections in bold refer to the units she takes.

Rhiannon is new to Imperial but has always enjoyed being part of campus life AA3 for FoNS – About Imperial helps her find opportunities for societies she can be part of now she is at Imperial.

After settling in she completes a skills audit in IAS2 for FoNS – Your Skills and Values where she selects a set of skills, she believes she can demonstrate and works on evidencing them for her CV. For example, she can use her volunteer work shows integrity, time management, planning and organisation.

Rhiannon is a bass player and in WWO1 for MED – Working with Others we explore how that relates her being both a leader and a follower. However, in DTS4 – Evidencing Your Motivation Rhiannon reflects on how much of the things she does for fun, such as music, that she wants to use as experience for a future role.

Once she has started work at Sciad Rhiannon shares the things she does in an average weekday. In EE1 for FoNS – Managing Your Time she looks at how much time she can/should spend on different aspects of her life and in EE3 for MED – Organisation and Prioritisation she uses the Eisenhower priorities matrix to help her fit in a last-minute gig. Finally, EE5 for FoNS – Practical Tools explores how Rhiannon uses Outlook to manage her work at Sciad, her band and her personal emails.