Event Speaker & Host

Date: June 2024

Location: Aberconway Building, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff

The workshop covered a Portfolio Career and Life of a Social Entrepreneur:

A Portfolio Career

• What a ‘Portfolio Career’ looks like, who it may be suitable for and how it can be blended as part of an academic role.
• Skills needed to manage a portfolio career.
• Benefits and drawbacks to consider, when deciding if a portfolio career is for you.
• What roles are part of my roles as part of my portfolio career and where to look for roles.
• Importance of building your own personal brand through a portfolio career.

A Life of a Social Entrepreneur

• Why and how I started my social enterprise.
• What my social enterprise does.
• Benefits and drawbacks of managing a social enterprise.

Date: December 2023

Location: Online

A four-way panellist discussion on Digital Sustainability. Dr Sustainability during the session highlighted, at the height of the climate crisis ‘Digital Sustainability’ provides a pathway to combat climate change and connect communities.

Date: October 2023

Location: International Convention Centre (ICC), Newport, UK

A four-way panellist discussion on Net Zero Stage focused on sustainability, resilience and Net Zero Target. During the panel discuss Dr Sustainability outlines that pace is needed to combat climate change and contribute to sustainability, yet we are entrenched with complex terminology, jargon, which may hinder our generations progress. Training and sharing of knowledge is needed, to bring about common understanding. Net Zero is a place for innovation, collaboration and new opportunities.

Date: January 2023

Location: SBARC|SPARK, UK

Discussion on Social Value and Sustainability, to stress the need to protect the environment as a matter of urgency. Dr Sustainability notes ‘we all hold a level of responsibility and together as a generation we must make critical decisive decisions today, which will carve out the future we want tomorrow’.

Date: October 2022

Location: Online

As part of Crown Commercial Service’s inaugural Southern Region Community of Practice ‘Social Value – Bringing it to life in your organisation’, Dr Sustainability presented a session covering the implementation of social value and sustainability into public organisations, highlighting the need for top level leadership, a supportive culture and cohesion within complex public procurement systems.