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My name is Maddie Booth.

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I studied here from 2017
until 2020 and I studied PAIS and GSD, which stands

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for Politics, International Studies
and Global Sustainable Development.

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So, when I chose to study, at Warwick,
I had absolutely no idea

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what career path Global
Sustainable Development could lead you to,

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but for myself, it was more about
I understood who I was,

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where I would turn up,
and so any career path that I was looking

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to had to be authentic
to how I understood myself to be.

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So, I've just come back from a seven month
career break.

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I'm where I've kind of come back into
the space is as a freelancer working

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with organizations,
as a sustainability consultant

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and also environmental educator,
kind of filling the gap of those

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that need the knowledge and sustainability
with the consultancy as well.

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A common misunderstanding of Global
Sustainable Development is that it's

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a niche, but actually,
what I came to understand in studying this

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is that it encompasses
geography, history, chemistry, politics,

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and this actually opens up
a whole load of careers

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that you never even knew
that you could apply to.

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A pivotal part,
I think, of the degree itself

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is that it opens so many doors,

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and now from sitting on a kind of
recruiting side and actually

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helping people
get into careers and sustainability,

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they really start to open up
a lot of opportunities for you,

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and I think that's just going to keep on
growing

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with the green skills
agenda that's happening

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and going through government

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now, we'll start to see more
and more of these roles come out.

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The two biggest things I've taken away
from studying Global Sustainable

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Development have been how to include
everybody in the conversation.

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So how to really feed from people's
backgrounds

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and their values and what they've learned
through their personal experience,

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but also the second part and how to have
those difficult conversations

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and how to really make sure that everybody

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feels included
in those conversations, too.

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I think the opportunity to do a projects
and not a written

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dissertation for me
was gave me a chance to really create

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some kind of social impact
instead of having a more academic journal,

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where people can interpret, instead.

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I  actually worked with communities

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and and built a social impact that way,
and through doing that dissertation,

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I learned project management skill set,

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which is now kind of fed through into
pretty much everything I do in my career.

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I have met up with Alumni
all across the world,

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and I think the one of the most fantastic
things about the course

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is that people go into such incredible
and interesting careers,

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from coral restoration to working with,

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indigenous groups across the world
to working in green finance,

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and that's just been a fantastic
community to be part of.