Alexandra Kerswell

My job involves liaising with supported housing schemes, health professionals, social workers and organisations and individuals working with older people to reach isolated housebound older people in order to encourage them to participate in Open Age phone groups or other activities.

This includes a whole range of things including delivering and facilitating several weekly group activities (e.g. creative writing & book groups) over the phone through teleconferencing, booking guest speakers to talk each week and tutoring arts and crafts and photography.

Studying at Goldsmiths gave me the skills in organisation and self management that have been applied to my current job role. The course I studied was the best decision I have ever made. It developed values that adhere to a psychosocial out look and a non judgmental supportive disposition, shaping me as an individual.

My experience was not always positive but the people I met, the department I was a part of and the support network I developed shaped it into one that I reflect upon with happiness and great enjoyment. I learned so much about so many things, both academic and personal. My studies have enabled me to find and create my own career doing things I enjoy.