Presentations and Recordings
Virtual BIAZA Conservation Education Conference 2021
Work Experience at ZSL
Work Experience at ZSL: Using our community and learning programme to increase access and understanding of zoo career
Currently the diversity of the local area around Whipsnade Zoo is not represented in the workforce of the zoo so in this presentation I will outline some of the new programmes and connections we are starting to implement within our learning programme to increase the engagement with our local community and try to address this.
Meet the Presenter
Holly Bestley - ZSL
I’ve been a big animal lover all my life and absolutely loved biology at school. I followed this passion to an undergraduate degree at Cambridge in Biological Natural Sciences and then to an MSc in Science Communication at Imperial College, London, which looked at all the different interfaces between science and the wider world.
In 2015 I joined ZSL to work in the press office, publicising the science and conservation work of the organisation for a few years, before moving across to the Learning Team at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo in early 2018 to work with schools and young people.
I’ve since made it back to London Zoo to head up the Youth and Careers programme, thinking up new ways to work with young people in the local community and exploring how they can work for wildlife and the zoo can work for them.
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