{"id":1452,"date":"2018-01-18T11:57:21","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T11:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/?p=1452"},"modified":"2018-01-18T12:01:59","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T12:01:59","slug":"nicola-critten-masters-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/2018\/01\/18\/nicola-critten-masters-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicola Critten (Masters Student)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Name: <\/strong>Nicola Critten<\/p>\n<p><strong>Subject:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/study\/undergraduate\/courses\/geography-ba-hons-l700\/\">BA Geography<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Year Graduated: <\/strong>2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>College: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/colleges\/lonsdale\/\">Lonsdale<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Where are you now and what are you doing?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am currently completing my masters degree in GIS at the University College London.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What would you like to do next?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I will hopefully secure a GIS-based role within London post-graduation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did you choose to study at Lancaster?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/lec\/undergraduate\/geography\/\">geography department<\/a> seemed really friendly and approachable on the open day. As well as this, the course seemed really varied and flexible, which I did not find at other universities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was your favourite part of your degree and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Going on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/lec\/undergraduate\/geography\/fieldwork\/investigating-mediterranean-environments-spain\/\">Spain field trip<\/a> in second year was definitely a highlight. The coursework allowed groups to pick topics that we were passionate about and then be fairly independent in carrying out the fieldwork. Additionally, I made loads of friends on the trip and had all round great time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you think your time at Lancaster prepared you for what you\u2019re currently doing?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By undertaking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lusi.lancaster.ac.uk\/CoursesHandbook\/ModuleDetails\/ModuleDetail?yearId=000118&amp;courseId=017868\">GIS modules<\/a> each year at Lancaster I found a specialism that I really enjoyed and wanted to pursue further as a career. Furthermore, the way that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/lec\/about-us\/people\/duncan-whyatt\">Duncan Whyatt<\/a> created the final year GIS module has well equipped me for the topics that I am currently covering on my masters course.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did you enjoy most about your time at Lancaster? (Including extra-curricular activities and beyond?)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I would say that having three years learning more about a subject that I knew I liked, but now I love, whilst also finding out the specific parts of Geography that I enjoyed most (after changing degree schemes twice before realising human geography was more suited to me). Also, making friends for life and getting to see them every day was pretty enjoyable!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Nicola realised her passion for GIS whilst studying Geography at Lancaster, undertaking modules in each of her three years to continue her development, with her end goal set upon working within the GIS field after she completes her masters course in 2018. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":864,"featured_media":1454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[101,76,13,49],"class_list":["post-1452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-profiles","tag-2017-graduate","tag-ba","tag-geography","tag-lonsdale-college"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/files\/2018\/01\/Nicola-Critten.jpg?fit=250%2C250","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rD16-nq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/864"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1455,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452\/revisions\/1455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}