{"id":1512,"date":"2018-02-16T09:58:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T09:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/?p=1512"},"modified":"2018-02-16T09:58:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T09:58:48","slug":"max-brambani-jba-consulting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/2018\/02\/16\/max-brambani-jba-consulting\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Brambani (JBA Consulting)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Name: <\/strong>Max Brambani<\/p>\n

Subject: <\/strong>BSc Geography<\/a>; PgCert Flood and Coastal Risk Management<\/a><\/p>\n

Year Graduated: <\/strong>2014; 2017<\/p>\n

College: <\/strong>Pendle<\/a>; Graduate<\/a><\/p>\n

Where are you now and what are you doing?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I now live in Brighton and work for JBA Consulting\u00a0in Haywards Heath. My primary role in the team that I work within is hydraulic modelling and various tasks associated with this. More recently, I have also had the opportunity to work on a Flood Resilience project (more specifically, Property Level Protection).<\/p>\n

What would you like to do next?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My long-term aim is to obtain chartership with CIWEM. I plan to do this through continuing to develop my understanding of hydraulics, hydrology and flood risk management.<\/p>\n

Why did you choose to study at Lancaster?<\/strong><\/p>\n

There were numerous reasons for deciding to join Lancaster. Firstly, the university has always consistently ranked highly in the university tables for Geography. Following attending an open day I also gained a great first impression of the university and felt it had a friendly and welcoming atmosphere to it.<\/p>\n

What was your favourite part of your degree and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Throughout my degree, I was fortunate enough to go on two field trips to Iceland<\/a> and Cantabria<\/a> (Spain) respectively. Both of which were fantastic and insightful experiences and from both I have taken memories that I will not forget!<\/p>\n

How do you think your time at Lancaster prepared you for what you\u2019re currently doing?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a general sense, my time at university built my confidence in my communication and report writing skills. More technically, I undertook a couple of GIS modules<\/a> when completing my Geography degree. I now apply skills learnt from these on a daily basis. The PgCert in Flood and Coastal Risk Management provided a fantastic opportunity to develop skills, taught by experts in my field of work on the likes of river hydraulics. The course gave the opportunity for a hands-on approach to learn how to use specialist software, which I use daily at work. It was also great to complete the course alongside fellow working professionals within this field, allowing a fantastic opportunity for networking.<\/p>\n

What did you enjoy most about your time at Lancaster? (Including extra-curricular activities and beyond?)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lancaster provided me which numerous enjoyable academic opportunities during both courses that I undertook, such as the fieldwork previously mentioned. However, I also made many great friendships during my time at university, which I consider equally as valuable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Max highlights the skills that he gained whilst studying BSc Geography at undergraduate and from his PgCert in Flood & Coastal Risk Management as fundamental to his current role as a hydraulic modeller. However, Max’s time at Lancaster also saw him develop as a person, making long-lasting friendships, with fond memories of international field-trips to Iceland and Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":864,"featured_media":1513,"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":[16,101,111,10,45,116],"class_list":["post-1512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-profiles","tag-2014-graduate","tag-2017-graduate","tag-bsc-geography","tag-graduate-college","tag-pendle-college","tag-pgcert-flood-and-coastal-risk-management"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/files\/2018\/02\/Max-Brambani.jpg?fit=250%2C250","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rD16-oo","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512","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=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1514,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions\/1514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/beyondlec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}