Staff profile: Alex Collins
What was your role and experience before Housing Choices?
Below: Housing Choices new Community Development and Engagement Officer, Alex.
My previous stint was in aged care, I worked in Doncaster and I got that job in March 2020. It was right when everything shut down because of lockdown and I was extremely lucky to have work the whole time. It was a really good job and I was very passionate about the residents and making them laugh. I worked in the kitchen, did lifestyle work, admin, lots of different things. I try and visit them every few weeks, I was a part of their lives, and they were a part of my life for a while. I couldn’t visit my grandparents because everything was locked down and so I became sort of their surrogate granddaughter for a while. Now my sister also works there, so they’ve always got a bit of Collins flavour in their life. What did you study at university while you were working there? I finished two degrees while I was in that job. I finished my undergrad in Politics, Philosophy and Economics in 2020. And then mid-last year, I finished my Master of International Development and I did those both at Latrobe University. I love studying and learning and when the pandemic came along, I thought you know, might as well keep going. I did a thesis and did my placement at the Humanitarian Advisory Group, and I researched the effects of climate change on countries around the Indo Pacific.
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