My BSc and MRes were conducted at the University of Plymouth, the latter in conjuction with the Marine Biological Association of the UK where I studied plankton during my research project. Although this was facinating, I moved from Marine Biology to Human Health in 2005 when I joined Prof. Noel Morgan's Islet Biology Team as a lab technician at the then Peninsula Medical School. Since that time I have completed my PhD under the guidance of Prof. Morgan, was then funded as a post-doc in the team thereafter. I was appointed to a tenured E & R Lecturer position at the University of Exeter Medical School in 2019, and am one of 7 Prinicpal Invesigators who form the Islet Biology Exeter (IBEx) team.