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| Angus Morrice |
In conversation with Angus Morrice, Administrator and PA to the Director at the Cabot Institute
What is your
role at Cabot Institute?
I am the Administrator and PA to the Director of the
Cabot Institute for the Environment. I work primarily with the core Cabot Team
and our academics who are in leadership positions to keep the Institute
running. I also wok with members of the academic and non-academic community at
the University to organize events, arrange and provide support and I operate as
a first port of call for incoming enquiries into the institute.
How long have
you been part of Cabot?
I joined Cabot near the beginning of 2019, so I’ve
been here for over two years now.
What is your
background?
I studied Geography at the University of Bristol. This
of course meant that the works of the Institute and many of its members were
familiar and the job seemed to be a good fit for my interests and skills. I
have almost a decade’s experience working in the arts in various capacities and
the skills developed as well as the love and respect I have for the arts have
been invaluable. The grounding gained through my degree and work in the arts
has allowed me to wholly engage with the spirit of deep interdisciplinarity and
cooperation that runs through the core of the Institute.
Why did you
want to join the team?
Even from a young age the urgency of what is now
called the climate emergency was glaringly apparent to me, it was one of the
things that made me want to study Geography at University and made me
determined to work in the environmental sector after graduating. Unfortunately,
the state of jobs for graduates in the UK being what it was when I graduated in
2018 (a state that has only continued to decline) I was unable to find any jobs
in the environmental sector upon graduating. I continued looking and the job at
the Cabot Institute came up and it was a perfect fit for my skills interests
and values.
What do you
think is the biggest environmental challenge facing us today?
The entrenched, deliberate, and perpetuated inequality
of wealth, power, and resources.
What is your
favorite part of your job?
I most enjoy working with people to deliver public
events.
What are you
most looking forward to over the next 10 years of Cabot?
I look forward to the Institute growing and
diversifying, coming to a richer place of interdisciplinarity and cooperation
and acting as an exemplar of what can be achieved through open, creative, and
inclusive interdisciplinary collaboration when approached with humility, curiosity,
and passion.
Anything else
about who Cabot is and what you do that you would like to add?
Cabot is its membership, and its membership is diverse
and passionate.
Cabot as a community might best be thought of as a
rich woodland, growing, changing, living, interconnected, and mutually
supporting. The whole is hard to see sometimes, and it might be impossible to
truly quantify all its parts, actions, outputs, and effects but that makes it
neither less valuable nor less of a superb model for the work that is so
urgently needed.
Find out more about Angus here.