Alasdair Worrell

This year I was an intern for River Revivers, a small company based out of Aberfeldy, with the goal of restoring Scotland’s rivers to host maximum life. Out of this internship, I most enjoyed time spent outdoors surveying breathtaking places, the freedom to develop skills acquired at university and physically installing the restoration measures. The greatest benefit of this is being paid to get necessary and highly valuable work experience in the sector I find most joy working in – restoration. Secondly, I have met a lot of people through this role, opening many future opportunities.

This internship has greatly developed my career and allows me to look for more ambitious opportunities in the future. I have now developed skills from university into ones I can use with confidence during restoration as well as learning new essential skills. It was also an opportunity to experience the sector and confirmed it is what I want to do at this point in my life. I gained countless connections, having attended meetings and conferences, which I will be sure to draw on in future. I have been using these connections to set up similar freelance restoration work. Additionally, I recently was offered a funded PhD in Corrour, and I think my experience working with River Revivers and at Corrour was pivotal in this decision, made possible only by this internship.