My name is Jordan Mason and I
studied Sport and exercise science, now I work for Lincolnshire Football Association
as a football development officer for disability and inclusion, which simply really
is about growing opportunities for underrepresented groups, people
with disabilities things like that. Quite a large part of my work program is
disability football, so kind of growing out our pan-disability provision which is kind of
all old people, people of all disabilities playing together. But also kind of growing our impairment
specific. But there's also my inclusion work which is kind of “off the pitch” stuff; things like the
LGBTQ+ inclusive accredited club programs, we've recently launched kind of leading on Lincolnshire
FAs inclusion works are kind of developed in our quality action plan and kind of leading on our
review of our policies and things like that. So, quite simply just driving uh inclusion
within Lincolnshire Football Association. So, my program of studies on ,so like I said I
did Sport and exercise science, there's a lot of skills I took away from that. Obviously what
I do now isn't particularly science related, but there's a lot of skills I took away from
that. Things like handling data, a lot of the work I do I've got to be quite strategic in terms of
where we want to deliver a program, I can't just put on a new opportunity really and hope that
it works they need to be quite smart about it, and think about what areas are
maybe lacking in that provision and where we could put that on. so
data handling is a really big one. Communication in terms of, kind of, written and
verbal, giving presentations are all things I do fairly regularly. I deal with quite a lot
of customers and a lot of emails and I need to have that ability to kind of convey what
I want to say accurately with them. Really are kind of two of the main things that
I've taken away from my program and it did. In terms of top tips really for students, I
think the main one I would say that I really benefited from my time as a student is take every
opportunity that comes your way. If you manage your time effectively when you're at University
you can get involved with things kind of within your course. Whether that be kind of like helping
with open days, or outreach days of local schools, things like that. But also in terms of kind of
volunteering with sports teams and societies are all really valuable experiences
that you're not going to get after you graduate. But also, it's hard to internally in your course
kind of throw yourself into it. Don't kind of put as little effort in this possible, which
I think is quite easy to do in a university. Throw yourself into it and if you find a topic
that you're interested in and really do throw yourself into it and then you'll get a lot out of
it. And that’s kind of my main piece of advice.