Sofia Paloma Stevens-Halim

Completed core training - modules include: safeguarding; active listening & questioning skills; equity, diversity & inclusion; exploring self-determination and suicide; signposting; service boundaries; data protection. This training was accompanied by various assessed role play situations.

Represented Samaritans at outreach events including Brew Monday.

Completed a course which involved learning about mental health and disorders, how to approach, communicate with and support someone having a mental health crisis, risk factors of mental ill health, inequalities in mental healthcare, stigmas and recovery.

Assisted with research for the Baby Language and Conceptual Knowledge Study (BLoCKS) by Dr. Teadora Gliga, Dr. Nadja Althaus and Kelsey Frewin in the UEA Developmental Psychology department.
My tasks included GDPR training, safeguarding training, writing literature reviews, developing stimuli images, preparing EEG and eye-tracking equipment, learning how to keep babies engaged during experiments and minimise distress, making online questionnaires, writing risk assessments, volunteering at the Norfolk Deaf Festival, learning basic British Sign Language, designing posters for recruiting participants, creating participant information sheets, consent forms and debrief sheets

Achieved Qualsafe Level 3 Award in Emergency First Aid at Work (RQF)
Completed training & assessment in CPR and first aid for unconsciousness, seizures, choking, blood loss, shock and burns.

- UEA Psychology course representative

- Guest speaker on UEA PSY Student Sessions podcast

- Campus & accommodation tours for UEA open days

- UEA outreach events

- Buddy(su) volunteer
- Voiceover actor for UEA promotional video

- Model for UEA Psychology promotional materials

- Interviewer at UEA Connect with Careers fair

University of East Anglia clubs & societies (UEA SU & UEA Sport):
Headucate - Equality & Diversity Officer 2021/22 (UEA Innovation & Impact Award Finalist - 'Outstanding impact in health, wellbeing and welfare')
Ballet - Equality & Diversity Officer 2021/22, 2023/24
Latin Social Dance Society - Health & Safety Officer and Equality & Diversity Officer 2022/23
Dance Squad - Contemporary Competition Team Choreographer 2021/22

Taken part in campaigns:
- Love Your Leo - social media posts, interview for UEA Broadcast Journalism, video with UEA Dance, podcast
- BEAT Bright & Bold for Eating Disorder Awareness Week
- Headucate the Nation for University Mental Health Week
- Post Your Pill
- Taught a ballet workshop to UEA Ballroom & Latin for BBC Children In Need
- NEDA Body Acceptance Week
- UEA Ballet Care Team

- Bring a Boy to Ballet Movember workshop
- Let It Hang with UEA Women’s Rugby for Breast Cancer Awareness Month
- Let’s Get UEA Talking panel

Competitive dancer for UEA Ballet, UEA Dance Squad and UEA Ballroom and Latin 2020-2025. UEA Strictly Pro Dancer 2023/24, 2024/25. Won awards for ‘Best Performer’ x2 and ‘Most Welcoming’.

1) 'Work Zombie' in Three Years Younger's music videos for 'Lost Path', 'Over My Head', 'Pretty (But Not Supposed To Be Here)' and 'Vincent'.

2) Voiceover, model and interviewer for UEA promotional materials.

3) Minerva Institute promotional materials.

Publicly sharing RSPCA's social media content as well as animal welfare petitions.

Shadowing appointments in the paediatric, baby and orthopaedic physiotherapy clinics as well as the paediatric intensive care unit. Observing hydrotherapy appointments at the Queen Elizabeth II school for children with special needs.

Assisting and participating in data collection for a biomechanical movement study by Dr. Paulina Kloskowska exploring and developing ways of detecting who may be at higher risk of injury by falling.

Shadowing sports injury rehabilitation appointments and attending meetings about developments in physiotherapy treatments.

Volunteered for Noah's Ark Children's Hospice.

Assisting with teaching ballet classes to children aged 2-13 years old.