October 2025

I recently finished my university studies, graduating from Deakin University with a Bachelor of Environmental Engineering (Honours), achieving First Class Honours. 

I’ve been very fortunate to continue growing both personally and professionally within the renewable energy industry. 

My final year honours thesis focused on end-of-life options for wind turbine blades in Australia, exploring alternative approaches to landfill in managing and recycling composite material blades. Doing this project deepened my interest and passion for sustainability and the future of the renewable energy industry. 

I’ve now been at Tilt Renewables for over two years and recently started a full-time graduate position within the Environmental Compliance Team. In this role, I help to monitor and manage environmental obligations and conditions across many wind farm and solar sites. 

I found myself often working out at the Salt Creek Wind Farm or the neighbouring Dundonnell Wind Farm. Working at Salt Creek represents a full-circle moment from where my scholarship journey began.

Beyond work, I’ve had the chance to travel and get immersed in nature — spending three weeks solo hiking throughout New Zealand in 2024, and after graduating in 2025, travelling through Taiwan, Japan, and Thailand. Hiking in the mountains of Taiwan and exploring national parks is somewhere I love to be. I think this passion for nature and sustainability really fuels my interest and aspiration to work in renewable energy. 

Outside of work, I stay active at the gym and have found pottery to be a lot of fun (even though I’m not that great at it).

Overall, I remain deeply grateful to the Salt Creek team, the directors, and especially Peter Coy for their continued belief and support.  I truly wouldn’t be where I am today without them.

Where are they now

October 2023

After almost completing my third year of a Bachelor of Environmental Engineering (Honours) at Deakin University, I’ve had an incredibly busy and insightful year, covering a wide range of units. Living on campus, I took on the role of residential leader, guiding and supporting new residents in their transition to college life, much as I was guided and supported when I first arrived on campus. As a residential leader, I helped foster an inclusive, engaging community and served as a mentor for first-year students finding their footing, drawing on my own experience navigating Deakin residence, academic life, and activities as a new student. This experience has allowed me to develop stronger leadership, communication, and mentorship abilities.

This year I completed core environmental engineering units – fluid mechanics, engineering modelling, field investigation, waste engineering, transformation systems, risks to healthy environments, and environmental protection and planning. It was challenging but I learned immensely and performed well.

As my Salt Creek scholarship draws to a close, I’m deeply grateful to Salt Creek especially Peter Coy and Sally Towell, and Tilt Renewables for supporting my studies and career goals. I have been given the amazing opportunity to complete my undergraduate internship with Tilt Renewables. At Tilt, I will be gaining experience in asset management, portfolio development, GIS, stakeholder engagement, health/safety/environment, and environmental planning. Visiting the Salt Creek Wind Farm as a member of Tilt Renewables has brought the salt creek scholarship full circle.

In my final undergraduate year, I look forward completing my honours projects and final units. Since starting this journey, I remain passionate about tackling environmental issues, sustainability, climate change through renewables, and even making life multiplanetary someday!

Outside academics this year, I travelled to New Zealand and Indonesia, stayed active at the gym and beach, and enjoyed Geelong’s coffee shops. I’m thankful for this opportunity and look forward to applying my skills.