Sophie Spencer

Universities are about more than academic studies: they also (and very importantly) teach you about life, something our latest 60 second interviewee is very well qualified to do!

Name: Sophie Spencer 

Job Title: Lecturer 

What does your job at RGU involve?
Teaching Ways of Life (Applied Social Sciences) seminars.
 

What attracted you to come to work at RGU?
Positive past work and study experiences.
 

If you weren’t doing this job, what, in an ideal world, would you like to do for a living? Running a sustainable café deli promoting local produce and creating tasty grub.  

What’s your favourite place in Aberdeen/Aberdeenshire?
Bennachie or Newburgh Beach.  

Best holiday you’ve had and why?
Travelling round the Balkans after graduation.
  

Favourite TV show?
Anything involving Louis Theroux.
  

Favourite band/music?
60s and 70s soul and M
otown. 

If you’re going to a restaurant and could only have one thing to eat (one course), what would it be?
Pork belly.
 

If you were in charge of the university for one day, what’s the first thing you would do?
Decent coffee shop with good
beanz.