New RGU staff come full circle
Having both graduated from RGU and moved into professional roles, Claire Vigot and Beinn Burroughs have returned to the University as staff. They are working with the School of Health and The Physiotherapy Clinic at RGU and have been reflecting on their journeys which have ultimately led them back to our Garthdee campus.
Claire Vigot
After moving from Paris to Scotland in 2018 to start my BSc in Midwifery in Aberdeen, I really wanted to engage in student life, so I joined the feminism society and the LGBTQIA+ network's committee. I really enjoyed the campus at RGU, the midwifery lecturers and the placements in Aberdeen.
After graduating from RGU in 2021, I worked in Labour Ward in Aberdeen, gaining experience caring for people giving birth, undergoing an induction of labour or with high-risk pregnancies. I then moved to Glasgow where I worked as a bank midwife whilst studying full-time for my MSc in Gender Studies. By working on the bank, I managed to gain experience in a variety of settings including the antenatal and postnatal wards, community, midwives' led unit and clinics. After graduating from the University of Stirling with a dissertation on Midwifery Care of Pregnant Transmasculine People, I returned to Aberdeen where I have been working in the early pregnancy and pregnancy loss unit of the maternity.
I kept in touch with the lecturing team at RGU after my Bachelor's, so they reached out when this post became available and encouraged me to apply. I was so nervous that only having three years of experience would be a detriment, but both the team and students have been so welcoming, and I realise that I have a lot more to share than I first thought! I have had a fun and exciting start to my lecturing career so far.
Beinn Burroughs
I began studying Physiotherapy at RGU in 2018 and graduated from the university in 2022. I was lucky to secure seven practise placements across the North East of Scotland including orthopaedics, stroke care, respiratory, community and private musculoskeletal clinics where I really found my passion. These placements were brilliant for building relationships with colleagues all over the area which I have maintained since!
After graduating I worked in NHS Grampian for a year before joining a private physiotherapy practise as a junior physiotherapist, these two years enabled me to further develop and apply the skills gained at University and really grow as a professional and independent clinician. More recently I have started my own private physiotherapy business in the North East of Scotland alongside joining the Physiotherapy Clinic at RGU. I am delighted to have these two extremely exciting projects which allow me to provide care to people all over the area, utilising all of my skills learned at university and developed in the years working since.
