Maryla Hart

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Project Manager
Faculty:
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Location:
Cambridge

Maryla manages the BBSRC-funded Backcasting to Achieve Food Resilience in the UK (BAFR-UK) Project, which involves multiple stakeholders from across the food system, including other academic research institutions, corporations, third sector organisations and government departments.

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Background

Maryla sits across the Global Sustainability Institute (GSI) and the Project Team in our Faculty of Science and Engineering. Maryla brings seven years’ experience in NHS corporate governance, projects and admin (2014-2021), during which time she took on additional roles as Sustainability Manager and Health and Wellbeing Rep. More recently, Maryla was employed in consultancy, fundraising and knowledge exchange placements. Maryla has a long-standing active interest in environmental and social justice, and completed her Sustainability Masters at ARU.

Spoken Languages
  • Spanish
  • Polish
  • English
Qualifications
  • MSc Sustainability, Anglia Ruskin University
  • BA (Hons) Sociology with Social Policy, University of Warwick
Research grants, consultancy, knowledge exchange

Team Leader – Students at the Heart of Knowledge Exchange (SHOKE) Student Consult (2024). Led a team of  trainee consultants researching and reporting on  innovative models of [addiction] Recovery in the Community services for Peterborough City Council. As a SHOKE Team Member, Maryla researched impact evaluation metrics for Nature Based Therapy programmes for Earth and Mind Charity, Cambridge.

Fundraising and Sustainability Manager – New Meaning Foundation (2022-24). Maryla set up the fundraising programme and secured numerous charitable grants.  Maryla’s work included broad ranging research and advice to the CEO on operations in the UK and the Gambia. Topics included charity governance, social enterprise strategy, due diligence, Gambian real estate market, sustainable construction and marketing.

Impact Case Study Research Assistant – Circular Economy, ARU Faculty of Business and Law (2022). Researching, analysing and visually mapping the impact of the EU funded Blueprint Project as delivered by UK stakeholders. 

Student Panel Member – Oxford Cambridge Arc Universities Group (2022). Interviewed for documentary films on Ox-Cam Futures. Participated in and championed sustainability in webinars with industry, academic and public sector leaders.