Luci Attala BA (Hons) (Wales), dip RN (Swansea), dip Body Language (Open College)
Contact Details
School of Archaeology, History and AnthropologyTel: 01570 422941 (441)
E-mail: l.attala@trinitysaintdavid.ac.uk
Campus
Lampeter CampusJob Title
Part time Teaching Fellow and academic tutor (foundation studies)
Role in the University
Luci lectures in social anthropology and is responsible for the coordination of study skills for all level 4 students in the school of Archaeology, History and Anthropology. Luci also teaches extensively in the community having developed a number of modules that correspond with the new Welsh Baccalaureate’s subject areas. Luci sits on the steering committee for HEST research cluster (humanities, environment and sustainable technologies) and she is the welfare representative for the school and sits on the child and vulnerable adults group.
Additional Information
Luci was recently recognised by NIACE, and won an award, for being an inspirational tutor based on her teaching at Lampeter.
Presently, Luci is active with The Community Carbon Link (CCL,) a not-for-profit organisation that attempts to link communities through carbon absorption. Luci has helped link Lampeter with Giriama in Bore near Malindi, Kenya through negotiations with the tribal elders to create a tree-planting initiative which is sponsored by WCVA and WAG. The project received a Gold Star Award and is now being used as a pilot project for the Size of Wales – a scheme, promoted and supported by the Prince of Wales, that aims to protect and plant an area of rainforest the ‘size of Wales’. The CCL has joined with The Great Primate Handshake to raise money to buy rainforest in that area too. Luci is also linked to the Ashinka in Peru in a similar tree planting programme.
Having originally trained as a nurse, Luci uses her expertise in both anthropology and health/social care to teach in the school of Health and Social Care for the Open University. There she is responsible for a selection of modules that concern themselves with how both health and care are conceived of as well as how they are best achieved.
Other areas of interest include – ethnobotany: the cross cultural use of hallucinogens; gender and performing sexuality; psychology and the mind; non-verbal communication
Luci is currently studying for an Msc in Psychology.
