Owen Callan

An English Literature student with extensive experience working in heritage and exhibition spaces, as well as volunteering for charities and services in aid of diverse groups of people.

Visitor Services Assistant, National Trust for Scotland, Glenfinnan Monument (05/2023-09/2023)

• Worked within all facets of the site towards public engagement, especially within the exhibition space and visitor information centre delivering the history of the site and the Jacobite Rebellion to the public.
• Delivered presentations specifically for school groups for children’s events.

Visitor Services Assistant, Balmoral Castle and Estate (05/2022-08/2022)

• Worked across departments, especially the exhibition, actively engaging with the public in the dissemination of historical information, curating each person’s experience according to their needs.

Volunteer, Friday Club at St Anselm’s College (09/2019-06/2021)

• Worked with isolated disabled adults to develop their social skills on a weekly basis.

Volunteer Tutor, St Anselm’s College (09/2019-06/2021)

• Worked with a younger special-needs student to improve their performance in GCSE English on a weekly basis.
• Tutored younger students in groups to improve their performance in GCSE Religious Studies on a weekly basis as part of a volunteer team.
• Mentored younger students in groups to improve their literacy on a weekly basis as part of a volunteer team.
• Developed and implemented strategies for effective communication in tutoring such diverse groups of young people.

Volunteer, Saint Vincent de Paul Society (09/2019-06/2021)

• Worked in community outreach, strategising fundraising opportunities as well as engaging with isolated elderly people within the local care home weekly.
• Facilitating events designed to bring local vulnerable and elderly people together.

Volunteer, Salvation Army (06/2018)

• Engaged with the public, aiding them in making donations.

University of Exeter (09/2023-Present) 

BA English Literature

• Current modules include Chaucer and His Contemporaries, Desire and Power: English Literature 1570-1640, Romanticism, and Revolutions and Evolutions 19C Writings.

St Anselm’s College (09/2014-06/2021)

• A-levels: English Literature (A*), Religious Studies (A) and Geography (A).
• 9 GCSEs including English Literature (grade 9), English Language (grade 8) and Mathematics (grade 8).