Apart from research, I have gained confidence in my ideas and I am learning how to express these ideas confidently. I conducted my first conference presentation this year at the annual BritGrad conference and it helped immensely with practicing my presentation skills which is definitely a skill set that consists of valuable and transferable assets like public speaking and teaching.
I also did my first long video editing project this year with the Shakespeare Players, which exercised my knowledge and familiarity of video editing. I do think this will continue to grow and become an important skill set in the future, especially if I were to consider a path in academic education. As we have seen over the past year, being able to create resources that can be accessed online is becoming a crucial tool in the field, and having a related skill set would definitely be an important factor.