Kimberly Young, PhD

• Provided excellent customer service to visitors, conducting tours of the premises and providing customers with accurate information regarding the Ligurian honey bees, their life cycle and the apiaries.
• Enhanced store appearance through diligent merchandising and regular upkeep of displays.
• Processed transactions accurately, balancing cash registers at the end of each shift.
• Made coffees when required and maintained the espresso machine.
• Cleaned and opened and closed the store to OH&S standards.

• Provided customers, suppliers and local business owners with exceptional customer service and hospitality.
• Managed all aspects of the business from banking, PNL sheets, ordering, stocktake, wastage, staff rosters, hiring and training staff as well as bearing responsibility for the productivity and wellbeing of 10+ front-of-house staff.
• Performed general café duties which included customer service, operated POS systems and espresso machines, cleaned, restocked products, and opened and closed the store to OH&S standards.

• Served alcohol to patrons.
• Processed transactions accurately, balancing cash registers at the end of each shift.
• Performed general cleaning duties as well as opened and closed the store to OH&S standards.

• Performed general café duties which included customer service, operated POS systems and espresso machines, cleaned, restocked products, and opened and closed the store to OHS/WHS standards.

• Provided email support to clients.
• Utilised sophisticated online safety matrices to ensure the privacy and safety of all clients, alerting management to at risk clients.
• Edited online content as well as produced ‘saved response’ templates for email inquiries.
• Reviewed moderation reports, avatar names and provided real-time online moderation, including banning players for inappropriate language, or bullying behaviour.

• Assisted teachers with a variety of tasks including explaining project requirements to students, reviewing, correcting, and grading student work as well as keeping students on task
• Prepared classroom resources and materials on behalf of the teacher.

• Compiled and delivered legal documents to law courts and other law firms.
• General PA and office administration duties including copying and arranging case files and documents for solicitors and barristers.

• Collected seeds and propagated native plant species.
• Revegetated various sites throughout South Australia using native plant species.
• Eradicated weed species.
• Understood and met the requirements for Certificate 3 in Conservation and Land Management.

Thesis topic: An exploration of symbolic spaces and spatial motifs in Dostoevsky’s post-Siberian fiction: spatial possibilities as moral and existential possibilities of being.

Details: Full-time undertaken over four and a half years. Thesis length: 71,720 words. This study was an investigation of the vital intersections in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s fiction between space and spatial motifs and the moral and existential choices which beset Dostoevsky’s characters.

Supervisors: Dr. Mike Nolan and Associate Professor Sofia Ahlberg.

• Majored in English Literature and History
• Degree awarded with Honours (First Class)

Young, Kimberly, (2020) “Ivan Karamazov’s Euclidean Mind: the ‘Fact’ of Human Suffering and Evil”, The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 56, 1, pp. 49-62.

Type of Publication: Journal

Refereed Publication: Yes

DOI: 10.19205/56.20.3

• 2014 Awarded a La Trobe University Postgraduate Research Scholarship of $25,392 per annum of a living allowance to be paid for four years.
• 2013 Executive Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence.
• 2012 Executive Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence.