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Making the Most of your Career Break
THURSDAY 4 FEBRUARY
Theatre 1
Time: 1.00pm
Expert Panel Session: MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR CAREER BREAK
Hosted By: Tom Hall, Lonely Planet Publications
Featuring: Peter Lynch, Bradt Travel Guides
Lauren Mackay, Gap Year for Grown Ups
Anna Paynton, Rough Guides & DK Eyewitness Travel
About the Session:
Planning on taking time out? Whether you’re taking a GAP year from university or want to take time out of a hectic working life, there are a host of Career Break options available to you. From volunteering to going it alone to find yourself…meet the experts who’ve already done it and cab advise you on where to go and how to do it.
The Expert Panel
Tom Hall is Travel Editor at Lonely Planet and the writer of the weekly Ask Tom feature in The Observer travel section, and also contributes to a host of other magazines and newspapers in the UK, Ireland and Europe. Tom is a regular commentator on travel news and events in the media, including BBC Breakfast, Radio One, Sky News, CNN and Six Music. He is the editor of Lonely Planet’s Travellers Tips book as well as contributing to guidebooks and custom print books, as well as blogs and podcasts for www.lonelyplanet.com
Peter Lynch, author of Bradt’s Wildlife & Conservation Volunteering : The Complete Guide is a freelance travel writer and has been on several conservation volunteer expeditions ranging form Cape York in Australia to the Namibian desert.
Lauren Mackay is the marketing manager for the UK’s leading gap year provider - Real Gap and Gap Year for Grown Ups. Lauren initially spent a year travelling after graduating. She spent five months in South East Asia, first completing over-land the Thailand-Cambodia-Vietnam-Laos-Thailand loop, and then travelling through Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. Australia was home for the next four months, followed by two months in New Zealand - an ultimate highlight of the trip, ending the year with three weeks island hopping in Fiji. Since working for Real Gap, Lauren has returned to Australia twice, travelled through Costa Rica visiting volunteer projects (as well as holidaying) and most recently explored Sabah in Borneo, to visit a new project before the arrival of the first group of volunteers and then holidayed in Borneo’s jungle and islands!
