The Global Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Sarah's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
About Sarah
Cadet training with BP Shipping Ltd between 1974-1978, as one of the pioneering generation of young women in the UK fleet. A further eight year’s experience as a deck officer with BP on oil tankers, and FT Everard & Sons Ltd on coastal bulk carriers. Class I Master Mariners Certificate of Competency: service in the Royal Naval Reserve (RNR) at HMS Vivid in Plymouth.
Lecturer in Maritime Business at Plymouth University since 1998 . PhD in “Socio-economic Aspects of Commercial Ports and Wharves in Southwest England: A Grounded Theory Approach to Regional Competitiveness”. This was followed by an award-winning KTP project with Falmouth Harbour Commissioners.
Programme Leader at postgraduate level. Involved in innovative teaching, organising field trips in the UK and abroad, placement tutoring in the UK and Hong Kong, research supervision and examination, conference organisation, international collaboration programmes in Athens, Hong Kong and Malaysia, and external assessment/examination of taught courses in the UK, Hong Kong and Germany.
Teaching
Port sustainability
Maritime Economics
Shipbroking
Tanker Operations
Research training
Contact Sarah
Room 508, Cookworthy Building, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA
+44 1752 585686
S.Tuck@plymouth.ac.uk
