One of Dianne’s main interests is in global travel and she is fortunate to have been able to indulge this passion while living overseas (including UK, USA, China and Australia), for over 20 years.

In 2004 Dianne was awarded a graduate Diploma in Education from the University of Western Australia that qualified her to teach science in secondary schools.

Dianne is currently the Executive Officer, Secondary Education for Earth Science Western Australia, representing a consortium of some 40 different organisations that encourage and support the teaching of earth and environmental sciences in WA schools. The new Earth and Environmental Science course was introduced into WA secondary schools in 2007 and was the catalyst that persuaded Dianne to move from a major oil company into the education sector where she particularly enjoys leading secondary school students on earth and environmental field excursions.

Dianne gained her first degree in Geological Sciences from Aston University in Birmingham (UK) and then went on to complete her PhD at the Applied Geochemistry Research Group at Imperial College in London. After a one year post doctoral project at Southampton University (UK) based in Spain and Portugal, she started her first job in the oil sector setting up the petrology unit for Core Laboratories UK.