Cerys studied at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen where her Master’s group thesis project titled ‘Aberdeen Reclaiming its Waterfront’ was shortlisted for the A&DS Urban Design Award at the RIAS Scottish Student Awards. She was awarded a bursary place on Historic Environment Scotland’s Conservation Summer School in June 2016.

In 2018 she represented Scotland at the European Architectural Student Assembly in Rijeka, Croatia and in the following year she was awarded a scholarship place on the UAH & IGS ‘Conservation without Frontiers’ Summer School in Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Cerys’ has worked within the heritage architecture team at Hampshire County Council Architects and also for BAM in Marseille, working in French on drawings for a range of projects including façade renovations and using straw in the adaptive reuse of a concrete building to form a new creche.