Aidan Turner
Aspiring Masters Student
Pawcatuck,CT
Summary
A recent graduate from the University of New Hampshire with a degree for Events Management through the College of Health and Human Services. Interested in quantitative research in the realm of economics. Aiming to specialize in housing research, to establish a sustainable model that can answer questions of affordability, shortages, and the impact it has on the quality of life.
Overview
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Work History
Community Engagement Fellow With Town of Groton, CT
UNH Sustainability Institute
Durham, NH
05.2025 - 08.2025
- Designed and executed a Town-wide outreach campaign: through door-to-door canvassing, social media, and tabling, collecting a mix of quantitative and qualitative data on residents’ priorities. Key themes included housing affordability, conservation efforts, and climate-change mitigation. Analyzing responses, produced tables and thematic summaries that were incorporated into Groton’s 10-year Conservation and Development Plan, and its first Climate Action Plan.
- Assisted Land Use Planners in creating a “missing-middle housing” (15 existing and 8 potential sites) to address rising housing demand, providing data that informed Groton's affordable-housing policy.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Recreation Management and Policy: Program and Event Management, Business Management
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH09-2025
Skills
Project management
Quantitative analysis
Quantitative research
Policy analysis
Fundraising strategies
Outreach and engagement
GIS mapping
Microsoft 365
Google Workspace
Timeline
Community Engagement Fellow With Town of Groton, CT
UNH Sustainability Institute
05.2025 - 08.2025
Bachelor of Science - Recreation Management and Policy: Program and Event Management, Business Management
University of New Hampshire
RELATED COURSEWORK
Principles of Macroeconomics
- Studied aggregate supply and demand, inflation, and unemployment. Topics also covered international trade, economic growth, as well as fiscal and monetary policy.
Principles of Microeconomics
- Emphasized how individual product prices and levels of output are determined; the effect of different market structures have on influencing economic results. Other topics included the principles of comparative advantage, and the global economy.
Research, Evaluation, and Data-Driven Decisions
- Covered the practical application of data evaluation concepts and tools within recreation, and event industries.