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Robert Houghton

Head of Outdoor Education, Melbourne Girls Grammar School

Rob is a career outdoor educator with experience going back more than 25 years. Since beginning his career as a lowly outdoor instructor, living in a tent on a Welsh mountainside, he has worked all over the world in a variety of roles

He has been an expedition leader, taking students on multi-week expeditions to countries on five continents. He’s been a ski guide in the Italian Dolomites. After completing his teaching degree in Outdoor Education and English at Bangor University, he took on a job at Gordonstoun school, the alma mater of both King Charles and his father and the home of the Duke of Edinburgh Award and Outward Bound. He’s worked for UWCSEA in Singapore, spending 22 weeks a year in the field. He’s been up mountains and down potholes and everything in between. He even wrote the definitive, English-language guide to mountain biking in Slovenia.

Latterly, he ran his own outdoor education consultancy and first aid training company before moving to Australia in 2016 where he now works as the first Head of Outdoor Education at Melbourne Girls Grammar School.

Outside of work, he still enjoys doing many of the activities that he’s spent the best part of his life teaching, but, in addition, he relishes writing, he’s fond of fondue, and partial to a pinot.