Associates (Pty) Ltd in Adelaide and editor of the Australian Systematic Botany Newsletter. In July 2010 she was appointed Vegetation Science Research Associate at Curtin University. She went on to pursue her PhD in Taxonomy at Curtin. Part of her research here included work for the Australian Research Council Linkage project. She stayed in this position until July 2013, at which time she left the university to pursue education in the dramatic arts. From August 2015 to June 2018 Campbell-Young returned to Curtin University and Monash University, where she had academic teaching duties. At the end of July 2018, Campbell-Young briefly returned to South Africa to attend the Fynbos Forum in Rawsonville, Western Cape. She was employed as Project officer from Sep 2018 for Policy and licensing at the Environmental Protection Authority in Victoria, Australia and from February 2019 for Vicamp Supply Review for the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning. In 2019, Campbell-Young registered with the Australian Business Register as a sole trader and since March 2020 she has been the Project Leader for the Short-Term Modular Housing Program for Bushfire Recovery Victoria. Dramatic career In 2013 and 2014 Campbell-Young attended several courses and workshops on Acting, TV presentation and Screenwriting, with additional courses up to 2016. Since 2013 she starred in 23 film productions, 4 television commercials, and 7 theatre productions (3 as lead). Her theatre appearances include: 2016: Lead role in 'Night Mother 2015: Lead role in Deadly Relations 2014: Lead role in Love and Other Flushes Her film appearances include: 2018 Neighbours 2018 Jack Irish 2016 Tainted Getaway 2015 To the End 2014 House of Hancock 2014 Dinner with Friends 2014 Three Idiots 2014 Infected Paradise References External links Gael Campbell-Young on JSTOR Gael Campbell-Young at the Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries database Ecological Associates website Australian Linkage research projects Living people 1973 births University of Johannesburg alumni 20th-century South African botanists South African taxonomists Women taxonomists Curtin University alumni South African emigrants to Australia South African actresses People from Carletonville 21st-century South African botanists South African women botanists 21st-century South African women scientists