Alumni profile - Arda Awais 18 July 2022
(Design, Innovation and Creative Engineering BEng, 2017)
At Identity 2.0, the company I co-founded, we create accessible spaces for people to explore the data that they give away online because we’re fed up with people feeling powerless about the misuse of their data.
Alumni profile - Nicholas Paduano 19 July 2022
(Finance MSc, 2020)
It is not easy when you come from another country and you are not yet fluent in the new language. But I have met such nice colleagues who became my friends later on who helped me integrate and build up a new social life.
Alumni profile - Kerri Dixon-Jones 18 February 2021
(Law LLB, 2006)
Although Mental Health Law is a world away from the type of work I do now, that role was fundamental in teaching me about people and hard work and I am forever grateful for my manager Kate for her mentorship and friendship. It was the training Kate gave me that has made me successful in each role I have had since.
Alumni profile - Sheba Remy Kharbanda 2 August 2022
(Law and Politics BA, 2001)
I arrived in the US right after 9/11 so my work with Amnesty was documenting the stories of people caught up in the post-9/11 Patriot Act sweeps. These people were largely South Asian, which threw me into a really confusing space. I knew the stories of my family, I knew my dad and grandparents were refugees, that my mum was in the generation that settled Southall and put it on the map in terms of immigrant towns in London. But it wasn’t my story, it was an inherited story.
Alumni profile - Hayley McCloskey 19 August 2022
(Mathematics BSc, 2019)
I love working in the Tech industry. I have had so many amazing opportunities. I love that you do not need to be technical to work in the industry either. I love being able to do both: be somewhat technical but also client facing.
Alumni profile - Marcus Chown 10 February 2020
(Physics BSc, 1980)
I have stroked bats (they purred) behind the scenes on channel 4’s Sunday Brunch. I have given a talk in a glass-bottomed boat in a shark tank at Brighton sea life centre. I have been on a train through the Australian outback on a book tour and I have been chased off of BBC Radio 4’s Loose Ends by legendary rock drummer Ginger Baker, who didn’t like me mentioning the term “big bang”...
Alumni profile - Peter Atwal 9 September 2022
(Computer Science BSc, 1977)
We studied AI in the 70s and 80s, but we could only theorize what AI could do and should look like; we couldn’t develop it as we didn’t have advanced tools to build it. Therefore, AI is the one thing that has always fascinated me in my lifetime.
Alumni profile - Faysal Rehmat 9 September 2022
(Physics BSc, 2019)
Studying at Queen Mary meant I became surrounded by people who believed in themselves, that demanded a great deal from their own future, and expected success to not be a matter of if, but when?
Their hope was contagious.
Alumni profile - Carolina De Fonseca Soares 23 September 2022
(Biochemistry, BSc, 2021)
Clara and I wanted to create a podcast that was a halfway point between pop-science and a scientific journal. In our podcast, Neuroverse, we don’t aim to lecture, we strive to explore ideas and venture into different areas of understanding and draw connections between disciplines.
Alumni profile - Teni Gogo 21 October 2022
(History BA, 2017)
This Black History Month, History Teacher at Ark Pioneer Academy, Teni Gogo, has shared how studying aspects of Black History during her degree at Queen Mary uncovered a passion for History that she has taken with her into her teaching career, and how her work enables her to continue discovering and passing on the wonders that History can offer.