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Montage of alumni voices on our blog. Featured are the Singing Dentist, aka Dr Milad Shadrooh, Dilani Selvanathan, Siti Kasim and Matt Kay.

Our graduates have gone on to do a variety of interesting and exciting things throughout their careers and beyond.

Our blog shines a spotlight on the voices of our alumni and friends and on the transformative effect gifts of time and donations from alumni have had on our students and the wider University.

Headshot of alumnus Andrew Popperwell Andrew Popperwell – Alumni Profile
10 June 2022

(Physics BSc, 1974)

For World Refugee Day, we conducted a special interview with alumnus Andrew Popperwell (Physics BSc, 1974), whose late mother Beate Popperwell (nee Wiznitzer, 1924-2001), fled Vienna as a refugee and arrived in London at the very end of 1938. 

Read her story. Remember her story. Share her story. 

Headshot of alumna Dilani Selva Dilani Selvanathan – Alumni Profile
21 June 2022

(Degree Apprenticeship in Digital Technology Solutions (Software Engineer) BSc, 2021

In terms of the future, I want to combine my passion for robotics and space and work in the space industry. I want to create technology that can advance human civilisation in outer space and I want to learn more about what is out there in the universe. 

 

Photo of alumna, Mary Ojo, standing between big white 'QMUL' letters on the lawn outside the Queen's Building at her graduation ceremony Alumni profile - Mary Ojo
21 June 2022

(History BA, 2017; MA, 2019)

My time at Queen Mary showed me that I am at my best when serving others, so I plan and hope to engage with organisations delivering innovative solutions, to solve complex issues, for the public good.

 

Headshot of alumna Vidicha Chunilal. Vidicha Chunilal – Alumni Profile
24 June 2022

(Pharmaceutical Chemistry BSc, 2018; Clinical Drug Development MSc, 2019)

Queen Mary has made me realise that no matter your socioeconomic background, all students are equally exposed to all kinds of opportunities. No matter your background, origin or socioeconomic status, every person can achieve their goals in life.

 

Alumna Amandeep Kaur Gill on her graduation day dressed in her cap and gown. Alumni profile - Amandeep Kaur Gill 
7 July 2022

(Pharmaceutical Chemistry MSci, 2019)

Being among the first generation in my family to go university is quite a proud feeling, for myself and my family. All of the hard work my parents have put into raising me and encouraging me to pursue my dreams has been brought to fruition. 

 

Headshot of alumna Arda Awais. 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.

 

Headshot of alumna Hayley McCloskey 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. 

 

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