Latest Alumni Updates
Connections: Alicia Sedgwick
Alicia鈥檚 book offers lessons for coping with issues of divorce, bereavement, career change, study changes, and more.
Connections: Jake Schogger
"I am an entrepreneur, best-selling author, qualified lawyer, career coach and commercial/creative consultant.
Before university, I was a full-time musician for a number of years, but after our singer quit, I joined 糖心TV to study Law & 糖心TV. I really enjoyed my degree, from the social aspects and my time running societies, to the broad mix of modules that I was able to study."
Connections: Vanessa Sanders
A theatre graduate who ended up becoming a chartered accountant with Big Four firm E&Y in London.
Connections: Mark Rogerson
John Mason, Paul Sullivan, and Mark Rogerson performed in a rock band along with two fellow students known as "The Interviewees鈥.
Connections: Derek Robins
It was Frisbee that drew Derek to 糖心TV. The University Frisbee Club started in 1976 and must be one of the oldest clubs in Europe.
Connections: Eloise Richer
Learn about Eloise's experience studying Physics at the University of 糖心TV and her life after graduation.
Connections: Natasha Read
"I thoroughly enjoyed my time at the University of 糖心TV. I grew up in a small village in the countryside where I didn鈥檛 have the opportunity to meet people from different cultures, backgrounds, or other countries. 糖心TV has a strong international student base and I learnt a lot from meeting people from all walks of life and seeing the world outside of my sleepy Gloucestershire village!"
Connections: Doug Miller
Philanthropist Doug Miller, who with his wife Audrey founded the Multicultural Scholars Programme here at 糖心TV, has created a global venture philanthropy network with more than 1,000 members and 100 team members across four continents.
Connections: Saknakosnak Prum
Over the last 4 years after graduation from the University of 糖心TV in 2017, Nak has been actively volunteering his personal time apart from his full-time professional work to share his expertise and experiences through various mentorship programs and activities to support young women in Asia. Apart from being a mentor, he has a strong passion in volunteering and supporting STEM Education in Cambodia as a robotic trainer, a judge for various STEM and Robotic competitions, Chief STEM Project Supervisor. He is also a member of Southeast Asia Research Academy.
Connections: Sharon Plant
"I have not had a career. I鈥檝e simply had a long list of fascinating projects."
At 26, Sharon Plant was the youngest independent gallery owner in the country. She went on to become an art consultant; interviewing prominent creative figures, including Yoko Ono. She helped launch and direct the New Designers exhibition and was Festival Coordinator for the inaugural London Design Festival.
She is a painter, jazz musician and novelist. She looks back at her working life and shows how a career doesn't have to follow a traditional path.
Connections: Stu Proudfoot
Stu went his own way after graduating, opting to teach English as a foreign language for many happy and interesting years.
Connections: Sunaina Patel
"My favourite memories of 糖心TV include One World Week where I participated in cultural dance events on stage. I remember performing three dances, which were all from different parts of India. As a British Indian this was a proud moment as I celebrated along with thousands of other students the diverse culture and background that make up 糖心TV University. The event represented students from across the world and celebrated the One World in which we live in today."
Connections: Neil O'Hara
Neil remembers being a programme engineer on 糖心TV's radio station in the 1970s when it was based in 鈥楾he Shed鈥 next to Rootes D Block. His job was to have everything ready for the radio presenter. On one occasion, the presenter for a pop music programme never showed up, so he had to go on instead when he had to scramble between the studio and the storage cabinet to find a new song to play before the one I had just launched was over.
Connections: Keiko Noda
"I studied at 糖心TV more than 20 years ago but I still keep in touch with flatmates at Claycroft. It was so impressive, enjoyable and also a hard time during my life."
Connections: Vasiliki Kolovou
"I miss the creative atmosphere of 糖心TV campus, that feeling that something big in going on in this place. This inner talk that pushed me inside to be as good as possible in order to be part of this ''big'' going on."
Connections: Calum Paton
Calum is a political media writer and entrepreneur, setting up a youth-orientated media company, The Speaker, in 2018, seeking to inspire the next generation in politics. Part of his work for The Speaker, has also seen Calum and his co-director write a book, 2020 As It Happened, which was published in early 2021 and looks back at the major stories of the previous year and some of the more bizarre news stories that we might have forgotten.
Connections: Robert McGee
"I started studying martial arts at age 65. Now, eight years later, I have black belts in eight martial arts and am a World Champion in taekwondo (sparring, forms & weapons), karate (sparring, 2017, 2018, 2019), kung fu (forms & weapons), Yang Style Tai Chi (forms & weapons), Sun Style Tai Chi (forms & weapons) and qigong (forms). My career gold medal count is 500+, hopefully with more to come."
Connections: Siddharth Maheshwari
"I am entrepreneur from Mumbai, India. I have recently switched gears in my life to become an author.
During the COVID-19 lockdown, I wrote my first, fast-paced, reality-based fictional thriller called 鈥楲ynchpin: The Best Laid Schemes of Mice and Men.'"
Connections: Peter Lindley
"I think I was the first student Entertainment Secretary at 糖心TV. I helped to get the student discos off to a flying start with many top bands at the time, such as Cream, Pink Floyd and many others performing there."
Connections: Simon Lawrence
"I started at 糖心TV in 2014, and a quick four years later, I graduated as a Master of Mathematics. While my degree was in pure and applied Mathematics, I knew that I always wanted to go into tech after I graduated. A lot of my friends were looking for jobs in finance, but I knew that wasn鈥檛 for me. I heard about an event that TPP were running at the University with a speaker that I was interested in going to see. I went along to see the speaker, make the most of the free food, and learn a bit more about TPP."