Alumni news and updates
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Running in memory of Katie
Ben Harvey (BSc IMML (French) 2001) on how a group of Bath alumni are taking on the Bath Half in memory of his wife, fellow Bath graduate Katie. I met Katie met on our first day at Bath in 1997,...
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Getting Connected in Hong Kong
This was a week of firsts, from my first landing at Hong Kong Airport in a Level 8 typhoon to my first Thai iced tea (somewhere between an iced coffee and pumpkin juice). The purpose of this trip was to...
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University Council: update from your alumni rep
Christine Gibbons (BPharm Pharmacy 1978) is the Convocation Representative to University Council, elected by the alumni community to represent graduates. She’s kindly agreed to blog for us – here’s her first bulletin from the Council meeting in May 2017. May's...
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Alumni support helps student launch an exciting new startup
University of Bath student, James Courtney, has launched a business which he hopes will replicate the success of loyalty programmes like Air Miles, but in the restaurant market. His app-based business, LUX, which was developed with support from alumni, has already signed...
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Alumni support for Cancer Research at Bath (CR@B)
Rob Middleton (BSc Economics w Econometrics 1994) is Executive Director of Fidelity International Asset Management. He talks here about why he supports CR@B, the importance of their work and why, if you can, you should support them too. Rob Middleton What is your link...
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Professional Doctorate in Health graduate talks to Viva Survivors
Dr Denise Proudfoot completed her Professional Doctorate in Health from the University of Bath in 2014 while working as a nurse lecturer in Dublin City University. She has a background in mental health, primary care and sexual health promotion in...
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Get Connected - charity, NGO and policy careers
In what proved to be a very interesting and entertaining evening of discussion, an experienced panel of non-government travellers discussed the virtues of pursuing a career in a sector which offers much more than most expect. As Dr Cary Adams...
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Apps Crunch winners blog
Psychometrico - an app designed to help jobseekers prepare for psychometric and aptitude testing - has won the University of Bath’s student Apps Crunch Competition. Top prize was a trip to Silicon Valley to meet alumni working in leading global tech...
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Meeting my mentor
Final year student Ruth is taking part in our pilot mentoring programme. She writes about the experience of meeting her graduate mentor for the first time: "I’ve only ever been on one blind date. Nervously waiting for a friend of...