Voices of Experience

 

More career stories coming soon...The Voices of Experience

 

The voices of experience come directly from our postgraduate research alumni. Career Destinations communicate with your predecessors to gain knowledge of their career paths and life stories. We share their career journeys here to enable you to see what decisions helped shape and sculpt their lives. We hope this opportunity will help you to see the broad range of careers followed and the personal motivations that drove our past researchers.

 

Many of the profiles are available online (below) and all profiles are available in the Career Destinations Centre. Additionally you may like to explore some external collections:

 

If you are interested in helping Career Destinations to collect Career Profiles please contact PGR-Careers@soton.ac.uk.

 

Faculty of Humanities:

Dr. Anne Preston - Student Service Adviser, University of Southampton. - Modern Languages -

Rabbi Dr. Chanan Tomlin - School Inspector for Ofsted. - Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations -

Dr. Christian Defeo - Author. - School of Humanities -

Prof. David Ayres - Professor of English, University of Kent. - English -

Dr. Eleanor Quince - Postgraduate Research Co-ordinator, School of Humanities, University of Southampton. - History -

Mrs Elizabeth Raikes - Chief Executive, Torbay Council. - History & Archaeology -

Dr. Elizabeth Sercombe - Alumnus Profile - Modern Languages - PODCAST

Dr. Hugh Benham - Retired Head of Music, Barten Peveril and Chair of Examiners for Edexcel. - School of Humanities -

Dr. Jackie Furby - Senior Lecturer, Southampton Solent University. - English & Film -

Dr. John Ellis - Author. - History -

Dr. Matt Pope - Senior Research Fellow, University College London. - Archaeology -

Dr. Neil Jordan - Alumnus Profile - Philosophy -

Dr. Rob Hosfield - Lecturer, University of Reading. - School of Humanities -

Dr. Robin Thomas - Business Development Manager, Simpson Spence & Young Ltd. - Archaeology -

Faculty of Business & Law:

Dr. Dave Filipovic-Carter - Director (Facilitator & Trainer), Education-Training Ltd. - Law -

Dr. Glenn Strange - Executive Director / Owner, GSI Consulting Inc. - School of Management -

Dr. Joe Viana - Post-doctoral Researchers, University of Southampton. - School of Management -

Dr. Lincoln Wee - Director, Vis Integritatis Consultancy Pte Ltd. - School of Law -

Faculty of Engineering and the Environment:

Dr. Alan Lawrence - Head of Buy-Side Development, Fidessa. - School of Engineering Sciences

Dr. Bruce Davenport - Freelance Editor. - School of Engineering Sciences

Dr. Christopher Lindsell - Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Cincinnati. - ISVR -

Dr. Favian Dixon - Research Fellow, Jamaican Civil Aviation Authority - School of Engineering Sciences -

Dr. Graeme McLay - Senior Transportation Officer, Eat Dunbartonshire Council. - School of Civil Engineering and the Environment -

Dr. Jan Peters - Director & Owner, Katalytik. - Engineering Sciences -

Dr. Matt Mowlem - Senior Research Fellow, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton. - Engineering Sciences -

Dr. Osama Daoud - Project Manager, Dar Al-Handasah Consultants. - School of Engineering Sciences -

Dr. Vera Hazelwood - Programme Manager, Smith Institute for Industrial Mathematics and System Engineering. - School of Engineering Sciences -

Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences:

Dr. Adam Healey - Senior Manager, Accenture. - School of Chemistry -

Dr. Bill Hedges - Manager, Corrosion & Inspection Department, BP. - School of Chemistry -

Dr. Colin Bird - Retired Information Architect, IBM. (Part-Time visiting consultant to Chemistry at UoS). - School of Chemistry.

Dr. Eagle Yi-Kung Huang - Associate Professor, Taiwan's National Defence Medical Centre. - Biological Sciences -

Dr. Edward Guy - Head of Research & Development, Public Health Wales, and Head of the National Toxoplasma Reference Unit. - Biological Sciences -

Dr. Evangelos Marinos - Associate Professor in Biology, University of Athens, Medical School, Laboratory of Hisology and Embryology - Biological Sciences -

Dr. Gabe Weyman - Regulatory Ectoxicologist, Makhteshim Agan. - Biological Sciences -

Dr. George Tuckwell - Director, RSK STATS. - School of Ocean and Earth Sciences - 

Dr. Graham Cooper Graham Cooper - Former Chemical Weapons Convention Negotiator, Diplomatic Service. - Chemistry -

Professor Gwyn Gould - Professor of Cell Biology, University of Glasgow. - Biological Sciences -

Dr. Helen Russell - Brand Manager, Procter & Gamble. - Chemistry -

Dr. Ingrid Fussing - International Brand Manager, H Lundbeck (Pharmaceuticals). - School of Chemistry -

Dr Joanna Rooke - Researcher, Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de La Paix. - School of Chemistry -

Dr. Matt Hutchings - RCUK Fellow, University of East Anglia. - Biological Sciences -

Dr. Pat Goodwin - Consultant, Wellcome Trust and C3Collaborating for Health. - School of Biological Sciences -

Prof. Paul Rodhouse - Board Member, British Antartic Survey. - School of Ocean and Earth Science -

Dr. Peter Smith - Retired government scientist and administrator. - Chemistry -

Dr. Roland Fox - Retired Lecturer (Honorary Fellow), University of Reading. - School of Biological Sciences -

Dr. Tillie-Louise Hackett - Post-Doctoral Fellow - University of British Columbia, Canada. - Biological Sciences -

Faculty of Health Sciences:

Faculty of Medicine:

Dr. Sam Leary - Lecturer in Statistics, School of Oral and Dental Sciences, University of Bristol. - School of Medicine -

Dr. Elaine Dennison - Professor of Musculoskeletal Epidemiology & Honorary Consultant in Rheumatology, MRC/University of Southampton; Professor of Clinical Research, Victoria University, Wellington. - School of Medicine -

Faculty of Physical and Applied Science:

Dr. Ariadne Tampion - Housewife and Author. - School of Electronics and Computer Science -

Dr. David Cunado - Senior Software Engineer, Nokia. - Electronics & Computer Science -

Dr. Michael Ibison - Senior Research Physicist, Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin. - Electronics & Laser Physics -

Prof. Peter Dobson - Professor of Engineering and Director of Begbroke Science Park, University of Oxford. - Physics and Astronomy -

Dr. Peter-Marc Fortune - Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. - School of Electronic and Computer Science.

Dr. Richard Lauder - Management Consultant, Bain & Company. - Physics and Astronomy -

Dr. Richard Smart - Executive Vice President and Division Manager, Oclaro Inc. - Optoelectronic Research Centre (ORC) -

Dr. Richard Taylor - Senior Software Engineer, Nokia. - School of Electronics and Computer Science -

Dr. Ruben Stranders - Post-Doc, University of Southampton. - School of Electronic & Computer Science -

Dr. Terry Unter - President and Chief Executive Officer, Mintera Corporation. - Electronics and Computer Science -

Faculty of Social and Human Sciences:

Dr. Anna Watts - Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam. - Mathematics -

Captain Royal Navy Anthony Oglesby - Retired Captain, Royal Navy. - Social Sciences -

Dr. Arwa Arab - Lecturer, King Abdullah Aziz University. - School of Pshycology -

Dr. Darryl Gove - Senior Staff Engineer, Oracle. - Mathematics -

Dr. David Fletcher - Associate Professor in Statistics, University of Otago (New Zealand). - Mathematics -

Dr. Ian Wassell - Senior Lecturer, University of Cambridge. - School of Electronic and Computer Science -

Dr. Samuel Nyman - Lecturer in Psychology, Department of Psychology, School of Design, Engineering and Computing, Bournemouth University. - School of Psychology -

Dr. Stelios Makrydakis - Head of Section, European Central Bank. - Economics and Econometrics -

Prof. Steve Smith - Vice-Chancellor, University of Exeter. - School of Social Sciences -

Dr. Terry Fish - Headteacher, Twynham School. - School of Education -

More profiles coming soon...