Alumni Matters

In the sixth video of our Alumni Matters series we speak to alumna Chiara Simmons Wood who graduated from Exeter with a degree in Sociology in 2022 and works as a Direct Marketing Executive at Age UK. We caught up about her favourite memories of Exeter, advice to the Class of 2024, and what life has been like for her since

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Welcome to the fifth video of our Alumni Matters series. In which we’ll be chatting to several alumni and learning more about their careers, their thoughts on some of the key challenges our world is facing, and discovering how they are helping to shape it into a healthier, fairer, greener place.

In this video we speak to alumna Katherine Jachens who graduated from Exeter with a degree in Psychology in 2019. She recently worked as the Associate Staff Counsellor at the UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, and is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Nottingham in Occupational Health Psychology. We’ll be chatting about her career, how we can look after ourselves when working in emotionally demanding careers, and how we can turn mental health awareness into action.

Find out more about Katherine: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katherinejachens

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Here are some links to find out more about the organisations and module Katherine mentions during the conversation:

- UNHCR: https://www.unhcr.org/uk/

- ICRC: https://www.icrc.org/en

- OCHA: https://www.unocha.org/ocha

- Psychology Applied to Health module at the University of Exeter: https://bit.ly/3U9bVxE

Welcome to the fourth video of our Alumni Matters series. In which we’ll be chatting to several alumni and learning more about their careers, their thoughts on some of the key challenges our world is facing, and discovering how they are helping to shape it into a healthier, fairer, greener place.

In this video we celebrated International Women's Day by speaking with alumna Caroline Addy. She studied LLB (Euro) graduating in 1990 with Honours and currently works as a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers in London. Her work particularly covers the control of information and we spoke a bit about how she is making the world a fairer place as well as the women who inspire her.

Welcome to the third video of our Alumni Matters series. In which we’ll be chatting to several alumni and learning more about their careers, their thoughts on some of the key challenges our world is facing, and discovering how they are helping to shape it into a healthier, fairer, greener place.

In this video we are joined by alumna Fiona Coughlan who studied English with French at Exeter, graduating in 2005, and now works as Joint Head of Climate Diplomacy at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Each year the impact of climate change is being felt more strongly all around the world and the need to consider our impact on the planet grows. So it was great to chat with Fiona about her work in climate and development policy, her involvement in the Climate Action for a Resilient Asia (CARA) programme, and her ideas on how alumni, supporters, and us all, can make 2024 count in terms of greener decisions.

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In our second Alumni Matters episode we chat to alumnus Daniel Crockett (Geography, 2002) who is Director of Ocean and Climate at the Blue Marine Foundation.

We spoke about how Dan's lifelong love of our oceans began, his work at Blue Marine, his hopes ahead of COP28 and the changes we can all be making to look after our blue planet.

Welcome everyone to the first video of our new series Alumni Matters. In which we’ll be chatting to several alumni and learning more about their careers, their thoughts on some of the key challenges our world is facing, and discovering how they are helping to shape it into a healthier, fairer, greener place.

In our first episode today we are joined by alumnus Dr Tanimola Martins. He graduated in 2014 with a PhD in Ethnic inequality in Cancer Diagnosis and currently works as a Research Fellow and Lecturer in Postgraduate Education at the University of Exeter Medical School.

Sunday 24 September 2023 marks World Cancer Research Day which aims to showcase the importance of cancer research and as such we chatted to Tani about why he got involved in this area of work, racial differences in cancer diagnosis and how we can work together to conquer cancer.

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Alumna and children's author Jemma Hatt talks to us about The Adventurers series of books, how her love of reading as a child inspired her, and some advice for students wishing to follow in her footsteps.

As the number of satellites in Earth's orbit starts to rise significantly, Professor Kevin Gaston at the University of Exeter talks about the potential impacts and balancing technology and the environment.

Alumna and best-selling author Milly Johnson talks about her career, how she gets her ideas, and why it's important the romantic fiction genre is not overlooked by the industry.

Hear from climate scientists and activists about their work, what inspires them, why COP26 is such as important event, and what gives them hope for the future.  

00:06 Intro: Professor David Hosken, Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Exeter Cornwall Campuses  

01:27 Professor Angela Gallego-Sala, Professor In Ecosystems and Biogeochemical Cycles, University of Exeter  

02:55 Professor Peter Cox, Professor of Climate System Dynamics, University of Exeter  

11:28 Dr Freya Garry, UK Climate Resilience Team, Met Office  

17:41 Dr Mi Tian, Lecturer in Low Carbon Engineering, University of Exeter  

19:05 Ruth Chapman, PhD Researcher in Climate Modelling, University of Exeter  

22:52 Amy Bray, Biosciences student, University of Exeter and Founder of Another Way  

28:35 Professor Callum Roberts, Professor of Marine Conservation, University of Exeter  

33:53 Katie Hodgetts, Founder, Resilience Project  

40:20 Daze Aghaji, Climate Justice Activist