Is finding the right job really about ‘following your dreams’?
Follow your dreams is perhaps the best most clichéd career advice ever given. As a child, it is easy to imagine your dreams such as a fireman, teacher or to…
Are Marketing Automation Systems Destroying Marketing?
This sounds like one of those titles where a book sale is the call to action of this piece. Please be assured I am not trying to sell you anything,…
Living and working abroad: The big challenges and the average week
The following challenges of living abroad are all rooted in my experience of moving out to Kampala (Uganda) two years ago. There is no average week and what remains consistent…
A University is Born!
At noon on 18 October 1966, the Royal Signature of Queen Elizabeth II granted the Royal Charter by which the University of Bradford was founded. As a College of Advanced Technology, the…
Bradford UNESCO City of Film
Lights, Camera, Action! There’s a new face around campus, or rather a familiar face come back where he graduated in 2010 with a first class honours degree as a mature…
Bradford Alumni Celebrate 50th Anniversary in Abuja, Nigeria
It was a pleasure to join fellow Bradford alumni and staff at a special 50th anniversary gathering in Abuja on Wednesday 20 July 2016. The programme was held at the…
Beermats in The Shearbridge and ‘The Bradford Mafia’
It all started over 30 years ago in Bradford, specifically the Shearbridge pub on Great Horton Road, now sadly closed. I had left the University with a degree in Chemical…
Bumps and Breakthroughs: Was a Peace Studies Degree Pointless?
With a background of volunteering in Rwanda and Thailand, a First Class Degree in Development and Peace Studies and two internships (in Uganda and Oxford, respectively), I thought I was…
Lagos Alumni Association Inaugural Annual Lecture 2016
On Friday 22 April, 2016, several brilliant Nigerian minds and alumni of the University of Bradford gathered at the Jade Palace, Adeola Odeku, Victoria Island, Lagos for the inaugural Lagos Alumni Association…
Could your goals be holding you apart from happiness?
Can you remember how old you were when you first set an important goal? Maybe you were at school and decided you were going to study hard and get good…