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Alumni Voices - Start-Up Stories
‘Inspirational’ was how students described the first Alumni ‘Start Up Stories’ event, when six Lancaster Alumni gathered around for ‘camp fire tales’ with our current enterprising students, to share the ups and downs of turning an idea into a business.
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James May's Visit Thrills Lancaster Students
Top Gear presenter James May added a buzz of excitement to campus life on Wednesday 22nd April when he visited the new state-of-the-art Engineering building.
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Sam Hones His Magical Career At Lancaster
He is not drawing comparisons with Harry Potter’s Hogwarts Academy, but for Sam Fitton Lancaster proved to be the perfect launch pad for his career as a professional award-winning magician.
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Important Detail Underpins Home Office Role
As a Lancaster University undergraduate, Jeremy Oppenheim (Sociology, 1977, Cartmel) reckoned he had life sussed.
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Lauren Features in 'The Apprentice'
Lauren Riley (Law, 2006, Lonsdale) answers questions about life at Lancaster and tells of her experience on the BBC series 'The Apprentice' in 2014.
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Branding the BBC
Jane Lingham (Advertising & Marketing, 1998, Pendle) is one of those rare people who knew at the age of 14 exactly how she wanted to start her career - go into advertising - and at Lancaster she found the perfect environment to make it happen.
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From Private Secretary to Policy Fund Management
Ben Pledger (Mathematics, 2002, Lonsdale) started his career after Lancaster by training to teach, but after three years decided to join the Civil Service, initially as a Fast Stream statistician.
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Globetrotting Jennifer Earns Position at FIFA
Jennifer Montague has an exciting job with FIFA, which is ironic considering football was the one sport she didn’t grow up playing.
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About Time: The Day I Left My Daughter
Michelle Beckett (Theatre Studies, 1995, Cartmel) remembers her own early experiences at Lancaster having bid farewell to her daughter on campus in September 2014 to begin her time as a 'Fresher'.
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So You Want to be an Environmental Scientist?
Funding from the Friends Programme enabled three undergraduate students to gain valuable work and life experience within the field of environmental science.
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