New Welsh Language Strategy launched

Posted on 25 March 2021 by Alumni team

The University has recently launched a new Welsh Language Strategy which will focus on celebrating, championing and connecting with the Welsh language across all aspects of University life. The strategy gives a clear and defined cultural and community agenda, designed to complement and actively contribute to the University’s overarching research, teaching and international ambitions.
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Brewing up a storm: Sarah John is Bossing It

Posted on 25 March 2021 by Kate Morgan (BA 2017)

Sarah John (BA 2011), founder and director of Boss Brewing, is a woman on a mission to achieve her goals and break barriers along the way. Here, she describes a rollercoaster ride of business successes, battling corporate giants, bringing her newborn to meetings, and generally shaking up the status quo.
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New Head of School of Dentistry

Posted on 25 March 2021 by Anna Garton

After seven months in post as the new Head of the School for the School of Dentistry, we spoke to Professor Nicola Innes about how she has found the role, her priorities and her hopes for the future.
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Networking to build a successful business – For Alumni, By Alumni

Posted on 24 March 2021 by Alumni team

Cheryl Luzet (BA 1999), is founder and CEO of digital marketing agency Wagada, whose team help companies across the globe grow and generate leads. She’s been named one of the UK’s 100 most inspirational female entrepreneurs by Small Business Britain. Here, Cheryl shares her top tips for networking for when in-person events return.
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Why 2020 was a defining moment for epidemiologists

Posted on 17 March 2021 by Alumni team

Adetoun Mustapha’s (MPH 1999) professional and personal life in Nigeria went into overdrive when COVID-19 hit. She found herself in a position to help instigate real change and combat fake news around public health. Here, she describes her experience of navigating a new way of working and living, studying the spread of COVID-19, and speaking out about environmental justice issues.
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Womentoring ‘21 – Cardiff University alumnae supporting Cardiff University alumnae

Posted on 15 March 2021 by Anna Garton

This March, to celebrate Women’s History Month we’re holding our first flash-mentoring event, Womentoring ’21.
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One family’s history of female empowerment

Posted on 12 March 2021 by Kate Morgan (BA 2017)

In 1898, Cardiff University offered an opportunity to a young woman that had a huge impact not only on her, but on the women in her family who followed in her footsteps. On this International Women’s Day, we talk to Cassie’s granddaughters about the importance of education for female empowerment.
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Wales Autism Research Centre: Celebrating 10 years of success

Posted on 10 March 2021 by Kate Morgan (BA 2017)

The Wales Autism Research Centre (WARC) has been at the heart of important policy and practice for the past 10 years, providing data that can be translated into action and that has a real impact on professionals working within the autistic community. WARC’s past and present directors meet up to reflect on its achievements and look ahead to the next 10 years.
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COVID-19 and cancer: Understanding attitudes and breaking barriers

Posted on 9 March 2021 by Kate Morgan (BA 2017)

Harriet Quinn-Scoggins (PhD 2019) is a medical anthropologist who focuses on cancer research. Once part of the Future Leaders in Cancer Research (FLiCR) programme, she is now involved in the COVID-19 cancer attitudes and behaviours study. Here she explains why an anthropological approach is important, and how this research can improve early cancer diagnosis.
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Meet the researcher – Dr Erik Mire

Posted on 8 March 2021 by Alumni team

We spoke to Dr Erik Mire, Principal Investigator and Hodge Research Fellow at Cardiff University’s Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute, about his research which looks as how mothers’ diets can affect brain development in unborn babies.

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