{"id":2487,"date":"2017-11-07T14:54:50","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T14:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2022-04-13T16:14:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T16:14:22","slug":"ceri-davies-ba-1998-mpa-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/2017\/11\/07\/ceri-davies-ba-1998-mpa-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Ceri Davies (BA 1998, MPA 2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ceri Davies (BA 1998, MPA 2014)<\/span>: Chief Executive of Indycube<\/a>, a Community Benefit Society. Indycube<\/a> offers co-working locations across the UK and a membership package that addresses the precarious nature of self-employment, freelance working and the gig economy. Ceri shares with us his experience of studying at Cardiff and how it has helped him shape his career.<\/p>\n

I chose to study at Cardiff, because it was a top ranking university that was close enough to home (Hay, Mid Wales) and yet far enough away. <\/strong>The fact it is the home of Welsh international sport helped a little too. I looked elsewhere, but Cardiff was the only real destination I wanted to study in.<\/p>\n

I have so many memorable highlights from my time at Cardiff<\/strong>. \u00a0The social side of University was so important to me and I tried to do a lot. I wrote for Gair Rhydd, I played numerous sports and I was involved in a number of\u00a0societies.<\/p>\n

If I had to pick one highlight it would be a Business Society medieval banquet, at Caerphilly Castle<\/strong>! It was very medieval and a superb night. I really don\u2019t think you could do that again!<\/p>\n

I am currently Chief Executive of Indycube:<\/strong> a co-working and membership organisation for freelancers and micro businesses. Every day is different as I try to move around our sites, meet users, and put in the work to increase the number of members and sites we have.<\/p>\n

After graduation I worked in various jobs for about 18 months, the highlight being travel broadcasting in Bristol.<\/strong> I then became a civil servant for 17 years in the newly founded Welsh Government, focusing on economic development and the environment. Developing and delivering the single use carrier bag charge being a notable achievement, and one now rolled out across the UK.<\/p>\n

I owe Cardiff a lot;<\/strong> the continued education it gave proved hugely beneficial as a civil servant. The ability to research, analyse and present are skills I still use daily.<\/p>\n

I made a great group of friends at university;<\/strong> the closest of which are all still very much my best friends. Much of what I have done in my career is with their input and support.<\/p>\n

My advice to current students would be to choose a subject you are passionate about:<\/strong> not something that will get the best job or the most money. This is increasingly difficult today, I imagine, but when you get to employment you have to enjoy it.<\/p>\n

You can\u00a0find out more about Indycube online.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ceri Davies (BA 1998, MPA 2014)<\/span>: Chief Executive of Indycube<\/a>, a Community Benefit Society. Indycube<\/a> offers co-working locations across the UK and a membership package that addresses the precarious nature of self-employment, freelance working and the gig economy.","protected":false},"author":1080,"featured_media":2488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,74,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-history-archaeology-and-religion","category-our-alumni"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1080"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2487"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2547,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions\/2547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}