{"id":8564,"date":"2022-10-04T09:36:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T09:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/?p=8564"},"modified":"2023-03-22T12:43:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T12:43:38","slug":"the-30ish-winners-have-been-chosen-special-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/2022\/10\/04\/the-30ish-winners-have-been-chosen-special-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"The 30(ish) winners have been chosen \u2013 special preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2022\/10\/teaser_blog_header.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8565\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2022\/10\/teaser_blog_header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2022\/10\/teaser_blog_header.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/323\/2022\/10\/teaser_blog_header-600x300.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Following an enormous response by the alumni community, Barry Sullivan, Head of Alumni Relations, gives us a teaser for what\u2019s happening next, what to look out for on the list, and maybe even a hint at who\u2019s in the running for the 30(ish) Awards.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>We asked. And you responded. Boy, did we underestimate how many of you would respond! 283 of you to be exact \u2013 or 280(ish) if we\u2019re staying on brand \u2013 submitted nominations. We know our alumni are out there making this world a better place, but there were so many amazing new discoveries for us, and we can\u2019t wait to share some of these stories with you.<\/p>\n<p>Truth be told, the panel could have filled all the places with alumni who have been working tirelessly on the front line during the pandemic. Or just with innovative entrepreneurs. Don\u2019t get us wrong \u2013 there are plenty of them on the list and receiving an award. But we\u2019ll also be celebrating the rule-breakers and game-changers whose nominations shone through. Campaigners, community organisers, advocates, employers, influencers, and mixologists*, to name just a few.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re now making sure that we can do each winner\u2019s story justice when we publish the 30(ish) list, so watch out for more in October! To help you find the stories that matter to you we\u2019ll be breaking them down into some groups on the list:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Community activist<\/li>\n<li>Wales to the World<\/li>\n<li>Equity activist<\/li>\n<li>Environmental activist<\/li>\n<li>Journalism and Media<\/li>\n<li>Innovation<\/li>\n<li>Entrepreneurship<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hopefully you\u2019ll find some inspiration for your own work, or even for next years\u2019 awards! After such a positive reaction from our community we\u2019re fairly confident that 30(ish) will be returning in the future. We\u2019ve also listened to feedback and will be thinking about how we can celebrate stories from right across the alumni scene.<\/p>\n<p>The 30(ish) winners that we\u2019ll be celebrating in October have already been notified and invited back for our special awards event. We\u2019ll be reporting back afterwards to share stories and pictures that we hope will make you as proud to be Cardiff-made as we are.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by fellow alumnus <strong>Pat Younge (BSc 1987)<\/strong>, and emceed by alumna <strong>Babita Sharma (BA 1998)<\/strong>, this will be a night of celebration for our pioneering Cardiff alumni.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Babita Sharma (BA 1998)<\/strong> graduated from JOMEC with a BA in Journalism, Film and Broadcasting and has covered major news events for the BBC for more than two decades as a Chief News Presenter and documentarian. Babita is also an award-winning author and has curated several cultural projects promoting diversity across the UK.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pat Younge (BSc 1987)<\/strong> graduated from EARTH with a BSc in Mining Geology \u2013 but it was in media where he built a successful career, which included stints as the President of The Travel Channel (USA), and the Chief Creative Officer at the BBC, before founding Cardiff Productions Ltd. Pat is also the current Chair of Council, the governing body of Cardiff University.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Don\u2019t feel 30(ish)? Fear not, there\u2019s already lots of other ways to get involved as an alum. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/campaigns.cardiff.ac.uk\/for-alumni-by-alumni\">contribute to the conversation by pitching a For Alumni, By Alumni piece<\/a>. You can support prospective and current students by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/get-involved\">mentoring or volunteering<\/a>. Or, you can offer to give our newest graduates advice on our networking platform <a href=\"https:\/\/connected.cardiff.ac.uk\">Cardiff Connected<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>*yes, you\u2019ve read that right: \u201cmixologist\u201d mix-ol-o-gist | noun | a person who is skilled at mixing cocktails and other drinks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following an enormous response by the alumni community, Barry Sullivan, Head of Alumni Relations, gives us a teaser for what\u2019s happening next, what to look out for on the list, and maybe even a hint at who\u2019s in the running for the 30(ish) Awards.","protected":false},"author":904,"featured_media":8565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cardiff-connect","category-news"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564","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\/904"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8566,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8564\/revisions\/8566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}