Academic Case Studies

The University of Southampton Malaysia opened in 2012 as a branch campus for engineering. Could you take us through the development stages of the new campus and the role it plays within the University of Southampton? In around 2008, the University of Southampton was invited by the Malaysian Government to…>

My lifelong career love affair has only ever been with bioscience and Molecular Biology, but what a huge, fascinating, awesome world that is. I am so grateful to be able to potter about in my corner of it and marvel at the rest. I took my undergraduate degree in Molecular…>

Professor Sally Theobald, Chair in Social Science and International Health, Faculty of Clinical Sciences and International Public Health. Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM). I spent my teenage years in Malawi and saw first-hand how poverty was experienced differently for women and men. I became aware of a marked difference…>

Paul Maloret: Head of the Centre for Learning Disability Studies (tCLDS), University of Hertfordshire. Paul Maloret My interest in learning disabilities was sparked during work at a summer camp in the US. The camp happened to be a special needs camp and, while I expected to work exclusively in the kitchen,…>

Laura Abbott: From Independent Midwife To Senior Lecturer in Midwifery. Laura Abbott Following 5 years of employment as a Registered General Nurse specialising in intensive care, I trained as a Registered Midwife and worked as an independent midwife. In this role, I was responsible for a group of pregnant women who…>

  Susan Murray, Principal Lecturer in Engineering: from Industry to Academia. My aunt worked in Engineering: she used to make the original microchips for Motorola, something that I found fascinating when I was a young girl. At School, I managed to get my parents to fight for me to do…>

Prof. Stijn van der Veen is Professor of Microbiology at Zhejiang University’s School of Medicine and Assistant Dean at the School of Basic Medical Sciences, where he is responsible for foreign affairs and international recruitment. He obtained his PhD at Wageningen University (Netherlands) in 2008 and spent several more years…>

Why did you choose to work in Kazakhstan? Because of private reasons – my wife is Kazakh. We met during our studies in the UK in 1994. We were classmates in the Master of Organisational Analysis and Behaviour at the Lancaster University Management School. After that my wife moved to…>

Dr Nikolas Casewell, Senior Lecturer and Wellcome Trust & Royal Society Research Fellow. Faculty of Biological Science, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) Dr Nikolas Casewell As a child, I was interested in animals and loved watching nature documentaries on TV. I was generally good at science at school, and…>