Alumni Profiles

Our graduates go on to a wide variety of careers and some of their stories are below.

Eddie Bell

Computer Science and Applied Statistics

In his handmade raw-selvedge Oni 512 jeans, one might guess that Eddie Bell is a designer, but this data scientist works for an E-fashion company and has coined his own title of ‘fashematician’.

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Liz Bell

Biochemistry

What the art-mad, scientific teenager with a social conscience, Liz Bell would do with her life when she arrived at Lancaster to study biological sciences, would have been difficult for anyone - including herself - to predict.

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Sheila Oxtoby

Geography

Standing on a stool being heckled in the hustings for college elections, Sheila Oxtoby remembers selling herself as the candidate promising to be available to listen to fellow students and with the determination to work for whatever change was possible.

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Stacy Westhead

Mathematics

Many people express surprise that Stacy Westhead has made such a successful people-based career in marketing, given that her degree is in mathematics.

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Dr Chris Andry

Biological Sciences

Dr Chris Andry studied Biological Sciences BSc hons and M.Phil from 1979 to 1982. The experience has stayed with him and he is thankful for the skills he developed and the teaching that inspired him.

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Ignas Vaitekunas

Computer Science with Software Engineering

Whilst studying at Lancaster, Ignas has used his knowledge and experience to gain employment with a world renowned company: IBM Lithuania. He was able to work for this company remotely online, at the same time as he was undertaking his degree. “The programming languages I’ve learnt here have been really useful to apply to real, everyday work,” he says.

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