Top tips for keeping healthy while working at home
UWS lecturer Jane Tobias gives her 7 top tips to be healthier while working at home.
UWS alumni news and stories blog
UWS songwriting graduate releases her new album Growing Wild
University of the West of Scotland Songwriting graduate Yvonne Lyon talks about her latest album Growing Wild, a stunning collection of timeless songs, arguably her finest to date.
UWS’s Alzheimer Scotland Centre for Policy and Practice launches annual report
The Alzheimer Scotland Centre for Policy and Practice’s (ASCPP) ground-breaking work to improve the lives of those living with dementia is being celebrated with the launch of its latest annual celebration report. The report showcases...
Alumnus Graeme Gordon installed as Master of the Worshipful Company of Chartered Accountants
Alumnus Graeme Gordon has become Master of the Worshipful Company of Chartered Accountants (WCCAEW) in England and Wales. The title is the greatest honour for a member of any Livery Company within the ancient...
Sports Professionals in Action lunchtime webinars get underway
Join University of the West of Scotland (UWS) alumni and sports professionals at the top of their game at a new lunchtime webinar series to get an athletes’ perspective and insight into elite coaching.
UWS graduate and Ayrshire track star Kayleigh Haggo bags new world record
Paralympic RaceRunner and sport coaching graduate Kayleigh Haggo’s superb performance at a Scottish Athletics Open event has been ratified by CPISRA as a new World Record.
Black History Month at UWS
Commercial music graduate Matt Hickman talks about growing up as person of colour in Ayrshire and why he feels Black History Month is important to celebrate.
UWS Sport graduate encourages girls and young women to keep on running
BSc (Honours) Sport Coaching graduate Chloe Simpson has urged girls and young women to keep on running to improve their mental health and confidence.
Could you be an award winner in 2020-21?
Are you, or someone you know, a graduate with a degree or abovefrom the last 15 years, living outside the UK and making an impact where you live?
Table Tennis Star Talks Training and Podcasts
Table Tennis star and UWS graduate Martin Perry talks about his career so far, getting back to training and his podcast series PerryPOD, interviewing well known names in sport including Paralympic Champion Will Bayley.
Singer-songwriter David Husz awarded the UWS Paolo Nutini Songwriting Scholarship for 2020/21
UWS Paulo Nutini Songwriting Scholarship, which was established by Honorary Graduate Paolo, to give the next generation of songwriting talent the opportunity to take their work to the next level, has been awarded to Singer-songwriter David Husz.
From Additional Needs School To A PhD
UWS alumna Dr Julie McElroy talks about her journey from an additional needs school to completing her PhD at UWS in 2017. Ten years after leaving additional needs school, Julie became a doctor. pic.twitter.com/QkeRqoShSj—...
Louise Lavaroni BA Business and Management 2001
We talk to Amazonian and business and management graduate (2001) Louise Lavaroni about her time stuyding in Paisley and her tips for new graduates.
Business Graduate Publishes Book That Lifts The Lid On Leadership
2001 graduate Louise Lavaroni (nee Gilmour) talks about her self-published book aiming to inspire the next generation of leaders.
Memories of Reggie Von Zugbach De Sugg
1997 Business and Management graduate, Eddie Finnigan, tells us his memories of being taught by Professor Reggie Von Zugbach De Sugg in the mid-1990s in Paisley.
Campaigning Journalism Award for UWS Graduate
UWS Broadcast Journalism graduate Natalie Crawford has led an award-winning campaign to change Scotland’s Dog Laws at the IRN News Awards 2020. This was superbly-executed, campaigning journalism at its finest from idea to outcome....
Alumnus gets to work on new Clutha mural
A UWS graduate has helped to give the murals surrounding the Clutha Bar in Glasgow a re-design. 2005 graduate Jody Kelly is one of the artists giving the murals, which were painted on the...
Online Learning Works Great When There is Internet
PGDE Primary Education graduate Justin Rankin shares some of his experiences. Justin, originally from Canada and who studied at University of the West of Scotland’s Ayr Campus, has worked in Myanmar, China, and most...
Music graduate set to release debut EP
Singer-songwriter and MA Music graduate Rachel Jack, who was winner of the inaugural Paolo Nutini Songwriting Scholarship, will release her debut EP in July 2020. Rachel’s debut EP ‘The Calgary Tapes’ details her tumultuous...
Civil Engineering graduate features in BBC film
The Kingston Bridge, one of Glasgow’s most iconic structures, opened 50 years ago this month. Civil engineering graduate Stuart Baird who founded the Glasgow Motorway Archive comments in the BBC film “I think it’s...