The Performance Analyst
We catch-up with UWS alumnus Michael Gallacher on how continuing his studies at postgraduate level at UWS led to his appointment as Women and Girls’ Performance Analyst at Rangers Football Club.
Category: Alumni Stories
UWS graduate is helping to keep the railway network on track
A UWS Civil Engineering graduate talks about her job ensuring the railways are safe during the coronavirus outbreak – and how it’s inspiring to see more women entering the industry. Katie, 27, from Knightswood,...
Alumnus and Radio Presenter Guest Lecture
Gordon Duncan, the voice of Radio Clyde’s Superscoreboard and an established national broadcaster, talks to UWS Lecturer James Mahon and BA 3rd, 4th and MA Journalism students about his career and explains how broadcasting...
Alumnus Awarded Highly Commended Mentor Award
Civil Engineering graduate Robert Robertson, Senior Site Agent with Balfour Beatty has been recognised through the Scottish Mentoring Network for a Highly Commended Mentor Award for his role as an industry mentor to engineering...
Alumnus joins Scotland Rugby League Board
Sport Development graduate David Fallon has been appointed as Director of Development to the Scotland Rugby League Board. David, who graduated from UWS Hamilton Campus with a first class honours degree in Sport Development...
Airbus A350 Chief Engineer inducted into the Engineering Hall of Fame
Dr Gordon McConnell, BSc (Hons) Mechanical Engineering graduate (1975) who led the design of the Airbus 350, is one of four engineers to be inducted into the Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame. Following his...
Tranzfuser competition success for UWS graduate team
A UWS creative computing graduate team recently secured success at the UK Games Fund’s Tranzfuser 2019 competition. The competition saw the UWS team, Disco Reptile, receive £5,000 in two instalments over the summer to create a...
Alumna Awarded MBE by the Queen
Congratulations to UWS graduate Carol Burt-Wilson who received an MBE for services to Disability Hate Crime Prevention in the summer. Carol attended The Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, The Queen’s official residence in Scotland,...
Alumnus named Scottish athlete of the year 2019
Former mechanical engineering student Callum Hawkins has been named FPSG Scottish athlete of the year at a recent awards dinner in Glasgow. “I’m thrilled to win the FPSG athlete of the year award given...
Creative computing graduate named Young Software Engineer of the Year 2019
UWS Computer Games Technology graduate, Stuart Adams has been awarded the Young Software Engineer of the Year 2019 Award at the ceremony hosted by ScotlandIS on 3rd October 2019 in Edinburgh. Stuart, who graduated in...
Alumni Guest Speaker Gordon Mackintosh
UWS graduate Gordon Mackintosh delivered a talk about his career that’s taken him from University in Paisley to California, on Thursday 19 September 2019. Brought up in Paisley, Gordon did an undergraduate degree in...
Alumnus appointed new Asia Pacific Senior Leader for Gerard Daniels
MBA Marketing graduate (2000) Paul Pryde has been appointed by international executive search and board consulting firm, Gerard Daniels, as the new Practice Leader for its oil, gas and energy activities across the Asia...
Graduate is NHS’s only male midwife in the West of Scotland
UWS Midwifery graduate Kenny Gibson talks about his career and life on the ward as the only male midwife in the West of Scotland.
Entrepreneur leads the campaign to save iconic Coats Memorial Church
Alumnus Ian Henderson tells us about his career journey since leaving the university and his current involvement in the campaign to save Coats Memorial Church in Paisley.
Dr Les Hutchison Inaugural UWS Executive in Residence Speaker
Lanarkshire-born businessman and UWS alumnus Dr Les Hutchison shares the international aspects of his career with other UWS alumni
Class of 1978 civil engineers celebrate their 40 year reunion
Almost 40 years to the day the BSc Hons Civil Engineering class of 1978 met again for the first time since graduation in Paisley on 7th July 1978. The full class of six were joined...
Graduate and Inspirational Paralympian Receives Honorary Doctorate
Graduate and paralympian Aileen Neilson has received an Honorary Doctorate from UWS at its graduation ceremony on Tuesday 26 June 2018 at the Town House, Hamilton. The Strathaven-born primary school teacher, graduated from the...
Inspirational alumnus celebrates six years of TEDxGlasgow
Business and Management graduate Gurjit is an entrepreneur with a keen interest in philanthropy and developing social venture capital firms. An avid TED fan, Gurjit acquired the licence for TEDxGlasgow in 2012, bringing together a team of volunteers to form an organisation that is now one of the most established TEDx events in the UK and Europe
Ronald Swanson BA Hons Management and Tourism 2011
Ron, Assistant Fundraising Manager at Ayrshire Hospice, tells us about joining the University just as we became UWS.
Graduates rekindle their relationship after first meeting in Paisley
Sheena Mason and John White first met at Paisley College of Technology (now UWS) in 1979 where they were on the same Business Economics Degree Course – Sheena taking the Marketing Option and John...