UWS alumni news, blogs and stories
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...
Former UWS business student Erin Cuthbert is celebrating winning Scotland goal of the Year and ranking in the top 100 best female footballers. Erin’s strike against Jamaica in May 2019 saw her land the...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
UWS Midwifery graduate Kenny Gibson talks about his career and life on the ward as the only male midwife in the West of Scotland.
A former nurse, who studied nursing at Bell College (now UWS Lanarkshire Campus), has been making the news due to her invention of a revolutionary weighing scale to help hospital patients get life-saving drugs quicker.
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.
Alan, who graduated from the Paisley Campus in 1994, has published a number of books in the Java space covering Enterprise Java, Servlets, JavaMail and database access. He also served in the role of Editor-in-Chief for Java Developers Journal, one of the largest magazines in the space with a 200k monthly circulation.
Lanarkshire-born businessman and UWS alumnus Dr Les Hutchison shares the international aspects of his career with other UWS alumni
Former environmental biology lecturer Dr Alan Goodall, who is known globally for his scientific research into the behavioural ecology and conservation of rare mountain gorillas in Central Africa, has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate.
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...
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
Ron, Assistant Fundraising Manager at Ayrshire Hospice, tells us about joining the University just as we became UWS.
Amy McDonald, Paisley BSc Sports Studies graduate (2006) and former Scotland star, has been appointed as the new head coach of Rangers Ladies.
Charis, who is former Commercial Marketing Director at Lenovo and now Commercial Category Manager at Microsoft Australia, tells us about her time studying in Paisley.
UWS awarded acclaimed music photographer Harry Papadopoulos, who is a graduate, with an Honorary Doctorate at its graduation ceremony on 18 November 2015 at Thomas Coats Memorial Baptist Church, Paisley. Harry Papadopoulos, who graduated...
Civil Engineering (1983) alumnus Gerry Donnelly talks about how his degree secured a successful career with an American company for life.