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Alumni Of Oxford Brookes University
A list of alumni of note from Oxford Brookes University in Oxford, England. List * Edward Abel – cricketer * Maitha Al Mahrouqi – Undersecretary for Tourism in Oman *Masih Alinejad – Iranian-American journalist, author, and women's rights activist *Adeel Akhtar – actor, and BAFTA award winner * Peace Anyiam-Osigwe – lawyer and the founder of Africa Movie Academy Awards. * Lady Margarita Armstrong-Jones – granddaughter of Princess Margaret and grand-niece of Queen Elizabeth II * Prince Azim of Brunei (1982–2020) * Daniel Battsek – film producer and executive *Daniel Bigham - former track cyclist, currently aerodynamics engineer *Freddie Boath – former actor, now marketing and advertising professional, *Aimé Boji – Democratic Republic of the Congo Budget Minister * Julen Bollain – Economist and professor. Former Podemos MP. *Burna Boy – Musician * Duncan Bradshaw – cricketer * Liam Brown – author * Beatrice Catanzaro – Italian artist * Richard Cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxford Brookes University
Oxford Brookes University (OBU; formerly known as Oxford Polytechnic) is a public university, public university in Oxford, England. It is a new university, having received university status through the Further and Higher Education Act 1992. The university was named after its first principal, John Henry Brookes, who played a major role in the development of the institution. Oxford Brookes University is spread across three campuses, with two primary sites based in and around Oxford and the third campus located in Swindon. The Wheatley campus (originally Lady Spencer-Churchill College) closed in 2024. the Brookes web site said that the institution had 16,900 students, 2,800 staff and over 190,000 alumni in over 177 countries. The university is divided into four faculties: Oxford Brookes Business School, Health and Life Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Technology, Design and Environment. Oxford Brookes University's partnership with the Association of Chartered Certif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julen Bollain
Julen Bollain (born 28 March 1990, in Éibar), Ph.D. in Development Studies, is an economist, professor, and researcher at Mondragon University, specializing in development studies and basic income. Career Academic career He is a member of the Board of the Spanish Basic Income Network and a lifetime member of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN). He frequently gives talks and attends both national and international conferences. He also frequently writes articles and serves as a professor in the postgraduate program in Contemporary Capitalism Analysis: Republican-Socialist Tools, offered by the University of Barcelona. Publications Bollain has contributed to various books, includin''The Palgrave International Handbook of Basic Income'' coordinated by Malcolm Torry and edited by Palgrave Macmillan. In 2021, he published his first solo book "Renta Básica: Una herramienta para el futuro," followed by a second edition in 2022 due to its success, just two months after its in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Djanogly
Jonathan Simon Djanogly (born 3 June 1965) is a British politician and solicitor who served as Shadow Solicitor General for England and Wales from 2004 to 2010 and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Courts and Legal Aid from 2010 to 2012. A member of the Conservative Party, he was Member of Parliament (MP) for Huntingdon from 2001 to 2024. Early life Djanogly was born in London to a British Jewish family, the son of multimillionaire textile manufacturer Sir Harry Djanogly and Lady Djanogly. Education Djanogly was privately educated at University College School, an independent school for boys in Hampstead in North London, followed by Oxford Polytechnic in Oxford, where he was elected chairman of the Conservative Association in 1987, and he earned a Bachelor of Arts in law and politics in 1987. He took his law finals at the College of Law, Guildford, in 1988. Professional career He joined SJ Berwin, London, in 1988 as a trainee solicitor, was admitted as a so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Francis Defries
Graham Francis Defries is a partner in the law firm Goodwin Procter. He is the co-creator with Alexander Williams of the Queens Counsel (comic strip) featured in the law pages of The Times since 1993. Personal life Defries earned his B.A. at Oxford Brookes University in 1990 and went to the University of Law to take the Bar Vocational Course The Bar Professional Training Course or BPTC is a postgraduate course which allows law graduates to be named and practise as barristers in England and Wales. The eight institutes that run the BPTC along with the four prestigious Inns of Court ... in 1991. at website of Goodwin Procter LLP Retrieved 28.June 2022 He currently resides in London with his wife Emma Jane Pauline Defries and 4 children, Charles Samuel Nicholas Defries, Elisa Jane Catherine Defries, Lara Betty Maureen Defries and Arthur Josep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Davis (publishing)
Caroline Davis is a British academic who specialises in the history of publishing culture, and government propaganda in Africa during the Cold War. She is currently an Associate Professor in Publishing at University College London. Career Caroline Davis began her career working with Digital Media for Oxford University Press before moving onto teaching Digital Humanities at Oxford university. She then became a senior lecturer in Publishing Media at Oxford Brookes University. In 2021 she became the leader for the editing, writing, communication, and 'theories of the book' modules as an Associate Professor in Publishing at University College London. Davis specialises in post-colonial publishing in Africa with a focus on the CIA relationship with the publishing industry during the Cold War, and has a strong interest in print cultures in South Africa. In 2019 she became a winner of the Mid-Career Fellowship awarded by the British Academy The British Academy for the Promotion o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Cowan
Edward James McKenzie Cowan (born 16 June 1982) is an Australian former cricketer, who played domestically mainly for New South Wales and Tasmania as a left handed opening batsman. In March 2018, he announced his retirement from first-class cricket. Domestic career Cowan attended Tudor House School in Moss Vale and Cranbrook School in Bellevue Hill where he played in the school 1st XI aged only 14, and scored 218 not out, and went on to the under-17 New South Wales championships. While in Year 12 he was selected to play for the Australian under 19s side to tour Sri Lanka. He played for the University of Sydney Cricket Club, and made his debut for NSW in 2005. In 2009, Cowan joined the Tasmanian Tigers where a successful season saw him score 225 vs South Australia in his first game at home. This was followed on by two other centuries at Bellerive Oval and a successful Ford Ranger Cup premiership. In 2011 Cowan published a book, his diary of the 2010/2011 Sheffield Shield sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Conneally
Paul Terence Conneally (born 1959 in Sheffield, United Kingdom) is a poet, artist and musician based in Loughborough, UK. Poetry and art In the field of poetry Conneally is best known for his haiku and haiku-related forms including haibun and renga/renku. His definition of haibun is quoted among others on the ''Contemporary Haibun Online'' website. He ran the Haikumania Project, (hosted on the website of The Center for Digital Discourse and Culture at Virginia Tech) where some of his work and others is showcased. Known for collaborative works based on Japanese renga, he has been published and translated. Conneally's projects include hypertext works resulting out of actions initiated by Conneally and others via the internet and in the real world. Conneally's work in bringing linked haikai based works to the internet is mentioned in ''Currents in Electronic Literacy'' Fall 2001. Conneally leads live renga sessions across the UK and has explored the form and process alongside ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sky Sports News
Sky Sports News (SSN) is a British pay television, paid television sports news channel run by Sky Group, Sky, a division of Comcast. History Sky Sports first started broadcasting sports news bulletins when it began broadcasting the Premier League in the autumn of 1992. Initially, they took the form of a brief ''Football Update'' before being expanded into a 30-minute programme called ''Sky Sports Centre''. These programmes were generally broadcast on weekdays at 6pm and 10pm. Sky Sports News began broadcasting internal test runs on 10 August 1998 with Mike Wedderburn and Kelly Cates launching the channel with the first edition of ''Good Morning Sports Fans''. The service became officially available to the public on 1 October, the launch date of BSkyB's Digital Satellite service, and was BSkyB's first digital only channel. On 10 April 2000, Sky Sports News relaunched as Sky Sports.com TV, to tie with the launch of the SkySports.com website. The channel scrapped its ".com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millie Clode
Camilla Clode (born 1 September 1982) is an English former television presenter. She worked for Sky Sports News and also provided statistical analysis on ITV's '' The Colour of Money''. Education Clode attended St Leonards School in St Andrews before graduating from Oxford Brookes University with a 2:1 in English Studies. Career Her initial forays into the world of presenting included hosting a show on Oxford Brookes Radio Station Obsession FM and presenting the Great Big British Quiz for Quiz TV. She co-hosted '' The Colour of Money'' on ITV in early 2009. In July 2010, she presented The Poker Lounge on Channel 4 Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation. It is state-owned enterprise, publicly owned but, unlike the BBC, it receives no public funding and is funded en .... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Chambers (rower)
Richard Scott Chambers (born 10 June 1985) is a British rower, and is the brother of fellow rower Peter Chambers. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London he was part of the British crew that won the silver medal in the lightweight men's four. Biography Richard began rowing at the age of 14, at Coleraine Academical Institution, under the coaching of Bobby Platt. He later left Coleraine Inst and joined Bann Rowing Club Coleraine at the age of 16, and went on to represent Ireland in the junior pair at the 2003 Home Internationals in Cork with Stephen Feeney, under the coaching of Simon Hamilton (Bann Rowing Club). He attended Oxford Brookes University reading Construction Management and rowed for the university boat club, coached by Peter Haining and Richard Spratley. It was there that he progressed into the Great Britain Rowing team. In 2005, Richard attended the World Under-23 Rowing Championships held in Amsterdam, where he took silver in the Lightweight Men's Quadruple Scull ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beatrice Catanzaro
Beatrice Catanzaro (born 1975) is an Italian-Swedish artist known for her long term socially engaged art practice and exploring issues such as migration and cultural exchange. She has also worked as a professor. Biography Catanzaro was born in San Donato, Milanese in 1975. Catanzaro has Ph.D. from Oxford Brookes University. Between 2010 and 2015, Catanzaro lived between Jerusalem and Nablus, where she initiated Bait al Karama, a social enterprise and women community center in the Old City of Nablus. She also taught at the Art Academy of Palestine in Ramallah. Works ''The Water Was Boiling at 34° 21' 29“ South, 18° 28' 19” East'' (2008), was an installation curated by Achille Bonito Oliva at the MART Museum of Rovereto. Singling her out from the 47 artists in the exhibition, ''Artforum'' described it as "worth commendation." ''A Needle in the Binding'' (2011), Installation commissioned and curated by the Jerusalem Show, and the Al Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liam Brown
Liam Brown (born 26 April 1983) is a British novelist. His debut novel, ''Real Monsters'', was published in 2015 by Legend Press. His second novel, ''Wild Life'', was published in 2016 and his third, ''Broadcast,'' was published in 2017. In 2019 his fourth novel, ''Skin'', was shortlisted for the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize. His fifth novel, ''Evergreens'', was awarded the Contemporary Romantic Novel of the Year 2024 by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Early life and education Brown was born and grew up in Birmingham, England. After leaving school, he spent "five years working a series of increasingly dead-end jobs", before attending the University of Greenwich. In 2010 he received the de Rohan Scholarship, enabling him to study for an MA in creative writing at Oxford Brookes University. Writing In 2013, Brown’s novel ''Fade To White'' was shortlisted for the 2013 Luke Bitmead Bursary. Brown’s debut novel, ''Real Monsters'', was published in 2015 by Legend Pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
