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Career services final year employability series
Career Services offers the Final Year Employability series annually to assist students sourcing and applying for graduate roles.
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Following the path you love
School of Mathematical Sciences PhD candidate Louise Campbell chose to study STEM after a love of maths and biology in high school.
Working with plants can help you both to grow
Professor Rachel Burton has always loved plants, but it took her a while to be immersed in them properly.
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Statistical problem solving for sepsis
As an undergraduate, Aline completed an Advanced Science Degree and Honours with a major in Mathematics.
Even accidents provide opportunity
Sam Franklin wanted to be a vet from a very young age, not an academic. She ended up being both.
Amber Pegoli’s passion for problem solving.
Amber is studying a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering and a Bachelor of Maths and Computer Science. She has always loved learning how things worked, and how to solve problems.
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Combining football, finance and STEM
Amy is studying a Bachelor of Mathematical and Computer Sciences with a Bachelor of Finance. She loved Economics, Maths and Science at school, and says she couldn’t pick a degree that sacrificed one of those areas.
A fascination with light and optical engineering
Dr Jiawen Li is an inventor and highly adaptable engineer. With a career that began with her study of optical engineering, that saw her move across the globe twice, she is currently leading her own research team to develop a hair-sized ‘camera’ to help cardiologists identify patients at risk of heart attacks.
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Using technology for a social good
For Dr Thushari Atapattu, one of the most fascinating things about working in her field, is working on advancing technology that can be used in the community for social good.
How effective is hand sanitiser at killing germs?
Scientist Hannah Agnew and summer research students Kate and Rachel set out to find how effective soap and hand sanitiser is against microbes, such as bacteria and viruses.
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