Role Models

Meet our latest role model!

What better way to find out whether courses, apprenticeships or a career in STEM or SHAPE (social sciences, humanities, and the arts for people and the economy) is for you than to ask the individuals themselves? We interview students, apprentices and industry trainees about the course they’re on and the careers they hope to go on to when they leave. We also interview people working in these spaces about their interesting careers pathways.

Meet our latest interesting person!

In each person profile, you’ll find:

 

  • Info on STEM / SHAPE subjects (social sciences, humanities, and the arts for people and the economy)
  • Info on what the individuals like / dislike about the university or college course / apprenticeship
  • Info on how they got on to the course / apprenticeship / career.
Sam Vestey

Sam Vestey

Discover how 21-year-old Sam Vestey launched a campaign to make the blue disability badge more inclusive

Dr Chinedu Agwu

Dr Chinedu Agwu

“When you know more, you can do more and be more.” That’s the motto of BioSci Toolkit, a resource crated by Dr Chinedu Agwu that aims to inspire Black and ethnic minority communities in bioscience.

Ryan Hickman

Ryan Hickman

Ryan Hickman is 14 years old and already has a non-profit recycling business under his belt. He has also appeared on talk shows, met celebrities and travelled in a submarine in the Mediterranean Sea.

Anthony Camu

Anthony Camu

26-year-old Anthony Camu has been awarded the Innovate UK’s Young Innovators Award for Theia, a handheld orientation and mobility device for blind and partially sighted people.

Astro Studios

Astro Studios

Podcasters Gael Aitor and Kayla Suarez are setting up a mental health podcast network specifically aimed at teens.

Heela Yoon

Heela Yoon

CEO of Afghan Youth Ambassadors for Peace Organization, Heela Yoon tells us how she keeps optimistic in the face of deliberate affront to women’s and girls’ human rights in Afghanistan

Mia Landsem

Mia Landsem

A public speaker, author and ethical hacker for Orange Cyberdefense, Mia Landsem tells us about her unintended career path to fame.

Tshepiso Malema

Tshepiso Malema

Tshepiso Malema was 15 when he set up Gamer’s Territory, a place for young people to meet and play computer games, in Ivory Park, a Johannesburg township, South Africa.

Aleisha Amohia

Aleisha Amohia

Read about Aleisha Amohia, one of 25 young New Zealand women changing the world and an advocate for diversity and inclusion in tech

Jaiden Corfield

Jaiden Corfield

20-year-old Jaiden Corfield has founded a mental health organisation for boys and is leading a youth project for Ashoka and the Edge Foundation

Eleanor Andrade May

Eleanor Andrade May

Eleanor Andrade May is a volunteer for Teach the Future, a student-led movement campaigning for broad climate education in the UK.

Matina Razafimahefa

Matina Razafimahefa

23-year-old Matina dropped out of Sorbonne University to set up an online coding school in Madagascar

Jack Parsons

Jack Parsons

Jack, the UK’s Chief Youth Officer and CEO of The Youth Group, is optimistic about the careers landscape for young people.

John Sabraw

John Sabraw

John is an environmentalist, activist and professor of art who collaborates with scientists to bring science to the people.

Avo Guedekelian

Avo Guedekelian

Avo Guedekelian is a medical student, dancer, photographer and videographer. He reminds us of the value of both the sciences and the arts.

Shrouk El-Attar

Shrouk El-Attar

Shrouk, an LGBTQ+ refugee and belly dancer, has broken through glass ceilings to become recognised as one of the top six young women engineers in the UK

Kreesha Saha

Kreesha Saha

Meet Kreesha Saha! She is 16 years old and researching plastic-eating enzymes with Professor Clark Gedney at Purdue University.

Steve Wolf

Steve Wolf

Steve is a Stunt Scientist, Experience Engineer, Inventor, TV Producer, Science Presenter and Author and he’s on a mission to get students excited about STEM

César Andrade Arteaga

César Andrade Arteaga

César is a member of the Latin Kings gang. He shows us how gangs can be a force for good and teach us about solidarity, empathy and respect.

David Aguilar

David Aguilar

Born without a forearm, Bioengineering student built his own prosthetic arm using LEGO Bionicle parts.

Tom Bailey

Tom Bailey

Director and theatre maker, Tom Bailey, explains the importance of exploring questions through both science and art

Futurum’s Youth Ambassador for Engineering

Futurum’s Youth Ambassador for Engineering

Chris Kalogroulis tells us all about his passion for design engineering and his innovative award-winning designs.

Futurum’s Environmental Research Ambassador

Futurum’s Environmental Research Ambassador

Kehkashan Basu founded the Green Hope Foundation when she was only 12 years old. She is promoting our environmental research articles to Green Hope’s 120 future academies.

University of New England

University of New England

Arlo Taylor
BSc Mathematics

Arizona State University

Arizona State University

Joshua J Daymude
PhD in Computer Science

Rapscience

Rapscience

Jon Chase uses raps to talk about science to an audience of all ages – from reception to retirement. The majority of his material is aimed at Key Stage 2-5.

John Volanthen

John Volanthen

John Volanthen – one of the cave rescue divers who saved the young football team in the Tham Luang Cave in Thailand – is CEO of his computing consultancy […]

University of Glasgow

University of Glasgow

Chizoba Obi
PhD in Economics

University of Birmingham

University of Birmingham

Catherine Odendaal
MBChB Graduate Entry Medicine

University of the West of England

University of the West of England

Niall Rogers
BSc (Hons) Computer Systems Integration

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