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Highlights from the Writers at Warwick series at Warwick Arts Centre.
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In this podcast series Dr Beat Kumin from the University of Warwick offers the first comparative survey of early modern public houses and their unique contribution to European culture.
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Will@Warwick - a podcast featuring the latest academic insight into the work of William Shakespeare.
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Peter Pormann discusses the development of Islamic medical theory and practice in the medieval period.
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The WACC Podcast hosts a selection of recorded guest talks as part of the WACC Research Group Activities at the University of Warwick
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Professor Ian Stewart presents a short history of symmetry and how this concept relates to mathematics, physics and the universe around us.
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A podcast by staff and students from the Zeeman Institute for Systems Biology and Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research group (SBIDER), based at the University of Warwick.
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A podcast from the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick (UK)
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During the bicentenarial year of the birth of Charles Dickens (7th February 1812), the University of Warwick is celebrating the life and works of one of the greatest authors to ever put pen to paper. Experts from the University and beyond explore the genius of Dickens across different aspects of his experiences, knowledge, philanthropy, character-rich novels and the Victorian era, in which he lived. Video and audio interviews with leading academics plus readings of extracts of his work pay h ...
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The Warwick Critical Finance (WCF) Group is a study group based at the PAIS department of the University of Warwick which takes a critical approach to new and emerging trends in finance. We seek to create a sustained conversation among Warwick researchers working on different aspects of finance - from the level of global financial flows to everyday financialisation - and how finance intersects and interacts with key dimensions such as development, class, gender, race or geography. The group ...
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The EMPLOY project is a three-year project involving researchers from six universities across Europe who have been exploring the experiences of non-traditional students and graduates making the transition to life and work after university. In particular, EMPLOY is concerned with what needs to be done to enhance the possibilities of non-traditional university students moving to meaningful and sustainable graduate work. More information can be found on the project website: employ.dsw.edu.pl or ...
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This podcast explores the vernacular reception of Aristotle and his works in Renaissance Italy as part of the ERC-Funded Vernacular Aristotelianism project (PI: Marco Sgarbi) at the University of Warwick (UK), and at the University of Ca' Foscari in Venice (Italy). The podcast is produced, recorded, edited, and hosted by Dr. Bryan Brazeau, a member of the project at the University of Warwick. For more on the project and the podcast: http://www.tiny.cc/ercaristotle
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The Department of Statistics at Oxford is a world leader in research including computational statistics and statistical methodology, applied probability, bioinformatics and mathematical genetics. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF), Oxford's Mathematical Sciences submission was ranked overall best in the UK. This is an exciting time for the Department. We have now moved into our new home on St Giles and we are currently settling in. The new building provides improved lecture and ...
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What is Good Food? Five episodes of delicious stories and conversations about how we know what we eat is 'good'. This podcast series is produced by a group of food researchers, and our conversations are based on papers presented at a food research workshop organised by the SOAS Food Studies Centre and University of Warwick Food GRP. Studio production: Anna Cohen Editor: Mukta Das Music: Brandi Simpson Miller
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Ever wanted to understand the key themes driving over five hundred years of European history? In this album, architecture reveals the social, religious and economic fortunes of some of the most influential people between 1400 and 1900. By the end of the 19th century Queen Victoria presided over the vast British Empire. She looked out from London, the heart of her empire, with its buildings echoing Imperial Rome. Brussels’ architecture, like London’s, was also designed to show the world the p ...
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We are faced with intersecting crises. The world economy has remained stagnant since 2008. The European project confronts a series of existential threats. Several Latin American economies are wracked by devastating economic imbalances. Even the Chinese juggernaut appears to be slowing. The natural world is groaning under the strain of capitalism’s ravenous appetite. And the most jarring political mobilisation that has arisen to meet these threats is a form of chauvinistic nativism. A politic ...
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DO YOU WANT TO BE ENTERTAINED? Of course you do, that's why you are here! I am a simple man. One who loves, philosophy, working on my mindset, combat sports and pretty much learning anything new! DJ's Take is dedicated to learning from all kinds of brilliant people and lessons that we can implement into our lives. A podcast dedicated to entertaining you, exciting you and educating you all at the same flipping time. Get some.
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Many students come to an MBA from banking, consulting, or MNC backgrounds, but what about those that don’t? The Modern MBA podcast with Marie Kirwan and Kristen Rossi shares the stories of those transitioning from or using their MBAs in unorthodox MBA sectors including the arts, healthcare, not-for-profit, academia, and more.
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How can we measure the growth of infections during an epidemic? | SBIDER Presents - Episode 9
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We discuss the research article “Bayesian estimation of real-time epidemic growth rates using Gaussian processes: local dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in England” and methods to get reasonable estimates of the change in rate of infection in small, localised populations. Have feedback? Complete our Google Form: https://bit.ly/3IIgPKH!…
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How can farmer behaviour be incorporated into models for livestock disease transmission? | SBIDER presents - Episode 8
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We discuss the research article “Incorporating heterogeneity in farmer disease control behaviour into a livestock disease transmission model” and interdisciplinary approaches for collecting data on diversity in farmer livestock disease management behaviours. Have feedback? Complete our Google Form: https://bit.ly/3IIgPKH!…
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Antimicrobial resistance and pathogen genomic data - Xavier Didelot | SBIDER presents - Episode 7
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Prof Xavier Didelot discusses the research article "Estimating the fitness cost and benefit of antimicrobial resistance from pathogen genomic data" and how modelling that uses genomic data can inform the use of antibiotics in a way that mitigates the spread of antimicrobial resistance. Have feedback? Complete our Google Form: https://bit.ly/3IIgPKH…
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Avian influenza: An international perspective | SBIDER presents - Episode 6
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There is ongoing concern at the impact on avian species of recent highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreaks. Listen to an international perspective on its implications for wild bird conservation efforts and poultry owners across the Americas and Europe. Have feedback? Complete our Google Form: https://bit.ly/3IIgPKH!…
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Antimicrobial resistance and explainable AI - Massimo Cavallaro | SBIDER presents - Episode 5
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Dr Massimo Cavallaro discusses the research article "Informing antimicrobial stewardship with explainable AI" and whether the characteristics of clinical patients can be used to determine the chance of antimicrobial resistance. Have feedback? Complete our Google Form: https://bit.ly/3IIgPKH!By SBIDER Podcast Hub
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Integrating geostatistical maps and infectious disease transmission models - Simon Spencer | SBIDER presents - Episode 4
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Dr Simon Spencer discusses the research article “Integrating geostatistical maps and infectious disease transmission models using adaptive multiple importance sampling” & fitting disease transmission models to spatial epidemiological data in work led by Dr Renata Retkute. Have feedback? Visit https://bit.ly/3IIgPKH!…
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How have mathematical models been used as part of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic? - Matt Keeling | SBIDER presents - Episode 3
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Prof Matt Keeling discusses the research article “Comparison of the 2021 COVID-19 roadmap projections against public health data in England” and the use of mathematical models as part of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.By SBIDER Podcast Hub
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Lora Schellenberg: NY to London, Marketing and an Exec MBA at Warwick Business School
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Today on The Modern MBA podcast we’re speaking with Lora Schellenberg. Originally from NY, she moved to London to join a start-up and for the past decade has made marketing as the common thread in her career. Today’s she is approaching the end of her executive MBA at Warwick Business School’s London Shared campus. She talks with us about her career…
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Brett Hunter: Former Director of Admissions and Recruitment at LBS. Founder of Inner Circle MBA
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Today on The Modern MBA podcast we speak with Brett Hunter the former Director of Admissions and Recruitment for London Business School. He is currently the founder and principle consultant of Inner Circle MBA. We speak about his career, what makes an MBA programme great, what makes a great candidate, what candidates should be considering when choo…
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How have humans adapted to combat malaria parasites? - Bridget Penman | SBIDER presents - Episode 2
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Dr Bridget Penman discusses the research article “Adaptive immunity selects against malaria blocking mutations”. Applications are now open for a new postdoc position and more in our news section.By SBIDER
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Sustainability hackathon winners talk WBS and sustainability
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Today on the Modern MBA podcast we speak with four Warwick Business School students Jianyu Yang, Thanit Dangmas, Paranee Anangosolporn and Puspita.They speak with us about their MBA experience; their motivation for joining a recent hackathon, and their passionate about sustainability. https://www.wbs.ac.uk/news/wbs-students-hackathon-win-with-super…
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Tenzing Tashi: A career in hospitality and an MBA from Aston Business School
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Today on the Modern MBA podcast we speak with Aston MBA graduate Tenzing Tashi. He shares with us his experience moving up the hospitality ladder with Oberoi; his passion as a hospitality entrepreneur setting up Barkeep India; and talks about his current role as the Operations Manager for the only two Michelin Star Chinese restaurants outside of As…
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Sorana McCarron: Ethical marketing and an MBA from the University of Sheffield
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On today's episode of The Modern MBA podcast we speak to Sorana McCarron. Originally from Romania Sorana holds an MBA from the University of Sheffield and shares with us her passion for ethical marketing. About Us Many students come to an MBA from banking, consulting, or MNC backgrounds, but what about those that don’t? The Modern MBA podcast with …
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A Theory of Weak-Supervision and Zero-Shot Learning
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A lecture exploring alternatives to using labeled training data. Labeled training data is often scarce, unavailable, or can be very costly to obtain. To circumvent this problem, there is a growing interest in developing methods that can exploit sources of information other than labeled data, such as weak-supervision and zero-shot learning. While th…
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Stefano Bettenelli: Warwick Business School MBA in Fintech
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On today's episode of The Modern MBA podcast we speak to Stefano Bettenelli, a Warwick MBA graduate, originally from Italy and now working in the world of Fintech. About Us Many students come to an MBA from banking, consulting, or MNC backgrounds, but what about those that don’t? The Modern MBA podcast with Marie Kirwan and Kristen Rossi shares the…
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How severe would a new covid variant be? - Louise Dyson | SBIDER presents - Episode 1
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Dr Louise Dyson discusses the research article “Possible future waves of SARS-CoV-2 infection generated by variants of concern with a range of characteristics”. Dr Robin Thompson describes the activities of the Royal Society RAMP initiative.By SBIDER Podcast Hub
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Welcome to SBIDER presents! Featuring work in biological & medical sciences by researchers from SBIDER (Zeeman Institute for Systems Biology & Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research, University of Warwick) & collaborators. @WarwickSBIDERBy SBIDER Podcast Hub
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Victims of Algorithmic Violence: An Introduction to AI Ethics and Human-AI Interaction
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A high-level overview of key areas of AI ethics and not-ethics, exploring the challenges of algorithmic decision-making, kinds of bias, and interpretability, linking these issues to problems of human-system interaction. Much attention is now being focused on AI Ethics and Safety, with the EU AI Act and other emerging legislation being proposed to i…
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The practicalities of academic research ethics - how to get things done
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A brief introduction to various legal and procedural ethical concepts and their applications within and beyond academia. It's all very well to talk about truth, beauty and justice for academic research ethics. But how do you do these things at a practical level? If you have a big idea, or stumble across something with important implications, what d…
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Statistics, ethical and unethical: Some historical vignettes
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David Steinsaltz gives a lecture on the ethical issues in statistics using historical examples.By David Steinsaltz
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Joining Bayesian submodels with Markov melding
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This seminar explains and illustrates the approach of Markov melding for joint analysis. Integrating multiple sources of data into a joint analysis provides more precise estimates and reduces the risk of biases introduced by using only partial data. However, it can be difficult to conduct a joint analysis in practice. Instead each data source is ty…
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Rapid training of deep neural networks without skip connections or normalization layers using Deep Kernel Shaping. Using an extended and formalized version of the Q/C map analysis of Pool et al. (2016), along with Neural Tangent Kernel theory, we identify the main pathologies present in deep networks that prevent them from training fast and general…
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Introduction to Advanced Research Computing at Oxford
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Andy Gittings and Dai Jenkins, deliver a graduate lecture on Advance Research Computing (ARC).By Andy Gittings, Dai Jenkins
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Georgie Young: An MBA at HEC and securing a post-graduation role in Paris
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On today's episode of The Modern MBA podcast we speak to Georgie Young, Account Director at 17 Sport in Paris. George talks to us about her experience studying for an MBA at HEC Paris and securing a role in the city after her course. About Us Many students come to an MBA from banking, consulting, or MNC backgrounds, but what about those that don’t?…
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Ethics from the perspective of an applied statistician
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Professor Denise Lievesley discusses ethical issues and codes of conduct relevant to applied statisticians. Statisticians work in a wide variety of different political and cultural environments which influence their autonomy and their status, which in turn impact on the ethical frameworks they employ. The need for a UN-led fundamental set of princi…
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A Day in the Life of a Statistics Consultant
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Maria Christodoulou and Mariagrazia Zottoli share what a standard day is like for a statistics consultant.By Maria Christodoulou, Mariagrazia Zottoli
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Metropolis Adjusted Langevin Trajectories: a robust alternative to Hamiltonian Monte-Carlo
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Lionel Riou-Durand gives a talk on sampling methods. Sampling approximations for high dimensional statistical models often rely on so-called gradient-based MCMC algorithms. It is now well established that these samplers scale better with the dimension than other state of the art MCMC samplers, but are also more sensitive to tuning. Among these, Ham…
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Modelling infectious diseases: what can branching processes tell us?
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Professor Samir Bhatt gives a talk on the mathematics underpinning infectious disease models. Mathematical descriptions of infectious disease outbreaks are fundamental to understanding how transmission occurs. Reductively, two approaches are used: individual based simulators and governing equation models, and both approaches have a multitude of pro…
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Michelle Boland: How an Executive MBA accelerated my marketing career
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Today on The Modern MBA podcast we're speaking to Michelle Boland, Global Marketing Services Director at Cambridge University Press and Assessment about how her Executive MBA has helped her accelerate a successful career in marketing and CX. Michelle tells us how she managed to balance her studies with a full time, intensive marketing role, which c…
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Samar Malik: Turning an MBA summer project into a role in corporate innovation
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Today on The Modern MBA podcast we're speaking with Samar Malik, who turned her MBA summer project into her dream role, working in intrepreneurship (corporate innovation) for SAP. Samar talks us through the highs and lows of her MBA program and how she remained focused on her core career goals to secure her new position. About Us Many students come…
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Adam Taylor: CEO Gwent Wildlife Trust and Distance Learning MBA
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Today on the podcast we are speaking to Adam Taylor, CEO of Gwent Wildlife Trust. He shares with us his journey into the wildlife charity sector, why he chose to do an MBA and how it has helped him in his role as CEO. About Us Many students come to an MBA from banking, consulting, or MNC backgrounds, but what about those that don’t? The Modern MBA …
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Ilona Brannen: Consultant, Innovator and Business Strategist
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Today on the podcast we are speaking to Ilona Brannen, Consultant, Innovator and Business Strategist. She is the founder of Slate Digital and presenter of Still Loading, a podcast dedicated to exploring leadership for the digital age. About Us Many students come to an MBA from banking, consulting, or MNC backgrounds, but what about those that don’t…
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Taha Mashhadi: From Banking to Tech with an MBA from Esade Business School
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Today on the podcast we are speaking to Taha Mashhadi. Originally from Pakistan, with a background in banking he studied at Esade in Spain and soon after moved into the tech space. He shares with us his journey into the start-up world; about seizing opportunities; what the Amazon recruitment process is like and what his entrepreneurial future holds…
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Marla Woodward: From the USA to Oxford Saïd Business School to UK Tech start-up
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Today on The Modern MBA podcast we're speaking with Marla Woodward , currently The Head of Product Marketing at Attest, a UK tech start-up. She shares with us her international journey from the USA to the UK; details of her career path; and about her experience doing an MBA at Oxford Saïd Business School. About Us Many students come to an MBA from …
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Sahil Chopra: From MBA to starting his own VC Fund Simsan Ventures
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Today on The Modern MBA podcast we're speaking with Sahil Chopra who after a career in accounting did an MBA at Warwick Business School. At the age of 31 he has started his own venture capital firm, Simsan Ventures. He talks about his journey, what the day to day of running a VC firm is like and what his vision is for the future of venture capital …
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Carla Vazquez Ramos: Neuroscience to an MBA at IE Business School
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Today on The Modern MBA podcast we're speaking with Carla Vazquez Ramos. With a background in neuroscience she recently completed her MBA at IE Business School in Madrid. Carla shares with us her journey into the MBA, what it was like studying during COVID, and what's next for her career. About Us Many students come to an MBA from banking, consulti…
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Jessica Penberthy: Moving into consulting - and exiting to the tech industry
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Today on The Modern MBA we are speaking to Jessica Penberthy, Senior Manager, Strategy and Operations at Mambu. Jessica talks to us about breaking into consulting after her MBA, securing sponsorship to work in the UK, and then transitioning into an industry role in technology. About Us Many students come to an MBA from banking, consulting, or MNC b…
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Alanna Rasbach: Breaking into tech marketing after an international move
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Today on the The Modern MBA podcast we are speaking to Alanna Rasbach, Senior Manager Product Marketing as Salesforce. Alanna relocated from Canada to the UK before doing her MBA at University of Edinburgh Business School. Alanna talks to us about her MBA experience, finding a job in the UK following her international move, and what it takes to suc…
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Joshua Perry: Net Zero Transformation Consultant
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Today on The Modern MBA podcast we are speaking with Joshua Perry. With a passion for combating food waste and championing sustainability he recently completed an MBA from Warwick Business School and just before the start of 2022 he landed a role as a Net Zero Transformation Consultant with Deloitte. About Us Many students come to an MBA from banki…
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