Lauren Bowman
BSc Business Studies
Bangor based family business Primary Meats wins Retailer of the Year award at Belfast Telegraph Business Awards. Contributing to Primacy Meats' success was our own graduate, Lauren Bowman, who is Head of Marketing for the local retailer.
Located in: Northern Ireland
Helen Todd
BA (Hons) Hospitality Management
UU graduate, Helen Todd's business has been announced as an NI winner in the UK Start-Up Awards. Having graduated from Hospitality Management, this put her on the path to Human Resources. After 18 years of working in tech companies, BPO and global financial institutions, she began her HR Consultancy services, Impact People Consultancy - providing HR consultancy services to small businesses, with a focus on creating inclusive workplaces, supporting businesses to put strong people-centric practices, policies and strategies in place, combining her experience of neurodivergence, unpaid caring, solo parenting, depression, anxiety and perimenopause with 18 years of professional experience in HR.
Located in: Northern Ireland
Rachael Aluko
MA UX and Service Design
Rachael was recently named one of Belfast Telegraph's Top 30 under 30 young entrepeneurs, trail blazing her way in business with exciting new start-up, Solobook. Together with Co-Founders Pierre Yimbog and Helen Rosborough, Rachael is continuing to develop Solobook, an AI-powered, community-driven platform. The platform aims to provide reliable information, particularly for female solo travellers, to help enable safe adventures for those who travel solo.
Located in: Northern Ireland
Johnny O'Callaghan
BSc Hons Computing & Information Systems
In June, Irish actor and therapist, Johnny O'Callaghan, is set to join the UCLA Hammer Museum's Bloomsday celebration, a worldwide celebration of James Joyce and his landmark book Ulysses. Johnny holds extensive accolades in the Film and TV industry; his one man show 'Who's Your Daddy?' played to sold out houses in LA, New York's Irish Repertory Theatre, The Edinburgh Festival and Crow's Toronto, Canada. He first began acting with the Belfast Youth and Community Theatre, to unite Protestant and Catholic actors. Johnny was also named Irish man of the year in LA, 2016.
Located in: Los Angeles, California
Richard Hill & Colm Connolly
Richard, MA Marketing & BA (Hons) Business Studies
Colm, BSc Quantity Surveying
The Deluxe Group design contractors based in Portadown awarded Best in Exporting at Belfast Telegraph Business Awards. Managing Director, Colm Connolly, and Business Development Director, Richard Hill, are Ulster University graduates. The Deluxe Group live up to their name, with clients such as Universal and Disney, they are quickly becoming a globally recognised company, bringing world-class design and fabrication services to theme parks across the US, Europe, Middle East and Japan.
Located in: Northern Ireland
Alan McCall
BEng Electronic Systems
Small Business of the Year winner at Belfast Telegraph Business Awards for electronics company Sensoteq, co-founded by UU graduate, Alan McCall. Sensoteq designs wireless reliability sensors for machine condition monitoring that Alan has compared to “a Fitbit for a machine”. Sensoteq’s goal is to aid industrial manufacturers transition to greener, safer and more responsible practices.
Located in: Northern Ireland
Martin Fee
LLM Law
This year's Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (NIHRC)/Transitional Justice Institute Dissertation Prize has been awarded to Ulster University graduate Martin Fee for his dissertation titled 'And Justice for All? How the relationship between the US and the ICC since 2017 has affected the legitimacy of the ICC and the credibility of the US in international criminal justice'.
Located in: Northern Ireland