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Throwing Caps

Graduates' Experiences

On this page, you will be able to read graduates talking about their transitioning experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. To protect our participants, all the names below are pseudonyms.

If you are a graduate, university staff or employer and would like to share your thoughts with the research team and a wider audience, get in touch with us here.

"Medical school is a second coming of age. In ‘Dear Life’, Dr Rachel Clarke describes the process identity deconstruction and reconstruction; to mould students... "

Claire
Mar 2023

Panic texting: real-time crisis while travelling abroad during the COVID-19 pandemic

Jason
Dec 2022

"“University will be the best time of your life and you’ll make so many new friends!” These were my parents’ words that I heard in my head as I stared blankly at my professor on Zoom...."

Tamara
June 2023

"Application status: Under review. Application status: Under review. Application status: Under review. Those words scared me as I continued to... "

Andy
Jan 2023

"A few months ago, the question I was scared to be asked was ‘so, did you get a job?’..."

Belinda
Aug 2023

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