Derek MacLeod, BSc 2003
Following
my time at St Andrews, I was fortunate to be elected as President
of the Students' Association before being awarded a Bobby Jones
Scholarship to study at Emory University in Atlanta. Following that
year I ended up working on the elections in Liberia before working
for a UK-based democracy and governance NGO in London for two years.
I am now back living in Scotland and working in the International
Office for the University of Edinburgh as well as being a Director
of the NGO that I used to work for.
All the positions and roles that I have had since leaving St Andrews
have come from the skills that I learnt as a student. The analytical
and transferable skills that I developed during my time in the Physics
department have been used on real life tasks ranging from the presentations
that I give for work every week to the daily communications and
interactions that I have with people around the world.
My years in St Andrews were some of the best of my life and I would
recommend it to anyone. The Physics department was a friendly and
welcoming place to and as long as you can cope with the North Sea
wind and the fact that you can't walk down the street without meeting
someone you know, then I'm sure that you’ll have a wonderful
time.
Updated August 2011