Alumni of the Month - Gavin Wood
"Hi, my name is Gavin Wood. I studied at ARU London between 2016 and 2019. The campus is on Charterhouse Street, adjacent to Fleet Street, famous for global newspapers. ARU London is also next to Smithfield Market, famous for William Wallace, and next to the Thames at Blackfriars Bridge, not to mention near Bank, where the great building of Bank of England on Threadneedle Street meets Royal Exchange on Cornhill. The campus is in an iconic setting if history, power, and architecture appeals.
I left London in 2019 after graduating from ARU London to pursue an interest in Forestry, and study MSc Forestry Management at Harper Adams University in Shropshire; one of only a few forestry specialist universities in the UK. Our cohort at Harper is dynamic and includes Forestry Commission staff, land owners, land managers, and people who are passionate about the area of forestry and its ecosystem services for the world and everyone in it.
It's highly unlikely I would be studying Forestry Management now without ARU London. I studied BSc (Hons) International Business Management at ARU. I feel lucky to have had the lecturers I did at ARU. They each gave different tools to better understand how business at the local and international scale works, in terms of fiscal and monetary policies, investments, writing strategies and tactical plans, working well with people from different cultures, critical comparative analysis and better decision making tools generally.
Throughout my study at ARU London I also wrote and released a novel through Waterstones called TIN GOD which is available to purchase.
I would like to thank all of the academic, management and professional services team for supporting me throughout my journey to postgraduate student and novelist".