News: alumni profiles

Juliet Haslam OAM

A portrait of Juliet Haslam in a bright green shirt

Juliet Haslam OAM is one of our most decorated hockey players and a pioneer of professional women’s sport in Australia. Her immense contributions to Australian sport have earnt her many accolades and a place in the Sport Australia Hall of Fame, and she continues to inspire and educate the next generation of athletes as a mentor and ambassador.

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Stephen Noonan puts children's theatre on the world stage

Stephen Noonan on set with large yellow cylinders and a ball

When asked how to create plays for children, Constantin Stanislavski, the seminal Russian theatre director, actor and theorist reportedly replied, “The same as for adults, only better.” Stephen Noonan’s mission is just that.

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Gail Kovatseff: Head of Programming & Industry at Adelaide Film Festival

Gail at Cannes Film Festival in France 2022

Gail Kovatseff is the Head of Programming & Industry at the Adelaide Film Festival, South Australia’s premier screen event. To celebrate AFF 2023, she speaks about entering the industry, the importance of accessibility, and her personal picks for the top titles from this year's program.

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Meet Adelaide's world-class young sight specialist

Dr LaHood featured in The Ophthalmologist magazine’s Power List for 2023 as one of the world’s top 100 ophthalmologists. As well as being one of the world’s best, at 39 he was also Australia’s youngest nominee ever to make the list.

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Andy Thomas: Celebrating a local hero

Andy Thomas preview

When Andy Thomas first graduated from the University of Adelaide 50 years ago, travelling into space as an astronaut was an impossible dream. Australians didn’t do that – space was for people from other countries.

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World news

John Scanlon AO

We invited some of our family of “foreign correspondents” to give a brief insight into their lives and careers. Their stories in this new feature of Lumen.

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Dave Birkett: cool in a crisis

Dave speaking at a presentation

If an emergency is about to unfold, University of Adelaide alum and crisis management expert Dave Birkett is someone you want in your corner. Dave recalls being called to a job near Tembagapura in the highlands of West Papua, Indonesia, approximately 20 years ago...

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Henry White's path from the AFL field to the boardroom

A portrait of Henry White at the beach

Henry White followed his own path, from professional sports to banking and finally owning his own thriving business.

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Fear became a career for Dr Gavin Quek

A portrait of Dr Quek in his uniform

Dr Gavin Quek is Hobart's Young Citizen of the Year and the Tasmania Premier's Young Achiever of the Year. At just 25 years old, he's proof that learning to be curious about our fears can take us places we hadn't imagined.

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Meet Dr Jared Thomas, author, research fellow and multiple award-winner

Dr Jared Thomas accepting his NAIDOC SA Person of the Year 2023 Award

Dr Jared Thomas is a multiple award-winning author and the Research Fellow, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Material Culture and Arts at the South Australian Museum and UniSA.

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