A quick step into nursing with an online degree: Meet Michelle
As a busy mum and trained dancer, Michelle never dreamed that a different career would be possible. But CDU changed all that. Waltzing through a flexible online nursing degree, she's now dancing to a different tune working as a nurse.
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Yuba's using his IT degree to help his community
Darwinites really have Yuba’s sister to thank for inspiring her brother to study here in the Territory. The community service champion kept hearing that Darwin was a “great place to live and learn”. He's been using skills in leveraging technology from his postgraduate IT degree to boost efficiency in a cause close to his heart — volunteering.
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Lauren is the change she wants to see in rural pharmacy
Becoming a small-town pharmacist is a dream come true for Lauren, who has spent a lifetime involved in the health of her community. She just needed the right online program to support her goals.
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Meet the Territory's homegrown tech entrepreneur
Successful serial entrepreneur Dr Mark Englund has had a life-long fascination with all things technical. A supportive mother and a chance encounter with an inspiring engineering academic changed the course of Mark's young life, leading to him study engineering in the Territory before taking the tech world by storm.
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Lana's following a fascination with the human body into a new career
After leaving the geoscience space to focus on raising her family, Lana felt that retraining was the way to get where she wanted to go professionally. Always fascinated by health and the human body, she discovered CDU's Bachelor of Health/Master of Occupational Therapy dual degree and never looked back.
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Dr Aly de Groot's weaving her magic to advocate and educate
A move to the Northern Territory sparked a decades-long love affair with basketry and weaving for Dr Aly de Groot. Her career in the arts industry has always centred around advocating for Indigenous fibre and textile artists and educating the wider community about art and environmental issues.
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Nursing grad David's career "started accidentally"
While volunteering as a medic with St John Ambulance, David encountered incredible nurses who would inspire him to change careers. He enrolled in a Bachelor of Nursing at CDU before finding an unexpected knack for advocacy, working to promote and defend tens of thousands of his fellow nurses and midwives in Queensland.
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Jaisy dreams of creating his own engineering marvels
From an early age, Jaisy's fascination with the world's grand infrastructure sparked a curiosity within him. From the pyramids of Giza to futuristic wonders like Dubai's Burj Khalifa, he wanted to know how these structures were made and how could he create his own architectural marvels. He's one step closer to his goals now that he's studying engineering at CDU.
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Norlisha's pathway to Indigenous health research
Norlisha had been working in health research for several years, with the thought of study always at the back of her mind. Not knowing how or where to start, Norlisha says it took quite a while to take that first step. Then, she discovered CDU's First Nations Introduction to University Program.
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Osheen is drawn to illustration like a moth to a flame
Osheen has followed a life-long love for illustration to CDU where he is studying a Certificate IV in Visual Arts in the hopes of becoming a professional comic artist.
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