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1. Success stories – Start-up hub

   Get inspiration from other start-up businesses and find out how former students created successful businesses.

2. Start-up Hub

   The Start-up Hub helps students and graduates start a business. We offer funding, business advice and training. We also have networking events and workshops.

3. Tag-Art

   Tag-Art is Nicola Taggart's mural and art workshop business. Nicola worked with the Centre for Entrepreneurship when starting her business venture.

4. ONEart

   ONEart is Katherine Caldwell's pop-up shop. Katherine worked with the Start-up hub when starting her business venture.

5. Interviews and memoirs – Elder Dempster

   As part of the Homeward Bound project we’ve collected 25 oral testimonies from Elder Dempster Line’s seafaring and office staff. Listen to the interviews.

6. New finds and related archives – Elder Dempster

   Read more about new finds for the Elder Dempster Lines - the largest UK shipping group between Western Europe and West Africa from the late-nineteenth century to the 1980s.

7. Business – interviews with women activists in Nepal

   As a part of the Qualitative Analysis in Action project, you are invited to read the interviews with women who are changing the world of business in Nepal. The interviews help us to gain a better understanding of these women's unique and inspirational lives.

8. Derek Bailey interview – Elder Dempster

   Derek Bailey joined Elder Dempster Lines in 1957. In his interview, Derek recalls what it was like living on a ship with a wife and children at home. Derek also speaks about Elder Dempster Lines’ latter years.

9. Starting your own business or freelancing

   Starting your own business or freelancing information for final year students.

10. Harry Madden interview – Elder Dempster

    Harry Madden was a Junior Engineer for Elder Dempster Lines. Listen to Harry Madden's interview.