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Overview

Tomorrow is Mine is a student experience podcast. To date 118 episodes with students of 49 different nationalities have been featured during the series.

Its name was inspired by Malcom X:

‘Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.’

Background

Launched during the pandemic to allow international students to share their stories by using their own voice through a new content platform.

During isolation the podcast became a reassuring way for students to remain connected within their communities, while also being able to share their experiences with friends and family across the world.

Themes

This is a student facing communication platform that facilitates peer to peer storytelling. These stories are authentic and resonate very strongly as a forum for diverse cultural values, lived experience, the study journey, and shared ideas to build a stronger sense of community.

The stories are both aspirational and inspirational, serving to inform current and prospective students through first person experiences which are ultimately transformational and in doing so illustrate that the personal is universal.

Tomorrow Is Mine explores a range of issues and ideas through the multicultural lens of its weekly guests. In the process helping to breakdown religious, cultural, sexual, political and geographical stereotypes through personal insights and perspectives, giving students and graduates the chance to share their life experiences and their hopes for the opportunities that lie ahead. The future belongs to them.