A decade ago Anisa Sultana was living and working in London as a lecturer when she and a friend took a trip to explore the south coast. As the train drew into Portsmouth, she admired a striking building through the carriage window. “My friend said: ‘That’s the University of Portsmouth … who knows, maybe you’ll come here one day for your PhD?’ And that’s exactly what happened.”
Ten years after that first visit, Sultana is halfway through her doctoral studies at the university and, as she puts it, “really loving this island city” where she is pursuing her desire to transform her career as an academic. This time she’s accompanied by her husband and their children too.
