Sometimes there is only one way to go hands-on with your brand: grab a serrated knife and get up to your elbows in organic matter. We think we did a spooktacular job of pumpkin carving this year. Creepin’ it real.…
Monthly Archives: October 2018
No two universities are the same
This half term I decided to take some Parental Leave and spend quality time with my almost 18 year old daughter, undertaking a grand tour of northern universities. Charlotte hopes to study Biology and fancies breaking out of our southern…
Posted in News and updates
Lost in thought?
I got lost in thought listening to Anna Burns, the new Man Booker Prize winner, talk on the Today Programme the other morning about how she writes her books. She was telling Mishal Hussain that when she starts a novel,…
Posted in Food for thought
Division, meet Teams
Michelle recently mentioned to the division that I’ve been working with ITS to make it easier for us to communicate together. The software I’ve been working on is called Microsoft Teams. What is Teams? I’m never quite sure how to…
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A decade of trying to understand young people
Monday morning, March, 2007. The top floor of the Portsmouth Guildhall; the cold, temporary and depressingly ramshackle offices of Motiv8, a charity in Portsmouth I had joined as Youth Worker a few months previously. I was sat in a meeting…
🍰☕ Coffee Morning Cake Goals 🎉🎈
On Friday 28 September External Relations hosted a tea-riffic Macmillan Coffee Morning at ACCA to raise money for people living with cancer. Together we raised a stonking £285.60! This is incredible since I thought we’d reach the £200 mark if…
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Not “just an intern”: My year in the Graduation and Corporate Events team
What do you do? When I first applied for the graduate internship I had a very vague idea as to what the Development and Alumni Relations Office did, let alone the vast scope that my role in the events team…
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From the city to the coast: how changing jobs improved my wellbeing
I’m a recent addition to the communications team, having started at the University in August. The reason for my job change, like so many others I’ve spoken to here, was so I could say goodbye to a dreary London commute.…
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