External Relations staff blog

This blog has been provided by Anna Ford, Media Relations Manager It’s not often, as a media relations manager, that you have to have a retinal eye scan as part of your job. But when I went to CERN to…

“Do you want to play backgammon at lunch?” Yes, it’s a question we’ve all faced at some point in our lives. When former digital analyst Gavin Rix asked our department two years ago, we said yes. My only memory of…

What makes us happy? The route to one person’s happiness could be entirely different from the next’s, but as the great Aristotle said more than 2,000 years ago: “Happiness depends on ourselves”. Of course, there are factors out of control…

Marketing Officer Amy has been working as a member of the social media rota since its inception. Here, she shares some of her highlights, lessons learned and nine ways social media skills could benefit your work. One of my favourite…

We’re on the hunt for some more volunteers for our social media rota – an essential part of how we tell great stories about Sussex. We’ll be arranging more training sessions for new staff soon, around the end of October/start…

1. Help make the dream work Clearing is a key recruitment time, so you get to feel part of something important and where you know that every minute of your day – and every drop of sweat from your brow…

One of the lovely things about working in events is that you get to visit some wonderful places and meet a variety of interesting people. Last Thursday, after over a year of planning and having our dates bumped twice, we…

For years, ‘millennials’ has been used as a vague shorthand for young people and, by extension, students. It’s become such a familiar term that most people – the media being a prime culprit – have largely missed the fact that…

What do snowflakes, The Fat Gay Vegan and kindness all have in common? All of them have featured in The Exchange, our new initiative to create spaces for people to talk about issues they care about. Our first event for…

“Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That’s the thing about painting, photography, cinema…..” David Lynch If it’s on a gallery wall or projected on a screen in a dark cinema, it’s probably something I’d take a further…