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By Lauren Hague - Marketing Assistant

Look who’s back!

First Monday morning in the new office and my first ever blog post! (please bear this in mind when reading!) As Sarah mentioned in her previous post, I have been doing a whistle stop tour of Central America for the past two and half weeks trying to fit in as much as possible.

From this... Nicaragua - Ometepe

Including a little white water rafting and ziplining – activities that are all very out of character for me but can't say I didn't make the most of my time! I had a great time and met lots of new people but for now back to the real world…

…and to welcome my return (I like to think) the marketing team were invited to the Heist Awards 2013 last week. The Heist Awards are the leading awards for education marketing so we were very proud that as a university we were shortlisted for four awards:

Best Postgraduate prospectus (That’s us!)
Best use of Digital/social Marketing (Digital Marketing team  - shameless plug for their blog)
Best Website (Digital Marketing team)
Best Internal Communication campaign (Learning Resources team)

And I am very proud to say that although we didn’t win Best Postgraduate Prospectus we did win Silver for Best Website (take a look at the award-winning site) and we won Bronze for Best Internal Communication campaign. Bravo Learning Resources and Digital teams!  

To this... Manchester - Heist Awards 2013

It was a great night had by all. The awards had a movie theme to them, complete with ‘fake’ paparazzi on arrival and clapper board place settings, so even though we didn’t win at least we got to rub shoulders with cardboard cut outs of Darth Vader and James Dean so all was not lost! To get an idea of how the evening went check out the Heist Awards and our Postgraduate twitter.

We have a busy and exciting couple of weeks coming up in the Marketing department including more prospectuses and the Clearing campaign getting fully underway (which I am sure you will hear more about as the weeks go by) so we have enlisted the help of an extra team member Scott for the next couple of weeks so he will contributing to our blog soon too so watch this space...

To this... Luton - New home in the new office