What on Earth am I doing?

In short: a lot! You know how I mentioned in my last post that coffee was an important part of my job? I’ve had the caffeine shakes non-stop for about a week now. To avoid this looking like the ramblings of a very busy marketing assistant, I will divide it up into neat sections.

Videos

I have produced a lot of videos since I last blogged. When a department comes to me and asks what they could be doing to market their department better, I will normally suggest that they do a video. Kids these days (I feel like at 23 I can now say this, plus, as the Brownies I volunteer with keep pointing out, I will be a quarter of a century old next year) are all about content. I know when I was applying to universities, I barely read anything on the website (sorry whoever has Angela’s role at the University of Leeds - I know how much work goes into writing for the web!). Here’s a by no means comprehensive list…

Life Sciences: Fancy dressing up like those people on CSI and dusting for fingerprints? Then check out the Forensics facilities video and apply to the course.

Computer Science: The Computer Science andTechnology students showcased their final year projects. There was everything from virtual reality computer games to robotic arms controlled by the movements of a human’s and I was there to capture the action. There’s some great research going on in the department!

Dance and Professional Practice: The very talented dance students were kind enough to let me film some of their rehearsals and edit it together with some interviews that they did for me. They had nothing but praise for both the course and the lecturers. I had Sia's Chandelier in my head for about a week afterwards.

Sport: I have edited together some footage that the IT department filmed before I arrived here to create a talking heads video. Again, there is some fascinating research going on in the department, not to mention a lot of very fancy equipment. Fancy going in a Bod Pod anyone?

All of these videos are on, or will be on, the University of Bedfordshire's YouTube channel.

UCAS

Everything has been go go go for the UCAS convention that we are having here in June. I have been organizing some leaflets and business cards for some of my departments including English Language and Communication, Teacher Education, Education Studies, Sport, Computer Science and Technology, and English.

Making Friends

This is probably my favourite part of my job. I get to meet so many people and I have finally got to meet all of my departments. I have worked quite a bit with Life Sciences in the last few weeks as well as Performing Arts and English. Most recently I have done some filming with the Sport department and will be filming some more of their labs after I get back from New York. I finally don’t get the ‘she doesn’t even go here’ (Mean Girls reference!) feeling when I go over to the Bedford campus.

Catch you later!

Clud.