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Advantage Award- PR Project Management module- apply now!

We are very pleased to announce that our popular Advantage Award PR Project Management module is now open for applications! This year the successful applicants will run a pilot project designed to help fellow students through the delivery of an event designed to impart useful information to students choosing to move off campus into the community. Your project management and PR skills will develop as …

Welcome to Community Living!

Welcome back to Nottingham! Now that Autumn term has officially started, we know that many returning students will be in the process of moving back to Nottingham. Read on if you are making that unforgettable step of moving out of halls into your first student house… To welcome you back we have prepared some hints and tips …

PR Project Management: Developing Our Project

Today’s update from the PR Project Management Advantage Award module comes from Politics student, Will Padgham, who gives an overview of all the different things that need to come together and some of the initial decisions which needed to be made to start getting the project into shape. The meeting began with a discussion between …

PR Project Management: Learning the Ropes of Event Planning

Today we’re delighted to welcome Talia Samuelson to the blog. Talia is one of our latest group of Advantage Award students, and they’ll be keeping us up to date with their project over the coming weeks.  When browsing for my next Advantage Award module the ‘PR Project Management’ option held a particular appeal. Not only …

‘Ready, Set, Pedal’: On Reflection

‘Ready, Set, Pedal’, an Advantage Award student-led event, pedalled into success on the 18th November 2013. A busy morning was spent setting up our stalls ready for Sustrans, Dr Bike and the Pulp Friction smoothie bike. Then, from 11-3 in the Portland Atrium, we were actively involved with getting more students on their bikes. So, …

The Off Campus Graduate Trainee Experience

Today we’re welcoming back Zoe Baker to the blog to talk about her experience of working in Off Campus Student Affairs as a Graduate Trainee. Over to Zoe! When I was asked to write this blog, my colleagues titled it ‘Zoe Baker in the hot seat’. Although this title hasn’t stuck with them, it makes …

Launching Be A Sweet Neighbour

Our Be a Sweet Neighbour project launch was on 20th of March in the Portland Building, alongside Nottingham in Bloom’s launch for their Student Garden Competition. Egle, one of the students involved in the Advantage Award PR Project Management module, reflects on how things went in today’s blog.   The Be A Sweet Neighbour campaign …

Be a Sweet Neighbour – Project Update

This year, our PR Project Management Advantage Award students are working on a project to promote neighbourliness among students living in the local community. The campaign is called ‘Be a Sweet Neighbour’ and will be officially launched on 20th March in the Atrium. Today, one of our students, Catherine, talks about what they’ve been working on so …

Why be a Sweet Neighbour?

This year, our PR Project Management Advantage Award students are working on a project to promote neighbourliness among students living in the local community. The campaign is called ‘Be a Sweet Neighbour’ and will be officially launched on 20th March in the Atrium. Module leader Zoe Baker introduced the module in her blog entry last …

PR Project Management – The Nottingham Advantage Award

Hello, my name is Zoe Baker and this is the first blog I have ever written. I am a Graduate Trainee currently working in the Off-Campus Student Affairs department here at the University and as part of this role I have been given the responsibility to lead the Nottingham Advantage Award PR Project Management module. …