Internal Communications course timetable

A Communicators' Away Day for University and College Communication Professionals at the Triangle Building at Cambridge Press and Assessment.

Agenda

9-9.50 Registration and coffee. Receive a security pass and sign up for breakout sessions

10.00 Welcome: Andrew Scheuber, Global Director External Communications & Brand, Cambridge University Press & Assessment

10.05 OEAC priorities and campaigns update for 2025: James Helm, Executive Director of External Affairs and Communications

10.15-11.15 Campaign planning and use of analytics: Conrad Bird, Director, Cross-Government Campaigns & Marketing

11.15-12.15 Break out sessions

• • Cyber security and responding to cyber incidents
  • Digital transformation
  • How to work with student content creators

12.15-13.15 Lunch and networking. There will be an activity over lunch to stimulate discussion. There will be a chance to win a £25 Love to Shop voucher.

13.15-13.45 Building a resilient and consistent University brand in a digital world

• • Key themes: How brands maintain consistency and build resilience in their messaging across various digital platforms, while adapting to rapid change.
  • Q&A

13.45-14.45 Breakout sessions

• • Raising ambitions around civic engagement: communications opportunities and challenges
  • Improving communications for students through collaborative action
  • Social media in 2025: Bluesky, brain rot and bans

14.45-15.00 Coffee break and networking

15.00-16.00 Professor Sir John Aston, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Kathryn Chapman, Executive Director, Innovate Cambridge

• • Discuss priorities for their portfolio and area
  • Views on communications and how it can help forward their agendas
  • What they would like to see from comms professionals
  • Q&A

16.00 Closing remarks

16.05 Informal networking

An online open meeting for all University staff to hear updates about research, teaching and environmental sustainability.

Chair: James Helm, Executive Director of Communications and External Affairs

Topics to be discussed include

• an update on funding for doctoral research
• the recommendations of the collegiate University's Teaching Review
• an update on academic and operational approaches to environmental sustainability at Cambridge

Panellists

• Professor John Aston, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research
• Professor Bhaskar Vira, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Education
• Emma Rampton, Registrary

Questions

You can submit a question for the panel in advance by sending an email to internalcomms@admin.cam.ac.uk. Alternatively, you can ask a question on the day using the Teams Q&A function.

Recording

The meeting will be recorded and shared on the staff hub sharepoint site.

An online open meeting for all University staff to hear from the University's senior academic leaders.

The first part of the meeting will focus on the current financial challenges across the higher education sector and Cambridge’s own financial position. There will be a chance to put questions to the panel on this topic and others.

Chair: James Helm, Executive Director of Communications and External Affairs

Panel

• Anthony Odgers, Chief Financial Officer
• Professor Anna Philpott, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Resources and Operations
• Professor Kamal Munir, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for University Community and Engagement
• Professor Nigel Peake, Head of the School of the Physical Sciences

Available for questions: Andrea Hudson, Director of HR and Andrew Smart, Director of Estates Operations.

Questions

You can submit a question for the panel in advance by sending an email to internalcomms@admin.cam.ac.uk. Alternatively, you can ask a question on the day using the Teams Q&A function.

Recording

The meeting will be recorded and shared on the staff hub sharepoint site.

All staff and students are invited to take part in a town hall meeting on investments in and research funded by companies belonging to the defence industry.

The meeting is being organised by the working group that was set up to make recommendations to relevant University committees that oversee policies in relation to investments and research. You can read more about the background to its work, its scope, and membership in The Reporter.

The meeting will be chaired by Graham Virgo, Master of Downing College and chair of the working group. This is an opportunity to make your views heard, and will assist the working group in its consultation.

Emma Rampton, Registrary, will host a panel discussion for professional services. The event will take place at the Babbage Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site, Cambridge.

The event will allow professional services staff to get to know leaders better, hear more about changes underway in professional services, and ask questions.

Panellists:

• Emma Rampton, Registrary
• Mike Glover, Academic Secretary
• Andrew Jackson, Director of Research Services
• Graham Matthews, Director of Estates
• Thuy Niven, Deputy Director of Human Resources
• Daniel Benham, Interim Director of Finance
• David Hill, Chief Information Officer and Director of University Information Services
• Alice Benton, Head of Education Services

Please note that this event is in-person only and will not be recorded.

An open meeting about a collaborative partnership between Cambridge and four universities in Africa focused on climate resilience and sustainability in higher education.

The meeting is open to academic and professional services staff interested in the areas of capacity building, research or innovation/entrepreneurship as these relate to climate resilience, as well as to colleagues who have existing relationships with institutions in Africa.

The meeting will be led by Professor Bhaskar Vira, Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education and Environmental Sustainability) and will include a briefing about the Collaborative, and the opportunities that are available for contribution to the activities from Cambridge, as well as information about the current plans of our partner universities and ways in which Cambridge colleagues can collaborate with counterparts in Africa.

The Higher Education Climate Resilience and Sustainability Collaborative is part of the University's ongoing programme on climate resilience and sustainability in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation. The Collaborative includes three African partners, in addition to the University of Cambridge: the University of Ghana (Accra, Ghana), Makerere University (Kampala, Uganda) and the University of Cape Town (Cape Town, South Africa).

Join us for our monthly ‘Being on Brand’ drop-in clinic, a practical, insightful session designed to help you master Cambridge’s refreshed visual identity with confidence. This interactive face to face session with the Cambridge Brand and Design teams will cover what’s new and what does it mean for you and your area, before opening up the floor for Q&A.

Speakers:

• Mike Glover, Academic Secretary
• Professor Debbie Prentice, Vice-Chancellor

Please note that this event is in-person only and will not be recorded.

Join us for our monthly ‘Being on Brand’ drop-in clinic, a practical, insightful session designed to help you master Cambridge’s refreshed visual identity with confidence. This interactive face to face session with the Cambridge Brand and Design teams will cover what’s new and what does it mean for you and your area, before opening up the floor for Q&A.

Join us for our monthly ‘Being on Brand’ drop-in clinic, a practical, insightful session designed to help you master Cambridge’s refreshed visual identity with confidence. This interactive face to face session with the Cambridge Brand and Design teams will cover what’s new and what does it mean for you and your area, before opening up the floor for Q&A.