We are excited to be building a Marketing, Communications, and External Affairs function following a recent review of our activities. We are now recruiting to newly configured and vacant roles to help lead and deliver our three areas of expertise, which will play a pivotal role in supporting colleagues and delivering our strategy.

Our department is already full of talented individuals, and we are looking for colleagues to join us as we grow, develop, and continue to be award-winning.

We are a team of more than 50 professionals, united by a vision to empower people to choose the University of Bath and the desire for our organisation to be globally recognised as a distinctive, outstanding, and inclusive learning and research community. We inspire key audiences with compelling and creative narratives about what makes Bath special, underpinned by a joined-up approach, informed by data, and inspired by pioneering practices.

We strive to create an environment where communications, marketing and external affairs professionals can do some of the best work of their careers. We love to innovate and to learn from best practice. Being externally recognised is always a chance to celebrate.

We are delighted to have recently scooped the award for Best Use of Content for the South of England and Channel Islands in the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) PRide Awards 2023, which celebrate the best PR work across the UK regions.

The award win recognises our work devising, delivering, and measuring the University’s Research with Impact. The campaign combines interactive long-form articles, new research videos, creatives for out of home and a podcast series. You can watch the launch video to give you a taste of the campaign.

Driving high-impact research is a core pillar of our university strategy, and Research with Impact celebrates our cross-disciplinary research which is helping to change the world for the better.

The CIPR judges said: “This campaign started with a clear vision and a link to business objectives, married with meaningful KPIs. Aptly the team demonstrated thorough research to underpin both the impressive content and broader communications choices, to best reach the audience. We loved the 'depth and focus' approach and the attention paid to internal audiences. Monitoring and evaluation also went above and beyond by exceeding KPIs, conducting formative evaluation, and going beyond just reporting numbers, to showing tangible outcomes directly linked to the campaign.”