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Jo PinsonDirector of Strategic Communications and Marketing
Jo Pinson is the Director of Strategic Communications and Marketing at the University of London, with responsibility for Marketing, Communications, Events, Digital and Brand. The University of London is a world-leading university with over 45,000 students studying digitally across 190 countries. As an academic federation, comprised of 17 member universities, it is one of the largest, most diverse universities in the UK. It is a leader in distance learning innovation and home to world-leading humanities research.
Prior to the University of London, Jo spent 8 years at the University of Surrey, where she lead on Marketing and Communications at the time of significant change in the sector. Jo came into Higher Education after many years in Retail Marketing and the luxury goods sector. She currently sits on two external boards; as a charity trustee and on an Enterprise board for commercial services.
The University of London are a federal University, consisting of 17 independent Member Institutions. As a world leader in higher education, the University has pioneered change since 1836.
The University of London is the UK’s leading provider of digital and blended distance education internationally, offering programmes to over 45,000 students in 190 countries around the world. Although proudly rooted in London, the university’s community and impact are global.
It is a national leader in the humanities, and promotes value to society and the economy through knowledge creation and exchange.
It is also a federation of 17 esteemed higher education institutions, with collaboration at the heart of its ethos. The University of London federation is a collective community of more than 240,000 learners and 50,000 staff, delivering world-leading research across all disciplines.
The university’s passion for increasing access to education and mobilising the collective power and expertise of the federation is central to its ability to transform lives around the world and address the global challenges of the future.
The Latest from University of London
Our upcoming event will reflect on the findings of this excellent report and explore the future of arts & humanities in the UK.
9 May | 17:30 | Online
Speakers include @MarionThain @NigelHarkness @KatherineHarloe @smithbarryc @clarealees
Register here: https://www.sas.ac.uk/events/arts-and-humanities-uk-where-next https://twitter.com/HEPI_news/status/1641214032869744649
Humanities education is a UK strength: New report shows it is a mistake to set up a Humanities vs STEM contest https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2023/03/30/humanities-education-is-a-uk-strength-new-report-shows-it-is-a-mistake-to-set-up-a-humanities-vs-stem-contest/
Interesting comments from Alistair Jarvis in a new @AHUAUK blog:
“Six reflections on what a Labour government may mean for Higher Education”
https://www.ahua.ac.uk/six-reflections-on-what-a-labour-government-may-mean-for-higher-education/
With the latest opinion polls showing a Labour lead, @AlistairJarvis CBE, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Partnerships and Governance) discusses what a potential Labour government may look like for #HigherEd
Opinion: Six reflections on what a Labour government may mean for Higher Education
Alistair Jarvis asks: what might a Labour government mean for the Higher education sector?
www.london.ac.uk
Great pleasure to present today at the 2023 conference on Research in Distance Education, organised by the @CODE_UoL #RIDE2023
Spoke about challenges in online learning, and programme design and teaching practices underpinning online MPA programmes @UoY_SBS
Proudly rooted in London, butour community and impact are global
Mission
- To transform people’s lives through education, driven by a commitment to diversity, inclusion and access and a belief in their power to create new ways of knowing.
- To deliver innovative training and postgraduate education for the new world of research and work.
- To realise the benefits of the humanities and social sciences for society, to advocate for their importance, and to provide the intellectual infrastructure to enable new discoveries.
- To draw on the expertise of our Member Institutions, leveraging our collective power and enabling us all to reach new constituencies and tackle new problems.
- To strengthen bonds across regional, national, cultural, economic and political boundaries.
Delivering world-leading researchacross all disciplines
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Recognised Teaching Centres across the world
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Years of the Institute of Historical Research
The University of London is a national leader in the humanities: our School of Advanced Study is the only UK institution that is nationally funded by Research England to promote and facilitate humanities research. We steer the national conversation through knowledge exchange and public engagement, contributing creativity and inspiration from across the world to a growing economy, a constructive civil discourse and a rich cultural infrastructure for the UK.
Research at the University of London is highly collaborative, carried out in partnership with its colleges, with national subject communities in the humanities and law and in combination with external partners in London’s knowledge quarter.
The University occupies a unique position in the UK’s research landscape through the exceptional research collections of its libraries, through its School of Advanced Study, which serves as a national centre for the promotion and facilitation of research in the humanities, and through the wide communities of scholars across the world who take part in delivering the international online programmes.
Our research concentrates on the human dimensions to societal challenges. To confront climate change, global mobility, social injustice, human rights, poverty, we will need to understand the human world and to appreciate the critical importance of cultures
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