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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
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@UoLondon hosted an event for alumni & friends in Singapore, to explore the theme of sustainability & finance – a timely topic which resonates globally and features heavily in Singapore’s Green Plan 2030.
🔗Read more: https://www.london.ac.uk/news-events/news/university-london-event-alumni-friends-singapore
📚 As part of the Library Transformation Programme, we are investing in the development of our e-resource collections to better support primary research
💡Share your opinion on potential resources in our e-resources survey - https://bit.ly/4j11ztN
✨🎓Graduation is just around the corner! 🎓✨
We’re celebrating by sharing some of our favourite moments from past graduations ⭐️
Remember to use #UoLGrad2025 & tag @LondonU in your posts & stories as we’ll be sharing #graduation highlights throughout the week 💙
The University of London welcomed researchers and practitioners from around the globe to the Born Digital Collections, Archives and Memory Conference at Senate House. @SASNews
🔗Read more about the key highlights of the conference: https://www.london.ac.uk/digital-humanities-research-hub/news/university-london-hosts-groundbreaking-born-digital-conference
Happy Easter to our UoL Community that are celebrating around the world, from all of us at the University of London ✨
The University of London will be closed over Easter weekend from 17:00 BST on Wednesday 16 April & will reopen on Wednesday 23 April at 09:00 BST. We'll respond to all enquiries as soon as possible upon our return. We hope you have a relaxing break! 🐰 🐣 🌷
New report by the Humanitarian Leadership Academy & @UoLondon Careers Service says Humanitarian organisations must train more people from crisis-hit regions to develop response teams with the knowledge & ability to act when emergencies strike
Read more: https://www.london.ac.uk/careers-group/news/humanitarian-organisations-need-train-more-people-crisis-hit-regions-new-report
VC Prof. Wendy Thomson CBE officially opened a new @UoLondon Suite at British University Vietnam’s (BUV) Ecopark campus during her visit to Vietnam last week 🏫⭐ Read more: https://www.london.ac.uk/news-events/news/vice-chancellor-opens-new-student-suite-british-university-vietnam
Yesterday we invited migration minister, @SeemaMalhotra1 to tour the ‘In the Grip of Change’ exhibition at @SenateHouseLib, led by @EsiCox. The exhibition explores the Caribbean’s path to independence and the experiences of its British diaspora. It's open until April 12th.
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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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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