Rachael is a communications professional with a background in higher education and student communications owing to her student communication role at the University of Southampton and earlier experience at the University of Sussex – both complex, large organisations with diverse audience needs.  

Rachael has also delivered national marketing and safety campaigns in her earlier position at the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. She led and advised on activity which delivered preventative and potentially lifesaving messages to a wide range of audiences, including a campaign that went viral, making positive impact across the world.

With this background and specialism, in this session Rachael will highlight the safety communications approach taken by the Student Communications Team in the past, how this is being shaped in the future, including challenges, success and providing an opportunity for the audience to share relevant experiences and examples.