Communications and publicity

Alumni relations

• The Development and Alumni Office can send emails to alumni on your behalf for events and communication purposes. Please email us for further information.

Birkbeck visual ID (fonts, logos, slides, word templates)

• Visit the Marketing and External Relations connect site to view this content (available to Birkbeck staff only).

Development and fundraising

• The Development team uses events and campaigns to fundraise from alumni, major donors and trust funders. Money raised provides support for students and contributes to a range of projects across the College.

Events

• Add an event with booking and payment features to the Birkbeck events calendar via My Birkbeck for Staff
• Event toolkit: our event toolkit will help you successfully organise an event, from start to finish.
• Graduation ceremonies
• Inaugural lectures: the College invites all newly appointed professors to give an inaugural lecture, on a topic of their choice, to celebrate their success and mark their appointment. The lecture should be directed at their peers and should last about 45-60 minutes, including time for questions. Please contact our events team if you wish to discuss your inaugural lecture.
• Book an Open Evening
• View upcoming open events and taster sessions.

External relations

• External Relations provides professional expertise across recruitment, retention and reputation. Find out more about what our department does and who you should speak to.

News and communications

• Visit the Marketing and External Relations connect site to view this content (available to Birkbeck staff only).

Publications (Birkbeck)

• BBK magazine is our annual publication sent to almost 45,000 Birkbeck stakeholders, including graduates (primarily London-based), staff, current students, donors, fellows, friends of Birkbeck and the media.
• Financial statements
• Print prospectuses
• Printed course publicity material (leaflets, brochures) (available to Birkbeck staff only)
• Statistics book (restricted access): find out more about Birkbeck's staff, students, research and finance

Team Birkbeck: student ambassadors for the college community

• The College has recently established Team Birkbeck, the University’s first student ambassador programme, in order that we have an informed and engaged group of students who are willing to represent the College or act as ambassadors at relatively short notice.
• Find out more about Team Birkbeck and how to book them for your event.

Videos, podcasting and photography

• Visit the Marketing and External Relations connect site to view this content (available to Birkbeck staff only).

Websites, blogs and social media

• Visit the Marketing and External Relations connect site to view this content (available to Birkbeck staff only).
• Websites: Birkbeck's web presence is managed and supported by staff in both External Relations and ITS. The content management system we use is Plone, an open-source CMS, designed to make it possible for staff to work on web pages without needing prior knowledge of HTML. Many people work on our website, so we have developed a range of support materials and networks to help you:
  • Visit the Marketing and External Relations connect site to view content to support you to work on the website (available to Birkbeck staff only).
  • If you have a technical problem with your website, need to request a new site, or need to set up a mailing list, log an ASK query in My Birkbeck for staff.
• Data protection advice
• Online surveys

Widening Access and Student Engagement

• We promote progression to higher education through working in partnership with Further Education colleges, Sixth Form colleges, trades unions and community groups.