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Meet the team: Philip Young
My Office Hours: Room 218, 2-4 Wednesday
About me: Programme leader for MA Public Relations, subject leader for PR in Combined Subjects and Level 1 PR tutor. I spent quite a while in newspapers, always travelling north and moving ever further away from Fleet Street until I became assistant editor of The Journal. Worked in PR for [...]
Win a Flip camcorder: Sunderland survey
Welcome back, and welcome to the 2nd most important survey of the year. The University and the Students’ Union want your opinions about your experience here at University. The information will help students like you get the most out of your time here by identifying ways in which the student experience can be improved.
Results of [...]
The future of journalism education
Big title . . . big subject, and one that Sunderland student Josh Halliday will be addressing journalism lecturers from around the UK on this summer. Josh will give a paper on the student perspective, together with lecturer Julie Bradford, at the annual conference of the Association of Journalism Education at City University, London, on [...]
Interview coaching sessions for final year students
Need to polish up your performance in interviews? The university careers service is offering individual ‘practice interviews’ with their careers coach, aimed at helping students anticipate questions, practice answers and get advice on how to improve under pressure. Useful if:
Win tickets to see Oasis, Take That with NSS
The National Student Survey is still looking for all final year students to give feedback on your programme here at Sunderland. This is THE biggest student survey, and the one that universities, the media and the government listen to when talking about the ’student experience’.
There are prizes on offer for filling in the questionnaire–the prizes [...]
Sunderland Echo: digital and hyperlocal
Journalism Lecturer Alex Lockwood spent an instructive couple of hours in the offices of the Sunderland Echo talking with their digital editor about sport, hyperlocality and what goes on inside Blu Bambu…
It was an excellent opportunity to get inside a changing newsroom, with pressures of integration, industry sales and, even, writing copy. The paper is [...]
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