School of Chemistry 2019 Highlights

 Martin Boddie was appointed Recruitment Marketing Manager in 2018 and has been very busy promoting the School of Chemistry and providing a wealth of information about it. The following is his summary for 2019 as of November 26.

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                                                   Marketing highlights over the last 12 months:

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• New School of Chemistry website

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• School in 60 Seconds (2nd most viewed UoE video, 97,000+ views on YouTube)

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• Our Degree Flexibility (24,000 views on YouTube) and Video Gallery with our Industrial Placement/Year Abroad students’ experience

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• Web traffic to new Undergraduate webpages increased 48,000% vs last year

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• Web traffic to new Postgraduate webpages increased 25,000% vs last year

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• 200% increase in Postgraduate student numbers YoY

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• New Undergraduate subject specific leaflets plus Careers & Employability and Final Year Project Options (print) and downloadable from website

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• School of Chemistry 360 Virtual Tours so International students can visit virtually (also viewable in 3D Virtual Reality with Google cardboard glasses)

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• New School alumni profiles

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• 1st School at UoE using Augmented Reality app in our leaflets/banners, links to School in 60 Seconds video. (download the app and scan the molecule)

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• Updated Postgraduate Chemistry brochure is now available online and print editions

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• New School of Chemistry hoodies for current student have now sold over 400. We’ll have a special 100th anniversary edition next year for JBB and KB 100.
  We hope to have these available for our alumni to purchase in 2020.

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• New EaStCHEM video promoting the joint research school between UoE and St Andrews.

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• School of Chemistry twitter: We were down in George Square last week organising an IYPT/Scarcity of Elements event with the RSC. I covered it on the School of Chemistry twitter which I managed to wrestle off the various academics and teaching office staff who were running it before I came along;) 

•     https://twitter.com/EdinburghChem/status/1197441363316543488

 

         School of Chemistry Alumni Facebook page: ​https://www.facebook.com/edchemalumni

 

        The RSC livestreamed it on their channels on the night (to coincide with Science and the Parliament).

          https://twitter.com/RoySocChem/status/1197203224341729283