Name: Catherine Thomson

Job title: Senior Assistant Registrar, Student Recruitment

Email address: C.V.Thomson@warwick.ac.uk

Telephone number: x50613

Core duties:

• To take forward the student recruitment function and facilitate the achievement of University strategic objectives in this area, including University Open Days (UG and PG), post offer open days, higher education conventions, the University prospectus (UG and PG), Customer Relationship Management and schools engagement.
• To facilitate collaboration with academic departments in support of general and specific recruitment and conversion activities.
• To build links with other service areas, including Marketing and Communications, the International Office and the Students' Union to support the University's attainment of its strategic objectives.
• To manage a team of six Recruitment Officers and an Events and Enquiries Team.

Biography:

I joined SARO in October 2008 after spending 18 months on the development of the University's new student induction programme: intr08. I originally joined Warwick as an Admissions and Recruitment Officer in April 2005, having spent four years as an editor at UCAS in Cheltenham following my BA and MA in English Literature at the University of Sheffield.