How we work with:
universities
Sell your experience. Shout about your offer.
Find your voice
As the sector undergoes never-seen-before levels of change, universities have an even bigger task on their hands, to attract students, secure funding and stand out.
And the way you communicate what you offer as an HEI has a vital role to play.
We’ve worked with leading universities across the UK to improve their communications, sell their courses and build stronger, more fruitful relationships with industry.
Our focus on HE means we’ve got lots of relevant experience to share – and we’re experts at side-stepping the jargon. So we can define ‘how you want to talk’ and then help you apply that consistently across all your comms.
Sector expertise
Work with writers who’ve spent years working in HE. We’ll help you get the copy you need to sell more courses, shout about your research and get noticed by the students and other audiences you want to reach.
Experienced interviewers
Information hidden in programme specs and the heads of subject experts? Not a problem. We’re used to interviewing academics and pulling together information from different sources.
Highlight the impact
HE content doesn’t have to be dry. We’re skilled at translating material into interesting copy that makes sense to a wider audience, and makes the impact of what you do crystal clear.
Projects:
UWE Bristol
One of the two big universities here in our home town, UWE Bristol is a rising star in the league tables – with a gold rating for its teaching and in the top ten for student satisfaction. But with competition fierce, they needed their brand to evolve with them. So we came up with a new tone of voice and messaging framework, to capture their ambitious ethos and outlook.
We have been working with Jo for around six years on creating course copy. She has a great understanding of our products, our tone of voice and the wider University. Jo is excellent at managing relationships with our clients, often multiple stakeholders at one time, making the process seamless. She has a great way with words – and the copy is always well received by us and our stakeholders.
Caroline Patton, UWE Bristol
University of Bath
Keen to shout about their research in a clearer, more impactful way, the University of Bath got us on board to work with their research centres. We restructured their bank of content to make it more accessible and appealing. And then did a big ‘translation exercise’, rewriting dry academic information into language non-academics could understand.
I recently worked with All Things Words to transition our research content onto our new website, and was delighted with the results. It was extremely useful to work with a professional writer who knows the education sector so well, and could advise us on the best way to present what we do to an external audience. Jo guided me through the process and was there at every stage to answer my questions and help me to convey my content in an engaging manner. I would be happy to recommend Jo and her team to others looking for support with communicating their work to a wider audience.
Rajani Naidoo, University of Bath
Comms we can help with
- Prospectuses
- Course descriptions
- Web content
- Research communications
- Case studies and profiles
- Strategy documents
- Tone of voice guidelines
- Magazines
- TEF submissions