The Internal Communications team: 

  • Advises and partners with senior leadership on their communication and engagement with staff and students. 
  • Ensures the voice of staff and students is heard by Imperial’s leadership. 
  • Gives staff and students the information they need, while sharing inspiring stories, showcasing achievements and celebrating our diversity.  
  • Works collaboratively with communicators across Imperial to increase coordination and raise the standards of internal communication.  

Please get in touch with via the Internal Communications mailbox us if you would like to:

Meet the team

  • Elizabeth Nixon

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    Elizabeth Nixon Head of Internal Communications

    What I can help with

    • Strategic internal communications advice 
    • Guidance for Imperial projects and consultations
    • Advice on appropriate channels for internal communications messages
    • Advice and support on difficult issues affecting staff and/or students and managing reputational risk

  • Beth Lloyd

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    Beth Lloyd Internal Communications Manager

    What can I help with

    • Submissions for the Staff Briefing and Inside Imperial newsletters
    • Suggestions for our Imperial People blog
    • Joining or contacting the Internal Communications Network
    • Guidance for Imperial projects and consultations
    • Advice on appropriate channels for internal communications messages

  • Sara West

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    Sara West Internal Communications Manager

    What can I help with

    • Internal communications advice and guidance
    • Imperial People profiles,
    • Staff Briefing,
    • Inside Imperial
    • In Conversation events
    • Awareness campaigns
    • Internal Communications Network.

  • Gordon Short

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    Gordon Short Internal Communications Officer

    What can I help with

    • Submissions for the Staff Briefing and Inside Imperial newsletters
    • Suggestions for our Imperial People blog
    • Joining or contacting the Internal Communications Network

  • Andrew Youngson

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    Andrew Youngson Communications Manager

    What I can help with

    • Strategic internal communications advice
    • Guidance for Imperial projects and consultations including:
      • Professional Services discussion series
      • sustainability communications
      • Enabling roadmap
      • Values campaign

  • Murray MacKay

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    Murray MacKay Communications Manager (Education)

    What I can help with

    • Communications relating to the Education Office and/or Professor Peter Haynes, Vice-Provost (Education and Student Experience)
    • National Student Survey (NSS) communications
    • Submissions for the Learning and Teaching Newsletter
    • Communicating education-related news and achievements

  • Safa Holleyoake

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    Safa Holleyoake

    What can I help with

    • Imperial Experience project  
    • Advice on appropriate channels for communicating with our students  

  • Helen Johnson

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    Helen Johnson Communications Manager (Strategic Programmes & Change) – on parental leave

    What can I help with

    My role is to help keep the Imperial community informed about projects run by Strategic Programmes and Change such as the Great Service Programme . In addition I work more widely across the Enabling Roadmap to effectively communicate what this entails for our staff and students.  

  • Sarah Mayger

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    Sarah Mayger Communications Manager (Strategic Programmes & Change) – parental leave cover

    What can I help with

    My role is to help keep the Imperial community informed about projects run by Strategic Programmes and Change such as the Great Service Programme . In addition I work more widely across the Enabling Roadmap to effectively communicate what this entails for our staff and students.  

  • Daisy Robinson-Smyth

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    Daisy Robinson-Smyth Senior Communications Officer

    What can I help with

    Anything relating to the Student Lifecycle Portfolio

  • Amanda Naylor

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    Amanda Naylor Communications Manager (Strategic Programmes & Change)

    What can I help with

    Communications and engagement across the Strategic Programmes and Change portfolio, Enabling Roadmap, and Professional Services Workspaces programme .

  • Lizzie Eustace

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    Lizzie Eustace Head of ICT and Property Communications

    What can I help with

    • Strategic communication advice for ICT and the Property Division  
    • Guidance on building an engaged community, tone of voice and appropriate channels for communicating activities from the Great Environment Pillar and Digital Plan of Imperial’s Enabling Roadmap.  

  • Liz Scholfield

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    Liz Scholfield PR and External Communications Specialist, ICT

    What can I help with

    Communicating the work of our Information Communication and Technologies (ICT) team, promoting our digital plan and innovation to the wider HE and Tech sector community and working with partners to diversify our workforce.

  • Ata Rahman

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    Ata Rahman Communications Officer (ICT)

    What can I help with

    Communicating the work of our Information Communication and Technologies (ICT) department

  • James MacDonald

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    James MacDonald Property Communications Manager

    What can I help with

    Communicating about ongoings in the Property Division . You can get in touch with me for enquiries about communicating to Property Division as a whole , promoting stories about our estate , and understanding services the Division offers. I can also help with strategising and developing Property-related campaigns.

  • Ellie Marshall

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    Ellie Marshall Communications Officer (Community Safety and security, Accommodation and EYEC)

    What can I help with

    • Updating divisional websites (Community Safety and security, Accommodation and EYEC)  
    • Producing marketing materials  
    • Students in Halls and Community Safety and Security staff newsletters
    • Creating social media content

  • Kitty Underwood 

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    Kitty Underwood  Communications Officer (Catering and Events)

    What can I help with

    An ything food, drink or events at Imperial . I manage the digital screens in outlets and the two totems in JCR and SCR, as well as the @tasteimperial I nstagram account and the food and drink section of the website.