This week I had the first event of my new work experience where I was a media officer for Stirling county. I had to post regularly using the team’s social media pages giving up to date scores and events during the game.  I received great feedback from supporters who could not attend the game and were using the updates to gain information about the game. I also have been given the role of writing the match report which will go live tomorrow. I have thoroughly enjoyed this placement thus far and hope it continues to deliver.

After what can we say was a disappointing work experience so far, I have been given the opportunity to work alongside the new super 6 rugby format which has been developed by the SRU. I will hope to be working alongside fellow volunteers, developing the programmes media presence and officiating during events. This is a great opportunity to work with a programme which I am very much interested in coming from a rugby background.

Hopefully, this opportunity will allow me to develop skills I can use to take on post-university.

Apologies for the late post,

I have had a very busy week combining university coursework, part-time work, and work relating to the fun run. Since the meeting last week I have been in contact with the rugby team in support of the fun run. There is hopefully going to be a large input from the squad which will increase the numbers at the event. As well as Rugby, I have been in contact with members of the athletics club who have shown an interest in taking part in the run.

As a team, we are trying to encourage more and more students to sign up for the race and push this as a student event as much as possible.

The next stage is setting up our stall at the INTO building promoting the race for our exchange students. I have a meeting with Graeme tomorrow where we will discuss the progress made since our initial meeting.

So this week I met up with the team organizing the fright night fun run at the end of the month. The meeting was based around a progress check from the original group.  We are at a stage where we are looking for places to promote flyers and promote the event through classes. We are looking to approach clubs and societies who are part of the student union. We aiming to have the event based around students and look for most of the participants to be students. I am going to talk to the social secretary for rugby and get the team involved as they are a large team that can bring numbers. We also discussed the roles the team would have when the event is running. There will be a team that will be taking over social media, a team that will be organizing race numbers, a team tracking race times and a team of scarers.

We are also planning to have a stall in the INTU building to get interested in an international student level and have them be involved.  There will be a rota posted for when people will have allocated time on the stall.

I am looking forward to the next meeting see how people are making progress.