Meet our latest Wonder winner...

This Warwick Wonder Award recognises one of our colleague's exceptional creativity, thoughtful planning, and commitment to inclusivity when delivering two high-impact events for Warwick alumni.

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Vicki Offin, Development and Alumni Engagement

Vicki was nominated for her outstanding work on two major alumni events—Warwick in Delhi and Warwick in Mumbai. These events were a great success and a testament to Vicki’s excellent planning and creative approach.

"She thinks carefully about the intended audience and looks at ways of ensuring that no one feels excluded. She is an inspiration to her events team and the wider department."

Although Vicki has experience delivering events in India, this year she took things to a new level. With the University’s 60th anniversary as a central theme, she focused on creating a warm and engaging environment where alumni could reconnect with one another and with Warwick.

Transcript

Professor Stuart Croft: So for our Wonder today, we are going to go to a team who has been incredibly busy through this, our 60th anniversary year. It's the Development and Alumni team.

The Alumni colleagues have done amazing work taking the celebrations of our 60th birthday out around the world. And we're going to go and surprise Vicki, Vicki Offin, who has led this group's events work, particularly in India, where hundreds of alumni came and turned up for a celebration—really, of their time at Warwick, but also of our 60th anniversary.

It was the most amazing amount of work, the amazing amount of commitment and engagement, and a great success. So let's go and celebrate with her.

Oh, hello. Oh, dear people. Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh dear.

Pardon? Sorry. So didn't quite catch that. A lovely word. Hello. Hello.

Some people know what's going on. One of us doesn't.

Apparently, I mean, I wouldn't know this would I, but apparently one of us—actually many of us, but in this case, just one of us, because I'm looking at them—has done amazing work in organizing extraordinary events in different countries around the world. Let's say, who should we pick on—India.

Where hundreds of alumni came to the most brilliantly, brilliantly organised events. And had a fantastic, happy and wonderful time.

And unfortunately for you, it was spotted by your beloved colleagues who love you very much and thought, let's have a moment of celebration and, um, humiliation.

So on camera, we would like to say, you are our Wonder, and you have to have the photographic evidence of the certificate, which proves you really are... up, stand up, yeah—round of applause everybody. Come on. Round of applause. Round of applause.

You really are a Wonder.

But most importantly, the star. Who is the star? Who is the star? Vicki is the star. Well done. You, well done. You, well done. You could do that. You could do that. Well done.

I mean, it was amazing.

The events featured a range of thoughtful touches, including a ‘memory wall’ where alumni shared stories from their time at Warwick, and a visual notetaker who captured these memories in artwork.

Vicki introduced a ‘contacts wall’ to help attendees share their contact information with each other in an easy and accessible way.
She also collaborated with Digital Arts and Humanities to create a virtual reality station showcasing what campus looks like today, which is especially meaningful for alumni who haven’t been back in years.

Vicki's nominator told us:

"Feedback for both events has been remarkable. The audience commented on how it was the best Warwick event they've attended so far and that their affinity to the University has strengthened because of it.

I am so proud to work with Vicki and to see how she creatively approaches each project and event with which she is involved."

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