Celebrating Ravensbourne's Covid Heroes

Thank you to all of the staff members who have been on the front line during this pandemic. Your attendance in the building has meant that we can keep vital services open and ensure students can access the facilities they need to thrive. We really appreciate your hard work.”

Overall, I think that these exceptional times, despite the difficulties we've seen for many students and their families, have taught us a great deal about how we can work better and reach more students for support than we ever thought possible. More than anything, we're grateful the team has been able to help lift some of the burden students have found themselves with.”

I'd nominate my entire team for all the hard work they've put in since we returned to the building in July; they've been coordinating collections and returns with students and staff ensuring equipment is delivered on time....Working with couriers and academics to get equipment to offsite locations. Also, their days are now primarily filled with sanitising equipment to ensure it is safe for the next person to use, a pretty thankless but necessary task that they've met head on!”

The Prototyping Department have been very busy creating and delivering some of the only face to face sessions that students come in to the building to attend. For all their hard work, I really would nominate all of them; I am dead proud! For their immediate response during the initial lockdown to make PPE and scrubs and supporting London hospitals. Since then, there has been a concerted effort to redevelop nearly all of our teaching materials and working methods to focus the work online. They've never missed a session in the building and supported students throughout in physical prototype making, garment construction, software tuition and with general trouble shooting. ”