Get out the bunting

Well, blow us down with a feather! Learning Resources won the Tell Us award and our lovely Sarah Arkle (Reader Services Manager) and Marcus Woolley (Deputy Director of Learning Resources & Student Services - University Librarian) collected it from Colin Salmon. Unfortunately, your correspondent had to leave before the dancing began, but he promised to make the most of the dance floor. 

Colin Salmon compered the evening really well. He has an honorary doctorate from the University and grew up in Stopsley (Luton) "less than three miles from Putteridge, but I never got to see it". He knew a lot about what the university is trying to achieve and the impact it has in Luton, And there was a heartening  'small world' moment, Ine of the other night's winners - Gurch Randhawa (Professor of Diversity in Public Health and Director of the Institute for Health Research) - pointed out that he and Dr Salmon are both involved in the same campaigning organisation to promote organ donation in BME communities; they'd just never met before.

@ACLTcharity @NBTA_UK @NHSBT Colin Salmon - organ donation ambassador at @uniofbeds research awards pic.twitter.com/WTm7zzkBIM
— GURCH randhawa (@gurchrandhawa) June 13, 2014