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Made of Grit by Toronto Metropolitan University

TMU’s Made of Grit campaign doesn’t just look good – it feels right. It takes the concept of urban education and turns it into a powerful story about resilience, diversity, and community.

In CRHEATE’s opinion, they’ve created a brilliant and enduring brand idea. Quite possibly the most distinct one out there!

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Human Storytelling with John Azoni

Information with a nice soundtrack is what most people seem to mean when they say ‘storytelling’.

Discover the whack emotive human stories can have on your content in this conversation with filmmaker John Azoni where we review a great piece by Boston University.

CRHEATE is a big fan!

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Putting creativity centre-stage with Helena Good

“Putting creativity at the heart of education”

Discover how Helena Good and her team created Daydream Believers to achieve this goal and solve an huge problem in the sector.

CRHEATE thinks she’s an inspiration!

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Endangered Generation? by Monash University

This piece was selected for CRHEATE by Ali Frear, Associate Director of Marketing and Advancement at Loughborough University.

This brand film is a brilliant example of storytelling on a grand scale.

Sit back and enjoy our discussion and some key insights that could influence your work.

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Research translation and Academic YouTubers with Dan Pearson

Academic YouTubers can build personal and institutional reputation, as well as maximising the impact of some of the important subjects they are researching. Their channels often have more Subscribers and Views than the parent universities. Interesting eh?

Watch our CRHEATE Review to find out why.

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Brand Refresh by University of Sheffield

Brand refreshes are tricky projects at the best of times. Like many others, University of Sheffield has been through the process and come out the other side via a carefully considered process. The results are excellent.

CRHEATE is joined by Rob Sullivan, Creative Director at the University to do a deep dive.

There’s gold in here so start digging.

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A Different Lens by Monash University

Launched in 2017, A Different Lens has been in my periphery vision for a while. To avoid any doubt I think this content series is one of the best content series in the sector, if not the best.

Read my CRHEATE Review to find out why

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