Meet the team

Dee Burn - Head of Marketing, Student Recruitment and Brand

Dee Burn joined Norland in January 2019. Dee is responsible for leading Norland’s marketing, student recruitment and brand management activities. She oversees all media relations and external communications, takes a strategic role in protecting and managing Norland’s brand and reputation, and takes overall responsibility for all of Norland’s externally-facing channels including the website, social media and print materials.

Dee has almost 20 years marketing and communications experience in the higher education sector. She has worked as a marketing consultant with over 30 universities in the UK, US and Australia on projects as wide-ranging as digital marketing infrastructure, the recruitment of international PhD students, improving the graduation ceremony experience for graduands and managed several complex digital projects. She was head of marketing and communications at the University of London for seven years and prior to this worked in a number of alumni, fundraising, marketing and communications roles across the University. Before joining the University of London, Dee managed UK student support services for Arcadia University’s Center for Education Abroad (now The College of Global Studies), one of the largest study abroad centres in the US. Dee’s first role after graduating was as an English Foreign Language teacher in Akita, Japan. Dee has a CIM Diploma in Marketing, an MA in Organisations and Change (City, University of London) and a BA in English (Aberystwyth University). She undertook a study abroad semester in the US during her undergraduate studies, at Penn State University, Pennsylvania. Dee is passionate about the life-changing and social mobility opportunities that higher education affords.