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Meet our heroes: Athanasios Sotirakopoulos and Marie Dove

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The accommodation staff have continued to work through lockdown and as our campuses reopen, keeping our student residents safe. Thank you for everything you do to keep our university a safe place to be.

As part of our Heroes series we are introducing you to some members of staff that help keep our campuses Covid-Safe. We have already introduced you to our stellar porters.Athanasios Sotirakopoulos

Marie DoveNext, we're celebrating two members of our Residency team – Athanasios Sotirakopoulos & Marie Dove

All of the residency team have worked diligently throughout lockdown, they ensured that the student accommodation buildings remained open and operational throughout this extremely challenging time.

We have teams working at all of our university accommodation sites. Their job is to maintain the safety and security of those of our community that live there throughout the year as well as the buildings themselves.  

Student accommodation at universities has been a major focus throughout the pandemic and we want to say thank you to all our staff that work in and around these sites for continuing to provide comfort and safety to all those who live there. The halls of residence themselves are micro communities that rely on each other to keep everyone safe.

Athanasios is part of the security staff at Daniel Defoe and Marie Dove works as a receptionist at the Cutty Sark accommodation. Make sure you say thank you next time you see them.

Please join us in saying a big thank you to Athanasios, Marie and everyone in the residency and accommodation teams for the fantastic work they are doing to keep all of us and our accommodation Covid-Safe.

Help our heroes keep us all Covid-Safe

You can do your bit and help our heroes by following our Covid-Safe Charter and Covid-Safe Arrangements. Remember to keep checking our Being Covid-Safe pages to keep up-to-date with the information there.

Look out for more heroes

If you know someone who goes above and beyond to keep the campus Covid-Safe, then look out for the chance to nominate them as part of our Heroes series and get them the credit they deserve - details of how you can do this will follow on our Be Covid-Safe page.

Current students; Current staff