About Us
The StudentCrowd Story
StudentCrowd was started in 2015 by three graduates who were frustrated with the lack of real and helpful information about aspects of their student experience. University prospectuses were hard to tell apart, with each one featuring a quote along the lines of “I’ve had the best time of my life at {insert university name here}”.
The days of “cherry-picked student quotes” are over
StudentCrowd was formed in response to the gut belief that students who are researching university want to hear from current students about every part of university life.
All the choice
We were determined to bring together all the relevant information about the student experience in one place, together with verified student reviews. StudentCrowd is the only platform with:
★ All UK universities
★ All UK degree courses
★ All UK purpose-built student properties
★ All the university cities and towns
All of the options are reviewable
Students helping each other
Students want to share their stories, and give their best tips to someone just starting out. They know better than most how rewarding and challenging university can be. Ultimately, they are the best people to ask about what it is really like.
Each student is unique
University life is such a unique experience and each student needs to find the right place for them, whether that's the right university, course, part of town or social life. Individual and independent student reviews give you the information to make your own decisions.
Get involved
If you are a student right now, we would love to hear from you! Have you given us a review of your uni, course, location or accommodation yet?
If you are a prospective student, why not bookmark this page and come back once you’ve started your course to share your experience so far?
We love hearing student stories. Would you be up for talking with one of our team about your university experience on a 5-minute video call? We love to hear real answers to questions like “how did you decide which university was right for you?” Contact Ella if you’d be up for this.
Meet the Team
We have come a long way since the early days in 2015. Today, we have a diverse team of student champions and skilled experts. Our team is spread across 3 different continents in our distributed work model and we love this way of working. We can recruit the best people from across the globe. People can work from home, minimising wasted travel-to-work time. It gives us the flexibility to do the things we love, whether that is having an adventure in another country for a year, living by the beach and slowing the pace of life, or having space to look after family. We want everyone who works for us to live life to the full whatever that looks like.
Leadership Team and Board
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CEO & Founder
Lives in Snowdonia and loves swimming in the sea - no matter the weather. Leads the team to help grow all elements of StudentCrowd. Currently leading our Series A investment round.
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CTO & Founder
Lives in Cornwall and thinks about learning to surf regularly. Lover of head-banging tunes. Leads our stupendous teams of software developers and dataset wizards.
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Chief Marketing Officer
Lives in Portsmouth, which is handy because she paddle boards at lunchtime (if it's a good day). Would talk to anyone… but specifically enjoys talking about opportunities to partner with StudentCrowd.
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Chief Community Officer
Lives in Loughborough and enjoys walking her dog, Paddy. Is enthusiastic 98.5% of the time. Loves conversations about student decision-making.
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Chief Finance Officer
Lives in London. Loves trance music and a good investment model.
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Chair of the Board
Mark lives in Liverpool. He loves developing people and helping organisations to make a positive impact. When not doing this he’ll be out on his bike somewhere.
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Non-Exec Director
Lives in London. Loves watching cricket and will travel anywhere to see England play football.
Partnerships Team (led by Lou)
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Lucie Maron lucie@studentcrowd.com
Head of Partnerships
Lives in South Africa. Loves the sun and is fast becoming a wine connoisseur.
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Tuely Robins tuely@studentcrowd.com
Head of Insight
Lives in Cheltenham, loves data and sourdough! A lady of opposites, she is also qualified in both wine tasting and sky diving.
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Lisa Hayward lisa@studentcrowd.com
Head of Marketing
Lives in Chester and likes to think she is good at karaoke (when actually she is terrible).
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Caroline Cowdrey caroline@studentcrowd.com
Head of Commercial
Lives in Gloucestershire. Lover of loud interiors and even has a Dalmatian print American-style fridge-freezer.
Customer Support Team
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Jodi Maron
Lives in Cape Town. Loves hikes, beach walks and weekends away in the Winelands.
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Lives in Cambridgeshire. Loves travelling, spending time outdoors and anything to do with animals.
Kelsey Stephenson
Lives in South Africa. If the sun is out, you won't catch her indoors.
Sam Warren
Lives in Cape Town, South Africa. Avid animal lover who's passionate about horse riding.
Dataset Team
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Dataset Team Manager
Lives in South Africa and, like Paul, also enjoys swimming in the open water - whether it’s sunny or… sunny! Leads our dataset team.
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Lives in Cape Town, close to the beach. Enjoys listening to podcasts, adult colouring, bubbly and Muay Thai.
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From the Netherlands, but moved to Cape Town for love. Loves running, soccer and snuggling up with a book and her cats.
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Megan Oliver
Lives in Claremont, Cape Town. Loves a Sunday stroll in the forest and lots of sushi!
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Mariné Kruger
Lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. Enjoys everything nature has to offer, especially if she can do it with her loved ones. Travelling and hiking is definitely on top of her list.
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Jason Holzberg
Lives in Milnerton, Cape Town. Loves spending time with family. Can be found enjoying good food or supporting Arsenal at his local sports bar with his friends.
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Chelsea Ansell
Lives in Cape Town, South Africa. Loves to travel and explore new places. Enjoys reading and all things art and music.
Student Community Team (led by Sarah)
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Head of Brand
Lives outside Loughborough. Loves a glass of good whisky. And a good walk.
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Content Lead and Executive Assistant to Paul
Lives in Ghana. Will automatically spot typos in anything she reads. And wishes she didn't do that.
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Digital Marketer
Lives in Loughborough and loves cycling as well as all things music.
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Digital Content Manager
Lives in Belfast and loves saving jars to refill at her nearest eco shop!
Development Team (led by Pete)
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Lead Software Engineer
Martin Barreyro
Software Engineer
Matheus Freitas
Software Engineer
Raphael Saez
Software Engineer