1. day Conferences
I organise what are effectively one day conferences every year in my job. Each year there is a poster and presentation day for all research postgraduates in June. In previous years it was a pretty sad affair and academic attendance was shockingly and embarrasingly poor. in 2007 I organised my first - somewhat at the last minute as previously it had been organised by the Director using other secreterial support. Again attendance was poor despite better publicity and organisation and I wrote to all academics afterward to say that it was unacceptable that they didn't attend - no one rapped my knuckled for this and many were secretly glad I had done this - the next year i got strong chair and DGS support and also forced the event into academic electronic diaries - and we had 85% attendance rather than the 30% or so in previous years - and each session was packed which gave a much better experience for everyone and made the day worthwhile - it cost a lot but much less that the real cost of doing something like that badly.

2. Rolling conference programmes - For two years I organised the whole RSC conference from inviting academic speakers to producing publicity and locally marketing it. This wasn't without headaches - especially as the draft schedule was the only one we had one year and publishing this meant that some dates that subsequently changed were on the RSC publicity. Again when I took this on it was a miserable and low-key affair that didn't get publicity apart from little cards put into pigeonholes - I organised several high profile and fun chemistry speakers that typically had the theatres full to bursting and we had over 90 scholkids visit one year to boot. Now the organisation has been moved away from me it is more research-y so I guess attendances will be small

3. Exhibitions:
I arranged a whole exhibition of Historic images of the Campus and university's development over the last 40 years. This involved coming up with the concept, writing the bid, getting funding, searching many archives (Local Papers, University, Communication Office) arranging equipment sourcing suppliers, liasing with them on potential sites, doing a site survey, producing marketing support material, gaining permissions at poster and projection sites, maintaining the exhibition, co-ordinating photographers (both University and Local Press), producing exhibition guides and co-ordinating the wind-down and dismantle. I also had to ensure that there was appropriate security for the equiment, and to liaise with Security over late-night access to the site.

4. Conferences/Events - I also arranged (in the same week as above) a Day seminar for alumni, that had a maximum attendance from people here in the early days. We had several talks about the development of the Department throughout the first 40 years, including a talk from Barry Carpenter who had gone on to be a head of Department at Cornell in the USA. This ended with a University Challenge style event with Former Staff/Students V Current Staff, Current Students, Technicians and Support. Current Technicians won! then follwed by a Wine reception. This involved similarly, coming up with the concept, gaining permissions, collecting contact information, invitations etc, co-ordinating speakers and slide-shows and then managing the day.