About Us

UniSmart Central is in Christchurch, New Zealand. Directors Trudi and John are to be found here for nine months of the year beavering away on UniSmart business. The remaining months are spent travelling with UniSmart tours, visiting universities, meeting clients and talking with students and staff. Performers tend to be a fairly mobile species and our presenters follow this pattern. While they are often recruited from New Zealand, most spend large chunks of the year in Australia, Scotland, Canada and the UK.

All this globe trotting gives our team a modern,realistic and inclusive view of people - no matter where they come from.

UniSmart is the creation of Ideas Agency Ltd Directors Trudi Urlwin(NZ) and John Davey(UK). Assembling a top team of professional performers and training them to be presenters, they launched their mission to support new tertiary students to be the best they can be, by making personal choices that will lead to a positive university experience and an empowered future.

Our values

  • We want to change the world, one student at a time.
  • First we listen, then we act.
  • When you love what you do, it isn't work.
  • We are an equal opportunities employer.
  • Our Presenters need to have the right stuff not just the right skills.
  • We believe that every one of us has an obligation to help
    another.

In the world since 1999

  • United
    Kingdom
  • 302
  • events
  • Australia

  • 70
  • events
  • New Zealand

  • 139
  • events
  • USA & Canada
  • 3
  • events

The directors

John

John Davey

Director

Contact John for:

  • Sales and bookings
  • Tour schedule and travel
  • Surveys

This a guide only, our team talks regularly.

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Trudi Urlwin

Director

Contact Trudi for:

  • Event related information:venue,technical,staging
  • Marketing:posters,publicity,media
  • Presenter requirements and accommodation

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The presenters

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Conrade Rivalland

Presenter

  • Whip cracker extraordinaire
  • Juggling
  • Mime
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Daniel Bain

Presenter

  • Comedy
  • Circus skills
  • Improvisation
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Toni Smith

Presenter

  • Poi (balls on long strings)
  • Hula hoops
  • Balance
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Our Next Presenter

Presenter

PERFORMERS!BUSKERS We are now recruiting for 2012.

Will you be our next UniSmart presenter?

If you are at the top of your game and want to extend yourself please contact us for an interview and audition.

We need you to be : honest/fit/vocally proficient/ confident/addiction free/hardworking/able to take direction/professional. We need you to have: circus/street skills/a long term vision/commitment/no criminal record (international travel required).

Contact Us If You Wish To Apply
The UniSmart presentation is an ideal way to achieve the goals of pre-conditioning young people for the next phases of their life that will involve new surroundings and circumstances; providing those students with some fundamentals for coping with stress and challenges from sex, drugs and alcohol.

Professor Ian J Warrington

Deputy Vice Chancellor
Massey University, New Zealand

The energy was fantastic and I was very surprised at the amount of comedy he used while remaining informative. This guy was hilarious. I don't know where you found him but the world needs more people like this dude. Hell yea New Zealand!!

First year residential student

University of Kent, UK
University of Kent student survey

Your performance at AUT orientation has been the talk of the town! We loved your energy and humour ; feeling uplifted, inspired and entertained, just what the doctor ordered!

First year student

Auckland University of Technology, NZ