I will be attended the launch of Alan Apperley's latest novel in Birmingham on 25th March. 'Indeterminate Creatures' will be launched to an unsuspecting public at the Old Joint Stock off Colmore Row and I for one will be there!
Do join me...
Thursday, 25 February 2010
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Research participants needed
Leeds Met student, David Stephens needs your help! He is doing research into PR, propaganda and persuasive communciations and he needs people to help with his survey. Just follow the link to find out more.
Getting started in PR
The CIPR is holding a careers event next month which is a must for all PR students - and at only £5 for student members and £7 for all other students, it's a no-brainer too!
Get more information and book your place here: Getting started in PR - CIPR careers event
Get more information and book your place here: Getting started in PR - CIPR careers event
Communicating can be risky
I have recently completed a research project with Insignia Communciations, the aim of which was to analyse audience responses to a range of spokespeople commenting on the swine flu crisis last summer. The research aimed to find out what were the elements of best practice in risk communication and to attempt to compile a definitive list of 'do's' and 'don't's'.
The full report was published in December and can be found here. Some of the findings might be useful for the level one's doing their media training/ interview tests in the next couple of weeks!
The full report was published in December and can be found here. Some of the findings might be useful for the level one's doing their media training/ interview tests in the next couple of weeks!
PRate prattel
Greetings!
This is my first post in this new location so I guess I should provide a bit of background. I'm a senior lecturer in public relations at the University of Wolverhampton and I'm hoping that this blog will serve as a means of sharing some of my thoughts and ideas with my students and other like-minded people!
In addition to teaching I am completing my PhD at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh. My research interests are mainly in the area of professionalism in public relations, although I'm also interested in health and risk communications, having recently completed a research project with Insignia Communications, and Women in PR in Europe, which is a Euprera project that I'm hoping to start collaborating on shortly. I am also about to start work on an international collaboration with a colleague at Curtin University in Perth, WA, conducting a comparative study of PR professional bodies in our respective countries.
My University is in the middle of redesigning the curriculum so that is a current preoccupation of mine. I'm responsible for the redesign of the undergraduate degree in public relations and I want to make sure that I'm getting it right so I'm open to suggestions and comments from students and those of you in the PR industry.
I will mostly write about these interests and other academic and PR-related issues that interest or vex me.
That's it for now. Will check in again soon.
This is my first post in this new location so I guess I should provide a bit of background. I'm a senior lecturer in public relations at the University of Wolverhampton and I'm hoping that this blog will serve as a means of sharing some of my thoughts and ideas with my students and other like-minded people!
In addition to teaching I am completing my PhD at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh. My research interests are mainly in the area of professionalism in public relations, although I'm also interested in health and risk communications, having recently completed a research project with Insignia Communications, and Women in PR in Europe, which is a Euprera project that I'm hoping to start collaborating on shortly. I am also about to start work on an international collaboration with a colleague at Curtin University in Perth, WA, conducting a comparative study of PR professional bodies in our respective countries.
My University is in the middle of redesigning the curriculum so that is a current preoccupation of mine. I'm responsible for the redesign of the undergraduate degree in public relations and I want to make sure that I'm getting it right so I'm open to suggestions and comments from students and those of you in the PR industry.
I will mostly write about these interests and other academic and PR-related issues that interest or vex me.
That's it for now. Will check in again soon.
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