In the last fortnight, PR Week and the PRCA launched the results of their joint census of the PR profession. It had an impressive response and is an important stage in the ongoing monitoring of the profession in terms of its make up, specialisms, the wealth it generates and the people it serves. The first [...]

It’s been an interesting week for diversity. One of the main issues that came up in the recent diversity research, that of unpaid interns, was featured in PR Week.  Practitioners were scathing about the performance of Modus PR’s CEO, Julian Vogel, on the BBC, as well as about his ethics in using interns as a [...]

Next week I’m presenting at a conference for the Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association. There isn’t usually much in there from PR researchers, so I’m always a bit of a fish out of water. But it’s a useful prompt to look at the relationship between the media and PR once a year, and this [...]

I was very pleased today to read the story on PR week’s website on the findings of fellow Ignite committee member Dr Lee Edwards research. The article is a welcome piece of promotional coverage on the issue of diversity in the PR industry. This however is only one step in addressing what we at Ignite [...]