News & Views

IWD 2022 – advice from women in PR

IWD 2022 – Break the Bias

New: Confidence to put yourself out there in the PR industry

New: Corporate Social Innovation isn’t a department, it’s a mindset

Mental wellbeing and resilience

One week to go until #PRFest 2021

New guest post: PR a must in the boardroom

All speakers and sessions confirmed

PRFest launches its 2021 virtual event and it’s the biggest yet

New blog: Lifting the brain fog of lockdown

Industry survey to explore how COVID has changed working life

New blog: The Truth is out there….

PRFest focuses on ‘the sustainable future of PR’ for June

PRFest launches new buddy scheme

PRFest announces new steering group

Guest post: Race is everybody’s business

The Teacher becomes the Master(‘s student)

‘Festers tell us their lockdown challenges

How would AI impact entry-level roles in the PR industry?

Responses to questions not answered at Accountability event

DRIVEN Pledge launches to help make progress with diversity and inclusion

Recruiting diverse talent based on values and purpose

PRs in lockdown – call for videos

PRFest announces two events following DRIVEN framework session

All you need to know about the CIPR State of the Profession survey

Diversity within public relations rebooted

PRFest 2020 day two summary and round-up

CIPR publishes new report into lived experiences of BAME practitioners in PR

Day One of PRFest 2020 summary

More on the DRIVEN manifesto plan

5 free places at creativity fringe event

Replacement session – “DRIVEN by Purpose”

Addressing the PRFest speaker imbalance

Advice for when you’re going out on your own

Fringe event: How to collaborate and generate ideas online  

PRFest zooms online

Guest post: My survival kit for home workouts

PRFest and COVID-19

Guest post: Nudging the unnudgeables. Behaviour change in campaign design

PRFest 2020 launches with a new format, PRCA sponsors for the fifth year, plus Alex Myers announced

PRFest 2020 Timings

PRFest 2020 – how you can get involved

2020 planning – PR Space announced for November

The Inclusion Delusion

Training: Create Winning Content Marketing Strategies

Guest post: PR student helper, Jane

Guest post: PR student helper, Fraser

Guest post: PR student helper, Jac

PR student guest post: Motivating Organisational Culture Changes Lives

PRFest 2019 round-up

Edinburgh hosts fourth #PRFest

How to level up your PR activity with Digital Advertising

Why we need to redesign the workplace

A day in the life of tourism PR

The Northern PR powerhouse

New speaker announced : Lisa Imlach, Skyscanner

How to have an ethical and effective approach to influencer relations

Engaging and Motivating Your Communication Team

Get diversity right and inclusion will follow?

AI – creating disruption in our industry to see around the corner

How the PRFest community started

2019 programme revealed showcasing the diversity of the public relations role

Guest post: How I finally kicked my anxiety to the kerb

PRFest 2019 launches early bird tickets

PRCA once again supports PRFest

PRFest founder named in PR pioneers book

Call for PRFest speaker pitches

“PR Space” launches – new event, call for interest

PRFest 2018 round-up part 2

PRFest 2018 round-up part 1

PRFest 2018 is underway and announces new collaboration

PRFest tickets have closed!

Communicating sustainability

Four weeks until #PRFest

#PRFest is A Test of Our Vision

PR and authority links

People Power in PR – advocacy, talent and harnessing passion

Banishing bullshit breaks down barriers

The #PRFest community

Thinking like entrepreneurs

Prototyping and PR

Crisis communication: after the cameras have gone

Senior PR practitioners and the skills gap

Communications trends – research into state of the sector

Why should PR practitioners care about Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager & Google Data Studio?

The opportunities for internationalising a PR business are vast

PRFest 2018 full programme revealed

Lucy-Rose Walker talks entrepreneurial thinking and PR

New speaker revealed ahead of early bird offer closing

John Brown calls out bullshit – PRFest

PRFest 2018 has launched!

PRFest 2018 dates and headline sponsor announced

2018 pitches launched

Call for ideas!

Free #PRFest 2017 e-book now online

BLOG: Friday afternoon #PRFest round-up

BLOG: PR community, Taylor Bennett Foundation needs you!

BLOG: Friday morning #PRFest round-up

BLOG: Thursday afternoon #PRFest round-up

BLOG: Thursday morning #PRFest round-up

PRFest ’17 – a note from Laura

News: The world’s only festival dedicated to public relations has kicked off today

NEWS: PR Measurement & evaluation added to #PRFest programme

#PRFest programme download

5 traps to avoid with data driven PR

Mental Health and PR

Blog: influencing the board – don’t be left out the room

Two nations divided by a common language

Cyber security simulator comes to #PRFest

Crisis communication – sitting within the crisis ‘war room’

Rich Leigh confirmed as final #PRFest speaker

Let’s re-define ‘integrated marketing’ as ‘common sense’

Cybersecurity and InfoSec aren’t for PRs to worry about… are they?

Podcast: #FuturePRoof discusses #PRFest

STV2 launch date announced

Blog: Compassionate disruption – the challenge to PR – SxSW

Blog: The business of influence

Practical ways to increase diversity in PR

Women in PR launches in Scotland

Andy Barr talks influencer relations

#FuturePRoof the continuation

Why PR conferences are important to the industry

News: STV’s Paul Hughes joins #PRFest

Full programme now online

Mental health in PR to be addressed at #PRFest

Ronke Lawal joins diversity in PR panel

News: Diversity in PR needs to reflect audiences

News: Andy Barr to talk all things influencer relations

PRCA to sponsor #PRFest

News: Sarah Pinch & Bridge Aherne join #PRFest line-up

News: Andrew Smith added to #PRFest line-up

Amanda Coleman joins #PRFest speakers

Public relations – it’s our time

PRFest 2017 launching 14 December

Call for pitches for #PRFest 2017 participation

#PRfest e-book launched

6 great things about #PRFest 2016

PRFest 2016 summary

Useful links from #PRFest 2016

PRFest round up

Amendment to line-up

Travelling to The PRofessionals

Searching for Relations: SEO meets Digital PR

CIPR PA Panel announced

The PRofessionals full programme launch

Networking drinks reception tickets now on sale

PR Measurement and Evaluation

New panellist: Rob Bruce joins The PRofessionals

Top things you’ll get out of the PR festival

PR has the opportunity to embrace entrepreneurial thinking

New panellist: Craig McGill joins The PRofessionals

Speaker update: Marita Kuntonen, Jung Relations

50 UK female PR bloggers

Scottish festival set to celebrate the future of public relations

It’s hard being different

Diversity in Public Relations

News: Digital PR panel session announced

Q&A with Clare Smith

News: Stella Bayles added to line-up

PRCA to reveal 2016 PR census findings at The PRofessionals

Are workflow improvements important in the modernisation of PR?

How PR budgets are changing

CIPR Scotland named as a main sponsor

Venue update

Magic dust that benefits society

Ask the PR community

PR for social good? What’s that?

Four PRstacks to modernize your communication workflow

Third Sector Lab’s McCulloch added to line-up

Award-winning Farzana Baduel joins diversity panel

Early bird extended until 7 February

Business punks and radical thinking

My take on crisis communication

PRCA sponsors PR festival, The PRofessionals

Guest post: Mobile PR

Two weeks left of Early Bird

Stephen Waddington added to line-up

Hiscox & Press Data announced as sponsors

Now Go Create takes part in Scotland’s first PR festival

Edinburgh to host international speakers as Scotland’s first public relations festival launches