Continue reading “PR Interview #12: Arianne Williams, Britain’s Best PR Student Blogger 2016” →
I mentioned a couple of blog posts back that I was planning this blog post. It’s something that’s kind of irked me for the last 3 years. I mean, it’s not, like, haunted my nightmares or anything, but it is something I often wondered about.
My school and careers advisers never told me that PR was a thing; I didn’t know it existed, I didn’t know what it was and I didn’t know that my A-Levels, talents and passions all tied in nicely to being a PR pro. We all know PR isn’t the most hugely studied course at uni, but how is it expected to be when 6th forms & colleges aren’t telling students PR is something they could consider studying?
Well, it’s certainly been a while since I last did a PR Interview hasn’t it?! This one is particularly exciting to me, as Alisa went to my secondary school but moved to Thailand and not so long ago she cropped up on my Facebook timeline as a PR student in Bangkok! So I, of course, had to find out more.
Read on to find out about studying PR in Bangkok from Alisa’s point of view…
Continue reading “PR Interview #11: Alisa Mcdonald, PR Student in Bangkok” →
Dissertation, dissertation, dissertation. The words on 90% of me and my fellow 3rd years’ lips atm (along with ‘shall we buy snacks?’ and ‘what time is Gogglebox on?’). The aim of this blog post is to help PR students like myself have an epiphany, which I had about a week and a half ago, about finding an area of PR that you won’t get bored of 2,000 words in.
Continue reading “5 tips on choosing a PR dissertation topic” →
Over the summer, I was really excited to be asked to contribute a chapter to the second PRstack – a how-to guide to marketing and PR tools. Naturally, the tool I chose was WordPress. Fast forward a lot of organisation, editing and production from Stephen Waddington and the team at Prezly, who made the book look as visually wonderful as it does, and it is officially here!
Continue reading “PRstack: the second book has been launched (and I wrote one of the chapters!)” →
I’m SO excited about this interview!! I’ve followed San Diego based PR Couture on Twitter since I started studying PR: I keep up to date on all their blog posts about the wide world of Public Relations, interviews with professionals and PR girl jewellry, clothing and stationary (yes! Look here). I spoke to founder of PR Couture, Crosby Noricks, all about how she found Public Relations, her PR spin on a fashion blog and the highlights of running PR Couture…
Continue reading “PR Interview #10: Crosby Noricks, PR Couture” →
For this PR interview, I spoke to Leigh Greenwood, the PR Campaigns Manager for nationwide weightloss service Slimming World. Leigh gave me such a huge insight into how his work as a Journalist led him to work in PR, how a CIPR post-graduate diploma changed his career and the traits and skills aspiring PR professionals should have…
Continue reading “PR Interview #9: Leigh Greenwood, Slimming World” →
Eeek! I’m so excited to be writing this post! Richard Bailey, PR Practitioner and Editor of online PR magazine, Behind the Spin, started up a series of #bestPRblogs and each week he would highlight a selection of PR student blog posts that stood out to him and feature them on Behind the Spin. At the beginning of April, myself and 4 other PR students in Britan were shortlisted and had April to impress Stephen Waddington, past President of the CIPR. This morning, I was announced as the winner and I could not be more chuffed!
Continue reading “Livi Wilkes, Britain’s Best PR Student Blogger 2015” →
As you may know, the reason I started studying PR was because my Dad knew about the industry and reckoned I’d be good at it. Obviously, as a 17 year old who didn’t enjoy being told what I was and wasn’t good at, I was like ‘yeahhh yeah sure dad I’ll look into it….’, but when I actually did look into it, turns out he was right and skip forward a couple of years and here I am! So I’ve decided to have a twist for this interview and not chat to a PR Professional, but a Marketing Professional and someone I think is very wise (but then again, I’m probably biased).
Continue reading “PR Interview #8: David Wilkes (aka, my dad!)” →
The 2011 PRWeek/PRCA Census results showed that 89% of PR professionals have a degree. But, with the recent increase of student fees, not everyone wants/is able to spend 3+ years in education studying PR, which they could potentially work their way up in. So, is it possible to have just as good a career as someone who has a PR degree?
