Student studying Public Relations
I don't know what it's like for other students, but for me December is a hot spot for deadlines. I have a few essays due in either before or after Christmas, and some into January as well. This can be really stressful for the Christmas period when all you really want to do is stroll…
This week at University we began our plans for our group work, and interestingly our tutor set us the task of compiling a list of 10 rules that we should follow during that time. While creating the list I realised that they were pretty much the standard rules, sometimes unspoken ones, of how we should…
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A whole week off from University, comes with a whole lot of other problems. It's so easy to see it as a break and fall into the temptation of doing nothing but get up late and watch netflix. That's not to say that you can't do that, but it's such a great opportunity to catch…
I’ve always been someone who has an extreme interest in mental health and how it is represented in the workplace, being someone who suffers from anxiety myself. It is even more worrying knowing that I want to go into a profession like PR, where the expectation is that you are always “switched on” and it…
I can't recall how many times I've been asked "what is public relations", or asked to describe my degree or what that means I'll be doing after I graduate. For me it's pretty simple what it means and where I'll be heading in the future, but perhaps only because my Mum works in PR and…
It’s ironic really, considering the role of a public relations professional is to work on reputation and protect it from damages. So why can’t PR profs create a better representation of themselves? In PR Week, a study showed that nine in ten people believe that PR is used by people to deceive the public, 22%…
I spent two days at the Lincolnshire Show - on Wednesday 19th June and Thursday 20th June. My role there was to be an on location reporter for Siren FM and to handle the Show's official twitter page. This was my first day going on location for Siren FM, so I was feeling quite nervous…
