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By Freya Robb, Senior Press Officer at the Science Media Centre and Stempra committee member In communications we know the importance of a good story, whether pitching to a journalist or producing our own content. So it was good to make some space to go over best practice with experts to speak at the Press […]

By Arjun Sanganee, Stempra committee member I had the chance to chair the recent session on Issues Management and Crisis Communications during the Stempra Press Officer Training Day. While I haven’t (yet!) been at the centre of a full-blown media storm, I’ve definitely navigated my fair share of tricky situations that could have easily tipped […]

Xantha Leatham, Executive Science Editor at the Daily Mail, shared her notes on what works for journalists when it comes to research or science press releases, and equally important what doesn’t work.

By Freya Robb, Senior Press Officer at the Science Media Centre and Stempra committee member At our recent online event on how to reach politicians and policy makers, we heard from an excellent panel of speakers who shared their experience about working with (and in) the media to communicate key policy stories. Angharad Kolator Baldwin […]

This newsletter’s Stempra Star is Alex Durk – Communications Manager at Springer Nature What is your job and how did you get there?I’m a communications manager at Springer Nature, the major research publisher. I work in the Journals and Editorial Communications team, primarily promoting research that is published in our journals to the global news […]

We hosted our first Stempra Scotland event since 2018, and what a fun, educational and engaging day it was! We had over 50 attendees, who travelled from Glasgow, the Highlands, Aberdeen, Carlisle, Northumberland and Leeds, as well as our local colleagues in Edinburgh, and who work for funders, higher education institutes, thinktanks and government bodies.