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Stempra hosted its second AGM online and we were pleased to see so many members attend.Thank you to everyone who joined us this year. When we promised you all at last year’s virtual AGMthat we’d host a party soon, we could not have imagined that we would still be waiting to fulfil thatpromise. But we […]

With clinical research in the spotlight during the pandemic, and questions about the validity of new reports about vaccines, treatments and more, understanding and explaining how reseach is done, reviewed and pubished is part of the communications role. A guest post by Sabina Alam, Director of Publishing Ethics and Integity, Taylor & Francis Group

When an academic sends you through a paper on which she or he is main author, does your heart sink when you see a long list of collaborators from other institutions? If all institutions involved in the research want a namecheck, it can turn what is otherwise a fairly simple process – write release, secure […]

I work for the Meningitis Research Foundation and some of what we see now in terms of coronavirus communications mirrors what we see when this terrible disease strikes. When there are cases of meningitis, public health teams respond quickly and my team works hard to get accurate information out to worried communities. Monitoring news and […]

In an interview with Faisal Islam of Sky News on June 3, 2016, Michael Gove said that the British people have had enough of experts. I remember it well because I had not long left working as Head of News at one of the Research Councils and it felt like the end of an era, […]

I used to think dealing with the media was easy. In my first job which involved media relations, my press releases were widely picked up, letters to editors were usually printed, and I never had a shortage of TV and radio bids. Coverage was sympathetic and shaped the wider debate. But looking back, there were a […]