About

Campus PR is a specialist agency providing expert communications and public relations services to leaders in higher education and research. We use our expertise to help clients connect with specific target audiences and stakeholders; to deliver new partnerships and funding opportunities; and to raise their media profile. Working strategically, we help our clients to achieve their communications objectives. Please feel free to get in touch and we’ll be happy to discuss any support you need.

About us

Campus PR was formed in 2000 with a strong vision to provide high-quality communications for the higher education and research sector. Today, we have a head office in Leeds and consultants based around the UK, providing an expert service to a continually growing list of satisfied clients.

We have a collective background and a wealth of experience in PR and communications, journalism, and copywriting. We’ve worked for and with organisations in higher education, healthcare and the public sector.

We combine this with a friendly, down-to-earth approach that achieves real results for our clients.

What motivates us

  • We love what we do: whether it’s the dynamism and enthusiasm of your students or the fascinating research taking place in your laboratories, we feel privileged to work in this sector and to help promote your strengths and successes far and wide.

  • We get inspired by results: what really gives us a buzz is when we see concrete results from our work – not just headlines in the national news, a beautiful publication or a slick website – but real outcomes for the researchers and students we work with.

  • We’re fiercely proud of our reputation: not many communications specialists could feel equally comfortable writing about molecular biology, social anthropology or electrical engineering, but switching between diverse disciplines is all in a day’s work for us. And we thrive on it.

  • We don’t just do PR: we carry out communications audits to help clients identify what’s working and what’s not; we plan, craft and project manage new publications and marketing materials; and develop communications strategies for organisations of all shapes and sizes. We also brief and organise stunning photos and videos; plan creative, integrated PR campaigns; and provide a range of training workshops for both academics and PR officers.

  • Small is beautiful: our size means we can be agile and flex to our client’s needs. We’re as happy filling short-term skills gaps and adding capacity when in house resources are stretched as we are taking on full strategic campaigns and stand-alone projects.

  • We give something back: while we’re always busy, we also give pro-bono support to an incredibly deserving research charity – the Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund.

Our clients

Imperial College London
National Institute for Health Research
University of Leeds
Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund
Rosalind Franklin Institute
University of Bangor
Aston University
University College London
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Edinburgh Napier University
University of York
EAU

  • Just wanted to quickly thank you all for the support with this - the most 'attention' a paper of mine has ever received, and my highest score on Altmetric by a long way.

    ROB EVANS

    SENIOR LECTURER IN PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY, ASTON UNIVERSITY

  • Please pass on our thanks to your team for their fantastic work on the three case studies. It has been great to work with you and the team. I very much look forward to creating opportunities that would allow us to work together in the future!

    PROFESSOR DAVID SEBAG-MONTETFIORE

    CLINICAL DIRECTOR, LEEDS CANCER RESEARCH CENTRE

  • Thank you for all your work to ensure this research reaches a national audience. It's the first time my research has been featured in a national newspaper, so this is awesome.

    DR MARLEY WILLEGERS

    BANGOR UNIVERSITY

  • Working with Campus PR is a real joy. Their flexible but professional approach make our life easy. They have such a great intuition and can produce content based on a minimal brief, which is a skill in its own right.

    ANNA LEWANDOWSKA, INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS COORDINATOR
    UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS

  • You’ve been nothing but enthusiastic and skilful in your approach – especially in the training – and we’ve enjoyed working with you. You’ve left us much more able to share the valuable work we produce and much more confident in doing so.

    FRASER BATTYE
    PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT THE STRATEGY UNIT

  • We very much enjoy working with the Campus PR team on the press activities at our annual Congress. We can really rely on their expertise, they just know the drill. They are very flexible and, not unimportantly, also great fun to work with!

    JARKA BLOEMBERG, GLOBAL MANAGER SALES & MARKETING
    EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF UROLOGY

  • Your thoughtfulness and attention to detail have been such a help, indeed a saviour. We quite literally couldn’t have done this without you.

    PROFESSOR CALUM NEILL, LEAD FOR RESEARCH DEGREES
    EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY

  • Many thanks for all your work over the past few months. It has been great working with you. The quality of your releases superb, everything is done efficiently, and basically – you have seamlessly fitted into the UCL Media Relations team!

    HENRY KILLWORTH, HEAD OF MEDIA RELATIONS
    UCL

  • Campus PR’s approach was entirely flexible to suit our needs and the team gladly accommodated last-minute changes. I highly recommend Campus PR for their high-quality work, good communication and excellent results.

    CLARE ROBERTSON, SENIOR MARKETING EXECUTIVE
    UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS

  • I really appreciated your input – I felt in safe hands! I know my requests were a bit random at times but you responded beautifully and actually just knowing we could call on you was so helpful.

    RACHEL CASWELL, SENIOR HEALTHCARE ANALYST
    THE STRATEGY UNIT

  • I cannot state highly enough how impressed we were with Campus PR. Sam and the team were so responsive, flexible, understanding and skilled in their expertise. We are delighted with the end result.

    CERI BAIN, RESEARCH & INNOVATION WEBPAGE PROJECT COORDINATOR
    EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY

  • Thanks again for the incredible help you gave us in pulling together our REF submission. Your skill in drawing out the narratives and evidence has made it all so much stronger – we couldn’t have done it without you! I hope to get the chance to work with you again in the future.

    DR GERRI MATTHEWS-SMITH
    EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY

  • Just to say that the science team are over the moon with the coverage, as are our funders! Thank you so much.

    LAURA HOLLAND, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS AND CULTURE
    ROSALIND FRANKLIN INSTITUTE

  • Flexible. Professional. Invaluable. Campus PR will always go the extra mile and act as a vital extension of the team. Above all, they are honest and trustworthy. If you want to talk through how and why we’ve worked with them, just drop me a line.

    RACHEL BARSON, HEAD OF MEDIA RELATIONS
    UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS

  • I was absolutely delighted that the Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund Tissue Bank featured on the BBC News! This was a complex project to pull together – in particular co-ordinating and liaising between so many partner institutions and individual people. You did this with great patience and diplomacy and gave the Tissue Bank the best start we could have hoped for.

    MAGGIE BLANKS, FOUNDER
    PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH FUND

  • We’d been speaking to Smith & Nephew for a few years about working with us to commercialise the technology and we’d had some excellent publications on the research, but what got the company’s attention was the media coverage which Campus PR helped us achieve. The science on its own couldn’t do it – it was the publicity that clinched the deal.

    PROFESSOR SHEILA MACNEIL
    UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD

  • Working with Campus PR has been a great experience. We had a huge amount of interest in our project, which raised the department’s profile and helped us with our post-doctoral recruitment.

    DR RODERICH GROSS
    UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD

  • Campus PR are the first PR company I have dealt with (and I have dealt with a few) who do not try to “dumb down” the story or sensationalise it.

    DR ROSS BOYLE
    UNIVERSITY OF HULL

  • We've been really pleased with the work you've done with engineering. It’s been a pleasure working with you all for so long and you've done some fantastic work for us.

    SHEMINA DAVIS, MEDIA RELATIONS MANAGER
    UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD