We deliver intelligent communications for research

Campus PR is a specialist agency dedicated to strategic science communication and public relations for research and innovation.

We help to connect research with its audiences, position expertise and support the generation of impact.

Campus PR was formed in 2000 with a strong vision to provide high-quality research communications for higher education, health and the wider science and technology sectors.

Today, we’re the partner of choice for many research-intensive organisations across the UK and Europe.

Based remotely across England and Wales, our senior-level team have a wealth of experience in science communication, engagement and PR, as well as journalism, copywriting and content development.

As a compact science PR and communications agency, we’re able to combine this with a friendly, down-to-earth approach that achieves real results for our clients.

What motivates us

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 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 communications officers.

  • 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 strategy development and stand-alone projects.

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

An expandable team of specialists

Depending on the support your project needs, we’ll put together and project manage a dedicated team from across our handpicked network of science writers, media relations specialists, graphic designers, animators, web designers, video editors and other technical experts.

Our team

  • Dan Richards-Doran

    Dan Richards-Doran

    Director & Senior Consultant

    Dan is a strategic communications consultant with 20 years’ experience across UK science and innovation. He has worked with charities, industry, higher education, UK Government and the NHS.

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  • Jo Kelly

    Jo Kelly

    Founder & Senior Consultant

    Jo founded Campus PR in 2000 after many years working in a university press office. She has established the agency as a leader in communications for higher education, research and innovation.

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  • Abigail Chard

    Abigail Chard

    Senior Consultant

    Abigail most enjoys getting to the heart of research to tell a story. She has broad experience across the public sector, including universities, local government, health trusts and fire and rescue services.

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  • Ruth Francis

    Ruth Francis

    Associate - Media Relations Specialist

    Ruth is a strategic communications consultant with experience in achieving global coverage and creating targeted campaigns for scientific research.

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  • Stuart Gillespie

    Stuart Gillespie

    Associate - Science Writer

    A writer specialising in science and research, Stuart has several years of experience working across a range of disciplines for both expert and general audiences.

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  • Richard Horsman

    Richard Horsman

    Training Associate

    Richard helps deliver Campus PR’s ‘Broadcast your research’ training course. He is a radio journalist with more than 30 years’ experience and teaches postgraduate journalism.

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Who we work with

Imperial College London
National Institute for Health and Care Research
UCL
University of Leeds
University of Oxford
OUH NHS Foundation Trust
Rosalind Franklin Institute
Aston University
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Edinburgh Napier University logo with black triangular symbol
Logo of the European Association of Urology
EAG
Oxford Academic Health Partners
University of Bradford
Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund
Bangor University
University of York
University of Leicester

  • 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

  • This is an amazing result and underpins the value of what you and your team do beyond the media coverage itself. We are really appreciative of our partnership with Campus PR.

    SUE SMITH
    HEAD OF PRESS & COMMUNICATIONS, ASTON UNIVERSITY

  • We enjoyed working with Campus PR – Dan went above and beyond to engage with our project, understand the fundamentals of our research and support the delivery of our new website and video animations. Thank you!

    DR JACOB SEIFERT, LECTURER IN ECONOMICS
    UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

  • 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

  • Thank you so much for your work and insights, which have created so much coverage for April Fakes Day and the great research Patricia Kingori has been doing. It is a really impressive range and spread of media and has helped promote the exhibitions, workshops and projects immensely.

    JOHN KENNEDY, COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER
    TORCH, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

  • 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

Get in touch with us today to explore how we can support your research communications