Press and PR for research

Few small agencies working in higher education can claim several front page national news stories and regular coverage on prime time BBC broadcast news – but we can. And always achieved without compromising the original research.

News, features and thought leadership

Enhancing visibility, positioning expertise.

We’ve generated news headlines all over the world. We promote research intelligently and carefully, working with you to craft the story from the strongest angle and selecting the best approach to pitch to different journalists and media outlets.

There are lots of ways to handle research stories and we have experience in them all: exclusives, press conferences, embargoed news stories, opinion pieces, photo stories, features and social media content.

Crucially, we’ll work with you to strengthen your engagement with various forms of media.

Publicity can provide a route to generating impact for research, whether it’s the front page of a national newspaper, a feature in a specialist magazine, a podcast interview, or a YouTube explainer.

It’s also a great way of showcasing your expertise, knowledge, innovations and potential services directly to specific audiences. It can generate new collaborations and partnerships, attract funding and investment and raise your profile – as an individual or an institution – to peers, nationally and internationally.

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Press and PR support for academic conferences

As well as working as a trusted partner to press office teams in research organistions and universities, we also support professional associations to deliver research PR for conferences and annual congresses.

We’ll set up a dedicated press office and work with you and your team to help achieve targeted media coverage for the new academic research presented at your event - creating talking points across the world.

How we support conferences
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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

Some of our latest press releases

To see the kind of stories we work with, and how we craft a press release to maximise the coverage it will receive, take a look at some of our most recent press releases:

Get in touch

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Email us: hello@campuspr.co.uk
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