Prize-winning PR consultancy
What do trendy gift shop Utility, the Chorley Disabled Forum and UK Council for Health Informatics Professionals all have in common?
They have all been clients of UK Progress, the prize-winning PR consultancy run by students in the Division of Applied Communication.
The student teams have carried out research and consultancy and created editorial products for a wide range of organisations and charities. The Utility team, Hayley Lightfoot, Alex Unsworth, Sara Majeed and French student Edward de mas Latrie, won the prize for the most creative piece of work. They produced a newsletter combined with an academic calendar which the company hopes to use during Freshers’ week in September.
The calendar looks good, is packed with Utility information and is just the right size for student notice boards.
The team working for the Disabled Forum had a daunting task producing a newsletter and web design which could be read by sight-impaired members. They came up with an excellent publication, which client Eileen Bee agreed was an improvement on the original.
Demanding
However the UK Progress Shield for the best Editorial Management Team was won by UK Chip, Lucy Warman, Laura Priest, Steena Ramiah and Samantha Lewis, who came up with a newsletter for the councilís annual conference in Harrogate this spring. They also designed a new web page. It was a demanding task, appealing to members and prospective members who work in the medical and IT sectors of health informatics.
The team also worked well on the Consultancy Practice module. Said senior lecturer Stephanie Ferguson, Creative Director of UK Progress: ìThe team worked steadily together and just got on with it. They supported each other well and played to each otherís strengths and weaknesses as they would have to do in the workplace.î
ìThere were some fireworks and friction among some teams, but the students stayed calm under pressure and came up with the goods in the end.î
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