We recently attended the launch of Talent North West, an organisation for HR and recruitment for people in the North West, and were particularly interested in one of the speakers who looked at the psychology behind creativity. Professor Mark Batey, from the University of Manchester and Manchester Business School, is a world leading researcher into [...]

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It’s been another successful month for Admiral, with Kilfrost, the global market leader in the supply of de/anti-icing products, appointing us to handle its international PR activity. The account will be supported in Admiral’s North East office, led by new head of office, Peter Bould. For over 80 years, Kilfrost has led the global de/anti-icing [...]

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“How can we thrive in times of rapid change?” Professor Mark Shucksmith OBE Newcastle University launches an Institute for Social Renewal to examine the key issues faced by society today. The challenge of social renewal is more relevant now than it has ever been. We are living in a period of rapid change. Individuals and [...]

Admiral News, Education, Enterprise, Marketing, North East, PR, Science | Institute of Social Renewal, Newcastle University, PR agency Manchester, PR agency Newcastle, PR Edinburgh, PR London, PR Manchester, PR Newcastle, Prof Mark Shucksmith OBE

Science Central Borehole project NIReS has obtained major funding from the UK Government’s Deep Geothermal Challenge Fund to support the first step in the development of the Science Central site as a sustainability flagship: the drilling of a two-kilometre borehole to explore for deep geothermal resources which could provide much of the fully-renewable energy supply [...]

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We’re in PR heaven today at Admiral Towers: last night we picked up the PRCA award for best CSR campaign, for Newcastle University’s ‘Changing Age’ campaign. In the process we beat off agencies representing the likes of Tesco, npower and the Co-op. Good eh?!

Admiral News, Education, North East, PR, Public Affairs, Science, Social media | Award, Corporate and Social Responsibility, North East, PR, PRCA, Public affairs

I make a point of not writing blog posts about the virtues of clients (always strikes me as a bit sycophantic).

Yet I am going to break that rule. It’s a one off, I promise. The thing is, we have just been to an event in Sedgefield at NetPark for a client of ours – Kromek.

Comment, Enterprise, North East, PR, Science, Technology | Enterprise, NetPark, North East, PR, Science, Security, Technology