Leeds Met

Still sexy after all these years?
In five years since graduating, Katherine Shenton has won awards for her PR work and has experience of working in the public sector, for an agency and now freelance. Adele Roberts profiles a PR star. University backs student entrepreneur
A Leeds-based creative agency which was co-founded by a Leeds Metropolitan University student and two recent University of Leeds graduates has been given funding for office space by the Enterprise Office at Leeds Metropolitan University. Bagel Nash appoints youth agency for rebrand
Bagel Nash has appointed Two Birds One Stone, a Leeds-based creative agency, to handle the rebrand of its 11 outlets in Leeds, Huddersfield, Manchester and York. Hunt for The Student Apprentice begins in Leeds
Alex Epstein, star of BBC show The Apprentice, will join a panel of business professionals for an entrepreneurial event launched by Leeds-based creative agency, Two Birds One Stone. Leeds based sports company in search of “professional and self motivated” student
Two Leeds Metropolitan University graduates who started their own business five years ago are on the lookout for a student to develop the company’s PR and marketing strategy. Students turn into teachers
Three students from Leeds Metropolitan University have been promoting public relations to school pupils. Pitch wins prizes
Final year students from Leeds Metropolitan University have been celebrating after winning the coveted Grayling Competitive Pitch Prize. Natalie Smith reports. Students put on ‘art for the heart’ exhibition
Public relations students from Leeds Metropolitan University are holding an art exhibition for heart research. So you want to work in entertainment PR?
Laura Crimmons profiles Zoe Baldwin, a PR graduate and practitioner who has launched a website to help other students. How to break into PR
This CIPR Yorkshire and Lincolnshire networking event for young practitioners will help you break into the competitive and exciting world of public relations. PR students appointed to launch TV star’s new book
Students from Leeds Metropolitan University and Bournemouth University have been offered the chance to work on a real life PR campaign for Claire Anstey’s new book Sort out Your Crap Life. Claire Anstey is a prominent TV star that has had experience working with Nickelodeon and GMTV and is currently the voice of MTV. Leeds Met PR Student hopes stationery creation can send him to Rio
A Leeds Metropolitan University student could be enjoying the holiday of a lifetime in 2011, a trip for two to the Rio Carnival in Brazil, after entering a competition launched by Asda Stationery. Mark Mitchell, a final year Public Relations and Marketing student, is currently in first place with six votes after entering his creation “Steg the Stationerysauraus” in to The Asda Rio Carnival Competition. Leeds Met Faculty of Business and Law embraces social media
Leeds Metropolitan University has taken the social media plunge in an attempt to communicate with students more effectively. With the growth in popularity of social media among students it seemed a natural step that the faculty had to take. Gregory appointed to Global Alliance board
Professor Anne Gregory, Director of the Centre for Public Relations Studies at Leeds Business School, part of Leeds Metropolitan University, has been appointed to the Board of the Global Alliance of Public Relations and Communication Management, a global organisation comprising professional associations from around the world. Sorry Twitter, this election will be won on the doorstep
Though the election has only just started officially, candidates have been campaigning for months. Clare Siobhan Callery follows a Conservative candidate round a rural West Yorkshire constituency and discovers that elections are fought on the doorstep, not on the internet. PR Students raise awareness of SADS
PR students from Leeds Metropolitan University have launched a campaign try and raise awareness of SADS (sudden arrhythmic death syndrome.) which claims the lives of at least 12 apparently “fit and healthy” young people a wek in the U.K. The students recently held a SADS awareness day at their university.  The students set up an information [...] Ptarmigan Academy secures first client
Ptarmigan Academy has been appointed to provide PR support for Leeds-based design company Tag pac. The student agency, part of PR consultants Ptarmigan Bell Pottinger is made-up of Leeds Metropolitan University BA (Hons) PR students, Adam Burns, Steph Holloway, Lois Ackerley, Katherine Hasselby and Clare Callery New council and university communications partnership
Leeds City Council and Leeds Metropolitan University have teamed up to help public relations students get on the job training, assist with their studies and boost their employment chances once they’ve graduated. Winner of the Claire Mascall Public Relations Prize announced
Katie Brown, a final year PR student at Leeds Metropolitan University, was named as the winner of the prestigious Claire Mascall PR Prize at the final C.I.P.R guest lecture last week. Students leave classroom for class war
Forget Paris 1968 and the Kent State anti-Vietnam war protests. The face of student protest in 2009 involves web tools and a heavy dose of irony. Big boys should cry
Male students leave seeking help until it’s too late, according to the Leeds Met Students’ Union which has launched a new campaign to raise awareness amongst men of the university’s counselling service. Ptarmigan Bell Pottinger sets up student consultancy
Leeds-based Ptarmigan Bell Pottinger has set up a student consultancy to work on a range of public relations and social media campaigns for national brands. Why I’m leaving PR
Behind the Spin’s news editor Laura Smith tells why she’s leaving public relations. Death by Chocolate
A PR student was assigned the unusual task of organising a murder mystery party for charity, Kirkwood Hospice this month. Survey identifies new challenges for PR
Professor Ralph Tench at Leeds Business School, Leeds Metropolitan University has produced a report on the findings from the largest research project into European Communication Managers’ perceptions of the practice in 2008. Gloucestershire recruits Leeds Met talent
Senior lecturer, Richard Bailey is resigning from Leeds Metropolitan University to join the University of Gloucestershire’s PR subject team. 60 Ideas in 60 Minutes
60 Ideas in 60 Minutes was the most anticipated guest lecture to be given at Leeds Metropolitan University this year, as part of the CIPR guest lecture series. Journalism’s place in business
A new course sets journalism alongside public relations and places it within a business faculty. Death and taxes
Karl Milner’s guest lecture at Leeds Metropolitan University was on the subject of stories. Save lives (and win a thousand pounds)
Six final year PR students beat off competition from more than 100 others to win the annual competitive pitch prize awarded by PR consultancy Trimedia.