Conference News – 1
Award: The first Journal of Communication Management special issue on the History of Public Relations (2008 Vol 12. No.4) won a Highly Commended Special Issue Award in the Emerald Literati 2009 Awards recently. As well as being a very popular issue, it helped define the world-wide interest in this area of historical and practice research.
Website: As you can see, the conference website www.historyofpr.com has introduced and will be supported by a Twitter feed called ‘historyofpr, a Linked-In group and Facebook presence. It is being developed as a communication point for the conference, a guide to resources and a discussion centre. We aim to make access to existing online resources simpler.
Conference pricing: Tickets for the conference will be £240 per delegate, with an ‘early-bird’ rate of £200 for registration and payment by Friday, April 30 2010. There will be a special rate of £80 for doctoral and postgraduate students. Details of booking arrangements will be announced later.
Venue: The conference will be held at Bournemouth University in southern England from July 8-9, 2010. To find out more about this famous beach resort town, go to: http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/about/around_bournemouth/around_bournemouth.html . Before or after the conference, you can enjoy yourself in Bournemouth or visit Thomas Hardy country, the very old New Forest and take a day trip to Stonehenge.
