Global Leader in Corporate Communication Research to Receive IPR
Thu, 16 Jul 2015 15:27:00 BST
The Business School’s Dr Anne Gregory, is to receive the 2015 Pathfinder Award, the highest academic honor bestowed by the Institute for Public Relations (IPR) that is given in recognition of an original program of scholarly research that has made a significant contribution to the body of knowledge and practice of public relations. Dr Gregory is Professor of Corporate Communication at Huddersfield and a past chair of Global Alliance. She is due to present her latest research on corporate communications later in the year at the Fourth Annual IPR Research Symposium at the Yale Club in New York City.
Dr. Gregory said, “I am absolutely delighted to have been awarded this prize. It is one of the most prestigious in our field and I’m both honored and humbled to join the list of eminent scholars and researchers who have received it.
“It’s been my passion to enhance the professionalism of public relations and increase recognition of its contribution to organisations and society. As a former practitioner myself, my research has always centred on the challenges and opportunities facing the practice and I am delighted that the IPR has seen the value of this applied focus through giving me this Award. Our biggest challenge as a profession now is to step up to the leadership space and that is what my lecture in November will be about.”
The Institute for Public Relations is an independent foundation dedicated to the science beneath the art of public relations and focused on research that is immediately applicable in communications practice. Its research is available free at www.instituteforpr.org and provides the basis for the organization’s professional conferences and events.
You can read more about Dr Gregory’s research work in the latest issue of the Business School’s magazine Future Focus
