C-SAP awarded around £12,000 to a team from the Teaching About Terrorism Group to study how Terrorism  and political violence are taught across the UK.  The team is led by David Miller (Strathclyde) and includes Marie Breen Smyth (Abersytwyth) and Dave Whyte (Liverpool).

SpinProfiles: SpinProfiles is a project launched by Spinwatch in May 2009 which aims to catalogue organisations and individuals involved in managing public debate.  A list of all pages is accessible from the Spinprofiles Project page.

Science communication Awarded £1,700 through the EPSRC Bridging the Gap initiative to foster interdisciplinary activities on science communication and policy.

Neocon Europe: A project monitoring Neoconservative networks in Europe.  More information here.

Public Services in Scotland This project was funded by Unison to provide a review of public services reforms in Scotland.(£4,500, with Patricia McCafferty)

Terrorism Expertise project Funded by the University of Strathclyde Research Development Fund (£7,500), this project examined the most cited and most prominent experts on 'terrorism' and focused on their activities and connections with government, the military and the intelligence services.  Further work in this area is underway.

Awarded CASE studentship by ESRC on environmental advocacy in partnership with Friends of the Earth (England Wales and Northern Ireland).(with Will Dinan)

Scottish Executive (£45k)

 

STUC funded project on the Scottish Water industry

Water Customer Consultation Panels Scotland

Corporate Public Relations in British and Multinational companies, funded by the ESRC. 2000-2003

The research aims to map out the extent, scope and practice of public relations activities among the largest British companies and among a small number of multinational corporations. It will collect new data on the provision of public relations capacity in British and selected multinational corporations The project will provide original data on the scale of PR activities and will reveal the factors which determine the form of corporate PR provision among large British and multinational corporations.

The research will endeavour to assess the role of corporate PR in British and international corporate governance and most importantly to link the expansion and provision of corporate PR capacity to specific corporate strategies and decisions. It will attempt to trace the reasons for the expansion of corporate PR and will outline the macro-level strategies followed by corporations in varying sectors of business.

Overall, the project will attempt to describe and analyse the role of corporate PR in national and international governance. To outline the impact of the changing business environment (ie national and international governance, economic conditions and 'globalization') upon the PR strategies used by corporations. The research will be undertaken by means of a survey of the biggest 150 British companies, by interviewing corporate PR personnel and by collecting a wide range of internal documentation, market research data and ephemeral and promotional literature.

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