Day: 1 July 2019

Tideway honours pioneering female engineer for International Women in Engineering Day

Stuart Mitchell

A century after Rachel Parsons helped found the Women’s Engineering Society (WES) and became its first president, a tunnelling machine named in her honour has started digging the super sewer in Fulham. To celebrate International Women in Engineering Day yesterday the chief executive of WES, Elizabeth Donnelly, visited Tideway’s site in Fulham to see the machine named after her organisation’s first president and to meet some of the females working on the Thames Tideway Tunnel. The TBM digging the west section of London’s super sewer has started tunnelling from Carnwath…

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CIPR Excellence Awards celebrate pioneering PR talent

Stuart Mitchell

Taylor Herring scored a hat-trick of Excellence Awards and was crowned ‘Outstanding PR Consultancy’ at the 2019 Excellence Awards ceremony in London. The Awards – hosted by BBC Presenter Jeremy Vine – celebrated the stand-out agencies, teams and individuals from the last 12 months, in front of a packed crowd of more than 600 PR professionals at The Artillery Garden at the HAC. This year’s awards featured 31 categories, including two new accolades for Best Use of Influencer Relations and Outstanding new PR consultancy. Taylor Herring was the biggest winner…

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Shortlist for PR Internships and Apprenticeships Awards announced

Stuart Mitchell

The PRCA and PRWeek have announced the shortlist for the PR Internships and Apprenticeships Awards 2019. This year, the awards were expanded to include Apprenticeships, which are essential to improving diversity and inclusion within the PR and communications industry. Shortlist: Best Internship Programme: Brands2Life GCS GingerMay Best Intern: Sarah Morgan, Cowshed Tanaye Reid, GCS Jake Rodd, GCS Olivia Thwaites, Direct Line Group Lauren Williams, Cowshed Best Apprenticeship Programme: GCS Templemere PR Best Apprentice: Hyo Adams, GCS Anais Belloul, Templemere PR    Tayler Caires, GCS Joy Haggard, DMG Media Bethany Hearn, Warner…

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UNESCO seeks nominations for the Jaime Torres Bodet Prize 2019

Stuart Mitchell

UNESCO invites Members States in consultation with their National Commissions, and non-governmental organizations maintaining official relations with UNESCO and active in a field covered by the Prize to submit nominations for the UNESCO-UNAM Jaime Torres Bodet Prize in Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts 2019. Deadline for the submission of candidates: 15 July 2019 at midnight (UTC+1, Paris time). Established in 2014 and fully endowed by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the Prize is intended to reward candidates who have made an outstanding contribution to the development of knowledge…

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Antigua & Barbuda Implements Environmental Standards For Diving & Snorkelling

Stuart Mitchell

The Reef-World Foundation – the international coordinators of Green Fins – is pleased to announce Antigua and Barbuda has become the first English speaking country in the western hemisphere to implement the Green Fins initiative. The country is the 10th government worldwide to officially adopt Green Fins and the second in the Caribbean. Green Fins is a UN Environment initiative, internationally coordinated by The Reef-World Foundation, which aims to protect and conserve coral reefs through environmentally-friendly guidelines to promote a sustainable diving and snorkelling tourism industry. Antigua and Barbuda, which has a population of just 100,000,…

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