Day: 15 August 2026

PRCA backs landmark Africa Declaration to strengthen communications across the continent

Stuart Mitchell

The Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA) has endorsed a landmark new initiative designed to strengthen professional standards, ethical accountability and responsible communication across Africa. Announced in connection with World PR Day 2026, the Africa Declaration on the Professionalisation of Public Relations and Responsible Communication brings together leading African professional associations, institutes and international partners behind a shared vision for the future of the profession. Developed by African institutions and shaped by the continent’s diverse communications and regulatory environments, the Declaration provides a founding charter for greater professional self-governance. It…

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Knepp Accord: A call to action to unite history and nature for a climate resilient future

Stuart Mitchell

On Friday 17 July, the National Trust, Oxford Archaeology and Knepp Castle Estate officially launch the ‘Knepp Accord’ – a bold new framework that urges experts in archaeology, historic landscape knowledge and nature conservation to unite to tackle the nature and climate crisis. The Knepp Accord has been agreed by 50 specialists from across archaeology, farming, heritage and nature recovery at a workshop at the Knepp Castle Estate in West Sussex. This was convened to create a shared framework for using deep-time evidence – from buried plant remains to historic…

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University receives $34.5 million donation for autism research

Stuart Mitchell

The University of Cambridge has received US$34.5 million from philanthropist K. Lisa Yang to support research aimed at improving the health and wellbeing of autistic people and their families. The gift is one of the largest ever philanthropic gifts for autism research to a UK university. The University will join eight other research centres based at Harvard University and MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, which together form the Yang Tan Collective, created to focus research and translation approaches into human health, disease, and environmental challenges, especially engineering solutions to low-cost…

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Government launches bold plan to ‘turn up’ the music industry

Stuart Mitchell

The UK music industry will benefit from a range of new powers and investment as the government unveils a new long-term plan to back the sector. The UK music industry will benefit from a range of new powers and investment, with thousands of young people given opportunities to get involved in music, as the government unveils a new long-term plan to back the sector. From artists and fans to venues, festivals, labels and music businesses, Turn It Up: Our Plan for Music will create the conditions for the sector, already…

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UK Research and Innovation publishes 2025 to 2026 annual report

Stuart Mitchell

From new ways to treat aggressive cancers to replacing polluting plastics with plants, UKRI is advancing knowledge, improving lives and driving growth. UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has published its annual report and accounts for the 2025 to 2026 financial year, which looks at the range of research and innovation it has supported. Highlights include: supporting the development of a promising new antibiotic that’s effective against drug-resistant diseases, like MRSA investing in new solar cells that can use indoor light to produce electricity revealing 2,000 hidden galaxies, to better understand…

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