| Description | British Psychological Society press releases - Incomplete
24-27 March 1994 BPS Annual Conference - press releases [incomplete]
1. General press release about conference
2. Self Esteem Buffers Stress (Neil Rector) - press release;
3. Psychological and Drug Treatment for Panic Disorder (Donald Sharp) - press release;
4. Memory and Ageing - press release;
5. Serious Crime (Margaret Wilson) - press release;
6. How Does Computer Gaming Involvement Affect Children's Other Interests? (Julie Rutkowska) - press release;
7. Improving Pain Management (Chris Eccleston) press release;
8. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Linked to Stress (Suzan Lewis) press release;
9. Therapy Can Help in Psychosis (Val Drury) - press release;
10. She Says She Was Raped (Barbara Krahe) - press release;
11. How You Are Managed Does Influence Whether You Stay or Go? (Chris Hatton and Eric Emerson) - press release;
12. Stress in University Students (Reda Abouserie) - press release;
13. Bullying - Worth Defeating, But How? (Sonia Sharp) - press release.
For more complete set of press releases as well as summaries and abstracts of paper see BPS/001/6/01/02/03/13
17 October 1994 Expert Testimony: Developing Witness Skills - A Training Package - press release for launch of Expert Testimony Video [See BPS/001/11/05/02/03/01 for files on this package and PHO/002/02/01/02 for video]
14 November 1994 Psychology and the Budget - press invitation to briefing
[For London Conference Press Releases 19-20 December 1994 at Institute of Education see BPS/001/6/01/03/03/12 includes press releases, summaries and papers
General press release about the conference
1. A Patient's Council for Broadmoor (Jennie Williams)
2. Under-Report of Sexual Offences at University (Tim Jordan)
3. Saving Lives of Sick Babies and Children (Jean Ware and Valerie Rees)
4. Forgetting Bad Memories (Lynn Myers)
5. Eyewitness Testimony: Does Being Sure Mean Being Right After All (Mark Kebell)
6. The Proper Use of Hypnosis (Phyllis Alden)
7. Why Don't Women Get top Jobs? (Fiona Patterson)
8. Learning to Drive - Practice Makes More Perfect Thank You Think
9. Teaching Ambition (Tony Cassidy)
10.Infertile Couples Need to Know More About Inheritance from Donors (Beth Alder) and Sperm Donors are Motivated by Payment (Rachel Cook)
11. Blood Donation - Supply and Demand (Eamonn Ferguson)
12. Call Me, But Turn Off The Video (Clare O'Malley)
13. Psychology At The Cutting Edge
14. TV News and Your Personal Worries (Graham Davey)
15. Homeless People Using Day Centres (Paul Norman)
16. Dying of Embarrassment? Why Women Avoid Screening for Cervical Cancer (Alison Bish)
17. Knowing The Risks - Young Women and Cervical Cancer (Noelle Robertson)
18. Effects of Work Stress Worse for Men Than Women? (Tessa Pollard)
19. The War Goes On (Nigel Hunt)
20. The Joy of the Empty Nest (Bernice Andrews)
21. Doing Their Stretch (John Kremer)
22. Managing Public House Violence (Rosie Dickson)
23. Why Do Teenagers Try To Kill Themselves? (John McCartney)]
[for Press releases (and summaries of papers) from British Psychological Society Annual Conference, Division of Clinical Psychology Conference and Student Conference held 1 - 4 April 1995, University of Warwick see BPS/001/6/01/02/03/14 Annual Conference Press
1. General press release about conferences
2. What Young People Think About Smoking (Kate Gillen)
3. Missing The Occasional Meal is OK (Mike Green)
4.Disgusting! - Psychologists Find Out Why (Karen Barker, Graham Davey)
5. Bully for Them (Mike Eslea)
6. Temazepan Can Kill (Richard Hammersley)
7. Eye Witnesses Exaggerate Under Hypnosis (Mark Kebbel)
8. Better Quality Parenting for Children Conceived Via Reproductive Technology (Rachel Cook)
9. Promoting Healthier Behaviour (Charles Abraham)
10. Parental Divorce Can Lead to Development Problems in Young People (Martin Richards)
11. Breast Implants - to Keep or Not To Keep (Eileen Bradbury)
12. Women and Men - Why The Differences? (John Archer)
13. Exclusion from Secondary Schools (Andre Imich)
14. Pain in Childbirth (Catherin Niven)
15. The Foetus As An Active Participant (Peter Hepper)
16. Call For More Widespread Use of Video Testimony (Glenn Williams)
17. Being Sexually Abused Does Make You More Likely To Develop An Eating Disorder (Rachel Calam)
18. The Treatment of Choice for Menopausal Hot Flushes (Myra Hunter)
19. Addicted To The Future? (Mark Griffiths)
20. Pet Owners Are More Likely To Be Type A Personalities
21. Suffering in Silence: Women's Experiences of Menopausal Hot Flushes (Frances Reynolds)
22. Values, Ethics and Psychology (Geoff Lindsay) - Presidential Address
Division of Clinical Psychology Conference
1. Psychological Treatment for Childhood Asthma (Sheila Park, Susan Sawyer)
2. British Psychologists Discover American Personality disorder (John Davis, Marcia Davis)
3. The Characteristics of Child Sex Abusers (Grace McClurg)
4. Psychology and Pain Control (Adrian Skinner)
5. Doctors May Wrongly Diagnose Persistent Vegetative States (Lesley Murphy)]
20 July 1995 Statutory Registration of Psychologists - press release for BPS campaign for statutory registration of psychologists
11 October 1995 MPs table EDM on Statutory Registration of Psychologists - press release on Early Day Motion tabled by BPS sponsored MPS
[for press releases (summaries and abstracts) on the BPS London Conference held 19-20 December 1995 at Institute of Education see BPS/001/6/01/03/03/13
includes:
list of delegates and speakers, abstracts, programme, press team arrangements.
Press releases, drafts, contacts, abstracts and summaries
General press release about the conference
1. A Good Mood Is Not Always a Good Thing
2. Treating Stuttering (Mark Onslow)
3. Occupational Street In Fundholding and Non-Fundholding GPs
4. Mature Students Do Get Better Degrees (Sherria Hoskins)
5. A Poor Father is Worse Than No Father (Catherine Hepworth)
6. Women's Attitude to Hormone Replacement Therapy (Rona Rubin)
7. Santa Exists But Superman Can't Really Fly (Maire Messenger Davies)
8. Taking The Waters: Does Hydrotherapy Relieve Chronic Pain? (Suzanne Skevington)
9. The Experience of Labour Pain (Kate Niven)
10. Whose Sex-Life Is It Anyway? (Eamonn Ferguson, Susanne McKeown)
11. Fickle Football Fans On the World Wide Web? (Adam Joinson)
12. A Mindset For Addiction (Chris McCusker)
13. Promoting Screening for Testicular and Cervical Cancer (Barbel Pee) ] |
| AdminHistory | The first report on public relations was in 1946 by T H Pear [see BPS Council Papers 25 May 1946]. A public relations committee was founded in 1955 and was a short lived working party.
The first press releases was for the BPS Occupational Psychology Section Conference in Cambridge, held 3-4 January 1970.
In 1971 Nicholas Georgiades and Professor Arthur Summerfield arranged a press conference at Brown's Hotel to draw attention to the BPS response to Sir John Foster's report on Scientology [See BPS/001/4/01/03/01]. After advice from Mr Christopher Hall, Barbara Castle's Information officer on setting up a press function - a Standing Press Committee was formed in October 1971 under the Chairmanship of Dr Georgiades - they produced press releases and started recruiting spokespeople and setting up a media training courses for them - the first of which was held in June 1972. Early press efforts were concentrated on promoting the conferences and journal articles but later encompassed promoting BPS policy, positions, activities and the profession of psychology.
In 1973 Susan Best PA to the Secretary General took on the additional role of 'Public Relations Secretary', this was later held by Mrs M Clark, the post existed until 1976. A dedicated press officer was recruited in 1991.
Stephen White joined the BPS staff as Director of Communications in 1985 and started organising regular media training from 1986 onwards. Press releases were regularly issued from this time.
By October 1991 the Press Committee was no longer a standing committee but a subcommittee of the Information Committee (which itself took over from the Standing Committee on Communications SCCOMS 1984-1990). The Information Committee became the Communications Committee in 1998 as part of the Society's strategic plan. This became the Publications and Communications Board in 2000. |
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