Very well done and congratulations to Polly Cunanan and Valentina Magni from Cardiff University who, as part of a team of six, won this year's Douglas Smith Student Award. Others in their team were Vassilina Vorkova, Nuha Alahmad, Yiren Fang and Xiantong Zhang. This Cardiff team were joint winners with Radu-Bogan Firanescu from Newcastle University. Having successfully created a communications plan for an international merger and demonstrated an excellent understanding of dif

The panel of four judges for the 2017 Douglas Smith Student Award has now been finalised. We have hand-picked the judges who all have immense experience in all aspects of public relations. The judges are: Jason MacKenzie FCIPR, President, Executive Board Director and Council member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) Liz Bridgen MA PGCertHE CIPR FHEA, Principal Lecturer in Public Relations at Sheffield Hallam University, UK Clare Parsons FCIPR, Chair and Co-