GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Dr. Anne Gregory will receive the 2015 Pathfinder Award the highest academic honor bestowed by the Institute for Public Relations (IPR) that is given in recognition of an original program of scholarly research that has made a significant contribution to the body of knowledge and practice of public relations. Dr. Gregory, professor of corporate communication at the University of Huddersfield in the United Kingdom and past chair of Global Alliance, will present her latest research on corporate communications at the Fourth Annual IPR Research Symposium at the Yale Club on November 17 in New York City.
“I am absolutely delighted to have been awarded this prize. It is one of the most prestigious in our field and I’m both honored and humbled to join the list of eminent scholars and researchers who have received it,” said Gregory.
“It’s been my passion to enhance the professionalism of public relations and increase recognition of its contribution to organizations and society,” said Gregory. “As a former practitioner myself, my research has always centered on the challenges and opportunities facing the practice and I am delighted that the IPR has seen the value of this applied focus through giving me this Award. Our biggest challenge as a profession now is to step up to the leadership space and that is what my lecture in November will be about.”
The symposium will feature a panel of speakers reviewing progress in the field and research-based insights on priority topics identified by IPR Trustees as important to the practice. Gregory will be presented with the Pathfinder award in the evening at IPR’s Annual Distinguished Lecture & Awards Dinner Mike Fernandez, Corporate Vice President of Corporate Affairs at Cargill, will receive the Alexander Hamilton Medal, and Julie Hansen, President & COO of Business Insider, will be the Distinguished Lecturer.
Dr. Gregory’s research interests focus on capacity building in public relations and corporate communications and includes leadership, the strategic role of communications, ethics and globalisation. She has authored 30 book chapters and 50 journal articles/conference papers as well as written and edited more than 20 books, including the globally available Chartered Institute of PR series. She is also Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Communication Management.
“The IPR selection committee was impressed with many of Professor Gregory’s accomplishments,” said Donald K. Wright, Ph.D., IPR Trustee and Harold Burson Professor & Chair in Public Relations at Boston University. “She’s clearly noted as one of the leading public relations scholars from the United Kingdom and she also has made considerable contributions to the development of public relations research and education through her activities with the Global Alliance of Public Relations and the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.”
For tickets and information about the IPR Research Symposium or the IPR Annual Distinguished Lecture & Awards Dinner, please visit IPR’s event page.
The Institute for Public Relations is an independent foundation dedicated to the science beneath the art of public relations™ and focused on research that is immediately applicable in communications practice. Its research is available free at instituteforpr.org and provides the basis for the organization’s professional conferences and events.
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