[Commlist] One-day Unconference: Telling Stories – in celebration of the ‘half-baked’ idea in Public Relations research

*One-day unconference, Tuesday 25^th June, 2019*

*University of Wolverhampton Business School, in conjunction with 
Sheffield Hallam University*

In honour of the unfinished paper, this one-day un-conference brings 
together PR academics to explore undeveloped and unfinished ideas in 
public relations research. It is an opportunity to gain valuable 
feedback on embryonic ideas and to rediscover the fun in research.

The day begins by exploring the promise and excitement of new research 
and privileging the research journey over the destination, with a 
keynote by musical theatre lecturer, Sarah Whitfield, from the 
University of Wolverhampton, entitled /Scrappy paperwork and beautiful 
fragments: our incomplete archives/:

/As researchers and academics the need to finish and make complete 
outputs can be at best nerve wracking, and at the other completely 
paralysing: the ghosts of what we haven’t finished seem to haunt what we 
could yet start. But what if we change how we view the ideas we have for 
projects, the things we wanted to do but never could, and the things 
that didn’t work, we might be able to see them in a radically different 
way. What if we could value our own personal archive of incomplete 
ideas, of beautiful fragments, and use it to nurture what we do or make 
next? This is a story of how I found my way out of three years of 
writer’s block, by accepting half-finished ideas, bits and pieces of 
what Walter Benjamin so beautifully calls ‘scrappy paperwork’ as 
valuable on its own terms. By messing about with the unfinished and 
seeing where it gets us – creative possibilities for what we do next 
start to emerge./

Following a short break, delegates choose from one of three themed 
workshops in which to present their ‘half-baked’ idea/s. Themes under 
consideration include PR & Business, PR & Society, and PR & Politics.

The day closes with a call to arms from animation expert, Emily Mantell, 
/An idea is born/ followed by a drinks reception.

The conference will cost £25, to include lunch and drinks reception.

For more information or to register  please visit the conference 
website: https://tellingstoriesinpublicrelations.wordpress.com/

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