This means that we focus exclusively on helping academic experts and innovative business leaders plug their work into policymaking and apply their insight to political debates.
We integrate a range of strategic communications services to deliver outcomes that help clients meet overarching objectives.
Strategy Development
Effective strategic communication follows a clear sense of direction informed by insight into sector dynamics, issues in play and an understanding of where you fit in. Showrunner helps to build this insight and works with clients to translate it into purpose-driven strategies and delivery programmes.
Services include:
- Stakeholder perceptions auditing
- Sector and policy horizon scanning
- Political and policy insight research
- Message development and policy positioning programmes
- Strategic counsel
Public Affairs
Staying in touch with public policy and the politics that shape it gives you a credible influence over your market’s regulatory and funding environment. It also shows that you are a major player in your field. Showrunner plugs clients into policy making and generates support in Westminster, Whitehall and town halls.
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Stakeholder mapping and political monitoring
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Targeted contact, engagement and event programmes
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Policy consultation responses, White Papers and policy briefing notes
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Support for Select Committee and APPG appearances
Public relations
Having strong messages and landing them with the right people is essential to reputation, relationship and influence building. Showrunner translates client priorities into compelling and convincing messages and gets then onto the highest impact media and online channels.
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Media relations
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Content development
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Thought leadership programmes
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Executive profile building
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Crisis communications planning and management
Sector-Leading Policy Impact
Training and Support for Universities
We also run a sector-leading policy impact training and support programme for universities.
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Online training workshops that build understanding of policy making institutions and processes.
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In-person development masterclasses to help academics hone their policy influencing techniques and skills.
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Bespoke toolkits to guide individual academics on how to direct and prioritise policy influencing activity.
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Ongoing support for individual academics and research centres seeking to build their profiles and influence among policy audiences.
“Showrunner’s trainers really understood universities and pitched everything perfectly for an academic audience – which is unusual in my experience. Their workshops were very engaging and interactive and I’ve taken away a lot of useful information. I feel much more confident and able to think strategically about policy impact, particularly in how to work with the media in a way that suits me.”