Pagoda

As we continue to adjust to the pandemic and prepare for the new normal, the last thing which might be front of mind for many PR professionals is entering awards. Over the last couple of months the team at Pagoda has focussed on crisis communications, strategic advice and counsel and planning for change communications. Everyone has been firefighting to keep ...

Livingston-based Fraser Technologies, a specialist supplier to the component cleaning market, is playing a key role in supporting the UK manufacturing sector redeploy existing production capabilities to manufacture respirators and continuous positive airway pressure units. Following a call-out from the UK Government for businesses to support the production of oxygen systems, many manufacturers across the country have dropped their normal ...

PR practitioners pride themselves on their ability to sniff out emerging trends, spotting all that is newest and brightest and best. But who would have thought that our current circumstances would send us all scurrying to the highest shelves in the farthest cupboards to disinter a low-tech solution to isolation and empty days? A colleague reports that family and friends ...

A Tweet by @RobGMacfarlane one day last week, got me thinking about how we’re all communicating with friends and neighbours in the time of Covid-19.  MacFarlane tweets a “word of the day” and that day he’d chosen ‘philoxenίa’ (Greek origin meaning kindness shown to people unknown; hands opened in care to those in need, tenderness offered across time and space) ...

Not even social distancing can stop five-star attraction, Dynamic Earth from bringing fun and science to the world, with the launch of #dynamicearthonline. Following recommendations from the Scottish and UK Governments with regards to Covid-19, the popular attraction temporarily closed its doors on 17 March. However, the scientific team has been busy creating a series of fun and thought-provoking content ...

Scotland should look to international examples of land ownership, use, and management to provide new ideas and thinking in taking forward its land reform programme, the Scottish Land Commission said this week, following publication of its report on the subject. The report, titled 'Review of International Experience of Community, Communal and Municipal Ownership of Land,' has researched the way land ...

Not many of us will have got through the ten days or so of WFH, without doing a video call – either for work, or socially. Last week I did a Zoom book group and a Zoom retirement party. I’ve heard of Zoom beer tastings and team drinks, family celebrations and Zoom yoga classes. It’s odd being at once so ...

The knock-on effect of the current situation will be far reaching, as we all know.  One impact that is well documented has been the closure of schools and cancellation of exams – clearly a necessary measure.  While health comes first, it is tough for many school children as they have worked hard for so long towards the exams that should ...