Shane Canning

- Raising awareness and understanding of the NIHR through media activities - Leading press office team members who work in other coordinating centres to develop and pitch stories about the NIHR - Developing processes to ensure colleagues are communicating in an effective manner including crisis communications - Building and maintaining relationships with national and trade journalists - Work with press office and Science, Research and Evidence Directorate at Department of Health and Social Care in coordinating media activity that aligns with government priorities - Train and develop press office team to identify and leverage regular media slots and planned features

- Manage, review and deliver the company’s strategy across our blog and social media platforms and on PR - Coordinate the implementation of strategy to effectively position F1000 in the market with regards the different major activities that we are undertaking. - Provide communications guidance and advice to colleagues and senior management and coordinate and lead internal and external communications activities across the organisation. - Lead responsibility for media activity to achieve a good level of coverage of a variety of types of stories from scientific to strategic/business stories and across all F1000 products

- Provide guidance and advice to MRC scientists on how best to communicate through the media. - Respond efficiently to media enquiries to meet agreed deadlines - Assess forthcoming scientific papers for newsworthiness - Draft content and press releases - Work with and advise press officers from stakeholder organisations, including royal colleges and universities, on detailed press work involving the MRC

- Overseeing BioMed Central’s science and business media relations activity - Developing, with the Head of Communications, strategies for key target market communications - Helping to develop and implement BioMed Central’s communication strategies - Management of PR assistant and media officer - Drafting copy for blogs and press releases - Building relationships with key journalists from STM publishing trade and science media

- Drafting copy for press release and blogs - Building relationships with key journalists from STM publishing trade and science/medicine media - Generate strong media coverage for BioMed Central’s medical research by working closely with editorial staff and authors

I was responsible for developing journals within the BioMed Central portfolio. I do this by communicating with editors to optimise the publishing service for this group of journals and working to increase submissions.

I worked as an Assistant Commissioning Editor at Future Science Group. I worked mainly on two journals: Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research and Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy commissioning review and added value articles.