The Royal Economic Society’s (RES) Media Consultant for Economics has played a key role in providing a variety of valuable networking, dissemination and support activities; in integrating users and beneficiaries into the execution of high quality, policy relevant research. 

The choice of papers to be press released in this way is made by the Media Consultant in discussion with the journal’s editors and the conference programe chair. The authors are invited to write a draft press release, drawing on advice in a two-page briefing document supplied by the Media Consultant. The draft is then edited so that it is accessible and appealing to journalists and any other non-specialists accessing the site.

The Media Consultant is available for consultation by economists wishing to promote their research to the media. The Media Consultant also advises ESRC research programmes and research centres on the media via the ESRC’s External Relations department. Indeed, for the first three years of the RES media initiative, 1996-8, the project was part-funded directly by the ESRC as a way of raising the profile of economic research.

Researchers are invited to supply output from their departments and research centres: annual reports, research digests, home page details, working papers and publications listings. They are also asked to supply recommendations of journals, special issues, books, conferences or seminars, and to keep the Media Consultant informed as to the diary of future meetings and publications that may have media potential.