Stuart is a public affairs and communications specialist at Bircham Dyson Bell, a law firm. Stuart advises on political engagement and media engagement strategies and helps organisations, and individuals, build and maintain their reputations. He has worked on a number of high profile media relations and crisis communications issues.
Stuart also helps developers engage with local communities on planning developments such as retail and housing.
Stuart is an honorary research fellow at the University of Aberdeen and is the author of several books including ‘New Activism and the Corporate Response‘ (heralded as a book that “every aspiring business leader should read” by MIS Asia), ‘Public Affairs in Practice‘ and ‘The Dictionary of Labour Quotations‘ which was published by Britain’s leading political publisher, Biteback. His most recently published book, ‘Public Affairs: A Global Perspective’ has been called ‘an absolute treasure-trove’.
Stuart regularly writes and lectures on a range of business and political issues and as well as blogging for Bircham Dyson Bell, he contributes to the Huffington Post and has written for the CBI, UKTI, Total Politics and LabourList. Stuart has written opinion pieces for newspapers including the Times and the Daily Telegraph.
He has appeared on Sky News, BBC 5 Live, BBC World, the Today programme, TRT World and on Ukrainian TV and has been a judge for both the Public Affairs News and PR Week Awards.
Stuart is also an adviser to the Entrepreneurs Network (TEN) and delivers training for the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) and Quadriga University, Berlin.
He also finds time to tweet @redpolitics
More details about Stuart, his work and his writing can be found at:
www.bdb-law.co.uk/publicaffairsblog
www.facebook.com/drstuartthomson
Dr Stuart Thomson will be writing a regular column for The Sussex Newspaper starting from next month.
