In the fourth episode, we’re joined by Sam Bleazard, the Employer Brand Content

In Episode 3, we are joined by Matt Eastley (Content Strategist and Editorial Specialist). In his career, Matt has experience working on house magazines for two of our case studies. In 2000-10 he was the Editor in Chief at Royal Mail, where he worked on the Courier magazine, and in 2015-22 he worked on the Ariel magazine at the BBC, where he became Head of Internal Communications & Engagement. He gives fascinating insights into how these organisations used their history in their internal comms, but at times glossed over it to help facilitate a break with the past.

In the second episode, we speak with Suzanne Peck (President of the Institute of Internal Communication) and Jennifer Sproul (Chief Executive of the Institute of Internal Communication). The Institute of Internal Communication is a partner of the Institutional History of Internal Communication in the UK project. Since its foundation in 1949, the institute has gone through many changes in form and has played a major role in shaping internal communication. Suzanne and Jennifer talk about the history of the internal communication profession and the ways in which increasing knowledge of its past can benefit the profession today.

For the first episode, we are joined by the two people who came up with the 'An Institutional History of Internal Communication in the United Kingdom' project: Michael Heller from Brunel University London and Mick Rowlinson from Exeter University. They talk about how they came up with the project, what questions they hope we can answer through our research, and, most importantly, how they hope it will contribute to the internal communication profession itself.