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About The Bristol Social Marketing Centre (BSMC)

The Bristol Social Marketing Centre (BSMC) is a research centre at the University of the West of England, Bristol. We began in 2007 and now have research, knowledge exchange, consultancy and education activity operating at regional, national and international levels. We seek to combine the university's scholarly expertise with our own commercial and public sector experience to provide insights and thought leadership in social marketing. Our work is clustered round the following key areas: addressing specific, real-world problems, conducting scholarly research, linking theory and practice, providing postgraduate education, continuous professional development and executive training courses. Our recent work has focused on behaviour changes around safer driving, travel mode shifts, health screening including early cancer detection, sun protection, and sustainable health behaviours.

Contacts:
Professor Alan Tapp, alan.tapp@uwe.ac.uk +44 (0)117 32 83439
Professor Lynne Eagle, lynne.eagle@uwe.ac.uk +44 (0)117 32 83249

Corporate Culture is a leader in sustainable business, social marketing and customer behavior change.

We have a strong track record of helping people recycle more, save energy, drink responsibly, stop smoking, and much more.
We believe the future is about collaborating to improve lives and achieve long-term positive social and commercial change.

Based in London and North West England, we have in-house strategy, creative, research, learning and development, and project management teams who create and implement projects across five core skill areas:

Strategy: creating robust, proven strategies that guide sustainable business, social marketing and customer behaviour change interventions

Insight: commissioning and analysing actionable research, and helping organisations fully understand audience behaviour

Creative: offering engaging communications that captivate audiences, and inspire them to embrace long-term behaviour change

Capacity building: building organisations’ social marketing capacity through our Academy and Network

Connecting and collaborating: identifying networks and partnerships to enable us to work together to achieve transformational change.

We have used these skills for a range of clients including: Cancer Research UK, WRAP, the NHS, Anglian Water, Lloyds Banking Group and Standard Life. To find out more visit www.corporateculture.co.uk

About DKT International

DKT International is a leader in contraceptive social marketing with a focus on family planning and HIV prevention. In 2010, DKT programs delivered approximately 22 million CYPS (couple years of protection), making DKT the largest contraceptive social marketing organization and the largest private provider of family planning services in the developing world. DKT expertise include branded marketing of contraceptives, social franchising, sustainable financial enterprises, and impact on poor and vulnerable populations. For six consecutive years, DKT has received Charity Navigator’s coveted four-star rating for “sound fiscal management,” an honor accorded to only four percent America’s nonprofit organizations.

About European Centre For Disease Prevention And Control (ECDC)

ECDC is an EU agency whose mission is to identify, assess and communicate current and emerging threats to human health posed by infectious diseases. The Centre works in partnership with public health authorities and experts across Europe, providing high quality data, evidence based information and analysis to support public health action. In its efforts to protect human health, ECDC is committed to promoting awareness and knowledge on how to prevent communicable diseases, thus encouraging positive changes in attitudes and behaviours.

About The Futures Company

Formerly known as Henley Centre HeadlightVision, The Futures Company is the leading global foresight and futures consultancy. We are well known for our understanding of social change and our ability to apply an expert knowledge of consumers to unlock strategies for future success.

With expertise covering qualitative and quantitative research, futures and strategic consulting, we work with a wide range of public and private sector clients on a global level to support strategic planning, innovation, policy making and service delivery.

Our behaviour change, service transformation and innovation offers are built on many years of experience across diverse policy areas as well as our own proprietary thought leadership programme through our public sector think tank the IIPS. For more information on our work, please see our global website www.thefuturescompany.com and our think tank www.theiips.com

About The Hub

The Hub is an award-winning social change consultancy focused on reducing inequality and raising aspiration in disadvantaged communities.

Through partnerships with local authorities, PCTs, charities, NGOs and social enterprises we design interventions that drive tangible, sustainable behaviour change.

Combining social research, social marketing and design thinking, we have developed a citizen-centred approach built on co-creation principles, creative engagement and the latest advances in behavioural science.

Our teams are currently working with communities on a wide range of issues, including obesity, tobacco control, early years / young people's wellbeing, substance and alcohol misuse, poverty and inclusion.

About ICE

ICE is one of the UK's leading specialists in behaviour change. Our integrated, award-winning team of 60 specialists are committed to developing tailored solutions that positively impact people's lives and deliver real, measurable outcomes.

We empower people to drive long-term change by recognising the essential links between organisations, their cultures and the communities they serve. So much so that we've developed the concept of SOChange™ - blending Social Change and Organisational Change to transform organisations AND enrich the lives of our communities.

We're a passionate group of people who thrive on new challenges and we're here to change our world.

www.icecreates.com

About Interactions

Interactions is a market research & communications company that integrates constructive psychology with market research to provide insights into customer behaviour and decision-making.

Our approach is invaluable in developing communications to bring about change in any aspect of behaviour as evidenced by our work in transport, sustainability and radio research.

Many of Interactions market research and communication projects promote and contribute directly to CO2 emission reductions, better quality of urban environments and improved personal health.

We act as communications managers for the EC’s CIVITAS MIMOSA 4 year sustainable urban transport programme. Other recent work includes research for the Environmental Protection Agency on the feasibility of using Pure Plant Oil as a fuel.

About International Social Marketing Association

The International Social Marketing Association (iSMA) is the world’s first global association supporting the advancement of social marketing practice, research, and teaching, and one of the world’s leading sources of authoritative information on social marketing.

ISMA is at the forefront of the evolving worldwide social marketing enterprise and the premier professional home for social marketers and those in related professions around the globe.

ISMA publishes news and databases, convenes meetings, and provides educational programs.

ISMA plays a leadership role in educating and communicating with public policy makers and the general public about the importance of social marketing in our lives.

About Journal of Social Marketing

Journal of Social Marketing is published by Emerald Group Publishing Limited and is part of a collection of 22 journals and 5 books series that focus on a broad range of marketing disciplines, and include the newly launched Arts Marketing: An International Journal; the Journal of Consumer Marketing and the European Journal of Marketing. Emerald journals reach a potential of 15 million users globally from 1,600 institutions and each week Emerald articles are downloaded 300,000 times.

The Journal of Social Marketing (JSOCM), edited by Associate Professor Sharyn Rundle-Thiele (Griffith University) and Professor Andrew McAuley (Southern Cross University) publishes triple blind peer reviewed research that showcases the adaptation and adoption of commercial marketing activities, institutions and processes as a means to induce behavioural change in a targeted audience on a temporary or permanent basis, to achieve a social goal. The journal will publish a selection of best papers from the 2nd World Non-Profit & Social Marketing Conference in 2012 and seeks high quality academic articles including conceptual papers, critical literature reviews and rigorous empirical studies for publication in the following (but not limited to) areas:

Social marketing; Public health; Environmental protection; Accident prevention/Road safety; Alcohol; Obesity; Behaviour/Attitudes: Drugs; Gambling: Smoking/Tobacco; Advertising; Communication: Pricing Taxes.

Visit the journal's website for more information: www.emeraldinsight.com/jsocm.htm

About Kenyon Fraser

If you're looking for an agency that really understands social and not-for-profit marketing then talk to us. We're driven by a passion for understanding people, working with communities, stakeholders and professionals to develop creative solutions that engage and inspire people to improve their health and wellbeing.

Our holistic approach requires more than just attractive visuals and PR campaigns - although we're pretty good at those. We discover the reality of attitudes and behaviours through thorough research and engagement, bringing relevant insights to bear on our work - basing our programmes on evidence rather than assumption. And we use an integrated mix of methods - working in partnership with our commissioners to put in place a mix of service and communications based innovations to engage clearly defined target groups and to achieve specific behavioural and organisational goals.

www.kenyons.co.uk

About McCann Healthcare Worldwide

McCann Healthcare Worldwide is a global marketing and communications agency. As a global leader in health-related communications, we provide a full spectrum of services devoted to building effective and creative communications strategies in public health as well as pharmaceutical, healthcare, and wellness brands. We work with both private and public sectors, including governmental institutions, and a diverse set of clients ranging from those specializing in chronic therapies, vaccines to nutrition. We revolutionize health and well-being through social marketing and other communication processes. McCann Healthcare Worldwide truly sets the standard for communicating health and wellbeing all globally.

About The NSMC

Established by the British Government and the National Consumer Council in 2006, we are the centre of excellence for social marketing and behaviour change.

Our mission: to maximise the effectiveness of behaviour change programmes.

We do this for a growing list of public sector organisations through a broad range of strategic analysis, advice, support and training across all levels of the social marketing process.

World leaders in our field, we draw on expertise from the UK, USA, Europe, Asia and the Pacific and adapt it to meet the needs of UK and international audiences.

About Promovere

Promovere is a specialist face-to-face marketing company trusted by both private and public sector clients to communicate marketing messages directly to target audiences.

We work with clients’ existing marketing agencies or stakeholders to develop and implement face-to-face marketing campaigns that lead to positive behavioural change.

Our fully-contracted front line staff are trained to identify customers, engage them and communicate in a way that other media simply can’t: we stop people in their tracks and actually talk to them - and they talk back to us!

Meanwhile, our experienced office staff manages all campaign logistics to make sure that we’re on site, on time, every time. We are also used to measuring and reporting on campaign effectiveness against pre-agreed criteria.

Promovere can also provide a range of promotional vehicles and exhibition units to both enhance the face-to-face marketing experience and extend the visibility of a campaign.

Promovere is a member of the DMA and adheres to the DMA Codes of Practice, has ISO 9001 quality accreditation and is a CarbonNeutral company.

About PSI

PSI is a leading global health organization with programs targeting malaria, child survival, HIV and reproductive health. Working in partnership within the public and private sectors, and harnessing the power of markets, PSI provides life-saving products, clinical services and behaviour change communications that empower the world's most vulnerable populations to lead healthier lives. www.psi.org; Twitter: www.twitter.com/PSIHealthyLives; Blog: www.psi.org/HealthyLives.

About Research Works

Research Work’s specialism is in conducting qualitative and quantitative health research in every part of the UK. Established in 1987, we have worked for many public and voluntary sector organisations on health projects focused on behaviour change; intervention design; development and dissemination of social marketing and communication initiatives.

Our strengths are excellence in research quality; outcome-focussed thinking; creative methods and approaches; speed, flexibility and client-centred working methods. We conduct strategically and tactically focussed projects - and pride ourselves on the innovative nature of our research methods and action-orientated, practical, nature of our outputs. Our website can be found at www.researchworks.co.uk

About Resonant Media

Resonant Media is a leader in behaviour change, marketing health services and health information.

We are a creative agency that keeps consumer insight and measurable results at the heart of everything we do – helping us inspire people and deliver real change.

We work on some of the key issues of the day, including childhood obesity, democratic services, cancer screening, diabetes self-management and accessing the right healthcare.

Our clients include local authorities, charities, central government and the NHS. We help them improve the lives of their clients, supporters and patients.

Based in London, Resonant Media’s services include planning, audience and stakeholder engagement, research and insight gathering, campaign delivery, creative design, and information development.

Find out more about us at www.resonantmedia.co.uk

About The Social Marketing Gateway

The Social Marketing Gateway is a one door access point to a strategically-focused, collaborative network of dedicated and passionate social marketing practitioners, for clients interested in learning about, applying or commissioning social marketing to achieve sustainable behaviour change and measurable social benefit.

Our business model combines a core team and a tight network of experienced senior associates distributed around the UK. This network is supported by a number of agency partners, whose resource is drawn on as and when necessary.

The Gateway is currently working on projects throughout the UK as well as in Europe, South Africa and America.

About Unique Improvements

Unique Improvements Ltd is a North West based social enterprise. Being a social enterprise means that we invest our profits in charities, disadvantaged groups and deprived communities. Established in 2005 and, with our origins in the UK Public Sector, we have spent the last 6 years helping UK organisations understand and address their issues from within. Believing that People are not the Problem, but the Solution we are ideally placed to not only understand the challenges currently facing organisations but to help develop solutions to deal with them. Whether this is university accredited commissioning training or award winning social marketing programmes we can help.

About Uscreates

The UK faces some key social challenges including public health, climate change, community empowerment, and improving our economy. Uscreates is a social change agency with a mission to develop effective ways to respond to these social challenges.

We work in a collaborative way bringing together the people, organisations and issues involved to ensure ownership and power over the outcomes. This leads to more sustained and cost effective change.

Our vision is to transform our practical experience from working locally on the ground into learning which can inform policy at all levels. We use a problem solving process. The difference is we collaborate at all stages and aim to feed learning into policy formation.