#bestPRblogs end of season report

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Richard Bailey Hon FCIPR is editor of PR Academy's PR Place Insights. He teaches and assesses undergraduate, postgraduate and professional students.

We’ve checked and updated the numbers and have revised the final #bestPRblogs rankings.

This academic year we have featured 155 posts from 59 students studying at 12 different universities.

The most prolific universities have been Southampton Solent followed by Sunderland and Greenwich.

Those shortlisted for #bestPRblogs are:

Livi Wilkes (Southampton Solent): 13 posts
Lauren Old (Sunderland): 10 posts
Ashley Keir-Bucknall (de Montfort): 9 posts
Morta Jablonskaite (Sunderland): 7 posts
Simona Novakova (Greenwich): 7 posts

They have the month of April to impress our judge Stephen Waddington. You can help them by commenting on their blog posts and sharing your favourites on social media.

We’ve also compared universities for the numbers of featured student bloggers and for the number of their blog posts. This produces the following university ranking:

1: Southampton Solent: 15 students / 51 blog posts
2: Sunderland: 9 students / 37 blog posts
3: Greenwich: 10 students / 22 blog posts
4: Leeds Beckett: 9 students / 13 blog posts
5: De Montfort: 1 student / 9 blog posts
6: UWE Bristol: 4 students / 7 blog posts
7: LCC/UAL: 1 student / 5 blog posts
8: Bournemouth: 3 students / 3 blog posts
9: Edge Hill: 2 students / 3 blog posts
10=: Manchester Metropolitan: 2 students / 2 blog posts
10=: Westminster: 2 students / 2 blog posts
12: Stirling: 1 student / 1 blog post