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Course Award

Eligibility

Where there is more than one overall distinction, an element of each student’s work will be put before an independent judge or panel of judges who will select an overall winner. *

The award

Each winning student will receive a trophy and certificate.

PR Academy will publicise the award winner through media relations activity.

Judging criteria

The following judging criteria will apply where there is more than one overall distinction or the prize winner is being selected from a group of those with the highest mark.

Original thinking: effective critique of accepted approaches to PR
Presentation
Writing style

The judge’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.

Presentations for the PR Academy course awards 2008 and 2009 took place at the CIPR PR Centre in Russell Square.

Awards were presented by the President of the CIPR, Jay O’Connor. The winners were:

Kay Bruce – winner, Diploma, 2008/2009
Lisa-Marie Nelson – winner, Advanced Certificate 2008/2009
Sadie Metherell – winner, Diploma 2007/2008
Oliver Finegold – runner up, Diploma 2007/2008
Liz Walden – winner, Advanced Certificate 2007/2008
Tom Rye-Weller – runner up, Advanced Certificate 2007/2008

Kay Bruce receives her trophy from Jay O’Connor	Lisa-Marie Nelson receives her trophy from Jay O’Connor
Oliver Finegold receives his certificate from Jay O’Connor	Liz Walden receives her trophy from Jay O’Connor
Tom Rye-Weller receives his certificate from Jay O’Connor	From left to right: PR Academy award winners: Oliver Finegold, Kay Bruce, Jay O’Connor (President of the CIPR), Liz Walden, Tom Rye-Weller and Lisa-Marie Nelson.

Meet past winners 2007

Course award winners
Roger Perkins (Diploma winner) and Kate Hardman (Advanced Certificate winner) receive their trophies from 2007 President of the CIPR Lis Lewis Jones.

Jane Revell and Guto Hari

Jane Revell was runner up for the Diploma and received her certificate from Guto Harri, director of communications for the Mayor of London. Amy Lyddall was the runner up for the Advanced Certificate.

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