Jacob Bentley

Molly O’Brien has been announced as the new Students with Disabilities Officer. After one round of voting, Molly received 777 votes, beating RON. One of Molly’s main manifesto points is to develop social events and campaigns within the Disabled Students Network. She also wants to organise more ‘meet and...

An Equal Opportunities and Welfare question time took place on Friday, giving candidates the opportunity to expand on their manifesto points and answer specific questions posed by students. The questions covered a variety of topics, from raising awareness of mental health services to ways to provide services for postgraduate students...

Impact News went to the Sports Officer Question time to bring you all the highlights. Read what the candidates had to say about engaging first year students in sports programmes, continuing to drive the University’s sports brand and balancing the need to increase participation with demand for facilities. Click here...

The Students’ Union (SU) Sports Officer Candidate Question Time took place on Friday, chaired by current SU Sports Officer, Kiri Madhani. Both students and candidates discussed, at length, the need to develop a closer bond between the University’s campuses, balancing demands for beginners and BUCS points and tackling initiations. Yolanda King...

With voting for this year’s Student Leader Elections opening tomorrow, campaigning has slowly begun to spread across campus and many candidates have started to mobilise their teams. Sports Officer candidate, James Bramley, spoke to Impact alongside his campaign team in Portland Building.: “Today is the first day for us. We started outside West...

Day two of the campaign trail saw SU election candidates use social media to inform students that their campaign teams will soon be more visible on campus. Dan O’Connor, running for Education Officer, tweeted that his campaign team will be on campus and talking to students from tomorrow, telling followers that...

Impact News finds out how the SU election candidates are publicising their campaigns on social media and online. Presidential candidate, Ed Keevil, and Sports Officer candidate, Yolanda King, have responded to questions posted on the Student Leader Elections’ ‘Ask a Candidate’ webpage today. Ed Keevil responded to a question...