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    Impact Investigates: Freshers Targeted By Dodgy Promotion Tactics

    Lucinda Dodd (with research by Impact’s Investigation team) UoN freshers are being targeted by club event promoters who are incentivising people to pose as students to entice them to buy expensive club tickets long in advance. These ‘students’ give freshers the impression that they’ll miss out on popular club...
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    Bumble BFF: The Future Of Friendship?

    In today’s world, ways of creating connections have become more streamlined and innovative. From LinkedIn for business, to the wide, wide host of apps for dating, there's many ways to analyse people through a screen. But what about friendship? Sure, there’s Facebook, and Instagram, and every other social media,...
  • Weekly Wellbeing: 5 Tips For Dealing With Exam Pressure

    May is always a dreaded month: filled to the brim with deadlines and exams. And even though this is naturally a very stressful time, it’s important to remember that it doesn’t need to be, and there are ways that you can make things as easy for yourself as possible....
  • It’s Time To Rethink The Ethics Of Reality TV

    Urmi Pandit Channel 4’s documentary Jeremy Kyle Show: Death on Daytime analysed the consequences of one of the UK’s most popular reality TV shows – most recently, the suicide of Steve Dymond in May 2019. When a guest takes their life just a week after filming, for a show...
  • 7 Ways Students Can Support Ukraine

    Urmi Pandit With millions of innocent Ukrainian civilians displaced from their homes and normal lives, it is vital that the rest of the world do whatever they can to show support for those families who are suffering, and provide as much care as possible. As a student, you may...
  • Pandemic Problems And Picket Lines: Do Third Year UoN Students Regret Going To University?

    Shivani Hindocha Current third year students are perhaps the most disrupted cohort ever. Losing over a year of in-person teaching to a pandemic exacerbated before and after by UCU strikes. So, do they regret making the (very costly) decision to go? Third year Nottingham University student Shivani Hindocha reflects...
  • International Women’s History Month: Women Who Inspire Us

    Features Contributors With March being International Women’s History Month, the Impact Features team reflects on the women who inspire us. From musical icons to best friends to political figures, these women have inspired for their resilience, their humanity and their intellect. Bernadine Evaristo For those of you who aren’t...