• Impact Investigates: Letting You Down – Student Renting Horror Stories

    Impact’s Investigation Team Straight from halls or their parents’ homes, students often head into their privately-rented accommodation wide-eyed, expecting a problem-free year of living. However, a very different reality sometimes awaits. In collaboration with Nottingham Student Television (NSTV) and University Radio Nottingham (URN), Impact  interviewed University of Nottingham students...
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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...
  • The ‘GentleMinions’ Trend: Suits, Bananas, and Chaos

    The ‘GentleMinions’ trend has recently taken the world by storm following the release of Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022) this July. The ‘GentleMinions’ trend saw large groups of teenagers going to the cinema wearing suits and filming their experience and posting it online, mainly to Tik Tok. Arabella...
  • Impact’s Music Essentials: Modern UK Indie Pop

    Arabella Mitchell Arabella Mitchell picks her ten favourite songs in the Modern UK Indie Pop genre for Impact’s Music Essentials. Declan McKenna- Brazil  I cannot express how much I love this song! This song will forever be a summer staple (and one I will always sing along to). The mix of...
  • Why Women Are Deleting Their Period Tracking Apps After Roe V. Wade

    Arabella Mitchell Many women are deleting period tracking apps after the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe vs Wade on June 24th 2022. This ruling saw 22 American states ban women’s rights to abortion after nearly fifty years. In light of this decision, women are being urged to...