Crisis

On the last day of Impact on the campaign trail, we take one last look at what the candidates are up to, and talk to Kunj Sachdeva, running to be your next Postgraduate Officer. Kunj has been very actively campaigning on social media throughout the week. “The experience I...

The 5th day of campaigning for the Students’ Union elections has approached. With the signs of spring weather finally showing up on campus, the SU Elections candidates are continuing their campaigning week. Even though campaigning on campus is scarce, most candidates’ online presence is strong. From Facebook campaign videos...

Motorola clamshell, Nokia 1600 and Sony Ericsson k700 – a long lost generation of mobile phones that first introduced us to the technological world. Do you remember the initial excitement that pierced your heart when your fingers impatiently ripped the wrapping paper apart to reveal the one little piece...

Nottingham-based young entrepreneur Roshan Sood has released the UK’s first students-only ride-sharing app UniLift, and it’s getting its own launch party at Crisis on the 31st of January. If there wasn’t always enough of an incentive to scour the Buy and Sell page for hours on end looking for...

We are facing an epidemic in mental illness amongst young people. The reasons behind this are vague, vast and complex, yet there are two key issues that stand out when approaching this intensifying crisis: delayed diagnosis and intervention, and the ever-present stigma surrounding mental ill health. The government made...

As technology advances, different methods of teaching are becoming available to universities across the country. Impact’s Ellie Wright and Esther Kearney have gone at the heart of one of the university’s most heated debates around this: should lectures be recorded or not? Many people can relate to the suffering involved...

You’re a first year and someone asks you what you want to do with your life, you tell them it doesn’t matter you have absolutely ages to decide that, years in fact! But then, all of a sudden, you’ve started your final year and you can’t just shrug off...