• WINNER ANNOUNCED: INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS OFFICER – HEMANTH & LOREN

    Hemanth and Loren have been announced as the new International Students’ Officer.  A total of 643 people voted for this position. Hemanth and Loren won after one round of voting, due to the position being uncontested. The newly elected International Students’ Officers told Impact, that by running as the fictional Disney characters Jasmine...
  • Boozy Ballot Part II: SU Elections in a CRISIS?

      With this year’s SU Elections coming to a close on Friday, there was still one last opportunity for candidates to win over people’s hearts in the haven that is Crisis. Impact headed along to witness the debauchery of mixing alcohol with student politics, asking students what they really think about the whole elections...
  • Two year degrees? No, thanks

    Two year degree courses at universities in England look set to be introduced under new government plans, costing an eye-watering £14,000 a year, despite the reduced length of the degree. While some have argued that this will be beneficial to mature students and the like, arguably this is a...
  • SU Elections: Meet your 2017 Postgraduate candidates

    During our SU Elections media day on Saturday 4th March, we chatted with the candidates hoping to be your 2017-18 Postgraduate Officer. Here’s what they had to say. Anthony Alduino “It’s good to be back in Impact! I submitted a piece and didn’t hear back so that means it was...
  • SU Elections: Meet your 2017 Community candidates

    During our SU Elections media day on Saturday 4th March, we chatted with the candidates hoping to be your 2017-18 Community Officer. Here’s what they had to say. Ellie Mitchell  “I’m Ellie Mitchell and I’m running for SU Community Officer”. Ellie’s experience, while not SU focused, is wide-ranging. “I...
  • Dragging up the past unnecessarily? The Moorside Review

    Two-part drama ‘The Moorside’ concluded on BBC One last week, a dramatisation of the case of Shannon Matthews that shocked the nation. In 2008, nine-year-old Shannon Matthews was reported missing, and, like the case of Madeline Mccann, the press went mad. Photos of Shannon and her desperate mother Karen...
  • Impact Magazine: Person of the Year 2016

    Time named Donald Trump as their Person of the Year for 2016, in a sequence of events even more inevitable than the post-Brexit spike in hate crime. Here at Impact, Time’s leading competitor in the magazine industry, we have compiled our own shortlist of candidates more deserving of the title...