• IMPACT ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL: DAY 1

    The first day of campaigning for the Students’ Union elections has finally approached, but so has the snow. With the heavy snow keeping many students at home, it has been a relatively slow start to the campaigning week. However, at 9am you could still find some candidates and their...
  • Full list of candidates for 2018 Students’ Union Elections announced

    The final candidate list for both the full-time and part-time Officers for the 2018 Students’ Union Student Leader Elections have been released. Their manifestos can be found here. Make sure to keep an eye out on Impact as we will soon be releasing the interviews that we conducted with...
  • WINNER ANNOUNCED: PRESIDENT – Alan Holey

    Alan Holey has been elected as your new SU President for 2017-18. Alan was declared the President of the Students’ Union for the 2017/18 academic year after winning the 8th round of voting, with 2362 votes. Note: Beth Massey announced prior to the results that Sweep had been disqualified from...
  • Presidential Candidates Question Time

    The candidates running for President in this year’s Students’ Union elections took part in a hustings earlier this week. The returning officer was SU President Ismail Sadurdeen, who chaired the session. The Question Time began with the candidates giving a one minute introduction to themselves. Joshua Chan started by...
  • Impact On The Campaign Trail: Day 1

    Today marks the first day of the campaign trail for the Student Union elections, with candidates out and about in an attempt to gain votes.   Candidates for the SU elections were up bright and early this morning, hanging up posters and giving out leaflets to people all over...
  • “You can’t comb over racism”: Nottingham Rallies Against Trump’s ‘Muslim Ban’

    Protesters gathered on King Street last night (30th Jan) to take a stand against Donald Trump’s ‘Muslim Ban’ executive order. The legislation has been described as a ‘Muslim ban’ as it involves suspending people from Iraq, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Iran and Yemen, all of which are devout Islamic...
  • Would Sanders have beaten Trump?

    As those within the Democratic party reflect on Hillary Clinton’s catastrophic presidential election defeat to Donald Trump, surely the question will be posed: did we choose the wrong candidate? Of course this is a very difficult question to answer, but one thing’s for sure – Hillary just simply wasn’t...