Sutton Bonington

On the evening of Monday 4th March, the candidates running for the position of Equal Opportunities and Welfare Officer participated in a hustings. The candidates included third year English student Cat Coakley-Burns, third year Psychology student JR, and third year Sociology student Myles Smith. The speeches began with Cat,...

With the 2018 Students’ Union Elections currently taking place, Impact talked to Ellie Mitchell, the SU Community Officer. During the interview, Ellie talked about how she has really been enjoying her time in office despite it being “very hard,” the Living Wage campaign, scholarships for refugees and asylum seekers,...

During the fourth day of campaigning, Impact headed over to Jubilee Campus at around 11am to look for campaigners.  First candidate Impact talked to was Rox Steven Junzhi, who is running for the position of International Officer. Rox said that he has centralised his campaign at Jubilee Campus as he reckons he...

Sutton Bonington, a student accommodation campus at the University of Nottingham, will be providing their residents with wristbands during freshers’ week. All campuses under the student accommodation provider Campus Living Villages, which includes Sutton Bonington, will be giving out wristbands to ensure the safety of their residents. “The wristbands...

Day three of SU Election campaigning for the candidates and the campaigners are looking for new places to spread the word about their manifestos. Outside of Hallward Library on this very sunny morning was Cassie O’Boyle (Education Officer candidate), who was handing out flyers to voters with one of...

Work began on 21st of February to install street lights on the Station road after a student led campaign put pressure on Nottinghamshire County Council in April 2014. The campaign accumulated 1,555 signatures for the petition submitted to the Council as 92% of people surveyed in 2013 described the...

A University of Nottingham PhD student and arable farmer revealed his new crop on the popular BBC programme ‘Countryfile’ last weekend. Shropshire farmer Stephen Jones established The British Quinoa Company alongside his PhD in crop science at the University of Nottingham’s School of Biosciences. The company produces British grown quinoa...