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Activities, sport & societies
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Community and connection means starting with the course
Marianne Evans
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SU blog
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20/10/22
The student movement needs another Millbank moment
Michael Chessum
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SU blog
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06/10/22
Campaigning for careers to go fossil free
Fergus Green
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SU blog
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29/09/22
Are you free this coming freshers’ week?
Jim Dickinson
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SU blog
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08/08/22
Student activism has been transformed by technology
Ashley Storer-Smith
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SU blog
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17/06/22
If students need belonging then their SUs need to change
Talia Adams
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SU blog
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23/05/22
Time for SUs to write a new chapter on community on campus
Jim Dickinson
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SU blog
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05/05/22
Blankets are available
Jim Dickinson
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SU blog
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10/04/22
Sometimes we have to get loud
Jim Dickinson
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SU blog
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08/04/22
Gamer types reimagined for student engagement
Simon Varwell
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SU blog
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31/03/22
Nightclubs need to do more to ensure students are safe for students
Amy Merchant
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SU blog
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02/11/21
After the boycotts, what happens next?
Jim Dickinson
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SU blog
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29/10/21
Campaigning and COP26: What are students’ unions permitted to do?
Laura Moss
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SU blog
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21/10/21
Is it time to kill off our obsession with student clubs and socs?
Jim Dickinson
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SU blog
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03/09/21
How might students’ drug behaviours be different after the lockdown?
Arda Ozcubukcu
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SU blog
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29/06/21
The impact of the pandemic upon student opportunities
Team Wonkhe
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SU blog
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12/03/21
The reluctant student activists of the Covid pandemic
Megan Ball
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SU blog
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12/03/21
Having something fun to look forward to is really helpful – for all of us
Rosie Hunnam
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SU blog
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12/02/21
Poorer students are less likely to take part in sport at university
Kerry Griffiths
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SU blog
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28/01/21
Are student support groups the new societies?
Jim Dickinson
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SU blog
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18/12/20
Should SUs kick the booze once and for all?
Francesco Masala
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SU blog
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18/12/20
Student sport is safer and more valuable than the alternatives
Julie Brunton
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SU blog
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24/11/20
Students unions are all the same. Or are they?
Olly Norman
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SU blog
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13/11/20
Can student societies survive the pandemic?
Jack Harvey
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SU blog
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13/11/20
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