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Life During COVID Archive
By Ciéra Cree – People from across society are being invited by a group of researchers at Anglia Ruskin University to share their stories from the lockdown period caused by COVID-19…
‘Normal People’ (BBC) – Series Overview
By Lily Brown – University can be an exciting new chapter in a lot of people’s lives. For many people, it is the first time they will be away from home and away from their…
Identity: The ‘Who Am I’ Project (BBC Voices, 2020)
By Ciéra Cree – In May, BBC Radio Norfolk, together with Taryn Everdeen, launched an Instagram project on the theme of ‘identity’. The project entailed taking a photo of…
‘Geekerella’ by Ashley Poston (2017) – Book Review
By Soyeenka Mishra – I picked up this Ashley Poston book with no expectations at all and ended up being pleasantly surprised. First of all, I liked the dog, Franco, and I am…
ARU Unity Zine Launch
By Ciéra Cree – Shortly after returning home on the 29th of March, I came up with an idea to create a zine. At first, I reached out for submissions on the ARU Together…
‘Storm and Silence’ by Robert Thier (2016) – Book Series Review
By Anushka Dey – I know many of you must be scrunching your nose at the mention of the Victorian era; some of you may already be imagining women in hoop skirts…
Project Restart: The Return of the Premier League
By Ryan Senior – Football is not just a sport, it can be both a passion and an outlet where fans can forget all about their worries and cheer on their favourite team for ninety…
K-POP x Fandom Society’s Lockdown Activities – Society Showcase
By Jannah Campbell-Williams – In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, both the K-POP and Fandom societies have been doing all that they can to keep their activities running smoothly…
Hobbies in Lockdown
By Lily Brown – The lockdown has meant many of us have more time to fill when we would usually be commuting into university and socialising with friends. As well as bingeing Netflix series’…
Face-to-Face: Memory & the Impact of Physical Meeting
By Ciéra Cree & Lorenzo Barba – Have you ever sat down and thought to yourself “how many people have I come into some form of contact with over my lifetime?”. It’s fascinating…
I Hate Quarantine: A Sanity Memoir
By Chelsea Furr – Before I start – here’s a little about me. I am firmly set somewhere between an introvert and an extrovert. It depends on the crowd and…
‘Demon Slayer’ Season One – Anime Series Review
By Shubham Singh – I was already up-to-date with the manga of this series, but then, to my pleasant surprise, I discovered it was going to receive an anime adaptation…
Zoom: A Lens Into People’s Lives
By Pat Lok – The COVID-19 pandemic, and the subsequent global lockdown, has forced us to shift our usual social interactions into a different realm…
Cambridge City Council Launch a New Pilot Project to Protect & Grow the City’s Tree Population
By Joshua Dowding, Ciéra Cree & Gabs Bennington – On the 13th March, The Ruskin Journal was invited to the Guildhall, Market Square, to conduct an interview with Dr. Matthew Ling of Cambridge City Council…
‘Letters to a Young Poet’ by Rainer Maria Rilke (1929) – Book Review
By Ciéra Cree – It was during a radio production class one day that I found myself having a conversation about poetry with my lecturer somewhat out of nowhere…
