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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…
Anime Review: Demon Slayer
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…
Book Review: ‘Letters to a Young Poet’ by Rainer Maria Rilke
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…
Book Series Review: ‘A Court of Thorns and Roses’ by Sarah J. Maas
By Soyeenka Mishra – I first read this series sometime around September 2018 and immediately fell in love with it. I’d bought it for the hype and picked it up…
Taking Student Mental Health Seriously
By Izzy Woodcock – With more students being diagnosed with mental health problems than ever before, it’s no surprise that the ongoing mental health crisis…
Dermot Kennedy x Lilla Vargen (UEA)
By Ciéra Cree – On Friday 6th of December, I made my way back to the UEA LCR to go see Dermot Kennedy perform as part of his ‘Without Fear’ tour…
Major Upcoming Software Releases
By Joshua Dowding – 2020 will be a hectic year for some of the world’s largest software companies. Each of the three top operating systems, including Windows, macOS, and Ubuntu Linux…
Ashley Potter: My Art Teaching Career – A Conversation
By Ciéra Cree – Ashley Potter is a 29-year-old art teacher of two years living in Rhode Island, USA. She teaches Kindergarten through to the fifth grade…
COVID-19 Pandemic – the Response, the Innovations & the Advice
By Pat Lok – Social distancing, a phrase that people have come to loath, is a public health strategy that helps to limit the spread of infection and protect the vulnerable…
A Poetic Conversation: Abirami P. Kurukkal
By Ciéra Cree– Over the summer of 2019, I had the chance to speak with talented poet Abirami P. Kurukkal…
Barista-Visa: Will Brexit Leave a Bitter Taste?
By Grace Martin – Has Brexit left a bitter taste for the coffee shop industry? At long last, the government has come together to create a new immigration system…
