The Ruskin Journal ft. Creative Writing Society Open Mic Night
By Ciéra Cree & Joshua Dowding – On Friday 21st February, both The Ruskin Journal and the Creative Writing Society co-hosted an open mic event as part of LGBTQ+ History Month…
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Connected: Social Media & Online Friends – A Discussion
By Ciéra Cree & Soyeenka Mishra – Social media is everywhere – and I mean everywhere. In our hands, in our subconscious, and on the walls of our go-to coffee shops. It’s inescapable…
Society Showcase: Cardiology & Cardiothoracics Society (Chelmsford)
Guest Written By George Liu & Ankesh Gandhi – Are you interested in Cardiology and Cardiothoracics? Are you a student at the university’s Chelmsford Campus? Then our aptly named society is the one for you!…
The Truth About Valentine’s Day
By Maria Cristina-Ionita – What if I told you that Valentine’s Day is a commemoration of a martyr? According to history, the Catholic Church celebrates three martyrs with…
Extinction Rebellion Plan to Bring City to a Halt in Latest Protest
By Joshua Dowding – In the last few days, media outlets throughout Cambridge – including The Ruskin Journal – have been made aware of Extinction Rebellion’s plan to ‘bring the city to a halt’ with a ‘week-long roadblock’…
Trip Report: Media Exhibitions in London
By Ciéra Cree – On Wednesday 4th of December, first-year students taking the Media Studies course were invited on their first university field trip – a day that played out to be both exciting and memorable for many reasons…
Society Showcase: Take Little Steps Towards Your Bright Future! (Cambridge)
Guest Written By Ekaterina Zenina – Law has always been the most important part of a functioning society. It is also known as being the most mysterious and complicated area that people are not ready to venture in to understand…
What’s On: Cambridge – Competitive Escape Room League
By Joshua Dowding – This is the first post in a new series covering some of the interesting events happening in each of the cities hosting an ARU campus – Cambridge, Chelmsford, Peterborough and London…
Holocaust Education Trust – My Experience
By Elle Haywood – The 27th of January each year marks Holocaust Memorial Day across the world, which is the liberation of notorious concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Institutions across the UK recognise this memorial and pay tribute through…
Film Review: The Gentlemen (2019)
By Lily Brown – My first cinema experience of the year was to see Guy Ritchie’s latest film, The Gentlemen. I have to admit I have never seen some of Ritchie’s more famous films, including Snatch, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and RocknRolla…
Dada or Dadon’t? An Exploration of Dadaism
By Ciéra Cree & Adam Clarke – Artists are breaking conventions more than ever before, so it’s no wonder that alternative art forms such as ‘Dada’ have risen in popularity in recent years. Prizing itself on its nonsense and irrationality…
All Aboard 2020
By Ciéra Cree – As 2019 breathed its last breath and the New Year came around to greet us with open arms, some of you may have been left feeling rather bittersweet about the year gone by…
The ‘Reverse’ Advent Calendar
By Ciéra Cree – Christmas is fast approaching, and as we all know, this can only mean one thing – shopping, shopping, shopping. Perhaps some of you have already been shopping in preparation for the big day – it’s not uncommon…
Let’s Celebrate JOMO!
By Maria-Cristina Ionita – Drinks with friends, assignments due, societies to join, events to attend, work, relationships etc. As a student, I believe I have so many opportunities but such little time. Some might argue that the key to this problem is…
