Drama Serial by Radio Alwan – A Lifeline for Syrians
May 2, 2016
This blog post was written by second year English student, Victoria Lorriman from the School of English. Radio Alwan started life in 2013 in Northern Syria as a small station only broadcasting for four hours each day from an aerial fixed onto a van [1]. The radio station rapidly expanded, its independent updates on the …
Lobsters, Regionalism, and Much More: T. S. Eliot and British Surrealism in the 1930s
April 27, 2016
This blog post was written by School of English PhD student, Xiaofan Xu. At first glance, T. S. Eliot and surrealism just do not seem to click. Eliot is known to have rejected a manuscript on French surrealism in 1926 for publication in his Criterion, with a dismissive comment that ‘I cannot feel that the …
Assessment Days…wait, they still have those?
April 25, 2016
This blog post was written by final year English and Philosophy student, Rishi Davda. As a final year, I try to balance my time between reading lists, sleeping, and job applications. Occasionally one of those job applications, which you submit six minutes before the deadline, actually goes beyond the dreaded mass email response beginning with …
The Book, The Tea, The Place to Be…
April 18, 2016
This blog post was written by final year American Studies and English student, Radhika Chond, from the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies. It’s that time of year again when Easter is somehow all done and dusted and you’re caught out wondering where the time has raced off to… In and amongst those academic …
The Experience of Writing and Directing Ambergate Reservoir
April 1, 2016
This blog post was written by second-year English student, Emma White. In the autumn term, we were encouraged as second-year creative writers to embrace our potential to be contemporary. I found myself writing performance scripts without feeling restricted by traditional methods; instead, I was building on them. My characters had individual desires which controlled the …
Alternative Places to Buy Books in Nottingham
March 21, 2016
This blog post was written by final year student, Katie Randall, from the School of English. As English students we’re required to read a lot of books. As there aren’t infinite copies of the core texts in the library, here are a few alternative places you can try looking, which also happen to be cheaper …
The Amazing Study/Work/Social Life Balancing Act
March 14, 2016
This blog post was written by English and Hispanic student, Sally Hirst. Whilst at university, free time can often involve a certain degree of guilt due to the buckets of critical reading, revision, and activities which need to be completed outside of contact hours – just because not many hours are spent in class, doesn’t …
“Get over it” – attitudes towards personal wellbeing
March 7, 2016
This blog post was written by final year student, Una Kunhya, from the School of English. Currently, I am on the Exploring Health Communication module and we have been looking at doctor-patient interactions. There have been various instances where patients have come into GP surgeries feeling down, depressed, or even suicidal. Their reasoning for “being down” ranged …
Any Means Necessary – New Drama Exposes Intimate Betrayal of Women by Undercover Police
February 29, 2016
This blog post was written by second year English student, Victoria Lorriman from the School of English. On for a limited time only at the Nottingham Playhouse, Any Means Necessary is a new commission written by Kefi Chadwick that examines the true stories of women deceived into relationships with undercover police officers. Having interviewed the real …
That Brown Envelope… You know the one!
February 22, 2016
This blog post was written by English and Philosophy student, Rishi Davda. So you’ve just picked up that scary brown envelope that bystanders must think is on fire from the way you handle it. You walk down the corridor to a place where there are fewer eagle eyes. Out comes the sheet… Whether they are …
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