Dorm Room Decoration Ideas
Making your room a part of who you are is vital to settling in to University. One way you can do this is through adding personal touches to it; a certain… je ne sais...
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Coping with change: Post-University
How Big is the Change? University is a time for exploration and discovering yourself. However when the partying has settled down and you are finishing your final dissertation in your last year you may...
Personal Reflections on the University of Derby
Studying at university is about stretching and challenging students. How has your experience at Derby stretched and challenged you? My joint honours degree has widened my abilities. From theory to practicality, Derby Uni has...
Different Forms of Chat
My Little Premise The other day, a friend told me about how terrible I used to be at “shooting the breeze”. How over University I’d improved my ability to talk more about nothing, and...
What is ME/CFS? An Interview – Part Two
Source: http://www.friendswithme.org.uk/ Before you read on… This interview has been split into two parts, and this is the second. To read the first half, go to the Derby Union website, or click the link...
University Internships: What to Know
Stills taken from the film ‘The Internship’, directed by Shawn Levy, written by Vince Vaughn and Jared Stern, featuring Owen Wilson, Vaughn and Dylan O’Brien. Degrees supplemented with internships are vital in allowing postgraduates...
My Joint Honours Experience
Joint Honours is a fascinating and at times quite confusing choice when it comes to a bachelor’s degree.
What are the Liberal Arts? And Why is There a Push Towards Interdisciplinary Teaching at University?
Studying the Liberal Arts has been a long-founded in Western, and perhaps Eastern society. The social history of the Liberal Arts dates back to the classical tradition of the trivium in Ancient Greece that prescribed the...
The Undergraduate Research Scholarship Scheme – Inspiring, Innovating, Impactful
What an experience…no words can do justice to how beneficial the Undergraduate Research Scholarship Scheme (URSS) was for me. It definitely was impactful, innovating, inspiring to say the least. But first, let me just explain...
The University of Derby Union of Students Leadership Residential (By Anisha Kaur Johal)
In August, the University of Derby Union of Students hosted their annual Leadership residential retreat. The retreat aims to support students who work within the Union to develop their leadership skills. As an Academic...
