It is now clear that the University of Portsmouth is planning to reduce its English Literature department from 12 to five full-time staff – a massive 58% cut. The UoP English Literature team share the [… read more ]
Beatrice Ashton-Lelliott, PhD Student, shares her thoughts on the University of Portsmouth’s proposal to reduce the number of staff in the English Literature Department and what we can do to help support the staff and [… read more ]
Oliver Timberlake, writer, reveals his personal experience of being working-class at the University of Portsmouth. Since the 1980s, there’s been a dominant narrative about how class in Britain no longer really matters. For Margaret Thatcher, [… read more ]
Continuing our new series of stories from our Young People’s Voices project – funded by Victorious Festival and supported by the University of Portsmouth – Ross McGregor, a pupil at St Edmund’s School, gives his [… read more ]
Like many students, Anne Taylor was uncertain that her degree would guarantee employment when she graduated from the University of Portsmouth. Unlike many graduates, Anne faces some additional barriers to finding work: she is disabled [… read more ]
Last year a YouGov poll commissioned by the End Violence Against Women coalition found that 64% of all women surveyed experienced unwanted sexual attention in public spaces. Rates for younger women were even higher. University [… read more ]
Reviewer and student Emily Priest investigates the recent announcement that Blackwell and the University of Portsmouth have decided to shut Blackwell’s Portsmouth. Additional reporting by Sarah Cheverton. Following a period of commercial struggle, the University [… read more ]
S&C contributor Andrew Larder takes a trip back in time with former alumni of Portsmouth College of Art, Sue and David Gibbons and reflects on whether life was better for students in the sixties, whilst [… read more ]
University of Portsmouth student Maria Sewell asks whether the growing population of students is having a positive or negative effect on the city’s image. The Royal Navy has long been at the heart of Portsmouth’s growth and [… read more ]
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