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Finding Community with Portsmouth University’s Rock Soc: An Inspiring Local Documentary

8th June 2025

A team of students from the University of Portsmouth recently created a short documentary about finding community through the rock music society and we are delighted to showcase it on S&C. [… read more ]

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Portsmouth University English Literature Cuts: The Full Facts

9th July 2020

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 ]

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Students and Staff Protest Cuts to University’s English Literature Department

27th February 2020

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 ]

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A Working Class Student is Something to Be?

27th February 2020

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 ]

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Young People’s Voices: The Value of Portsmouth Pride

6th August 2019

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 ]

Social Issues

Disabled and in Work? Chance Would be a Fine Thing

1st October 2018

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 ]

Social Issues

Sexism and the City: Is Street Harassment a Problem in Portsmouth?

14th December 2017

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 ]

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Closing Blackwell’s Portsmouth: The Real Cost of Cheap Books Online

7th December 2017

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 ]

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50 Years Ago, Today: A Personal Look Back at Portsmouth College of Art

10th October 2017

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 ]

Social Issues

Portsmouth and the University: Are We Divided by Town and Gown?

16th August 2017

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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Portsmouth-based Palestinian Student and Family in Need of Financial Help

2nd February 2026

Abedelraheem Hamad is a talented Chevening scholar who was evacuated from Gaza by the British government to study for a Masters in Crisis and Disaster Management at the University of Portsmouth in September 2025. Over [… read more ]

News

‘We Were Having None of It!’ Activists Voice Concerns at Southern Water Meeting

2nd February 2026

David Langley was one of a quintet activists who attended a meeting with Southern Water in Waterlooville on 30th January. Here he tells us what happened. I am pleased to report that we were well [… read more ]

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Together is Stronger: Portsmouth Climate Choir at the Green Forum

2nd February 2026

Portsmouth Climate Choir is part of a national movement called the Climate Choir Movement, which was founded with the intention of using the power of music to draw attention to critical environmental issues and mobilise [… read more ]

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Man Arrested At Protest Outside Stephen Morgan’s Office and Released Without Charge

2nd January 2026

A Portsmouth man was arrested yesterday outside the office of local MP and Labour Friends of Israel member, Stephen Morgan, under the Terrorism Act 2000. The man was holding a sign reading ‘Palestine Action are [… read more ]

News

Portsmouth Palestine Hunger Strike Protestors Step Up Pressure on Local MP

30th December 2025

For the second day this week, Portsmouth South constituents have demonstrated outside their MP Stephen Morgan’s office. George Hibberd reports. The protestors are demanding that Morgan, a member of Labour Friends of Israel and a recipient [… read more ]

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