Content warning: references to sexual violence and abuse, homophobia I didn’t write an editorial for our LGBTQ+ history month print edition as I didn’t have anything I especially wanted to write at the time, but I was scrolling through TikTok the other day and came across a statistic that shocked me so much I had […]
A 2021 survey across ten countries (involving 10 000 participants aged 16-25) led by Bath University revealed that 60 per cent of the young people approached felt worried/extremely worried about climate change. This ‘eco-anxiety’ was not only attributed to fears of environmental destruction but also dissatisfaction with government inaction on climate change. We are the […]
As discussed throughout this issue, the climate crisis has wide-ranging impacts and effects on all of us, but we can’t talk about climate change and the climate crisis without talking about climate justice, as these effects are deeply and intrinsically linked with gender inequality. Women and girls experience the greatest impacts of climate change, often […]
Discussions around abortion are highly prevalent in Scottish politics right now, even more so since the resignation of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. The three SNP leadership candidates have varying views on abortion and on buffer zone legislation. One of these candidates, the Finance Secretary, Kate Forbes, has previously expressed pro-life views – in 2018, she […]
This week’s publication is undoubtedly a celebration of women’s contribution to society, both throughout history and today. However, the edition should also remind us of the continued emphasis we must place on gender issues. Despite the immense progress we have seen in women’s rights over the last century, gender equality must not be taken for […]
Transphobia has never been so rife, and the blame lies with the media. The way our media treats trans people – in broadsheet, on ‘debate’ shows, on social media – reflects how deeply rooted transphobia is in everything we consume. These attack lines aren’t simply being ‘conjured up’ by the media. They stem from a […]
This week’s issue of The Student is dedicated to student mental health, something that I know every student at university will have been touched by, whether personally or through friends and family.It is first important to distinguish between diagnosed mental health conditions and mental wellbeing. The more we learn about mental health, the more this […]
There are ethnic inequalities in health and especially in genomics studies. In 2009, it was found that only 4 per cent of genomewide association studies participants were people with non-European ancestry. British medical history fails to represent those of ethnic minorities, resulting in misdiagnoses, and a general unawareness of diseases such as Sickle Cell Disease […]