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Rhian Williams

Madeleine Anderson

I'm Madeleine, a news and features writer at Nursing in Practice and previous News Associates NCTJ trainee. Before joining NiP I briefly worked as a reporter for a local paper, …

Alex Jacob

English and Business Graduate. Bylines in The Times, Varsity Newspaper, The Cambridge Student and The Reviews Hub.

Suchir Salhan

Computer Science PhD, Cambridge University & Journalist Suchir Salhan is a PhD Candidate in Computer Science at Cambridge University (Gonville & Caius College), focusing on Natural Language Processing and Machine …

Peter Iltchev

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Juliette Bretan

Juliette Bretan is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Cambridge.In her freelance work, she has written regularly for Notes from Poland and Culture.pl, and been published in …

Latest Articles

Cambridge could drop Barclays for a Greener Bank — The Cambridge Student

Recent, messaging from Barclays has thus emphasised this new focus in their hiring. One spokesperson told The Guardian that, “Barclays has made a significant number of sustainability hires in many teams, reflecting our commitment to work with customers and clients as they transition to a low-carbon business model.” Others have …

By Suchir Salhan
20th January 2024 • The Cambridge Student

The Cambridge Student Podcast

Our Culture Co-Editors, Matilda Sidel and Tommy Gilhooly, introduce their latest articles on headphones and the Kings Road. Madeleine Anderson, TCS Audio-Visual Editor, talks to Tilda Butterworth about her disrupted year abroad.

By Madeleine Anderson
7th December 2023 • The Cambridge Student

Cambridge’s Youngest Black Professor Speaks on Institutional Racism and Legacies of Slavery — The Cambridge Student

The content of the article has been revised, after discussion with Jason Arday. A variety of incredibly complex issues that are open to being misinterpreted were addressed during the interview. This article has been amended based on language use and tone in a move to avoid such misinterpretations unintentionally made …

By Suchir Salhan
1st December 2023 • The Cambridge Student

TCS News Update: Polish Pro-European Government Delayed from taking Office —

Poland’s President, Andrzej Duda, swore in a right-wing government led by PM Mateusz Morawiecki this week (27/11) and a cabinet of of mostly new ministers in what opposition parties have declared as a “farce” intended to delay them from taking power, after they won a majority in October’s elections. Duda, …

By Suchir Salhan
29th November 2023 • The Cambridge Student

The Cambridge Student Podcast

TCS Podcaster Lara Zand speaks to Kasia Pendlebury about funding a year abroad following Brexit. TCS Culture Co-Editor Matilda Sidel reads from her now published series, linking chivalric romance with her favourite music of the 1980s.

By Madeleine Anderson
31st March 2023 • The Cambridge Student

The Cambridge Student Podcast

Madeleine Anderson, TCS Audio Visual Editor, speaks to Professor Sian Lazar about her experience of striking. Professor Lazar’s book ‘How We Struggle: A Political Anthropology of Labour’ is available now, and can be purchased here.

By Madeleine Anderson
28th March 2023 • The Cambridge Student

The Cambridge Student Podcast

Our columnist Ralph Jeffreys shares his latest article on the importance of community. Lara And, TCS Podcaster, talks to Sofia Johanson about her disrupted year abroad.

By Madeleine Anderson
25th March 2023 • The Cambridge Student

Unfair Data Handling in University Harassment Reporting Procedure — The Cambridge Student

This article contains discussion of sexual harassment. Over the past year we’ve been investigating OSCCA (the Office of Student Conduct, Complaints and Appeals), the university-wide body to which reports of sexual harassment are made. Rather than a legal procedure OSCCA is a body formed of university employees who decide whether …

By Katie Wright
21st February 2023 • The Cambridge Student

Review: She Loves Me

A story of two unlikely romantics, desperate for love but unable to see the possibility of it right in front of them, She Loves Me is a charming waltz through a 1930s Budapest parfumerie, where romance and comedy join hands to bring Amalia Balash and Georg Nowack together at the …

By Charissa Cheong
6th February 2019 • The Cambridge Student

The Rwandan Genocide, Brandon Stanton, and why ‘Humans of New York’ is one of the most important pages on social media right now

‘Do you ever read something and have a very clear vision that there’s so much of life about which you know nothing? Are you ever just smacked in the face with your own ignorance and naivete?’ It’s 8:20pm on April 6, 1994. An aeroplane carrying the President of Rwanda is …

By Alex Jacob
28th November 2018 • The Cambridge Student

A celebration of voices: Holocaust survivor, Eva Clarke, visits John's

Dressed in a well-fitted monochrome blazer and skirt, with shards of red nails and lips, and an immaculate billow of cotton white hair, you would be forgiven for thinking Eva Clarke is your typical stylish grandmother. And she is – though she was also born on 29th April 1945 in …

By Juliette Bretan
28th January 2018 • The Cambridge Student

The political situation in Poland is now at a critical level

Late in the afternoon of 29th October, a man identified only as Piotr S. passed away in a central hospital in Warsaw, Poland, after being in a serious condition for 10 days as a result of suffering 60% burns over his body. The 54 year old’s health had deteriorated fast …

By Juliette Bretan
30th October 2017 • The Cambridge Student

Plant based eating: Not just for January

Veganuary may be coming to an end, but this doesn’t mean plant-based eating has to. Even if you don’t want to go all out and become a vegetarian or vegan, you could still decide to eat less meat by making plant-based meals that are filling, protein-packed and super satisfying. Even …

By Rhian Williams
30th January 2016 • The Cambridge Student

Escape, Issue 8, Michaelmas Term 2014

I was a section editor for one of Cambridge's weekly student publications, covering travel and culture in print and online. I profiled five student travel bloggers, each of whom had spent time in a different country.

By Peter Iltchev
27th November 2014 • The Cambridge Student