Beginning your journey at university can be an exciting but also a daunting experience, well, at least it was for me. When people think about the typical ‘Student Life’ they think about moving away from home, spending your entire student loan within the first week of Freshers, and living on Pot Noodles for eight months
Dyslexia isn’t an issue that can be helped in one certain way, and having suffered with it for my whole academic life I can’t imagine what it would be like not to have it. I am constantly trying different and new things to see what works best for me. So, I have decided to list
There are currently around 850, 000 people living with Dementia in the UK. Dementia knows no boundaries, no age limits, no race, and no gender. The youngest person to ever be diagnosed with Dementia in the UK was 6… Yes! 6 years old! Whilst on my placement with Radius Housing, at the request of John
It’s one of the most basic tenets of the whole PR game, and one that’s shared with much of the corporate world, the principle of SWOT. For those of you who haven’t had it implanted in your head by a succession of lectures, meetings and briefings, it stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats, which
The Charity sector. Somewhere I didn’t think a degree in Public Relations could take you. My views were drastically changed through my placement year at Concern Worldwide where I saw the range of activities that a PR professional can engage in. Going into my interview (which was a day before I was heading off on
In this day and age, there is an ever-growing need for organisations to pursue some sort of online presence to try and expand their ability to target and communicate with customers. Social media has accentuated this ability and thus has begun the age of instant communication to and from the once powerless consumer. Most organizations
I began looking for somewhere to do my placement year quite late in the year …… actually really late (I don’t recommend this). But for me this was actually a blessing in disguise. I’m not the most organised person in the world and I’ve always been very laid back and easy going and whilst looking
Huge waves strike the harbour wall and lighthouse on October 16, 2017 as Storm Ophelia hits the UK and Ireland So as I’m sure you’re aware, on Monday 16th October, 2017, a hurricane named Ophelia paid a visit to our beautiful little island. Now for most of us the weather didn’t really affect our day-to-day
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill It feels like only yesterday that I was a bright eyed, bushy tailed second year student panicking over finding a placement, when suddenly the year has been and gone in a flash. Looking back
It is no secret that Ryanair has come under scrutiny in the past, however, this tops them all. The budget airline giant has created a great deal of chaos with cancelling many of its flights. Thousands of passengers were left disappointed to not be going on their holidays, or worse, left stranded in foreign countries