Entries by Gemma Oakes

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Student finance: in real life

Part 5 of our ‘Student finance: in real life’ series is here! We speak to Lizzie in this instalment, who graduated from The University of Manchester in 2017 with a BSc in Psychology. Lizzie found applying for student finance “really confusing” but it “didn’t cause her as much stress as she thought it would” during her student days. She’s now a Trainee Clinical Psychologist for the NHS and says uni was definitely a good investment for lots of reasons – click to find out more!

A History of Widening Participation

In this post, we speak with the University’s Head of Widening Participation (WP) and Outreach Stephanie Lee about all things widening participation. She gives us a history of WP initiatives at UoM and how these have developed since 2003, as well as telling us about some of her favourite moments during her time at the University. Click to enter into a world of WP!

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Student finance: in real life

It’s here – part 4 of our ‘Student finance: in real life’ series! In this episode, we talk to Ellie who graduated from The University of Manchester in 2015 with a BSc in Speech and Language Therapy. She explains how she thinks of her student loan as an “investment” as she wouldn’t have been able to do her job without it, and tells us how the application process “wasn’t as scary” as she initially thought it would be.

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Student finance: in real life

In the third instalment of the series, we ask Chloe, a University of Manchester graduate who now works as a Community Engagement Lead at the West Midlands Combined Authority, for her thoughts on student finance. Chloe was one of the first students to experience the tuition fee increase from £3,000 to £9,000 a year, but (spoiler alert!) she still thinks university was one of the “best decisions” she’s ever made! Click to find out more.

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Research the Researcher: Charlotte Mellor

NEW SERIES ALERT! ‘Research the Researcher’ is an interview feature that asks academics and postgraduate students (don’t worry – we’ll go over what this means in the blog post!) from widening participation backgrounds to speak about their journey into the world of research. Today we’re talking to Charlotte Mellor, a Cancer Research UK-funded PhD student who previously participated in the Manchester Access Programme and studied Medical Biochemistry at The University of Manchester.

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Student finance: in real life

It’s here! Part 2 of our ‘Student finance: in real life’ series where we ask University of Manchester graduates how they felt about student finance before they began their course, how they feel about it now, and what it’s really like to live with student debt. Click to find out more about Rich and his thoughts on student finance before, during, and after university.