Vote for Thought

Politics and discontent is applicable to a student and their university, as it is to working adults and their governments. For an outsider to the system, like me, I wanted to see wether an organised political system at the university level was really a representative student body, or whether it only chose to represent students of a particular disposition.

Multimedia Focus

Rather than just pasting walls of text, one after another, we decided to integrate more multimedia aspects, to give our target audience (the students of the university) the ability to easily consume information. This involved interviewing the student community as well as representatives in a variety of different ways.

I conducted both interviews with the then head of the Newcastle University Students Union, as well as hosting a panel discussion with concerned teachers and students

Curating Student Responses

What was imperative to the project was zero-ing in on why students chose to speak out against the system, and why their feelings towards them. These responses were too three different political movements— The UK General Elections, The Newcastle Council Elections and the NUS Referendum.

Using platforms of vox pops, on-line surveys as well as case study interviews, we gauged the impetus and exercise of political will throughout the youth of newcastle, both students and residents.