Editor: Amelia Yasin

Becoming the Fintech powerhouse: (500)

Glasgow is quietly emerging as one of the UK’s leading FinTech hubs, as startups thrive alongside global firms. With major players like JP Morgan expanding operations and a new wave of tech-driven financial companies choosing Glasgow as home, this piece will explore why the city is becoming a magnet for FinTech talent. Investigate how Glasgow’s mix of skilled graduates, government backing, and lower operational costs is transforming its economic future, and what that means for students hoping to break into finance, tech, or both.

The pressure of Glasgow’s Public Servants (700)

Glasgow has borne the brunt of over a decade of austerity. Cuts to local government budgets have left libraries shuttered, social care overstretched, and community centres on the brink. While national governments debate figures, the impact is felt in queues for mental health support, overworked council staff, and crumbling public buildings.This piece exposes how a working-class city is being slowly hollowed out — and asks whether Glasgow can afford any more political complacency.

Margaret Calvert and British Industrial Design (700)

You may not know it, but you interact with something designed by Margaret Calvert, and her business partner, Jock Kinnier. Road signs, signage at railway stations, even the yellow-on-black airport signage systems that are ubiquitous today. Her impact on the course of industrial and graphic design simply cannot be overstated. Do some research into Calvert and her work, and how it has impacted Britain and Glasgow. Try and get an interview, gold star if you do. 

Editor: Rosalind Herbert

Creative piece on study spots (500)

A short, creative writing piece on study spots at UofG, what do they say about the people who study there? Looking for linguistically beautiful prose and informed commentary. 

Pasta: check, Fajitas: check, Toast and Soup: check… Now What? (750)

Cooking for yourself at uni can get repetitive as we all know, so let’s share some new recipes. Submit your easy and cheap recipes for a collaborative piece showcasing some of Glasgow’s most weird and wonderful student meals. Please keep recipes under about 75 words: just a brief outline of ingredients and method. Submissions can be anything from a masterful example of student cuisine to the type of meal you’re embarrassed to tell your friends you’ve invented. Note: meal submissions can be anonymous or credited (let us know which you’d prefer) but please note your meals will be published alongside other students’. 

Editor: Dan Brophy

How to join a band at UofG (700words)

It’s in the name. A road map to joining a band at UofG e.g., where to go, who to meet, where to practice, how to gig, which shops to go to, how to get it all started and make a good experience out of it?

My Experience as a Kneecap Fan in Glasgow: A misunderstood radical community (700)

- Kneecap has performed a fair bit in Glasgow recently, and there is certainly a big community who support them in the city. It’s fair to say that the issues they rap about converge historically with many things incredibly relevant to Glasgow and Scotland, past and present. As a Kneecap fan based in Glasgow, tell us what the band mean to you in the current political context, tell us how this relates to Glasgow, Glaswegians, British History, and the idea of culture and community in the city

John Akomfrah - Mimesis: African soldier- Art over time (700)

GoMA's current main gallery exhibition is John Akomfrah’s Mimesis: African Soldier, a film installation shown across three screens. The thing about GoMA’s main exhibition is that it’s there for months, almost a year, pretty much the entire academic year. When I lived near GoMA, I used to visit almost every day, just to pop in for 5 minutes and stare at the main exhibit. How does our perception of art change as we see it everyday? What does the relationship mean and how does it develop and grow? How do we see things differently and how is this affected by our everyday lives, ups and downs, and the changing seasons?

Editor: Charlotte McFadzean

GUSA clubs and where to start? (700 words)

GUSA clubs are often intimidating, especially for those not involved in sports before university. An overview of beginner friendly GUSA clubs, interviews and testimonies from club members.

Cheaper Sports in Glasgow (450 words)

Don’t want to spend £175 on the UofG gym membership but still want to be active? where else can you go? Kelvingrove, Glasgow Life, away from the west end. Discuss the alternatives, including prices and differences from the Stevie gym.

The Commonwealth Games and the West End (500 words)

The Commonwealth Games are coming to Scotstoun (10 minute drive from campus). What will the impact of both the construction and actual event be on Glasgow as a whole. Will this bring more jobs? Better resources and opportunities? Or is it just an inconvenience for locals?