We are pleased to show some of the vlogger footage produced during the project. These can be accessed via the Vlogs page We also have some shorter TikTok style videos available here

Our showcase event on 17th May was a great success! We broadcast a sneak preview of some of the vlogger footage, and also got feedback from our student and staff audience. Thanks to everyone who came along. It was a great atmosphere, and everyone enjoyed watching the videos. We are now in the process of […]

We are very excited to be launching the first set of edited videos produced by our student vloggers at our showcase event next week! We also have an update session next week to report on our project progress so far. Busy times!

We had an excellent project meeting this morning with all of the team and the student vloggers to look at the footage they have captured so far. Lots of variety, humour and honesty – you’re in for a treat! We’re also busily planning a Premiere event to showcase the videos! 17th May, 5.30pm – hold […]

We now have 6 student vloggers in place, and the footage is already rolling in! Placement experiences, carrying out dissertation research, studying on campus, going to class, and washing up (!) are some of the highlights so far. Our vloggers will be busy filming their experiences as a student over the next few weeks, ready […]

Lots has been happening since our last post. We got ethical approval for the research element of the study (whoop!), and we also got news that our conference paper proposal has been accepted for the Advance HE conference in July. Our fabulous RAs have been developing a user guide for the vloggers to help them […]

The whole study team met for the first time on December 8th (Rachel, Karishma, Evgenia, Alinafe and Veronika) to share their interesting ideas and developments on the ‘day in the life of’ project. A mixed method project proposal was outlined, high quality literature searches carried out, thorough detective work on types of social media/student generated content […]

We’re really pleased to have successfully appointed 2 research assistants to help us with the project. Ali and Veronika are current undergraduate Psychology students at UoN and wowed us with their video editing skills! See more about them on the Project Team page

We are now advertising for a temporary research assistant to join our team. The post is being advertised to UoN Psychology students, with a closing date of 1st November 2021 (5pm).

We had our first project meeting last week and also presented at the Innovation Project Network event. This was a useful opportunity to share our proposal and hear from other teams about their projects