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Isa Arellano brings attention to GLAD: the UK’s largest research study for anxiety and depression that is being led by staff right here at QUB.

The Gown’s Rory Morrow offers some thoughts on the recent action in the Premier League.

Garrett Byrne examines May’s local elections in England and regional elections in Scotland and Wales.

Business leaders, from Northern Ireland’s main commerce chambers, are calling for the Executive to release the dates they expect to lift restrictions. This comes in the wake of the Executive’s Pathway to Recovery plan, the region’s way out of the pandemic era. Aidan Lomas writes.

Jonathan Horner contributes to this first Spring installment of The Gown’s Inkpot, with his very own – ‘The Observer.’

The Gown is grateful to Katie Ní Chléire for sending us her objectives as Queen’s University, Belfast Student’s Union President in the upcoming 2021-2022 academic year. Katie is putting the issue of student mental health at the forefront of her campaign.

Elena Byrne is running to be the next Postgraduate Officer in the upcoming 2021-2022 QUB SU elections. Having an extensive background as a Queen’s University undergraduate and postgraduate student Elena writes of the goals she hopes to achieve should she be successful in her 2021 run.

Peter Donnelly, Editor In the run up to the Student Union Elections, taking place from Monday 1st March 2021, The

Laurie Reavy is running for VP for Equality and Diversity. She hopes to bring international students into the University fold, believing that they have been sidelined over the past year during the Coronavirus pandemic.

Emma Murphy contributes her campaign objectives to The Gown’s QUB SU Election 2021 coverage, for her run to be student Education Officer in 2021-2022.

Courtney Girvin is running for the position of VP Postgraduate Officer. Courtney. She has put her varied and extensive experience as a student centre stage in her 2021 QUB SU campaign.

Niamh Oddy, is running for the position of Equality & Diversity Student Officer in the 2021 Student Union elections. Niamh submits jer objectives as part of her run for the SU21 Elections.

In this first of a series of features in The Gown we feature those candidates running in the Queen’s University Student Union Elections, for the next 2021-2022 academic year. The elections take place at 8am on Monday 1 March 2021. Here we feature Callum Dan.

Rose Winter, in ‘Up The Stairs’ adds to our Winter submissions to The Inkpot.

Abby Wallace, Feature’s Editor 2020 in review: Thinking about a year we want to forget 2020 was the year everything

On Election Night, Abby Wallace looks at the role of women in this election. The suburban female vote has been one of the central talking points in this 2020 Presidential Election.

The Last Straw for Environmental Disaster: Straws, Cigarettes and Coal Mines. Lerato Mokate, brings crucial questions to the fore which should focus the minds of policy makers.

Peter Donnelly, Editor The emergency of the coronavirus and combatting it encouraged cross-party and European unity. However, the Prime Minister’s

Nicola Smyth, Contributor. Wow. The ability gone and without a trace. No Fancy words, & nepotism. All the hands touching,

Fiona Connor, Contributor. This empty carcass that I call home Will gain more life when I have Shuffled on from

Niamh Busby, Contributor. I. He finds the book half wedged between a crumpled Kerouac and a water-swollen Christie in the

Victoria Brown, Contributor. I wasn’t sure what to expect when I sat down in row T of the Grand Opera

Caoimhe McGee, Contributor. Annabelle: Don’t Bother Coming Home Doll, Stay Where Ye Are My first thought when I heard there

Katherine Ingram, Contributor.   I couldn’t bloom today but I will tomorrow. I’ll stretch out as wide as I can

Eilish Mulholland, Contributor.   “Jesus went up with the spacecraft” At least that’s what the priest said. A interorbit of

Bethan Langford, Jeni Bern, Sioned Gwen Davies (Three Ladies) and Peter Gijsbertsen (Tamino) in The Magic Flute. Scottish Opera 2019.

Fiona Connor, Contributor.   For centuries, the legacy of war has been determined by the casualties it left behind. But

Olivia Dempster, Junior Contributor. The year was 1992, the place New York City. Just outside the city sat a white-wooded

Maria McQuillan, Arts & Entertainments Co-Editor. Dark Phoenix: The Final Do-Over? The problem with X-Men: Dark Phoenix fundamentally is that

Conn McCloskey, Contributor The Delusion The night had taken his light to pieces. He wandered through the maze of rubble,

Comhghall McKeating Queen’s University Science Fiction and Fantasy Society & The Gown’s Writing Competition Winner “All I’m sayin’ is, there’s

Peter Donnelly, Contributor.  To a small but intimate crowd on Wednesday evening, 8th May, Nubya Garcia, a musician currently forming

Emma Murphy, Contributor.  After its initial release in 2018, Eighth Grade has finally been released in  UK cinemas a year