Josephine White

Josephine White
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Durham
Expertise

Features, Travel, Political Satire, History, Commentary, Activism, Culture, Language, News, Politics, Opinion, Social Media, Art.

  • Josephine is the Features Editor of The Durham Tab for 2025-26 and is responsible for writing and giving out regular, creative and Durham-focussed commissions to writers.
  • Josephine works as a team with other Tab editors to release topical and entertaining stories and guides while also aiding and editing for other aspiring writers.
  • She mostly specialises in more personal feature pieces, but has a long history of creative writing, satire and commentary and has a strong interest in travel and culture writing.

Experience

Josephine is new to the Tab this year, having previously written in local papers and in Palatinate, often writing in satire, travel and commentary sections. She has also written for companies abroad in a more client-based style. Alongside this, Josephine has experience as a social secretary and as an events coordinator for two separate societies; is the current Live Production Assistant for Purple Radio; and has teaching qualifications.

Education

Josephine is a fourth year student at Durham studying History and Spanish and has recently returned from a year abroad in Spain and Costa Rica where she worked as a teacher and as a hiking and tour guide.

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Posts

Meet Pool Club, the Durham student band that could be playing with The Cure this summer

The Durham Tab spoke to Pool Club about their experience making it to the grand-final of the New Blood music competition

Durham student who tried to kidnap ex-girlfriend with fake gun jailed for five years

Zhao Tong Li ‘bombarded’ the woman with phone calls and messages and physically attacked her twice

Durham University rejects ‘anti-white discrimination’ claims over Asian access scheme

The new Asian Access scheme aims to support underrepresented groups in Durham

The first Durham University Student’s Conference (DUSC) announced for this summer

An academic conference catered to working-class and first-gen students is coming to Durham

Listen up finalists, here’s your Durham Uni bucket-list of things to do before you graduate

Because time is running out x

VOTE NOW: Durham University’s BNOC Competition 2026 shortlist has been revealed

Durham students, your voices have been heard

The ultimate guide on how to spot a Durham student outside the university bubble

We do tend to stand out

Durham University announces a brand new partnership with Historic England

A new partnership focused on natural and cultural heritage

Do 12/15 of these specific things and you’re a verified posh girl on Pancake Day

Anyone calling it Shrove Tuesday deserves burnt pancakes

The ultimate guide to rage-bait a Durham student

Use at your own risk

Top nine ways to identify a Durham Uni fresher in the wild

It’s really not very hard x

Calling all aspiring journalists in Durham, here’s how to get involved

Writers and the chronically online, we need you!

The ‘Red Zone’ and the grey area: The moral ambiguity of sharking at Durham University

Predatory behaviour or harmless fun?

Dear second years, here are the 13 canon events you’ll experience at Durham Uni this year

Goodbye, silly fresh – hello, sensible second years

Dear finalists, here are the canon events that you’ll experience in Durham this year

All the scary things that first and second years can look forward to

Dear silly Durham fresh, here are the 12 canon events that you will experience this year

They are all pretty inevitable

From accent bias to formal dinners: How social class still shapes the Durham experience

A deep dive into the class problem at Durham Uni

It’s autumn, so we decided which colleges the Gilmore Girls characters would be assigned to

We know you’re all rewatching it right now x

Listen up, social secs: Here are the best themes and socials we want to see this year

Because Durham nights out aren’t weird enough

Do Durham students smoke more than the rest of the population? Here’s what we know

It looks like Durham students just love a social smoke

Here’s your survival guide for getting over that Durham relationship (or situationship)

A few tips for the heartbroken students of Durham

Here are 15 things at Durham that are so much scarier than any ghosts or ghouls

Stay safe out there this Halloween season

Here are all of Durham’s colleges as Life of a Showgirl album lyrics

Making the best use out of a badly received album

What does your college say about you? A guide to Durham’s 2025 college personalities

All the college archetypes have been exposed

Durham students, here’s exactly how to survive a long-distance relationship

Tips and tricks from a recently returned year abroad student

Coming back to Durham (again): Thoughts from a returning fourth year

Here’s the real truth about returning to Durham