Josephine White

Location

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.

THE TAB'S EDITORIAL POLICIES

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Josephine White

Experience

Education

THE TAB'S EDITORIAL POLICIES

Posts

Dear finalists, here are the canon events that you will experience this year

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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