Laura Butler

Writer

Laura Butler
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Location
Bristol
Education
Bristol University
Expertise

News, protests, campus politics, Bristol University, foreign affairs, mental health, current affairs, student culture, opinions

  • Laura is a student writer at The Bristol Tab, joining the team in February 2024
  • Laura predominantly writes news and agenda pieces on the politics of student life at Bristol Uni
  • Outside of her degree, Laura is interested in activism, travelling and loves to sit in the sun with a pint

Experience

Laura joined The Bristol Tab in early 2024, writing news and opinion pieces about campus politics and student life. She wants to gain experience and hopes for a career in political journalism after graduating.

Education

Laura is in her second year of BSc Politics and Sociology at the University of Bristol. She has a particular interest in feminist issues, human rights and international justice.

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Posts

Bristol Men’s Hockey Club suspended over pending investigation into its ‘club culture’

The suspension is effective immediately while an investigation into the culture of the club takes place

Search continues for university graduate who went missing after Bristol house party

22-year-old Jack O’Sullivan has now been missing for five weeks

Pro-Palestine students end occupation of Wills after Bristol Uni threatens legal action

The occupiers left Wills ‘following continued threats of police involvement and a court order from the university’

Pro-Palestine students barricade themselves inside Bristol Uni’s Wills Memorial Building

They are protesting the ‘university’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza’

Bristol students move occupation to executive management building in pro-Palestine protest

‘We will occupy until the dog days are over’

Exclusive: Bristol students camp overnight in Victoria Rooms in pro-Palestine protest

The conversations, camaraderie and demands made by the Bristol Uni students from our own reporter inside