Meg Sheppard

Co-Editor-in-Chief

Meg Sheppard
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Location
Manchester
Education
Manchester University
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The University of Manchester, student life, guides, breaking campus news, protests, food, travel, social media.

  • Meg Sheppard is the Co-Editor-in-Chief of The Manchester Tab, overseeing its team of section editors and writers.
  • She covers breaking news in Manchester, guides to the city, and is passionate about writing investigative pieces about the student experience.
  • In her free time, Meg can be found running, napping, social media stalking or, on Thursdays, elbowing people who take up the whole pavement into oncoming traffic.

Experience

In 2022, during her second year of university, Meg joined The Manchester Tab as the Features Editor and has gone on to become the Co-Editor-in-Chief.

Education

Meg is in her final year at The University of Manchester, studying a joint honours degree in Politics and Spanish. Recently, she has completed her year abroad studying in Santiago, Chile.

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The Tab's journalism is brought to you by young reporters who like being first. On university campuses, our writers deliver local news you care about. At The Tab HQ, our experienced journalists write about everything from breaking news to politics to pop culture to TikTok trends to the latest entertainment and celeb gossip. Our aim is to deliver sharp, original, and agenda-setting journalism to young people. All our stories are fact checked and sources verified. Further information on our editorial policies and processes can be found here.

Posts

Warnings issued after heavy metals and mould found in Manchester’s street weed

Why spend £20 when you could just scrape it out of the shower?

Watch: Palestine Action takes sculptures of ex-Israeli president from the University of Manchester

UoM’s Chemistry Building was targeted on Friday evening

Eating my way around Manchester: New finds in Fallowfield, Withington and Didsbury

Where does one go for a house dinner when Kej’s is closed?

Wilmslow Road cordoned off amid reports of finding a suspicious device

Eyewitnesses are suggesting it is an unexploded bomb from WW1

Students occupy a building at the University of Manchester over ties to Israel

The Samuel Alexander building has been occupied since Friday

Manchester senior staff accused of discussing rent striker’s financial background in leaked emails

‘The university is just trying to distract from its failings’

We’re listening but won’t actually implement any of your demands, Manchester tells students

Last week 97 per cent of students voted in support of Manchester Rent Strike’s demands

University of Manchester uses bailiffs to evict rent strikers from the Simon building in 5am raid

Student strikers were forcibly carried out

We spoke to uniofmanchestermemes about what it’s like to run a uni meme page

And finally aired our grievances

Sugar babies, strippers and feet pic sellers: Manchester students find unique ways to finance their uni lives

‘Heading to 9am lectures with seven inch heels and lingerie under my hoodie is definitely an experience’

Today I definitively deduce where the best lunch spot is on Manchester Uni’s campus

A devastating impact on my bank account

BREAKING: UoM lecturers to pause strikes as ‘significant progress’ is made

All the remaining February strikes have been called off

We asked Manchester students how they really feel about the UCU strikes

A reported 82 per cent support the strike action

Faced with another ultimatum, Manchester rent strikers refuse to leave the Simon Building

‘We plan to continue to maintain this shared space past 4pm today’

Cost of loving: A Manc student’s guide to a cheap and cheerful Galentine’s Day

Just girly things