Sophia Stockden

Sophia Stockden
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Location
Bristol
Education
Bristol University
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Student lifestyle, pop culture, social media, travel, news, politics, foreign affairs, mental health, opinions, campus culture.

  • Sophia is the Social Media Editor at The Bristol Tab who joined as a contributing writer in October 2022 and served as Social Media Editor from 2022-2023 and 2024-2025.
  • Sophia has written a range of articles that cover student life, but has a particular interest in news, trends and pop culture.
  • Outside of her degree, Sophia is interested in culture, travel and keeping up with pop culture.

Experience

Sophia joined The Bristol Tab as a contributing writer in October 2022, and took over as Social Media Editor in December 2022 until May 2023. She then returned as Social Media Editor in May 2024, and hopes to grow and work toward a future career in journalism

Education

Sophia is in her fourth year of BA English and Spanish, having just returned from spending her third year doing an internship in Argentina as part of her studies.

THE TAB'S EDITORIAL POLICIES

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

Protesters march against the University of Bristol’s £92 million ‘defence partnerships’

More than 100 people marched against the partnerships believed to enable the war in Gaza

Bristol has been named 48th best city in the world by Time Out

Top 100 university in the world and top 50 best city? Not bad

From Dancing with the Stars to Bristol Bears: Rugby star Ilona Maher joins Bristol team

The Olympic star has touched down in Bristol and is set to start playing in early January

Go on, Bristol: Cop a feel! A chat with CoppaFeel about breast cancer awareness

Learn how CoppaFeel Bristol empowers students to check themselves and raise breast cancer awareness

Bristol student completes 3,000km charity ride across Norway in memory of friend

‘This trip is the type of thing Tom really enjoyed – being in middle of nowhere, supporting yourself. He would have loved it’

Jack O’Sullivan’s mum ‘convinced’ police are wrong and he isn’t in the water

‘Until I get some further information – for me, Jack is somewhere, and I just have to keep looking’

Video shows final route of missing student Jack O’Sullivan before his disappearance

Six months have passed since the 23-year-old went missing after a Bristol house party

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

From Portugal to Peru, here is what your Bristol year abroad destination says about you

Are you even on a year abroad if you don’t have ‘Bristol/ (location)’ in your Insta bio

The good, the bad, the ugly: Inside Bristol students’ house group chats

Who chunned in the sink? I won’t be angry, just disappointed

Flips and tricks: Student skiers take on Bristol snow

Daddy paying for a trip to the Swiss alps? Nahhh, Brandon Hill, babes