Category: Alumni Stories

Class of 2020: Reece Dixon

Finishing university is a difficult time for any student. Our alumni usually continue with further study, go travelling, or find job opportunities. However, finishing university during Covid-19 has left the Class of 2020 with...

Class of 2020: Sarah Ikin

Finishing university is a difficult time for any student. Our alumni usually continue with further study, go travelling, or find job opportunities. However, finishing university during Covid-19 has left the Class of 2020 with...

Ripon students in the 1970s

Maggie May: Stealing Ripon’s Heart

Our first blog explored the enduring power of The Killers’ dancefloor ballad, ‘Mr. Brightside’. This time, we’re travelling back to the early 1970s. For many Ripon students, there is only one man and one song that could properly represent their time at college: Rod Stewart and his 1971 hit, ‘Maggie May’.   In its “definitive” list of the...

Woman in green dungarees holds dissertation in front of York St John building

Class of 2020: Hattie Leigh

Finishing university is a difficult time for any student. Our alumni usually continue with further study, go travelling, or find job opportunities. However, finishing university during Covid-19 has left the Class of 2020 with...

Class of 2020: Amy Langton

Finishing university is a difficult time for any student. Our alumni usually continue with further study, go travelling, or find job opportunities. However, finishing university during Covid-19 has left the Class of 2020 with...

Class of 2020: Ethan Warburton

Finishing university is a difficult time for any student. Our alumni usually continue with further study, go travelling, or find job opportunities. However, finishing university during Covid-19 has left the Class of 2020 with...