Student Impact was created from the merger of two former publications at the University of Bath, Spike and Sponge.

[1] Sponge was the University of Bath Students' Union paper which had been running for the previous 30 years, while Spike was a student-run magazine concentrating mainly on film, music and book reviews.

The newspaper was originally split into seven sections, News, Opinion, Features, International, Science, Entertainments and Sport.

'bite' covers features, food, fashion, film, literature, theatre, music, technology and puzzles.

Part of the information released by the university stated "As Editor-in-Chief of the Students' Union newspaper Impact and contributor to the general management of the Students' Union, he was acknowledged to have played an important part in the general life of the University."