Affiliations
The Students' Union at Queen's is affiliated with two major groups, the oldest of these is NUS-USI, which was set up at the height of the Troubles in 1972. The group brings together the Students' Unions from across Northern Ireland and its unique set-up means that Unions are members of both the National Union of Students of the United Kingdom (NUS) and the Union of Students in Ireland (USI). In 2007 Queen's officially became a member of the Russell Group, (an alliance of twenty prestigious research universities across the UK) following this, the Students' Union joined the Aldwych Group (an alliance of the Unions whose universities belong to the Russell Group).
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