My top 3 goals
1. Revisit, Revise and Reform – Improving your learning experience
This three-pronged approach aims to take on the lessons of covid and recover the learning lost via 3 strategic goals:
- Revisit learning – We will ensure the University offers optional catch-up sessions and workshops for current students and recent graduates to make up for lost learning.
- Revise the Online Library Resource - Making study easier by ensuring the search function is accessible & work to add further online resources.
- Reforming your academic experience by lobbying for investment in digital infrastructure; to improve both your online and in-person learning experience to enable you to study and view the same lecture, regardless of where you are in the world.
2. Set for success - enhancing your assessments.
- Flexible Start Examinations - We will lobby the university to allow you to pick your own start time through a 24 hour period, so you can sit it at your convenience, and set you up for success; accommodating our multicultural & varying student body and experiences.
- Improve Feedback Policy - To ensure you get personalised, quality and timely feedback on all of your assessments to allow you to target areas for improvement for your next submission.
3. Decolonisation & Furthering Equality:
- Decolonising the curriculum through embedding BAME & LGBT voices into the curriculum via BAME Ambassador Scheme & working with LGBTQ+ society.
- Record lectures, even when on campus - To ensure you can revisit content with ease and ensure fair and accessible teaching for everyone, regardless of disabilities or illness.
- Create a faster and easier way to change your name across all university databases to ensure all students feel comfortable accessing and participating in their learning.
Previous Experience:
As your current Vice President of Academic Experience, I lobbied the university to invest £800,000 into support for students who are struggling with digital poverty, which disproportionately affects our students from low-income backgrounds and BAME communities. From this, I am currently trying to ensure all of us students, both current students, and our future ones, are given the help we need to access all elements of our study, regardless if we are on campus or working from home.
I have led on the student return of the 2019-20 access and participation plan – which assesses the universities approach to solving key areas from the BAME / white student grade attainment gap, through to how the ‘normal’ face-to-face examination procedure sets up our students to fail, and many other targets, which has guided and influenced my aims for next year.
Why choose me?
Last year, you elected me as your Vice President of Academic Experience; if you choose to support me again, I'll continue to implement the changes we need to ensure a smooth transition back to normality and get the value out of the lessons learned during the pandemic.
I’ve got a proven track record of working hard to make your Academic Experience better and I am led by my research and the student voice to prioritise and amend the issues that are of the upmost importance.
I am also currently working on a virtual learning experience campaign to implement a feedback tool to help identify and share areas of good practice and to let the university give more support and training to amend bad practice, as well as working to expand the Higher Achiever’s Recognition Scheme to all faculties- which was part of my manifesto last year.