Union Affairs Officer candidates
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Stanford
- Deliver funding for a new full-time International Students’ Officer in next year’s student elections
- Secure additional sports facilities within the University campus construction at Temple Meads
- Establish a Society Awards to celebrate and recognise our incredible student groups. Committee of the Year anyone?
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Chante Joseph
- Lobby the University to provide free travel to off-campus examinations and give sports teams free travel to Coombe Dingle. Nothing should hinder students engaging with their studies or societies
- Introduce an SU App to allow groups to sort their fiannces speedily, book campus/off-campus rooms and host tickets for events
- Improve the SU feel by bringing in hot taps, microwaves and keeping the bar cheap with an expanded menu
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Postgraduate Education Officer candidates
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Denisa Bernardova
- Review of teaching conditions for postgraduate research students
- Boost of Equal academic support for all postgraduate students
- Improvement of well-being by building a stronger community
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Connor O'Shea
- Improve PG student community
- Fight privatisation and bad PGR teaching contracts
- Fight for quality resources and facilities for postgraduates
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Lea Hampton-O'Neil
- No more bad supervisors
- Mental Health: focus on postgrads
- International student support: Jobs and Housing
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Sadeta Mujkic
- Better services and support for education and mental health
- More and a variety of scholarships
- Increase the amount of printing credit each student gets
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Shivangi Agrawal
- Pastoral support plan
- Make education affordable for international students
- Create awareness of resources funded by University
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Shubham Singh
- Improve the educational experience by addressing concerns around structure of academic year, personal tutoring, etc.
- Provide better carer support for international students and postgraduates who teach.
- Making University more affordable
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Undergraduate Education Officer candidates
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Nasra Ayub
- Improve the mental health services and ensure that there is better access to all students regardless of their mental health state
- Eradicate hidden costs that exist outside tuition fees, eg travel expenses to placements
- Introduce a programme that creates access to jobs tailored to degrees in all faculties
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Dylan Woodward
- Run a free education campaign on campus and support national efforts to abolish tuition fees and bring back maintenance grants.
- Press the Uni to close its gender pay gap and hire more minority academics, as well as lobby for the expansion of contextual offers to redress the under-representation of state-school students.
- Back student campaigns to cut halls rents, protect wellbeing services, oppose PREVENT and call for divestment from fossil fuels.
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Student Living Officer candidates
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Ella Fraser [Withdrawn]
- Housing, Halls and Rent - Represent students in ongoing discussions ensuring that the new welfare system doesn’t lead to a rise in rent costs in halls.
- Mental Health and Wellbeing - I pledge to create a support system for students who are on the waiting list for University mental health support. Ensuring that all students who reach out for help have support from day 1.
- Sustainability - Create a ‘Meat-free Monday’ campaign including promoting vegetarian options as well as lobbying the university not to sell any meat products at their vendors on Mondays.
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Vanessa Wilson
- Accommodation: Increase affordable housing, expand the accessibility of legal advice on renting, and provide financial support for students in need
- Mental Health: Tailor support to the needs of students, improve the flexibility and diversity of wellbeing services, and ensure everyone is represented and catered for
- Community Care: Improve the quality and consistency of tutorials, increase SU engagement on-campus, and establish transparent communication across all levels of the organisation
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Sport and Student Development Officer candidates
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Ginny Troughton
- Create a free and accessible program of physical activity centered around exam periods, promoting positive mental health.
- Lobby the University to provide a consistent bus route from the University to Coombe Dingle including a free bus for sporting fixtures on a Wednesday.
- Expand the #WeAreBristol community to include more students, from B:Active and Fit&Fab to casual gym goers
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Isaac Haigh
- Improving mental health through sport and exercise: continuing my work on Be ManKind Active and incorporating mental wellbeing into Fit & Fab. Expanding the Healthy Minds scheme.
- Lowering the cost of sport: abolishing the #WeAreBristol pass, making it free for all. Ensuring clubs have enough funding regardless of BUCS or Performance status keeping membership prices down.
- Increasing participation of clubs and teams: providing free alternative sporting activities acting as platforms.
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Equality, Liberation and Access Officer candidates
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Spencer Blackwell
- Establish Wellbeing Services outreach into halls to ensure effective and efficient wellbeing support despite reforms, improving access to welfare services and decreasing strain on student counselling.
- Work with the Equality and Diversity team to deliver Diversity & Welfare Training to all academic and pastoral staff.
- Work with SARI to establish an SU Report & Support system for hate crimes and sexual assault.
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Sally Patterson
- Wellbeing Support that Works: I will have an ‘open-door’ policy for all students, establish specialised minority support and academic support
- No Size Fits All: I’ll commission Roundtables for liberation groups and ACT on their recommendations, support our liberation Chairs and finish establishing a Multifaith Network
- Making Campus Safe: I will demand that the University launch their Reporting Tool, lobby for anti-racism training and introduce Bystander Intervention workshops
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Adeline Nicholas
- Wellbeing Support: Ensure all support staff receive training on Mental Health issues, and issues specific to Liberation Groups. Effective support network for Widening Participation students and survivors of Sexual Violence.
- Raise Awareness: Run campaigns against Microaggressions within the learning environment and Rape Culture on campus.
- Reporting Student Misconduct: Introduce a tiered system for dealing with student misconduct issues, single Point of Contact for reporting, and an option to Report Anonymously.
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Maheera Zubair
- Lobby the university to extend their facilities for the disabled: Including increased sports, transport and mentors: A campus that works for ALL.
- Establish a minority peer network with the help of relevant societies and networks. This will help develop strategies for academic study and career progression for those who have less exposure: Close the attainment gap.
- Establish a multi-faith network that will eradicate differences. Build Bridges, Not Walls.
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