Equality Highlights: Working with the Students’ Union
21 Apr
Guest Post by Kayleigh Gray, Student Voice Project Officer, Graduate Management Development Programme
Every year the University publishes a magazine which helps showcase some of the equality work undertaken across the university in the last year. This year the theme was collaboration and it gave me the wonderful opportunity to go out into the university population and capture a variety of inspiring stories.
As part of this work I was lucky enough to meet with the Students’ Union President and engage with three part-time reps, hearing about their ambitions for the 2015-16 academic year, thus allowing an insight into their professional goals for an equal society.
Dapo Adaramewa, the 2015-16 and 2016-17 Students’ Union President, aims to work on reducing the BME attainment gap and ensure anonymous marking is used in every case possible.
Ellie Simpson, the Students’ Union disabled students’ rep 2015-16, wants to set up a specific society for disabled students.
Luke Allan, the Students’ Union LGBT+ part-time rep 2015-16, would like to create a Liberation Hub which will bring all the liberation groups together and provide workspaces for meetings.
Ellie Davison, the Students’ Union part-time women’s rep 2015-16, wants to fully establish, support and promote a range of gender equality and women’s liberation societies within the Students’ Union.
I hope you’ll agree with me that these four, like all the other officers and part-time reps in post, are role models and leaders for the student population. They offer dedication, passion and a voice for all students, thereby making the collaboration with the Students’ Union a key relationship which the equality and diversity team value to support change for the better.
I would encourage you all to have a look at the magazine, take the time to read more about these Students’ Union roles and to find out more about our other key relationships, such as International Women’s Day, Time to Change and Football Unites Racism Divides (FURD).
You can download Equality Highlights by clicking on the link below or look out for hard copies at key information points across the University Campuses.
