Your Voice Matters

During your time studying at University, you play a vital role in shaping the learning expereince for yourself, peers and future learners. Whether this is through engaging with course evaluations, attending Staff and Student meetings or providing feedback to a student representative. Your voice is able to influence change at all levels of the University as well as shape the direction and activities of your Students' Union

 

 

Submitting Ideas

Did you know as a student you can submit ideas to help shape the direction of the Union? Student can submit ideas for the Union to change policy, run campaigns and activities or even to mandate the Union to prioritise a specfic student issue. 

You can submit an idea below. Once an idea reaches 20 upvotes the Student Voice Team will consider the idea and if appropraite, will be submitted to Student Council for consideration. 

 

    There are currently no new ideas. Why not consider submitting an idea to the Union?

     

     

     

    Student Council

    Student Council serves as the Union’s main decision-making body for students. It is made up of representatives who work to represent your interests. Council will review any submitted policy as well as offer feedback on consultations based on matters which matter to students.


    Currently your Representatives on Student Council are the Part-Time Officers and Student Voice Representatives. You can view who these are on the Your Officers Page. 

     

    Any student can attend and observe student council. Alternatively, you can submit a question to an officer or submit proposals via the Union’s democratic processes.

     

    Meeting Dates Meeting Minutes

     

    Your Policies

    Democratic policies are proposals submitted by students and then approved by Student Council. Democratic policies can relate to any issue which matters to students and can look at anything from changing requirements for student groups to mandating Officers to work to improve University provisions. If approved and ratified by Trustee Board, they serve as Union policy for up to 3 years.

     

    You can submit an idea via the Student Ideas process detailed under ‘Your Ideas.” You can see the list of current Student policies as well as progress on them, or the policies which were rejected here.  

     

    Elections

    As a democratic student-led organisation, the Union holds annual elections for USW students to elect fellow students to officer positions for the subsequent academic year. Any student can run in the elections. You can find out more about how the elections work, the roles available and information on when they run here.