LIAM FOR PRESIDENT

Hello! I’m Liam, your Education Officer, and I’m running to be your next SU president.

I have seen first hand how important a strong student voice is, and what that can achieve. I have secured positive changes to students’ experience at Warwick, such as the ones listed below.

But there’s so much more that needs to be done. I believe I’m the right candidate for the job, to represent all students’ interests at every level.

EXPERIENCE

Education Officer // Education Exec Chair // Faculty Rep

Social Sec, Politics Society // Publicity Officer, Warwick Labour

WHAT I’VE ACHIEVED

IMPROVED THE BUSES:

• Replacement bus passes, saving students hundreds of pounds
• More buses during vacation times

HOUSING:

• Secured a freeze in rent prices for multiple halls for 2018/19
• Established the first ever PG housing ladder

STUDY SPACE:

• Successfully lobbied the University to make a study space finder app
• Convinced the University to commit to improving all possible existing study spaces
• Successfully lobbied University into deploying an expert analyst to tackle the study space crisis

YOUR EDUCATION EXPERIENCE

• Created ‘Discover my Module’ -  facilitating advice on module choice
• Helped to shape Welcome Week, ensuring it will include module fairs for subjects.
• Convinced University to establish a course costs working group, saving students money
• Trained over 400 course reps & created the first ever faculty forums
• Created Hidden Histories - an alternative lecture series to open up discussion on issues that are often erased
• Overseen the expansion of lecture capture to a record number of modules

YOUR WELLBEING:

• Persuaded the University to commit to turning Senate House into a central service hub -- watch this space!
• Started lobbying for sleeping facilities, created a very successful survey
• Helped ensure the University improves mitigating circumstances processes

TOP 5:

• Continue to increase study space
• Tackle overcrowding on buses & lobby for subsidised passes
• Introduce sleeping & relaxation facilities
• Tackle dodgy landlords
• Making sport accessible: A multi-year SportsFed & more free sport sessions

ACADEMIC QUALITY:

•  Increasing Study Space
  • Get more space, specifically push for the confirmation of library 2.0
  • Open up more Learning Grids off-campus with expanded open hours
  • Helping students find space by completing and launching the finder app
• Ensure the course costs working group implements fair policies on free printer credits and core textbooks for all students
• Liberate the curriculum by working with officers and societies and continuing the alternative lecture series, Hidden Histories

STUDENT EXPERIENCE:

• Making Student Activities simpler, accessible, and affordable
  • Create a multi-year Sports Federation whilst enacting multi-year Socs Federation
  • Lobbying for more free sport activities
  • Giving clubs and societies easier access to SU funding opportunities
  • Improving the support for societies by publicising and showcasing their events
• Securing Wednesday afternoons free from academic commitments
• Meeting transport needs;
  • Tackle overcrowding by lobbying for more buses
  • Make travel more affordable by pushing the University to subsidise bus passes
  • Continue working with the University and businesses to improve local transport links.
• Affordable and accessible eating and drinking across campus
  • Including free hot water in the PG Hub
  • Address the eating and drinking price rises in Warwick Retail outlets
  • Ensuring alternative food and drink options are both extensive and affordable
• Secure the return of the summer party for 2019
  • You deserve it.

STUDENT WELLBEING:

• Tackling Sleep deprivation through installing sleeping and relaxation facilities
• Fostering a safe and inclusive environment for students
  • Tackling sexual violence by expanding the #WeGetConsent campaign
  • Fighting racism by working with officers and societies to ensure their concerns are addressed and acted upon.
  • Preventing hate crime by increased investment in security services in targeted areas
• Increase funding for mental health services with more Mental Health Coordinators and Counsellors, aiming to decrease the wait time by half.

RIGHTS, ACCESS AND EQUALITY:

• International Students’ Rights
  • Ensuring fees for international students remain frozen throughout their course.
• Fairness in work and pay
  • Fighting for postgraduates who teach to be paid what they deserve
  • Continue to support workers and lobbying against casualisation
  • Lobbying for more students’ say over VC pay
• Opposing cuts and fee rises in Higher Education
• Promoting widening participation
  • Increasing access for working class students by lobbying for expanded bursaries
  • Create a buddying scheme for widening participation students
• Tackle dodgy landlords by working with organisations to establish a Warwick ‘rate my landlord’ tool
• Championing Student’s Interests at every level
  • Creating a termly President’s Forum to ensure accountability and support
  • Sabbatical office hours for student enquiries and support