Trained in:

• Suicide awareness
• Listening skills and database management by two helplines
• NUS Liberation Activism
• Teaching listening skills

Positions of Responsibility:

• 13/14 LGBT Welfare Officer at UoN LGBT Network, giving me inter-university links and experience
• Within LGBT I have been working on the nighttime safety campaign
• 13/14 Nightline Tech Officer, awareness of running large organisations and university protocol
• Bar staff at Oceana, city-wide contacts in industry
• Volunteered externally, more city links and understanding of what’s available external to university

From all this I have realistic ideas of the struggles students face, what they need, and the best ways to acheive that.

Policies:

• Capitalize on existing welfare resources by better advertising them & expanding and coherently training welfare networks.
• Tier systems of support aimed at different needs, covering all campuses & students abroad
• Effectively address myths & concerns held about the counselling service through active communication
• Work with societies to ensure that their makeup covers the diversity & access needs of our students.
• Increase the number of sheltered rest stops and dropped curbs on campus, and continue the lighting drive
• Explore needs for and benefits of improvements of welfare during Week One
• Campaign on better nighttime safety in Nottingham, expanding on what networks have already acheived
• Extra health fairs across all campuses for things such as stop smoking, stress busting, exam skills etc.
• Provide equal opportunities and workplace discrimination information about graduate employers.
• Increase levels & visibility of support during assessment periods.