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Alan Roberts
Alan Roberts is a partner at Counterculture LLP. A former policy development manager at NUS, Alan is the brainchild behind the annual Membership Services Conference and podcast, and helps make Wonkhe’s SU tours happen.
123 pieces
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Membership services special
This week on Working for Students – live from this year’s Membership Services Conference – we’re looking at what shifting recruitment patterns mean for students’ unions as higher-tariff universities expand, lower-tariff
With Jim Dickinson
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Student trustees, faculty based voice
This week on Working for Students, Livia speaks to Susan Dosangh, Governance Specialist at the University of Nottingham Students’ Union, about its annual networking and development event for student trustees. They discus
With Livia Scott
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Australia, Data, All-members meetings
This week on Working for Students we’re previewing some of the sessions coming up at the Membership Services Conference. Livia Scott catches up with Andrew Minutillo, Manager, Student Life (Programs and Wellbeing) at Act
With Livia Scott
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Renting, community through commercial
This week on Working for Students Liv catches up with Penny Hampden-Turner and Joel Dowson from the Greater Manchester Students Partnership to discuss their vision for happier renting conditions across Greater Manchester
With Livia Scott
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Collaborations special
This week on Working for Students there’s a bumper collaborations special. What does it really take for students’ unions to genuinely work together – and what hard questions should boards be asking themselves as costs ri
With Livia Scott
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Living Black, Pay the Placement, commuters
This week on Working for Students, Livia speaks with Ben Sanders from Wrexham Students’ Union about efforts to reclaim the power behind student democracy.
With Livia Scott
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Treasure hunting, democratic KPIs, stigma and basic needs
This week on Working for Students, Livia speaks with Ben Sanders from Wrexham Students’ Union about efforts to reclaim the power behind student democracy.
With Livia Scott
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Democracy, union unfiltered, AI research
This week on Working for Students, Livia speaks with Ben Sanders from Wrexham Students’ Union about efforts to reclaim the power behind student democracy.
With Livia Scott
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Fish Balls Served with onion butter and potatoes
On the final day of the Wonkhe SUs study tour to Iceland, the team finds a bar that gets cheaper when students get poorer – and a 57-year-old law that does the work of seven UK organisations
With Mack Marshall, Jim Dickinson and Mike Day
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Before learning becomes only for the chosen ones
On Day Two of the Wonkhe SUs study tour to Iceland the team met a national union born out of a loan system crisis, and a graduate trade union you can join before you graduate
With Mike Day, Mack Marshall and Jim Dickinson
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The playfulness of the fishing goddess
On Day One of the Wonkhe SUs Study Tour to Iceland, the team visit a university designed as a town, find six modules doing what most UK employability strategies can’t, and end up at a geothermal beach where students stag
With Mike Day, Mack Marshall and Jim Dickinson
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Do you have a 2,000,000 kr. idea?
On the afternoon of Day One of the Wonkhe SUs Study Tour to Iceland, the team find credit where it’s due for inclusion work, an AI policy that makes sense, and 3,000 golden eggs
With Mack Marshall, Mike Day and Jim Dickinson
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A strong public university that is funded by the government and not by the students
On Day One of the Wonkhe SUs Study Tour to Iceland, the team visit a student council that predates its own university’s main building, has two organised political factions dating back to 1935, and tried to no-confidence
With Mack Marshall, Jim Dickinson and Mike Day
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The competitors are offered milk from Hvanneyrarfjós
On Day Zero of the Wonkhe SUs Study Tour to Iceland, the team drive a Dacia Duster into a nature reserve, stand in the car park of a university that went fully online, and walk up a campus volcano
With Gareth Hughes, Jim Dickinson, Mack Marshall and Mike Day
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I prefer the abnormal one
On Day -1 of the Wonkhe SUs Study Tour to Iceland, the team chase happy hour deals at £10 a pint and discover that the secret to student belonging might be a huge shared kitchen and a relative absence of clothing
With Jim Dickinson, Mack Marshall and Mike Day
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The harbourmaster harbours no doubt
Before the Wonkhe SUs Study Tour to Iceland even lands, the team get lost in Icelandic TV, discover a ram appreciation society, and wonder what a students’ union looks like when its average member is nearly 30
With Jim Dickinson, Mack Marshall and Mike Day
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Safe adventures, student representation
This week on Working for Students, we hear from Rosie of Organised Fun on the launch of the Safe Adventures report
With Livia Scott
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Ethical banking, liberation, inclusive sport
This week on the show Alan and Livia talk to Nick Smith to work out what election candidates and voters should understand about the realities of sabbatical officer roles, from campaign promises to the slower work of infl
With Livia Scott
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Groups, laundry, academic socs
This week on the show Alan and Livia talk to Nick Smith to work out what election candidates and voters should understand about the realities of sabbatical officer roles, from campaign promises to the slower work of infl
With Livia Scott
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Elections, events, AI
This week on the show Alan and Livia talk to Nick Smith to work out what election candidates and voters should understand about the realities of sabbatical officer roles, from campaign promises to the slower work of infl
With Livia Scott