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Jo Walters
Jo Walters is an independent communications consultant. Jo has seen students’ unions from a number of angles – as a student, sabbatical officer, trustee and staff member. She was the Communications Manager at Sussex Students’ Union before setting up 25 Dots, a marketing and communications agency for students’ unions and other small organisations.
6 pieces
Newest first, since August 2014
· SUs
How SUs can talk to students about cost of living
The cost of living crisis is rapidly rising to the top of SU officer political priorities. Discussions around what unions can do to mitigate the impact on students typically focus on broad plans like “lobby X for Y“ or v
· SUs
Online abuse should not be a “normal” part of a student officer’s role
Don’t read the comments. In many ways that’s great advice for students’ union officers. Why ruin your day by reading nasty comments when you’ve got plenty of other things to do? But when you’re tagged in comments online,
· SUs
The struggle is real but there is a way through
As a former sabbatical officer, I’ve felt the struggle of trying to achieve manifesto pledges amid all the other things going on in the union. My time as an officer was pre-social media and Covid-free – so I can only ima
· SUs
What would a socially distant student experience be like?
Much of the focus on what the start of the new academic year will be like has been on what people will be allowed to do. This ignores two other key restrictions; what we’ll be able to do, and what people will be willing
· SUs
Are SUs telling students about their rights?
For me being tagged in a conversation on Twitter is a bit like being asked to stay behind class at school or pop in to see your manager: it could be about anything but you presume the worst. In the most recent case it wa
· SUs · Members
Trojan Mice
Hot on the Heels of this year’s “Comms by the Coast” event, organiser Jo Walters (Digital Engagement Manager at University of Sussex Students’ Union) writes on change initiatives in Students’ Unions.