Author
Livia Scott
Partnerships Coordinator
337 pieces
Newest first, since May 2022 · page 3 of 17
· SUs
PGRs, students in advice
This week on the Membership Services Show Livia and Alan talk to Ugne from the doctoral chapter of KTH Students Union in Stockholm
With Alan Roberts
· SUs
Basic needs, education quality, innovative governance
This week on the Membership Services Show, Alan and Livia explore new approaches to SU strategy and accountability. Alex Harden-Way from UCB Guild shares how the principles of “open source” can be used to grow transparen
With Alan Roberts
· SUs
Open sourcing, becoming a CEO, officer accountability
This week on the Membership Services Show, Alan and Livia explore new approaches to SU strategy and accountability. Alex Harden-Way from UCB Guild shares how the principles of “open source” can be used to grow transparen
With Alan Roberts
· SUs
Student nights, policy agendas, basic needs
This week on the Membership Services Show, Alan and Livia explore the power of collaboration in student events.
With Alan Roberts
· SUs
Speak weeks, Community leaders, City Assemblies
This week on the Membership Services Show, Livia and Alan explore how SUs are evolving their representation and engagement models.
With Alan Roberts
· SUs
SU Elections special
This week on the Membership Services Show Livia talks to Bath SU about revamping its student council into a Student SUmmit to increase accountability and policy-making impact.
With Alan Roberts
· SUs
SUmmit, Prague’s Kampus, community organising
This week on the Membership Services Show Livia talks to Bath SU about revamping its student council into a Student SUmmit to increase accountability and policy-making impact.
With Alan Roberts
· SUs
Council, international mentoring, commuters
This week on the Membership Services Show Livia talks to Edinburgh Napier SU about redesigning its student council to boost engagement and influence.
With Alan Roberts
· SUs
New venue, SU elections, Spring Day
The Membership Services Show – where we discuss practice in SUs – is back for a second season.
With Alan Roberts
· SUs
There’s new insight about the impact of hardship funding for students – and why not having restrictions on funding spend matters
A new report from the JS group collates survey data from 4,168 students who have received hardship funding via the Aspire platform and offers insight into how this funding has been utilised. The students surveyed come fr
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs · Members
What SUs need to know from Disabled Students’ UK’s annual access insights report
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· SUs
Christmas special
In this special festive edition of the Membership Services Show, Alan and Livia have insights from the ACUI conference in the United States
With Alan Roberts
· Wonk Corner
More needs to be done if we want graduates to become teachers
As a history undergraduate one of the most common questions I was asked by family friends was if I planned on being a teacher.
· SUs · Members
Here’s what SUs need to know about international postgraduate research students
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Comment
Building community is as important as counselling wait times for student mental health
Financial stress, social anxiety, and insufficient resources to practise self-care – Livia Scott and Jim Dickinson assess the results of the Student Mental Health Study 2024
With Jim Dickinson
· Wonk Corner
Over a quarter of young people don’t understand the student finance system
Some 27 per cent of young people in England do not know how the student finance system works, according to a report from the Social Market Foundation (SMF)
· SUs · Members
What SUs need to think about when deciding how to allocate hardship funding
With Wonkhe SUs explainer
· Wonk Corner
Students have unrealistic expectations of the financial support universities can offer them
One of the conversations that always got the most rowdy whenever I was running an SU training was about trade offs
· Wonk Corner
Why are so few universities signing up to the Disabled Student Commitment?
Just 15 providers in its first year
· SUs · Members
Last night a chatbot saved my strife