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Rosie Hunnam
Rosie Hunnam is the founder of Organised Fun, a team of specialist Student Opportunities consultants who support SUs with project management, strategy development, problem solving and training. They also run the Student Opportunities Festival & the National Societies & Volunteering Awards.
8 pieces
Newest first, since March 2019
· SUs
Three questions every SU should ask about society finances
Rosie Hunnam and Fiona Walsh argue that overly complex society finance processes don’t protect unions – they drain staff capacity, erode trust, and stop students from doing things together
· SUs
How can SUs get civic-al
Rosie Hunnam and Fiona Walsh McDonnell explore what civic engagement means for students’ unions and how they can get involved.
· SUs
Should you be student-led for student-led’s sake?
Rosie Hunnam and Jamie Robinson ask if it’s still feasible—and beneficial—for students’ unions to rely heavily on student volunteers to make activities and events happen
With Jamie Robinson
· SUs
The secret to engaging more students in opportunities
Student opportunities expert Rosie Hunnam explains why students turn up and join in, and how we can make their experience wonderful in the process
· Comment
How to build back student community and opportunity
Jim Dickinson and Rosie Hunnam interrogate the student opportunities lost to the pandemic, and gather intel on what it would take to build them, and the student community they support, back higher.
With Jim Dickinson
· SUs
Having something fun to look forward to is really helpful – for all of us
This week marks the 21st anniversary of Student Volunteering Week. Student volunteering itself is way past retirement age. In fact in a number of institutions, the students’ union came after student-led voluntary action
· SUs
If it all goes online, who might we leave behind?
Covid-19 has changed everything in the world of higher education. Since lockdown was imposed, I’ve been spending a lot of time problem solving with students’ unions, with a big focus on keeping student opportunities goin
· Comment
The town is the gown
Ed Marsh-Rowbotham and Rosie Hunnam look at the latest thinking on student volunteering
With Ed Marsh