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#SUFutures – What exactly is the point?
Andrew McLaughlin
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SU blog
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28/02/20
#SUFutures – Why are we so obsessed with being “local”?
Steph Hayle
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SU blog
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21/02/20
OIA: helping to minimise the impact of industrial action on students
Felicity Mitchell
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SU blog
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21/02/20
#SUFutures – Course reps were the future once
Jim Dickinson
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SU blog
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14/02/20
#SUFutures – Neither a bird nor a plane – the rise of the super rep
Katie D’Arcy
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SU blog
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14/02/20
#SUFutures – A single point of failure – that fails students
James Brooks
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SU blog
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14/02/20
#SUFutures – Academic representation? Drop the fixation
Neil Mackenzie
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SU blog
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14/02/20
#SUFutures – Time to go back to the future
Jim Dickinson
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SU blog
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07/02/20
The powerful question every university meeting needs to answer
Bee Morgan
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SU blog
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31/01/20
How SUs can help their faith and belief societies
Simon Perfect
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SU blog
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22/01/20
All SUs should give give it a go a go
Dan Fow
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SU blog
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13/12/19
Why should students be enrolled at a university that doesn’t take mental health seriously?
Jim Dickinson
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SU blog
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09/12/19
Are we setting sabbs up to fail?
Phil Pilkington
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SU blog
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06/12/19
Why do SUs need officers anyway?
Demi Smith
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SU blog
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29/11/19
If change is the only certainty then certainly we’ll all have to deal with change
Graham Atkinson
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SU blog
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29/11/19
Top 6 takeaways from the UK Engagement Survey
David Kernohan
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SU blog
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01/11/19
University housing: students taking matters into their own hands
Laura Moss
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SU blog
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01/11/19
Is the art of resolutionary (student) politics dead?
Tom Flynn
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SU blog
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25/10/19
A funny thing happened on the way to the democratic forum
Nick Smith
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SU blog
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25/10/19
Lobbying and policy work isn’t real campaigning – or is it?
David Kernohan
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SU blog
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18/10/19
Student housing that’s good for your health
Fay Arnold
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SU blog
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11/10/19
Has trading off ruined citizens’ juries in SUs?
Sam Nichols
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SU blog
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27/09/19
Sports teams and homophobia – still a problem?
David Kernohan
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SU blog
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26/09/19
They don’t like the assessment, and they reject the feedback
Jim Dickinson
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SU blog
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06/09/19
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