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SU officers & leadership
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Can students send “grossly offensive” emails to SU officers and claim “free speech”?
11/03/24
The rules when international students become sabbs
10/03/24
Here’s how we’re switching up Membership Services for 2024
Alan Roberts
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SU blog
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07/03/24
Exploitation, neglect and how we are failing our part-Time officers
Martha Roberts
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SU blog
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07/03/24
How to be a students’ union officer from a working class background
Darcie Jones
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SU blog
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08/02/24
Meet the SU with a €4m block grant and hundreds of sabbs
08/02/24
How to make our officers and campaigns even stronger
Ben Vulliamy
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SU blog
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04/02/24
SU officers on senior appointment panels need better questions
01/02/24
Working with international officers: A guide to successful collaboration
Simeon Anyalemechi
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SU blog
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18/01/24
What happens when SU officer poachers become university gamekeepers?
Nick Smith
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SU blog
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11/01/24
JFK, the Janitor and SUs’ strategic approach
Simeon Anyalemechi
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SU blog
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08/12/23
Membership Services Conference 2023: Slides
13/10/23
What happens when sabbs become university staff?
Nick Smith
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SU blog
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04/10/23
Taking development seriously means getting on the bus
Gareth Hughes
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SU blog
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29/09/23
An open letter from a hungry sabb
Samuel Dickins
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SU blog
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25/09/23
Honestly? I wanna see you be brave
Mike Hill
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SU blog
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08/09/23
Why is telling the truth getting so hard?
Jim Dickinson
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SU blog
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24/08/23
Better elections means supporting the talent
Ashley Storer-Smith
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SU blog
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22/08/23
Is a “social policy” approach key to supporting officers?
Michael Hewitson
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SU blog
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16/08/23
We need to talk about sabbatical pay
Jim Dickinson
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SU blog
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16/08/23
Supporting students to be effective on university boards
Aimee Cuthbert
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SU blog
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15/08/23
How to commission a consultant
James Coe
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SU blog
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08/08/23
How to speak on a panel or deliver a keynote with confidence and impact
19/07/23
This is the pep talk I needed when I became a sabb
Anouska Johnson
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SU blog
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25/06/23
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