One job at a time

Woooop.

I still have a spring in my step after being elected as ULSU’s Vice-President Academic Affairs for 2010/11 – and am grateful to everybody who voted for me – and in my current officer role; am grateful to everybody who actually voted – regardless of who for, it’s fab to see increased turnout!

But, that role doesn’t start until June / July – so for now, it’s back to being a part time, voluntary Student Officer working on the manifesto and priorities that you thought were half-decent around a year ago.

This week, I need to do two things; a) first and foremost catch up on my degree work after two weeks of doing nothing for it (which includes choosing a dissertation topic) and b) getting back into the swing of things at SU HQ, after not really being in or involved for a couple of weeks.

I think there are three focuses for my SU work, the first is writing a self-assessment report on how decisions are scrutinised at ULSU for our final SUEI audit in June – which will require thought, consultation and several drafts.

The second thing, a full review of our progress made of Student Reps – we need to get planning on that so that it can begin and conclude ASAP – the outcomes of this will help to inform what we do at the end of this year and my work with reps next year.

Finally, I’m pushing for a new discussion in the SU – all about what we do at Riseholme. Now, before you worry – we do already talk about Riseholme and have come a long way in what we do there – but we do it within individual departments (i.e. Education & Welfare, Sports & Societies, Comms & Marketing, Job Shop etc). My mission is to get the Union (and partners) talking collectively about where we are, where we need to be going and how to get there etc – and hopefully we’ll see lots of tangible outcomes for our students at Riseholme.

Also this week, meetings… a big catch-up team coffee morning first thing Monday, Board of Trustees on Monday, Exec (all Officers) on Wednesday, a Riseholme social / commercial spaces meeting on Wednesday and SUEI Steering on Friday.

Finally, if you’re interested – for my dissertation – I’m thinking of looking at how Students’ Unions will individually and collectively impact the eventual outcomes of the independent review of Higher Education funding, or something like that – all around managing movements / public affairs / lobbying etc.

For this week, too-da-loo!