Vote Shingai for President
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- Student consulted safe return to campus and in person learning
- Fully operational library and study spaces
- Financial support for home and international students
- Student focused SU – no gimmicks and publicity stunts
Amplifying Your Voice.
Serving Your Needs
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Who am I? And what have I done for you so far?
- Current Postgraduate Officer
- Founded Believers LoveWorld Warwick
- Warwick Law School and WMG Graduate
- International Student
- Ensured IT issues were included in mitigation
- Secured funding for campaigns to benefit BAME communities at Warwick
- Advocated for greater support for BAME PGR Students
- Stood in solidarity with you against unconsulted all online teaching campaign
- Secured extra extensions for CLL student carers
- Fought to ensure self-certification and extensions were applied to all UG and PG students
Education and Academics
- Consultation to understand the teaching students want post-COVID, and ensure a safe return to campus and in person learning.
- Continue to lobby for full opening of the library, along with other study spaces on campus.
- Push for investment into better transcription technology.
- Lobby for greater leniency for all student carers.
- Lobby for PGR funding extensions.
- Maintain recorded lectures
- Continue to embed sustainability within the curriculum
Tackling Sexual Misconduct
- Ensure that Consent training, such as Active Bystander Training, is embedded into the curriculum
- Encourage popular student bars and clubs to train their staff in handling disclosures of sexual misconduct
Mental Health and Wellbeing
- Continue to promote, raise awareness of and push the implementation of culturally competent care.
- Work to ensure better integration of wellbeing into faculty and departmental structures.
- Continue to ensure that departments share knowledge of support strategies and best practice that students have given positive feedback on.
Housing and Financial Support
- Lobby for the introduction of a rent waiver clause in student accommodation contracts in the event of further restrictions.
- Push for increased leniency and support for international students unable to pay tuition fees.
- Continue lobbying for the re-introduction of IT support bursaries.
- Lobby for wider scope of hardship funds for both home and international students.
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Supporting Communities
- Lobby the university to fund and organise events and initiatives to celebrate Black History Month.
- Lobby for the incorporation of restorative, and educational approaches to sanctions in the disciplinary process for minor offences as a replacement for monetary fines
- Push for an expanded Welcome Week for all students, to assist with reintroduction to campus life and in-person teaching.
Accessible and Sustainable Services
- Continue to push for a more varied food offer in Rootes Grocery Store, including Halal, Kosher. African and Caribbean options.
- Push for more vegan, vegetarian and other sustainable food offers in all outlets on campus.
- Continue plans to open a Zero-Waste shop in the SU.
- Lobby for re-introduction of the off-campus Warwick Accommodation offer.
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Your Students’ Union
- Research and improve democratic and academic voice models to better involve Postgraduate students
- Lobby for more affordable sports club membership
- Reopen SU outlets and venues as soon as it is safe to do so
- Support societies and clubs in the return to campus through increased promotion and funding
- Steer greater student focus and better service delivery through continued word on stakeholder management map and student engagement plan
- Work to establish a Faith Students’ Part-Time Officer role
Amplifying Your Voice.
Serving Your Needs
[logo: facebook, Instagram] @shingaiforpres
www/warwicksu.com/elections/vote