Working for Students

This week on the membership services show Alan talks to Strathclyde SU about its food bank and pantry, and Livia talks to Lincoln SU about its care packages. Plus Alan catches up with Students Union UCL about the Russell Group SUs manifesto. RGSU manifesto Lincoln Advice centre donations Strathclyde Pantry Strathclyde Foodbank society Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on the membership services show Livia and Alan talk to Lincoln Students’ Union about their housing accreditation scheme, and to UCL Students’ Union to hear about the future of their iconic active bystander program. Plus Alan chats to Salford Students’ Union about how they managed to get their hands on some lottery funding to support their cost of living work. Salford lottery funding UCL...

This week on the Membership Services Show Livia chats to Bath Spa SU who have been developing their approach to student networks as a means to protecting and developing some of their student groups.  Plus Alan hears from Aber SU about how they have spent the last few years working on their approach to engaging neurodiversity across the union, particularly within their own recruitment - and Li...

This week on the Membership Services Show Livia chats to Sunderland SU about how they went all Wagatha Christie to combat essay mills. Plus Alan hears from Rhul SU about their regular research into the postgraduate taught student experience, and asks Manchester SU what they mean by marketing led membership services.  Royal Holloway PGT Student Experience Policy Inquiry It is time for real and...

This week on the Membership Services Show it’s the tenth episode, so at this important milestone Livia and Alan take a bit of time to reflect on some of the themes that have come from the guests of the show so far.  Plus Livia talks to Brighton SU about how they’ve managed to double the number of student societies and learns about how York SU has been empowering student researchers to shape t...

With the deadline for session proposals drawing nearer, this week on the Membership Services Show Livia chats to Amy at Beds SU about how they have shifted their events offer to respond to changes in taste, after finding students were not attending night time activities.  Plus Alan catches up with Limerick SU, live in Vienna, to learn about their campaign to create more sensory spaces, and Li...

This week on the Membership Services Show Livia talks to the University of Manchester SU about how they've managed to hack the NSS through detailed research. Plus Alan talks to Salford SU about their radical approach to promoting the work of officers, and Livia find out about how Durham SU is reinventing Freshers Week. Here’s how we’re switching up Membership Services for 2024 (plus how to submit...

This week on the Membership Services Show as we inch closer to a set of elections in May, Livia catches up with the Greater Manchester Student Partnership to see how it's advocating for students on key urban issues. Plus Alan catches up with Aber SU to see how it promotes students working in teams to build belonging, and Livia catches up with City, University of London SU to discuss their work on...

This week on the Membership Services Show as concerns grow over student housing, food insecurity and health Alan interrogates a fascinating US initiative on student basic needs. Plus Livia rounds off our look at election season by chatting to Hull University SU about their candidate training initiative, and Alan chats to South Bank SU about an approach to supporting students to make events happen....

This week on the membership services show Alan talks to the Students’ Union Bath University where peer support is helping to build belonging and improve student outcomes. Plus Livia chats to the University of Manchester Students Union on their approach to elections and candidate quality, and Alan finds out how a student union in the USA is driving learning outcomes derived from the student staff e...

This week on the membership services show Livia talks to Exeter Students' Guild where cost of living concerns have led to fascinating and impactful new research on what students need. Plus Alan catches up with Imperial College Union on their student experience fund, and Livia finds out how Lancaster approached their elections this year. Here’s how we’re switching up Membership Services for 2024 Mo...

This week on the Membership Services Show, Alan talks to LSE students' union about how they use an interesting form of democracy for determining their policies. Plus Livia speaks to Lincoln SU about their record breaking election turnout, and Alan chats to Tampere SU (in Finland) about academic community building. Here’s how we’re switching up Membership Services for 2024 LSE Student panels: https...

This week on the Membership Services Show, Livia talks to Derby SU, where victims of sexual violence are being supported through an important new service. Plus Alan talks to York University SU about the way they're changing the way they support officers, and Livia talks to Leeds Beckett SU where the team has been changing its approach to democracy and campaigns through organising. Strength based l...

This week on the Membership Services Show, Livia talks to UCLan SU, where declining participation in academic societies meant a new project to develop the relationship with schools.  Plus Alan talks to Lancaster Students Union about the way they're changing the way their advice team works across the union, and Livia talks to Sunderland SU where the team has been changing its approach to stude...