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Your Subject Chair

Senior subject rep

Mathematics

Subject Chair promises

What your chair has promised to do

Holly Kinsey

To work on improving the personal tutor system to make sure students feel confident in reaching out and making use of the help available
To advertise the existence, and importance, of exisitng career support services, in particular the invaluable nature of spring/summer placements

Subject Reps

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Kate Manley

SSLC Rep (3rd Year)

Dominic Parker

SSLC Rep (3rd Year))

Lauren Coleman

SSLC Rep (1st Year)

Amy Potter

SSLC Rep (3rd Year)

Megan Maunder

SSLC Rep (4th Year)

Tsz Lai

SSLC Rep (1st Year)

Georgia Saunders

SSLC Rep (1st Year)

Gus Murphy

Second Year Rep

Harry Day

Second Year Rep

Rebecca Davey

Second Year Rep

Bethany Lee

Third Year Rep

Benjamin Bage

Third Year Rep

Academic Societies

Societies linked to your subject

University (SSLC) ELE page

Subject Chair role

This post requires 60 hours of leadership over the main two academic terms. This is 2.5 hours per week. Hours can count towards the Exeter Award or Exeter Leaders Award.

General duties

Actively lead your subject representation

An active leader is well prepared and knows what support systems exist to help them develop the best in everyone.

Active leadership requires that subject chairs are known to students and know what students want:-

Subject Chairs should make sure they are known or findable by students in their subject.
Subject Chairs should make sure that students know how to use the Subject Wall to provide feedback, raise issues or suggest changes.
Subject Chairs should make sure that they attend training each year when offered, and are familiar with their support staff at the Guild and University.
Subject Chairs are the student Chair for subject-level University meetings involving students and staff; these are known as the Student-Staff Liaison Committees (SSLCs.)

Actively communicate for subject representation

Active communication requires constant work and development, to make certain that as much information is available as possible.

Active leaders are those who are good at giving and receiving information:-

To work with students to ensure that the praise/issues and change Feedback forms on the Subject Walls are used to maximum benefit;
To take praise and put that all together to create 'outstanding practice' guidance;
To take issues and make sure that they are given the priority needed to solve them;
To take suggestions for change and work to make them to happen;
To 'fit the pieces together' on praise, issues and suggestions for change to provide complete information at any meetings attended with the University and staff;
To ensure that students know the outcomes of any meetings.

Work within the framework

An active leader is aware of the relationships which exist and the structures they work within to direct support and feedback to the right people.

To work directly with the leadership structure that exists to support Academic Representation:-

There is a VP Education to whom all institutional-wide issues should be brought.
There is a VP Taught postgraduates to whom all insitutional-wide PGT-specific issues should be brought.
There is a VP Research Postgraduates to whom all institutional-wide PGR-specific issues should be brought.
Each academic College has a College Officer, to whom all College-specific issues should be brought.
The Guild has a single staff point of contact for each College, and for each subject.
You should meet regularly (as needed) with everyone involved in your support and leadership structure for effective delivery of academic representation.

Specific duties

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Subject Volunteer role

This post is flexible in the amount of time which can be volunteered. Hours can count towards the Exeter Award.

General duties

Employability and Careers Role

To represent student views on Employability within the subject, and potentially also be involved with relations with Alumni of Exeter.

The Employability and Careers role involves:-

To liaise with the College Employability and Alumni Officers and the Employability Lead in their discipline and together co-ordinate appropriate activity.
To feedback information to the College Employability and Alumni Officers on employability and alumni related events and initiatives.
To assist the Employability and Alumni Officers with events as and where appropriate.
To act as a point of contact between the Academic Employability Officer for the department and the students.
To ensure students are informed of anything that may affect them.
To give support to the Subject Chair as requested.

The Employability and Careers role should ordinarily have 1 place at the SSLC meeting - if there are several volunteers we suggest a sub-committee is established for general communication, which can then report in to the SSLC meeting.

Quality Assurance Role

Subject Chairs have a general remit over Quality Assurance within their subject. The quality assurance role can also be devolved to an elected or volunteer student within the subject.

Purpose: -

To actively represent student views regarding Quality Assurance in academic programmes.
To attend the Student-Staff Liaison Committee Meeting to represent student views re: Quality Assurance.

Duties: -

To attend specific Quality Assurance training.
To be given and briefed in the results of any student survey as appropriate.
Examples of surveys are: Accelerate, National Student Survey, Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey.
To review and advise on the action plans resulting from any survey results.
To work with the Quality Assurance team to devise and implement NSS/PTES communications plans.

Other and Additional Duties: -

To review external examiner comments and the corresponding responses.
To be consulted regarding any proposed changes to programmes or the introduction of new modules/programmes as appropriate.
To inform and collect feedback from students and other subject volunteers about Quality Assurance.
To attend programme boards for their discipline.
To attend the Collegiate-level ASER when those are held.

Student-Staff Liaison Committee Role

To attend (numbers permitting) SSLC meetings throughout the year and communicate issues in to the meeting, and feedback outcomes to students.

The SSLC is a meeting once or twice per academic term, which involves preparation; a ceratin amount of formality in processes and that students in attendance are aware of the issues they are bringing to the meeting.

To be ready to help the Subject Chair:-

To attend induction and training, so that you have current information and support;
To make yourself known to students you represent;
To assist the Subject Chair with feedback and awards when needed;
To encourage students to actively engage with the Guild and participatory democracy.
To attend meetings (particularly the Student-Staff Liaison Committee meetings) with the Subject Chair.

Support student feedback Role

Student representatives within Academic Representation might be elected or volunteers; the role is the same for either.

To work with the Subject Chair to deliver academic representation at the subject level for the best student support and partnership:-

To talk to students, and listen to their concerns;
To inform students about Student Ideas, and the Academic Walls for your subject;
To let students know that they can actively submit their own feedback on the Academic Walls;
To complete feedback on behalf of students if they can't/won't do it themselves, so that all issues are raised.

Accountability for elected Subject Reps

Elected subject reps are accountable to the students who are eligible to stand and vote for subject rep posts. This is normally all students taking any subject-specific module in a given subject.

To be directly accountable to students who you represent.

To be held to account if necessary through open meetings to which all students of the subject have been invited.
To be held to account through an open meeting voting on, and accepting, a Notice of Improvement.
To be held to account in a public vote (by secret ballot only) on a Vote of No Confidence held because you have failed to uphold a Notice of Improvement issued against you.

Accountability for volunteer Subject Reps

Volunteer subject reps are accountable to the elected Subject Chair, who has been elected by students and who represents all students taking subject-specific modules in any given subject.

To be directly accountable to the Subject Chair.

To be held to account if necessary through private mediation which may be attended by any student from the subject.
To be held to account by mutual consent if a Notice of Improvement is required to regulate your behaviour.
To be deemed to have failed a Vote of No Confidence should your Subject Chair find that you have failed to uphold a Notice of Improvement which you mutally agreed.
Notification of the removal of a volunteer rep shall be given to the VP Education to be taken to the next Shadow Council for the general details to be scrutinised at the highest democratic level possible.

Specific duties

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Volunteer Charter

The Volunteer Charter sets out the Rights of student volunteers, and the responsibilities they have. This charter is influenced heavily by the work of Cumbria Council who use a similar model to ensure the communities they support work in ways which enable volunteers rather than exploiting them.

Volunteers’ Rights

To be given a clear description of their role as a volunteer and responsibilities within the organisation.
To be given the name of someone in the organisation that will look after their interests whilst they volunteer, and who will offer them appropriate induction, training and support and regular supervision.
To be assured that any information shared with the organisation is kept confidential and is in compliance with the data protection act.
To be given the same consideration under health and safety as permanent staff.
To ensure that there are clear problem solving procedures
To be offered opportunities for training and skills development, appropriate for their role and tasks as a volunteer.
Not to be exploited – volunteers should not:
- Be used to replace paid workers
- Have unfair demands made on their time
- Be asked to do something which is against their principles or beliefs
To be given the chance to play a part in decision making within the organisation.
To be paid out-of-pocket expenses such as travel and lunch whilst doing voluntary work.
To be able to take a break from or cease to volunteer.

Volunteers’ Responsibilities

To accept the organisation’s aims and objectives and work within agreed policies and procedures.
To do what is reasonably requested of them, to the best of their ability.
To treat information obtained whilst volunteering in an appropriate confidential manner and adhere to the organisation’s confidentiality policies.
To recognise that they represent the organisation and therefore need to act in an appropriate manner at all times.
To honour any commitment made, to the best of their abilities, notifying the organisation in good time should they be unable to keep that commitment.
To be willing to undertake appropriate training as necessary for the voluntary work undertaken.
To recognise the right of the organisation to expect quality of service from its volunteers.
To share suggestions for changes in working practices with the Volunteer Organiser.

Your Voice

Volunteer: Step 1

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Volunteer: Step 2

Take the Induction

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Issues raised

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Praise & feedback

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Academic Student Ideas

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Guild Support

Roy Osborne

Roy.Osborne@exeterguild.com

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Your Subject Chair

Mathematics

Subject Chair promises

Holly Kinsey

Subject Reps

Kate Manley

Dominic Parker

Lauren Coleman

Amy Potter

Megan Maunder

Tsz Lai

Georgia Saunders

Gus Murphy

Harry Day

Rebecca Davey

Bethany Lee

Benjamin Bage

Academic Societies

University (SSLC) ELE page

Subject Chair role

General duties

Actively lead your subject representation

Actively communicate for subject representation

Work within the framework

Specific duties

Subject Volunteer role

General duties

Employability and Careers Role

Quality Assurance Role

Student-Staff Liaison Committee Role

Support student feedback Role

Accountability for elected Subject Reps

Accountability for volunteer Subject Reps

Specific duties

Volunteer Charter

Your Voice

Volunteer: Step 1

Volunteer: Step 2

Issues raised

Praise & feedback

Academic Student Ideas

Guild Support

Roy Osborne

Help and Advice

Your Feedback