Union Development Officer

I’m James Pheasey, your current SU President, and I’m running to be your Union Development Officer. My year as President has given me unique insight into what the Student’s Union is doing, and where it could be developed.

The SU needs experienced leadership through this time of crisis. We need leaders with in-depth knowledge of both the SU and the University. I have this experience and will be ready, from day one, to provide this.

Alongside the crisis management of the current period my manifesto includes the following:

Develop Student-Facing Services

Reduce Union bureaucracy

Ensure that the SU website is fit-for-purpose

Ensure the Portland building is fit-for-purpose

Develop Student Support & Change Structures

Associated Representational Bodies

Student Run Services,

Improve Student Leader support structures

Develop our Governance & Democracy

Develop our governance to be reflective of our practice as a Union

Ensure that the Union’s resources are spent on its members.

Prioritise equity in our elections practices.

Please read my full manifesto for the details of these points.

I hope you can see that I am the candidate with the experience and passion that we need in these challenging times.

Facts about your SU

To improve understanding, I want to:

Attend more events

Have weekly drop-in sessions

Monthly roundups of activities and expenditure

Payment for Part-Time Officers

Clear referenda

Decentralisation of Activities Roles

Openness about Mental Health

This will be achieved through:

Non-consecutive exams

Tutors being Mental Health First Aid trained

Mental Health Criterion for Scrutiny Panel

Mental Health Committee

X-tinguishing fear

To tackle safety in Lenton, we need to:

Turn Facebook groups like Safe Students (Notts) and Notts Safe Space, into SU-affiliated services

Lobby the police

To confront club safety:

Turn Mooch into a club on Saturdays

All affiliation and endorsement agreements include duties to fulfil the SU values

Extend the 'Report Harassment' section on the MyNottingham app to include incidents that have occurred at SU partners