Dylan Jones (He/Him)
Intention
That every student can get involved with a society, if they want to. Therefore, increasing society membership.
Interventions
Term 1: Check for appropriate week. W/c 2/11 congratulate on soc memberships – send out that there will be a push week, would they like to join? Open Session, pop up stall etc.
Actual Week: Social Media push. Promoting their soc activities. Spend time talking with non soc students to promote.
Lecture appearances in welcome week (Induction sessions) and throughout the year.
Term 1: Sign up to induction sessions. Work with reps’ team to find large lectures. Contact lecturer to ask for 5 minutes to promote societies.
Onwards: attend sessions as necessary
Wellbeing committee members.
Term 1: Research institutions that have a role. Build a role description. Present description for further discussion.
Term 2: If accepted, celebrate and communicate, particularly at conference 2. Become a role students can nominate themselves for in elections.
Increase course socs.
Term 1: identify no course based socs. Work with VP Ed & Reps to determine best approach. Working with LSRs or Program leaders? Speak with current course socs about benefits. Look into rep conference.
Half year memberships.
Term 1: Speak with Soc Coordinators to add question in dev form 2 asking if Socs want to have a half year membership – to start in term 2.
Term 2: Promote the half year membership with societies. Go into lectures at this time to promote half year memberships.
Socs Thursdays.
Termly: Check in for impact with Commercial team.
Term 1: Check in Commercial team that it is taking place.
Onwards: Engage with societies and students promoting the event continually.
Monthly pub quiz.
Term 1: Create a sign up form for societies to host. Create comms to get societies engaged in hosting. Assets needed over pub quiz. Engage societies with the form to increase participation. Liase with hosts to effectively run the quiz night monthly. Create form for feedback from host societies.
Increase Society longevity through generating interest in future Committee members taking over the Society
Active social media engagement.
Term 1: Build marketing plan with big events.
Terms 1 onwards: Add to marketing plan adhoc with smaller events. Create and post content.
Term 2: Content targeted towards society committee elections and best practises. Promoting benefits to being a CM. Promoting committees to develop current members.
Utilising conferences to build skills and provide training.
Term 1: Plan conference structure macro level. Develop agenda for conference 1 – informative. Find out what workshop to run for conference 2. Develop agenda for conference 2. If appropriate, organise external speaker.
Term 2: Develop agenda for conference 3.
Attend Glenside and Bower.
Term 1: Coordinate calendar to provide a plan for regular campus attendance.
Term 1 onwards: Attend following calendar. Promoting that I am on the site.
5 Key principles.
Term 1: Finalise the principles. Put in a marketing ticket for a graphic to symbolise them. Communicate on social media. Communicate at conference 1 to embed in committees’ ethos.
Term 1 onwards: Reflect on principles against work weekly. Adjust work as necessary.
That every student can afford to participate in a society.
Additional pot of funding available for societies to apply for, to cover sporting activities, as a social activity.
Term 1 – apply for SEF. Marketing ticket to generate assets for promotion. Develop application form and criteria for application and process for approving.
Term 2: Launch to Societies January for application through Term 2 and 3.
Term 3: Evaluation of impact.
Promotion & signposting of UWE services to support hardship.
Term 1: Research and reaching out to UWE services (e.g. Student money services) to find out what they offer. From research, developing a communication strategy.
Term 1 onwards: Communicating and signposting.
Term 2: research reasons for not participating, money focus. Student consultation panel.
To recentre our representative role with students by creating an easy-to-navigate, mobile-friendly website with fewer clicks to join groups, access committee resources, find event info, and engage with Student Policy (voting on proposals and positions).
Student Consultation and Co-Design (Student Voice Lead)
Term 1:
Lead student research as part of the wider SU CRM and website rebuild project. Work with engaged students (society members/committee) to map out what works and what causes friction.
Partner with non-engaged students (via the Student Consultation Panel) to evaluate site barriers with fresh eyes.
Analyse current website analytics to identify high-traffic pages, high-dropoff points, and key student priorities.
Benchmark web presence against top-performing SU websites across the sector to identify best practices for mobile usability, reduced click-rate, and clear signposting.
Participate in the tender panel process as a sabb and trustee.
Term 2:
Test alternative navigation layouts, mobile models, and digital journey prototypes with students to gather feedback on proposed designs.
Optimise the committee hub to ensure seamless access to resources and administrative information for student group leaders.
Term 3: Review initial rebuild progress and user testing feedback ahead of final rollout.
Email: vpsocsandcomms@uwe.ac.uk Instagram: @thesuatuwe_vpsocieties Facebook: /VPsocsandCommsatUWE