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Election
Read about what the Disabled Students' Officer is responsible for.
In order to vote for this position you must self-define as a student from with a disability.
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Candidates
Philip Greger / Suzanna Chen
What will you bring to this role (e.g. experience, skills or qualities)?
Both of us have been quite active in UCL's disabled student community over the past year. Philip is the President of UCL's Autism Society and has greatly increased the number of members in and events held by the society and has built an active community both in-person and on the society's discord. Suzanna has served as editor-in-chief of the London Tab and as President of UCL's Data Visualisation Society. She's written many articles about the ADHD and Autistic student experience at UCL. Both of us hope to be able to use the skills we've acquired so far to serve UCL's disabled students.
What do you hope to achieve in the role if you are elected?
- Rebuild and revitalise the disabled student's network after a year of inactivity.
- Run weekly/biweekly socials and drop-in sessions (both online and in-person).
- Revitalise the network's discord and build an active online community so that we can have a space to help out students whenever they need it.
- Help create specific groups/support systems for specific conditions (e.g. autistic students, ADHD students, students with chronic conditions, etc.) in addition to general support and events so that we can help as many students as possible.
Please summarise why students should vote for you.
Both of us have extensive experience helping disabled students here at UCL. We've both had to apply for interruptions, ECs, deferrals, and other necessary accommodations ourselves, and have helped countless others take the necessary steps to do the same. Both of us are international students and members of the LGBT+ community, and Suzanna is a woman and person of colour. We have the necessary experience to run the network, and we will work as hard as possible to do anything and everything we can for UCL's disabled students.
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Natalie Tse
What will you bring to this role (e.g. experience, skills or qualities)?
In school, I actively took on leadership roles such as leading the yearbook design team, the school’s law society. With this experience, I gained some essential skills including communication, time management, coordination and more which I will bring to this role. This year, my role in the DSN committee led me to see the lack of communication between the network, UCL’s services and students. The failed events for Disabled History Month, the struggles in reaching out to UCL’s disabled students for a national survey are some problems I have seen, and I hope to address this if I get elected.
What do you hope to achieve in the role if you are elected?
Expand UCL’s disabled network ~ through increased promotion on our existing socials and UCL’s disability services
Create support systems ~ peer support groups, buddy programmes so disabled students have a safe space to express their feelings
Community outreach and raising awareness ~ making better use of our social media to raise awareness, this includes a disabled student spotlight to share personal stories
Improving day to day life ~ increasing campus accessibility and making sure SORAs are properly implemented
Follow me on Instagram @natalietse_ for more updates and information!
Please summarise why students should vote for you.
As a student with a hidden disability and from a culture where being 'normal' is the norm, I have struggled with finding support and embracing my disabled identity. This struggle continued throughout my time here with the lack of communication with my disabled peers, the fluctuations with my SORA and even campus accessibility. I hope that by having this role, I can help make university more enjoyable for disabled students by fostering a supportive community, increasing campus accessibility and student support. Thank you, and I hope you vote for me, Natalie, as your disabled students’ officer.
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