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Firuza Nasibzade
What do you hope to achieve in the role if you are elected?
As a postgraduate officer, my primary goal is to advocate for students and ensure their needs are addressed and acted upon. This involves working with student reps and administrators to tackle issues such as funding, supervision, and mental health. I aim to promote academic and professional development by creating opportunities for students to develop skills and gain experience. As a postgrad student myself, I understand that it can be isolating, so I plan to create a supportive and inclusive environment by organizing social events and encouraging networking and collaboration.
What will you bring to this role (e.g. experience, skills or qualities)?
As an experienced academic coordinator for 4 years, I have valuable skills and experience that will help me succeed as a postgraduate officer. I excel in clear and effective communication and can ensure that student concerns and ideas are conveyed to university administrators. My skills include leading and managing teams, organizing multiple tasks and projects, and problem-solving. I have encountered various challenges such as managing conflicts between students and resolving issues related to academic policies or procedures.
Please summarise why students should vote for you.
With over 4 years of experience as an academic coordinator and teacher, I have developed the skills needed to excel as a postgraduate officer. I have experience leading teams, organizing events, and advocating for students. Working with diverse groups has given me a broad understanding of the issues students face. I excel under pressure and develop creative solutions. I am passionate about improving the student experience and committed to representing and advocating for postgrads. I will work tirelessly to ensure their voices are heard.
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Anita Ng
What do you hope to achieve in the role if you are elected?
Hi everyone, I’m Anita, a MSc Leaning Environments Student, and I hope every postgraduate enjoy exceptional learning environment and make the most of their time at UCL.
I plan to work on the following:
- Maintain close communication between postgraduate students and UCL. Make your voices heard by UCL senior management members by introducing direct feedback system
- Provide more career sharing sessions and CV/Cover letter drop-in that are tailored to each postgraduate course.
- Improve the transparency of course representative meetings by livestreaming and recording all sessions
What will you bring to this role (e.g. experience, skills or qualities)?
Accessible
- I will make myself easily approachable so that students can freely express their concerns.
Inclusive
- I will work to create a more inclusive and supportive culture in the postgraduate community, where every postgraduate feels valued, safe and respected.
Reliable
- I equipped with effective communication and problem-solving skills, which I gained from my work experience and volunteer experience, including representing my fellow coursemates as course representative at the Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction.
Please summarise why students should vote for you.
By voting for me, I will ensure that you feel supported and that UCL hears your voice. I will help you create a warm and inclusive community by taking in your feedback and suggestions and delivering them to UCL.
As a multi-cultural international student who has spent years studying in the UK since high school. I completely understand the concerns, challenges, and expectations a postgraduate student has for their time at UCL.
Vote for CHANGE ! You need a thoughtful, proactive, and passionate postgraduate officer who is ready to represent your voice.
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Sudir Vigneshwar KN
What do you hope to achieve in the role if you are elected?
Propagate the motto that ‘UCL postgraduate student life is more of a cherishable journey than a destination to a degree’ to the entire UCL postgrad community.
I also guarantee that I will do what needs to be done. If not, will learn what needs to be done and then do it.
Will be open to explore all the possibilities that this role requires and will IMPROVISE, OVERCOME AND ADAPT.
What will you bring to this role (e.g. experience, skills or qualities)?
Being a House Captain in an International boarding school, to the lead organiser of Inter-Medical college cultural events during undergrad, all the way to the head of the junior doctor wing taking care of an Intensive Care unit in a hospital; I have also embraced responsibilities in many forms and is something I will adorn as a sleeve of responsibility in my postgrad as well.
Ready to face whatever this role expects me to do
Please summarise why students should vote for you.
As a self-improvement enthusiast in all domains of Life, I have always tried to maximise participation and betterment of myself as well as my peer groups to challenge themselves physically, mentally and socially paired with the motto of ‘intuitive exploration of Oneself’.
This post as a Postgraduate Officer is a perfect win-win platform for preaching this motto with an attitude of service around me.
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Aditya Lathar
What do you hope to achieve in the role if you are elected?
If I get elected as your PG Officer I will-
· Scrap Master’s application fee for current/ formal students seeking a second master’s degree
· Lobby the University to provide E-Library access to students even after five years of graduation
· Provide better access to more resourced mental health services, with greater diversity among counsellors
· Create an action plan to combat isolation in widening participation groups
· Make sure PHD stipend increments are proportionate to annual inflation rate
· Provide Cost of living support for self- funded PGRs
What will you bring to this role (e.g. experience, skills or qualities)?
Hi all, I am Aditya Lathar, after completing my law degree at Durham I'm studying MRes Interdisciplinary Urban Design. I have held various positions at Durham and want to continue to represent students and ensure that our voice is heard.
Experience:
* Postgraduate Officer, Durham Students Union 2022
* First Runner-Up Presidential Candidate, Durham Students Union
* NUS Delegate 2020-22
* President, Durham Indian Society 2020-22
* International Officer, George Stephenson College 2020-21
Please summarise why students should vote for you.
I feel lucky to have had a fantastic experience at UCL so far and want all of us to have an even greater experience while at the University. I will advocate for more postgraduate events and initiatives, including networking opportunities, career workshops and social gatherings. Being a People of Colour and International student I believe that diversity and inclusion must be at the forefront of all student activities. I will prioritize environmental sustainability and take action to reduce the University's carbon footprint.
#UCL SU NEEDS CHANGE
#ADITYA LATHAR IS THE CHANGE
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Kosh Vohra
What do you hope to achieve in the role if you are elected?
- Improved pre-admission communications through increased admin-manpower during admission season, volunteers to assist incoming international PGs on whatsapp groups, etc.
- Priority attention on the welfare of single year degree students in strike-action discussions.
- I accessed supportive facilities(disability support, funding) and transformational opportunities (walking ramp for MODO, learning to mix with EMS) and I would like to see other postgraduates also benefit from such facilities/opportunities as much as possible. I will organise SU led interactive orientations to facilitate this.
What will you bring to this role (e.g. experience, skills or qualities)?
- 3 years of PG experience - ongoing masters@UCL (Social Cognition) and a MPP degree@National Law School, India
- An international aptitude due to travel/work/study across 5 continents
- Worked for 8 years across 7 sectors: media, education, academia, development, defence, health, consulting & lobbying
- Skills in planning, implementation, and stakeholder management developed at grassroots and highest levels of governments/corporates
- A diverse perspective as a mature, neurodivergent, genderqueer person - empowers me with alternative ways of thinking and improves understanding of diverse voices.
Please summarise why students should vote for you.
- I'm motivated about this position since I've benefited immensely from UCL's opportunities and supportive facilities and would like to share these benefits with others.
- I am competent at communicating with, and representing a diverse student community due to my global work/travel footprint and extensive life experiences.
- As an efficient, astute communicator with a proven record of lobbying with senior officials, I will effectively represent my PG peers and their concerns. I shall maintain a compelling case for preservation of PG student rights at all times, including strike actions.
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Kacper Jarosz
What do you hope to achieve in the role if you are elected?
I want all postgraduate students to make the most out of their time at UCL.
Here is my plan:
- Affordable for all. Reduce PG application fees and expand fee waiver scheme for students in hardship.
- Fair and Square. Create more transparent system for refunds due to strikes.
- We want to work. Improve career advice and create work opportunities tailored for postgraduate students.
- You deserve it. Establish more means tested bursaries and academic merit scholarships for UK and international students of each MA degree.
- “I wanna dance with somebody!”. Host postgrad socials across all faculties.
What will you bring to this role (e.g. experience, skills or qualities)?
Experience: I have always been involved in student bodies to bring positive change. I was a Course Rep during my undergrad at Queen Mary and I am also Rep here at UCL.
Good listener: When students come to me with issues they have, I always give them my full attention and listen with compassion. I make sure the voices of my peers are being heard by voicing them forward directly to people in power.
Solution focused: Last semester I fought for home Adobe Premier licence for my cohort of 120 students. This achievement was recognised by Student Union and I was chosen as Course Rep of the Month.
Please summarise why students should vote for you.
As someone who came from abroad to study in the UK, but having lived here 5 years I am uniquely suited to understand both international and home students needs. I recognise the challenges that postgraduate students are facing and the pressure they feel to make the most of out of their limited time at UCL.
Now more than ever, during the cost of living crisis and rising prices, you need a proactive, experienced and pragmatic officer that will make your experience of studying at UCL more affordable and simply pleasurable. I am here to deliver exactly that!
VOTE AFFORDABILITY AND INCLUSIVITY!
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Karishma K Tuladhar
What do you hope to achieve in the role if you are elected?
With our diverse international student population and unusual routine of postgraduate students, I have deep empathy for the occasional disenchantment, discomfort and loneliness of it. I prioritize human connections and am committed to creating these opportunities for our postgraduates right now and improving the university experience.
What will you bring to this role (e.g. experience, skills or qualities)?
At UCL, I have been a student leader as a Course Representative, Lead Course Representative, Society President while also participating in focus groups to lend student voice for educational affairs.
I have been building a wide student perspective to offer a unanimous and accurate student position to relevant discussions. I also organised peer review sessions, course feedback sessions, studio clean-ups, a peer mentorship program and departmental rep meetings. With the UCL East Society, we create inclusive postgraduate socials near East Campuses.
Please summarise why students should vote for you.
Experience as a student leader in several different roles during my postgraduate studies had me connected to the student body to gain a lot of perspective on differing and common opinions. I have always maintained full transparency of my communications and work.
I am a proactive communicator with patience and empathy in every conversation. I believe in bringing students together through common themes and allowing the diversity within them to further interesting experiences.
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Issy Smith
What do you hope to achieve in the role if you are elected?
My main policy is concentrated on revitalising the postgraduate social experience at UCL.
Us postgrads are often lumped into one group when we are actually a very diverse cohort. I want to set up and successfully implement a social event structure that caters to every postgrad student, whether you are PGT, PGR, a carer, a parent, part-time, full-time, mature, based on main campus or at UCL East.
- I want Postgrads to feel a part of the UCL community
- I want it to be easy and flexible to socialise, to network, and to meet other students
- I want postgrad experience to rival that of undergrad
What will you bring to this role (e.g. experience, skills or qualities)?
EXPERIENCE
- 6 years studying at UCL (year-abroad BA degree and part-time MSc).
- 3 years of experience working in the Students' Union.
- Carried out 80+ events in UCL Welcome 2022 (boat parties, speedfriendings, and more).
- I am currently the Postgraduate Events Assistant. Within 2 months I have organised monthly Wine and Cheese Nights, weekly Coffee Mornings, and a PHD Theatre Trip, amongst other events.
- Other SU roles: sports assistant for TeamUCL and Project Active, Printroom Barista, UCL 101 Talks Speaker, Sports Rep.
- Collaborated with Project Active on Postgraduate Summer initiative.
Please summarise why students should vote for you.
For far too long postgrad students have been neglected. We comprise over half of the student body and yet we do not see this reflected nor the representation shown in the services provided. Many postgrad students feel left on the sidelines and are having to self-organise to make connections across their cohort, to socialise, and to feel a part of the UCL community.
With my experience in the SU, I know I can change this. Above all, I am passionate and driven to do everything I can to help make UCL the experience you want.
I know what can be achieved, and I know I can achieve it for all of you
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