Election post
Status
Elected
What will you bring to this role (e.g. experience, skills or qualities)?
During my previous three years serving as the PGR representative for the MAPS Faculty, I have learned the humanistic and technical skills necessary to engage in student activism at UCL, as well as broadening my knowledge base by serving on Union Exec and on the Academic Board. I have gained essential experience in connecting with my fellow research students as well as PGT and UG students across the Faculty -- there is no more important trait for an elected representative than to be a good listener, and this will remain my priority in my fourth and final year as representative.
What do you hope to achieve in the role if you are elected?
The ongoing cost-of-living crisis is having a crushing effect on the financial security, mental and physical health of UCL's PGR students across all faculties. My primary focus will be to campaign at all levels for the support our students deserve -- recent stipendiary increases have represented the minimum defensible crisis support, and have only come about through relentless student campaigning.
I will also continue to fight for the rights of LGBTQ+ students, which were compromised by UCL's decision to pull out of the Stonewall workplace equality index in 2021. We will rejoin Stonewall.
Please summarise why students should vote for you.
I have the experience, communication skills, and intuition needed to represent the needs of all PGR students in our faculty up to the highest levels of university and student union management. I will listen to you, and I will make change happen so that your hard-won postgraduate education at UCL can be all that it should be.