This week on the membership services show Alan talks to Strathclyde SU about its food bank and pantry, and Livia talks to Lincoln SU about its care packages. Plus Alan catches up with Students Union UCL about the Russell Group SUs manifesto.

RGSU manifesto

Lincoln Advice centre donations

Strathclyde Pantry

Strathclyde Foodbank society

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This week on the membership services show Livia and Alan talk to Lincoln Students’ Union about their housing accreditation scheme, and to UCL Students’ Union to hear about the future of their iconic active bystander program.

Plus Alan chats to Salford Students’ Union about how they managed to get their hands on some lottery funding to support their cost of living work.

Salford lottery funding

UCL Active Bystander

Lincoln Housing Accreditation

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This week on the Membership Services Show Livia chats to Bath Spa SU who have been developing their approach to student networks as a means to protecting and developing some of their student groups. 

Plus Alan hears from Aber SU about how they have spent the last few years working on their approach to engaging neurodiversity across the union, particularly within their own recruitment - and Livia catches up with UCLAN SU to learn about supporting students who need to follow medical diets while at university. 

Aber SU

Neurodiversity Celebration Week

Bath Spa

Student Networks

UCLAN SU

Is it coeliac disease?

CoL report from Coeliac UK

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This week on the Membership Services Show Livia chats to Sunderland SU about how they went all Wagatha Christie to combat essay mills.

Plus Alan hears from Rhul SU about their regular research into the postgraduate taught student experience, and asks Manchester SU what they mean by marketing led membership services. 

Royal Holloway

PGT Student Experience Policy Inquiry

It is time for real and positive change in the PGT student experience

Sunderland

Do(ugh)not Cheat!

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This week on the Membership Services Show it’s the tenth episode, so at this important milestone Livia and Alan take a bit of time to reflect on some of the themes that have come from the guests of the show so far. 

Plus Livia talks to Brighton SU about how they’ve managed to double the number of student societies and learns about how York SU has been empowering student researchers to shape the union’s direction. 

Brighton SU

Starting a society

Why activities matter

YUSU student researchers

BAME LGBTQ+ lived experience research report

SU explainer

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With the deadline for session proposals drawing nearer, this week on the Membership Services Show Livia chats to Amy at Beds SU about how they have shifted their events offer to respond to changes in taste, after finding students were not attending night time activities. 

Plus Alan catches up with Limerick SU, live in Vienna, to learn about their campaign to create more sensory spaces, and Livia catches up with the Union at Man Met to discuss how their partnership with the university allows them to award academic credit for extracurricular activities. 

Here’s how we’re switching up Membership Services for 2024 (plus how to submit a session proposal)

Manchester Met

Rise project

Beds SU

Events programme

Limerick SU

Sensory Room

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This week on the Membership Services Show Livia talks to the University of Manchester SU about how they've managed to hack the NSS through detailed research.

Plus Alan talks to Salford SU about their radical approach to promoting the work of officers, and Livia find out about how Durham SU is reinventing Freshers Week.

Here’s how we’re switching up Membership Services for 2024 (plus how to submit a session proposal)

Durham

High time to refresh our approach to Freshers

Manchester

The secrets to improving your NSS score finally revealed

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This week on the Membership Services Show as we inch closer to a set of elections in May, Livia catches up with the Greater Manchester Student Partnership to see how it's advocating for students on key urban issues.

Plus Alan catches up with Aber SU to see how it promotes students working in teams to build belonging, and Livia catches up with City, University of London SU to discuss their work on academic integrity.

Here’s how we’re switching up Membership Services for 2024 (plus how to submit a session proposal)

Manchester

Greater Manchester Student Partnership Mayoral Election Manifesto

This is Greater Manchester we do elections differently here

Aber SU

Superteam project

City SU

Academic integrity

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This week on the Membership Services Show as concerns grow over student housing, food insecurity and health Alan interrogates a fascinating US initiative on student basic needs.

Plus Livia rounds off our look at election season by chatting to Hull University SU about their candidate training initiative, and Alan chats to South Bank SU about an approach to supporting students to make events happen.

Here’s how we’re switching up Membership Services for 2024 (plus how to submit a session proposal)

London South Bank 

SU events

Rutgers

Basic needs homepage

Additional resources, links to original research and survey when they set up the centre

Hull

Elections

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This week on the membership services show Alan talks to the Students’ Union Bath University where peer support is helping to build belonging and improve student outcomes.

Plus Livia chats to the University of Manchester Students Union on their approach to elections and candidate quality, and Alan finds out how a student union in the USA is driving learning outcomes derived from the student staff experience.

Here’s how we’re switching up Membership Services for 2024 (with link to session proposals)

Bath 

Peer support at Bath 

Setting up a new scheme

Peer support details

The problem-solving peer support programme (ProSperS)

West Chester

RISE: A Comprehensive Student Staff Evaluation Experience

Blog: How to make being a student staff member educational

Manchester

Manchester’s election results

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