The Membership Services Show - where we discuss practice in SUs - is back for a second season.

This week Alan talks to St Mary’s SU in Twickenham where against the odds, they’ve just launched a new venue - we talk how and why. 

Plus Livia and Alan field a question on what’s happening this year in SU elections, and Alan talks to a union in the US about their fascinating Spring Day event.

Bentley University Spring Day 2024

St Mary’s SU

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In this special festive edition of the Membership Services Show, Alan and Livia have insights from the ACUI conference in the United States, innovative approaches like free grab-and-go breakfasts and sip-and-sketch events, and discuss the role of smaller, daytime activities in boosting student participation. They also explore the impact of cost-of-living pressures, the push for bilingual operations, and the differences in student rights frameworks across Europe.

With Aisling Knox, SU President at Mary Immaculate College Limerick, Adam Zeidan, Secretary General of TREY in Tampere, Mack Marshall, Community and Policy Officer at Wonkhe, and presented by Livia Scott, Partnerships Coordinator at Wonkhe and Alan Roberts, Partner at Counterculture.

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This week in our final episode of the season, Alan and Livia reflect on Membership Services Conference 2024 with a particular focus on on the plenaries - OfS' John Blake discussing students as consumers, a panel of sector reps discussing student experience, plus a panel on student rights where Jim asked if our theories of change need an update.

John Blake gets interested in students – but what’s his theory of change?

All the slides from all the sessions at Membership Services Conference 2024

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In this pre-conference special Alan and Livia discuss the big themes set to emerge from this year's event.

With Alan, Livia and Rhiannon Roberts, CEO at Man Met SU.

There’s more detail about Membership Services Conference - Wednesday 14th to Thursday 15th August 2024 at The Union MMU here.

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This week on the Membership Services Show we talk to Organised Fun! about abandoning society risk assessments.

Plus we chat to Birmingham Guild and Coole Insight about officer support.

There’s more detail about Membership Services Conference - Wednesday 14th to Thursday 15th August 2024 at The Union MMU - right here.

Organised fun!

Birmingham Guild 

Coole Insight

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This week on the Membership Services Show Livia talks to Arden SU about creating an SU from scratch, Alan talks to Man Met SU about its International student community, and Livia talks to Citizens UK about the community organising work it's been doing at Aston.

There’s more detail about Membership Services Conference - Wednesday 14th to Thursday 15th August 2024 at The Union MMU - right here.

Aston SU Community organising

Arden SU

Man Met SU International Student Group

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This week on the Membership Services Show Alan talks to the University of Nottingham SU about the changes they’ve made to course rep conversations.

Plus Livia talks to UCA SU about turnaround, and Loughborough SU about their move to departmental committees.

There’s more detail about Membership Services Conference - Wednesday 14th to Thursday 15th August 2024 at The Union MMU - right here.

• Academic representation at UoNSU
• Departmental Committees at LSU
• UCA SU

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This week on the show Alan and Livia talk to Strathclyde SU about the tenancy rights workshops they've been running. Plus Students' Union UCL has been running consent workshops, and the University of Nottingham SU has been training up its society committees.

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UCL - Consent

Strathclyde - Tenancy rights 

Nottingham - Committee Training

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This week on the Membership Services Show Alan talks to Newcastle University SU about its bursaries for participation, SOAS SU about the way it’s tackling issues around sexual and gender based violence, and the University of Nottingham SU about the way it supports Part-Time Officers.

There’s more detail about Membership Services Conference - Wednesday 14th to Thursday 15th August 2024 at The Union MMU - right here.

NUSU

Participation bursaries

SOAS

Enough is Enough

Nottingham

Part-time officers

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This week on the Membership Services Show Alan and Livia talk to Newcastle University SU about working class student representation, Leeds Beckett SU about its work on strategy, and the University of Manchester SU about research.

There’s more detail about Membership Services Conference - Wednesday 14th to Thursday 15th August 2024 at The Union MMU - right here.

Newcastle

Working Class Liberation Officer

Leeds Beckett

Your SU is changing

Manchester

Insight and Research

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