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Hosted by Jim Dickinson · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 52 episodes
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Every week Livia Scott (Wonkhe) and Alan Roberts (Counterculture) chat to SUs around the UK to showcase their projects, activities and initiatives that are making a difference to students. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jim Dickinson hosts Working for Students, a education show with 52 episodes published.
This week on Working for Students – live from this year’s Membership Services Conference – we’re looking at what shifting recruitment patterns mean for students’ unions as higher-tariff universities expand, lower-tariff
This week on Working for Students, Livia speaks to Susan Dosangh, Governance Specialist at the University of Nottingham Students’ Union, about its annual networking and development event for student trustees. They discus
This week on Working for Students we’re previewing some of the sessions coming up at the Membership Services Conference. Livia Scott catches up with Andrew Minutillo, Manager, Student Life (Programs and Wellbeing) at Act
This week on Working for Students Liv catches up with Penny Hampden-Turner and Joel Dowson from the Greater Manchester Students Partnership to discuss their vision for happier renting conditions across Greater Manchester
This week on Working for Students there’s a bumper collaborations special. What does it really take for students' unions to genuinely work together – and what hard questions should boards be asking themselves as costs ri
This week on Working for Students we’re thinking about belonging, inclusion and the student experience – from the work of Living Black at University to what students’ unions can do to build communities that work for all
This week on Working for Students Middlesex SU’s, Leanne Lewis explains how a gamified induction treasure hunt is helping students navigate campus, activate their accounts, and build early relationships. We then turn to
This week on Working for Students, Livia speaks with Ben Sanders from Wrexham Students’ Union about efforts to reclaim the power behind student democracy. Alan catches up with Sarah Waterhouse at Manchester Met Students’
This week on Working for Students, we hear from Rosie of Organised Fun on the launch of the Safe Adventures report, exploring how students’ unions can take a more structured, principles-led approach to student group safe
This week on Working for Students we hear how Durham SU has moved savings out of HSBC as part of a push for more ethical banking, and why that decision could strengthen the case for wider divestment campaigns across high
This week on the show Alan and Livia hear from Cheyenne at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, about using student programme advisors to support clubs and organisations at scale, and how peer-led support can help str
This week on the show Alan and Livia talk to Nick Smith to work out what election candidates and voters should understand about the realities of sabbatical officer roles, from campaign promises to the slower work of infl
This week on Working for Students – the Membership Services Show, we’re exploring how SUs can design services and spaces that genuinely work for the students they represent. Livia and Alan talk to Layna Forbes at Coventr
This week on Working for Students (the podcast formerly known as the Membership Services Show), Livia and Alan reflect on the year ahead – including the Secret Life of Students event and its focus on the human side of AI
This week on the Membership Services Show Ed Moloney from University of Salford SU shares how they've repositioned themselves as an "anti-loneliness charity" – a strategy that's united everything from their bar to their
This week on the Membership Services Show Liv catches up with Liz and Nat from Lincoln Students’ Union to explore paying part-time officers. In a sector where volunteer leadership roles often clash with student financial
This week on the Membership Services Show, Alan and Livia dive deep into the complexities of change management and student engagement across the students' union sector. Ellis Page from Sheffield SU opens up about their c
This week on the Membership Services Show, Alan and Liv explore how students' unions are reimagining engagement and support for diverse student communities. Alan speaks with Simon from UWTSD Students' Union about their i
This week on the Membership Services Show, we’re exploring how students’ unions are adapting creatively to rising challenges – from shoestring event budgets to shifting university leadership. Livia visits Edinburgh Napie
This week on the Membership Services Show Alan and Liv talk to West Chester University, who share how their Division of Student Affairs is drawing on the healthcare concept of social prescribing to reshape “Weeks of Welc
Gary Hughes
Local Program Specialist · Durham SU
2 appearances on this show
Nick Smith
Member of Parliament for Blaenau Gwent · Nova Southeastern
1 appearance on this show
Mike Hill
award-winning documentary filmmaker and interviewer · Georgetown University
1 appearance on this show
Tom Lowe
University of Westminster
1 appearance on this show
Trish McGrath
Aberystwyth SU
1 appearance on this show
Ed Moloney
University of Salford SU
2 appearances on this show
Paul Norman
Manchester Metropolitan SU
1 appearance on this show
Liz
Lincoln Students’ Union
1 appearance on this show
Hannah Sketchley
NUS UK
1 appearance on this show
Rosie Hunnam
Organized Fun
2 appearances on this show
Ellis Page
Sheffield Students' Union
1 appearance on this show
Simon
UWTSD Students' Union
1 appearance on this show
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