On behalf of Rachel Starr: 

We are looking for volunteers from the following cohorts (and perhaps others) to act as Student  Academic Representatives:

• Queen's Distance Learning students / CDT
• Lichfield and Worcester Readers
• Day time year 1
• Part time year 1

If your cohort is not listed, it is because you already have an academic rep in place.

Please note that this is a separate role to the SSCF rep.

Academic reps help ensure the broader student voice is part of Queen's academic review and planning. They gather feedback from their student cohort and work with other student reps to ensure student concerns and proposals are shared with staff, especially during Academic Management Group meetings, where a wide range of academic issues are discussed. Academic reps are also part of the Academic Quality and Standard Group, which looks at module reviews and does more detailed work.  

Please note the following dates (although we recognise you may not be able to attend every date). Meetings take place in the afternoon with attendance online.

Dates for the meetings scheduled for this year are as follows

• • 24^th October 2023 – AQSG
  • 21^st November 2023 – AMG
  • 16^th January 2024 – AQSG
  • 12^th March 2024 – AQSG
  • 19^th March 2024 – AMG
  • 4^th June 2024 – AQSG
  • 18^th June 2024 - AMG

One of our previous academic reps, Richard Weatherill very kindly offered this encouragement to those considering the role:

I've greatly enjoyed the experience and am very glad that I volunteered for the role. The best things about being an Academic Rep are:

·        It made me feel far more involved with the Queen's community. This is important when we might come onto campus infrequently.

·        It has made me appreciate just how much thought Queen's puts into academic standards and assessment across an amazing variety of courses and cohorts. The module evaluation process exemplifies this.

·        The AMG, in particular, gives you a great insight into how the wider Common Awards scheme works.

Also, the role really isn't too much of a burden on top of the academic work. When people are trying to entice you to do something like this, they always promise that it won't be too onerous - but that rarely turns out to be the case in practice. However, the small amount of extra work required of an Academic Rep is massively outweighed by the benefits I've listed above.

If you want to know more about the role, or are happy to volunteer, please email Registry registry@queens.ac.uk by 18^th October 2023.

Thank you

Rachel