News

Breaking Barriers

•  Collaborated with ISOC to strengthen faith-based support. There is more work to be done.
• Worked with the BSL Society to improve accessibility through interpreter initiatives.
• Attended the APPG with Lucy: takeaway tackling scams targeting students.
• Idea planning:  the “How to Be More Inclusive” series with Lydia, helping clubs and societies become more welcoming.

Empower Voices

• Led a reworking of LSC to make it more effective to drive change.
• Organised the LSC Speed Friending Event to build connections and community.
• Integrated SASHA Accreditation, ensuring consent training and active bystander training are mandatory.
• Worked closely with Security on VAWG, SafeZone, and spiking prevention initiatives.
• Opened the Liberation Hub—planning a launch both soft and hard phases and also created a mural comp for student art work to be showcased.

Fix the Cistem

• Engaged in policy work and a dedicated working group to drive change.
• Successfully launched the Gender Expression Fund, supporting trans and non-binary students.

Other Wins

• Won the Lead LUU election! I have been elected as the 2025/26 Union Affairs & Communications Officer.
• Spoke at the Sexual Harassment Awareness Panel, pushing for better protections for students.

Improving Students’ Experience

• International students January/february welcome and induction talks to aprox 300 students.
• Represented students’ concerns about registration and visas across/ LUU support, the pro deans international committee, the University central cases committee, and the international office.
• Provided panel talks on Campus reimagined. Lived experience
• Participated in changes on University Residency Disciplinary Regulations (Sanctions Pathway to exclude Punitive measures and replace with educative measures).

Enhanced Information Services

• Relayed 5 Notices from the University across LUU/Students 
• Moved around the campus to observe Digital Screens message integrations across the University. Found LUU messages being displayed. A few areas for improvement were noted, especially in the faculty of medicine on display time.

Networking and Engagement

• Met with the NHS team and agreed to launch the Medical Coordination Forum, which will consist of GPs, Universities, LUU, and five students.
• Completed Feedback collection on International students’ parliament/conference Guidelines. This is ready to be launched.
• Attendance to Women in Sports talk, Election Result Night.

Spiking/Nighttime Safety

• Spoke at Pubwatch to all venues in Headingley, presenting at the City pubwatch in March.
• Attended sexual harassment panel -> future meeting with WYCA about this and spiking survey.
• Contacted socs interested in women’s+ nighttime safety -> developing a collaborative project or campaign.
• Fruity nighttime safety – improved consistency and briefings for security staff.

Housing

• Meeting with Residence Services – setting up student commuter hotel, reduced increased uni accom rent prices.
• Met with Cllr Jess Lennox about services for students to report private landlords and issues with selective licensing in HMOs.
• Attended the largest-attended APPG for students led by NUS on the Renters Rights Bill and sent emails to House of Lords members to support this Bill.
• Meeting on scames.

Civic Community Work

• Attended NUS North East and Yorkshire conference.
• Setting up regular meetings with Leeds SUs: Create committees for three key areas: housing, transport, and nighttime safety.
• Reached out to the Head of City Council and sent follow up about sitting on committees.
• Plan to structure civic and national engagement next year.

Student Voice

• Student voice in the city.
• Creating a proposal for new student exec structure to include more student voice and rep structures.
• Presented at the Campus Regimagined event on the area “a place to learn”.

Healthcare Students

• Attended Wellbeing Wednesdays.
• Catalyst fund to provide more engagement events with free food for healthcare students.
• Healthcare student survey with the Russell Group – hoping to write a letter soon!

Community Cohesion

• Regular meetings with JSoc in full swing.
• Amara and I are looking at setting up a dialogue between ISoc and JSoc.
• Involved in University of Sanctuary scholarship implementation, including ensuring the University can provide the right support to these students.

Other

• Went to Stockholm (Reflections update incoming!).
• Was voted in as the 2025/26 Political and Campaigning Rep.

• Hosted the women in sport panel.
• Campaigned to be re-elected in Lead LUU.
• Worked through 300+ emails.
• Divised a project plan for how I want to approach the next stage of work (short, medium and long term).
• Collected, recorded and analysed focus group data.
• Set up the trans inclusion in sport working group.
• Formed 13 new societies.
• Discussed accessibility in Clubs and Societies.
• I have been accepted to present a poster presentation at the Women in Sport and Exercise Academic Network in June.