Your PGR Faculty Reps are elected student representatives who represent all the students in their faculty to the university. There are three reps per faculty, one for each level of study: Undergraduate, Postgraduate Taught, and Postgraduate Research. They play a vital role in supporting, consulting with, and building a community amongst their course reps. Each rep chairs their own Faculty Student Staff Liaison Committee (FSSLC), spaces where students can air any faculty level academic issues with university staff and find solutions to them.
They attend meetings such as University Senate, the highest committee in the university, ensuring students’ views on educational issues are being heard.
Moreover, they’re a valuable voice in the Bristol SU democratic structures, sitting on Bristol SU Standing Committee, and being voting members of Student Council. Faculty reps make sure that SU policies and campaigns take into account the needs of students in thier faculty. They also work with the SU’s Full-time Education Officers by sitting on the Education Network committee, to improve students’ academic experience, and make sure that SU policies and campaigns take into account the needs of students in their faculty.
Meet your elected Postgraduate Research Faculty Representatives below!
William Hamilton, Faculty of Arts
My goals for the upcoming year will be to make progress in areas with recurring problems, not least work space, and balancing research with extracurricular projects. I want to grow our postgraduate research communities by supporting pre-existing networks, as well as facilitating the creation of new events and communication channels.
Joshua Mudie, Faculty of Engineering
I am hoping to work with the PGR Course reps to improve the welcome that new postgraduate researchers receive when joining the Faculty, and also making sure that every department and Centre for Doctoral Training has their own course rep who is linked into the Faculty network of course reps to make it easier for us to help each other and improve the quality of doing an Engineering PhD.
Edmund Moody, Faculty of Life Sciences
I want to focus on increasing mental health awareness for postgraduate research students and integration between all schools in the life sciences faculty.
Chris Brasnett, Faculty of Science
My main priorities for the year ahead are to work on promoting representation of Science postgraduate researchers at all levels across the faculty, and developing training opportunities for doctoral teachers.
Shubham Singh, Postgraduate Education Officer
I want to ensure that there are efficient support-structures in place to enhance the well-being of postgraduate researchers.
Please note that Jessica Naylor, PGR Faculty rep for Health Sciences, and Jafia Naftali Camara, PGR Faculty rep for Social Sciences and Law, will be updated once they officially take post early in the academic year 2018-19. Please email Caitlin Flint, the Bristol SU Representation Co-ordinator, if you would like to get in touch with either of these reps.
If you would like to get in touch with any of your reps, you can email them directly.
Find out more about the various Bristol SU Networks, including the Education and the PG Networks, on their website.