Vice President Welfare

Odette Yende

I started at UCLan in 2017 and I studied Interior Design for 4 years at an undergraduate level. In my 2nd and 3rd year I was elected as the Black Asian and Minority Ethnics students representative. In 2020 I won the ABCD (Above and Beyond the Call of Duty) award for my work planning our Black History Month and successfully working alongside the University to hire our first black biracial student counsellor.

My experience in the Students' Union has greatly impacted my university experience in a positive way and I hope to further develop and enhance my skills as your Vice President Welfare this year

Contact

www.facebook.com/uclansuwelfare

@UCLanSU_Welfare

uclansu_officers

What I'm working on

Decolonise the curriculum and improve BAME student experience

Thu 01 Jul 2021

Decolonise the curriculum and improve BAME student experience

- Decolonise the curriculum campaign has been launched

- Workshops on Decolonising the curriculum for reps are being arranged

- Video has been created of students speaking of why they think decolonising the curriculum is important

Create student foodbanks and a grant for students struggling with University related finances.

Thu 01 Jul 2021

Create student foodbanks and a grant for students struggling with University related finances.

- created a food hardship survey that will be released at the end of November to get an idea of how much food hardship impacts our students

Ensure student sex workers feel safe and supported

Thu 01 Jul 2021

Ensure student sex workers feel safe and supported

Promote knowledge of sexual consent, safe sex and STIs

Thu 01 Jul 2021

Promote knowledge of sexual consent, safe sex and STIs

- worked alongside the medical centre in order to better promote the sexual health services that they provide which are on the SU website and will be released on socials

- working on a campaign that will promote the necessity of consent and safe sexual practices

- Planning a consent workshop which will give student the opportunity to interactively learn and ask questions about consent and safe sexual practices

Ensure UCLan campus, events and learning resources are accessible

Thu 01 Jul 2021

Ensure UCLan campus, events and learning resources are accessible

- Have restarted the Disabled students' forum in order to recieve first hand experiences from disbaled students' and work alongside them to increase accessibility on campus

- Working on an international students' welcome pack which will have information surrounding social life on campus, academic and welfare support information