Elizabeth Manners
Academic Affairs
“Elizabeth is the student voice for all things academic”
Her role focuses on promoting our students’ academic interests.
E-mail: suacademic@aber.ac.uk
About the Role
The Academic Affairs officer is be responsible for:
- Representing the student body on matters relating to academic affairs, including international and postgraduate students, and widening participation.
- Co-ordinating activity and campaigns relating to academic affairs.
- Informing policy within the University and Students’ Union on matters relating to academic affairs.
- Supporting and developing a network of academic representatives by chairing the Academic Zone.
- Working with the Chief Executive Officers and AUSU’s senior management team to achieve and shape strategic aims and outcomes.
- Attending appropriate University Committees.
- Attending regular meetings with relevant University departments to further the development of academic interests.
University Committees/Meetings Attended:
- University Senate
- Academic Board
- Research Board
- Student Experience Committee
- Research Degrees Committee
- Technology Enhanced Learning Committee
- Collaborative Provision Board
- Faculty Academic Affairs Committees
- Student Voice Working Group
- Attendance Monitoring Working Group
- Personal Tutor Working Group
- Assessment and Feedback Working Group
- Academic Regulations Due to Coronavirus Working Group
Current Priorities
Below you can find a list of priorities Elizabeth is working on this year as well as her current progress on them.
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Support and promote the needs of postgraduate students
- Postgraduate network will exist, with at least 2 held sessions per academic term
- Report on the experiences of postgraduate students exists with recommendations made
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Increase engagement with Academic Reps and develop their sense of belonging
- Increase in the number of academic reps attending Academic Zone
- 15 actionable pieces of feedback gathered from meeting with academic reps
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Decolonise the curriculum at Aberystwyth University
- 30 Academic Reps participated in Race Equality training
- There is an understanding of the number of BAME authors and BAME researchers promoted by each department
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Lobby the University to enable students to edit and synchronise their timetable and Outlook calendar. *
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Create a grace period for submitting assignments *
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Lobby the University to permanently introduce a self-certification approach to Special Circumstances and Extension requests *
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*denotes policy as passed democratically by Aberystwyth students. Find out more here.