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 Chloe is working on this year as well as her current progress on them…
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Increase the accessibility of both the Special Circumstances and Extension processes.
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Increase the accessibility of teaching, learning and assessment both in-person and online.
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Develop academic societies to ensure all students have access to a student-led academic community related to their course.
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Ensure teaching and learning is continually of a high standard despite the Covid-19 pandemic and that fair and reasonable mitigations are in place where needed.
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Lobby at all levels for the UK to maintain access to ERASMUS+ for Aberystwyth University students post Brexit. *
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Lobby the University to enable students to edit and synchronise their timetable and Outlook calendar. *
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Lobby the University to allow students with Special Circumstances to resit passed assessments or modules impacted by Covid-19. *
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*denotes policy as passed democratically by Aberystwyth students.