Postgraduate-Officer-Scrutiny-Report-1-November-2021

Please try to include as much information as possible like dates and times or meeting outcomes, within the word limit per - All Faculty Reps - All Education Reps A meeting of all Faculty

UONSU SCRUTINY

PANEL REPORT

[BRAD EWLES]

[09/12/21]

OBJECTIVES

 Lobby the university to implement an alumni discount of 10% across all postgraduate courses (minus

reasonable exceptions) in line with the national standard imposed by almost all other universities by the end

of the year

 Work with the Careers Team to assess the current careers provision and resources for postgraduate

students Working with that data, aim to identify and fill gaps in order to increase postgraduate students’ engagement with the Careers Service

 In order to ensure that postgraduate students, particularly distance and mature students, are not left

without a place to study and or work, I will lobby the university to ensure that the percentage of study spaces available specifically to postgraduate students is directly proportional to the percentage of

postgraduate students

 Lobby the university to approve the Postgraduates Who Teach policy beyond the current pilot scheme to ensure that all postgraduate teaching staff are employed on the same contracts and afforded the same employment rights as other academic staff

 Ensure that the SU utilises a sub-system on SUMS, that acts as a petitioning service, to better understand the student voice: This aligns with the objectives of other Officers

Include here any objectives you have set at the start of the academic year, or any you may have added, such because

of suggestions or outcomes of scrutiny, or performance plans Talk about any challenges, successes or hold-ups here, and indicate progress using the traffic light system indicators in the third column

Please note you have 300 words per objective progress update So, if you have 3 objectives, you have 3x300 words, and not 300 words to discuss all of them!

OBJECTIVE

(List each of your objectives here,

one per row)

UPDATE ON PROGRESS

(300 words per objective in this

section.)

Completed? (Fill Green)

In Progress? (Fill Yellow)

Not Started? (Fill Red)

Alumni Discount

- University currently undertaking external review

on Scholarships and Bursaries and Fees and Pricing

- Can’t do a huge amount until we have the outcome

of these and they will determine how much money the university can allocate to scholarships etc

- Met with Margaret Monckton (CFO) and Stephen McAuliffe (Deputy Registrar) separately about this and both gave me pointers on how to go about

it

- Met with Grace Mik (Project Manager for Scholarships and Bursary Review and Fees and Pricing Review)

Pattison Discussed at PGTSG so hopefully can utilise the knowledge/expertise of some members of that Group to help

Careers

- Have met with Head of PGT Careers and got some ideas, but she then told me to drop it as she was busy and hasn’t got back to me since

- Recently spoke to PGR Careers and are working with them on events in the New Year

- Their main problem is engagement Working with them to work around that

Study Spaces

- Discussed at PGTSG

- In conversations with Libraries about how we can get this done in libraries

Postgraduates Who Teach

- Met with Joe Kearsey and Peter McCracken to get up

to speed on what’s happening so far

- Emailed PGs who are currently on the pilot, but had no response

- Pilot set to be reviewed at end of year

Petitions

- Asked Rob Henderson (Manager of SV) at the beginning of the year and he said it was going to be implemented in the subsequent two weeks, but never happened

- Brought up a few times since then, but he has since left and there is currently not a replacement

- Spoken to other Officers who have similar objectives and we’ve found systems that we would like to implement, but as I said, no-one to take them to

OTHER ACTIVITIES - OBJECTIVES

Have you been doing any work that is still conducive to your objectives or manifesto points, or is generally for the benefit of our student membership? Write about it here Note that you’ll also have space to write about meetings you are attending, campaigns or policies you’re working on, and about your own development further down in the report

WORD LIMIT FOR THIS SECTION: 500 words

N/A

REMIT

Include here anything pertaining to your remit as an Officer, whether in your specific remit in the Bye-laws, or within your general responsibilities as an elected representative As a reminder, your specific remit as outlined in our Bye-laws is as follows:

The Postgraduate Officer shall:

- Be politically responsible for representing students and liaising with the University of Nottingham and any external bodies on postgraduate issues Be the point of contact for students, University of Nottingham, and any external bodies in the area of Postgraduate education

- Defend and extend the rights of Postgraduate Students

- Campaign on issues of concern, interest and relevance to students within their constituency

INTERNAL MEETINGS

What meetings have you been attending, internally, across the Union and University, and what have you been discussing or working on? These can be anything from focus groups to panels you sit on, to network or Union-run meetings you have attended if relevant to the work you’ve been doing (such as Academic Council) Please try to include as much information as possible like dates and times or meeting outcomes, within the word limit per

- All Faculty Reps

- All Education Reps

A meeting of all Faculty and Education Reps to discuss issues arising from Faculty Forums that are relevant across the whole university

Academic Representation Group

- Education Officer

- Postgraduate Officer

- Students’ Union Student Voice Co-ordinator – Academic Representation Student Representatives

- Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor for Teaching and Curriculum Leadership

- Faculty of Arts Staff Representative

- Faculty of Social Sciences Staff Representative Faculty of Science Staff Representative

- Faculty of Engineering Staff Representative

- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Staff Representative

- Facilitate information sharing between the University and the Students’ Union

- Provide staff in both the University and the Students’ Union with the information and support they need to run a successful student representative system

- Support and promote the Student Representative system

- Identify improvements to academic representation practices

- Present policy change suggestions

- Ensure the model for academic representation at the University of

- Student Services Representative

- A representative from the Educational Excellence team

Nottingham is clear and cohesive

- Review the purpose and effectiveness of the current student representative system and methods of student engagement

- Report to the Teaching and Learning Committee quarterly

- Report to the Academic Council quarterly

Digital Experience Insights Working

Group

Chair: Senior Digital Literacy Consultant, Barrie Edmonds Secretary: Research and Projects Officer, Libraries, Molly Fleischer Sponsor: APVC Teaching &

Curriculum Leadership, Mark Bradley

Academic Membership:

Faculty Digital Learning Directors:

Cristina De Matteis, Becca Ferrari (ML), Cecilia Goria, Luis Canhoto Neves, Richard Windle, Helen Williams, NUBS (for DLD FoSS, Nick Mount), Frederique Bouilheres, School of Psychology (Transition DEI FoS), Stephanie McDonald, School of Education, Denise Sweeney

Student Experience Manager, Engineering: Laura Conkey Senior Programme Manager: Ian Connerton

Central Short Courses Data and Training Manager: Rich Cowley

Purpose

The Group has responsibility for supporting the planning, promotion, implementation and reporting of Jisc’s Digital Experience Insights surveys across UNUK

Researcher Training and

Development Manager, RA:

Elizabeth Davey

Digital Research Specialist,

Researcher Academy: Jasper

Digital Learning Manager, Medicine

Gareth Reith Hall

Science Faculty Careers and

Employability Consultant, CES Sally Hall

Faculty Head of Education and Student Experience

Senior Business Partner, DTS

Richard Sanderson Deputy Director, Libraries

Steve Stapleton

Online Learning Manager, Libraries

Sarah Stubbings Head of Employment Services, HR

Jamie Tennant

Associate Director, Educational Excellence

Carmen Tomas

Student Experience and

Development Officer, Life Sciences

Errolinda Ward (ML until mid-March 2022)

Education and Student Experience Initiatives Officer

Education Officer, Students Union

Chris Taylor Cultures, Languages and Area Studies

Bradley Ewles Medicine

Hayfa Sharif ? Law

Faculty of Arts PG Board

- Arts ESE team

- Arts RAFL

- Relevant PGT and PGR staff from the faculty

This Board discusses issues relating

to postgraduate study within the

- All Full-Time Officers

- Sam Nichols, Director of Student Influence

To receive Officer updates and discuss relevant matters

FTO/C+E Monthly Meeting - Full-Time Officers

- C+E team

To discuss ongoing marketing projects and collaboration

Knowledge Exchange Committee

Copied from ToR:

Chair: Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research and Knowledge Exchange

Pro-Vice-A Vice-Provost from each of UNNC and UNM

One Global Research Theme Lead Professional Services:

Director Research and Innovation

The Knowledge Exchange Committee is a committee of Senate The Committee has responsibility for executive oversight of the Knowledge Exchange Strategy within the University and ensuring the University is compliant with external requirements related to Knowledge Exchange including the Research England’s Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF)

Student Representative, Nominated

by the Students’ Union Nominated Members:

One member to be chosen through the Committee Membership Selection Process

Senate Members:

Two members to be chosen through

a Senate election process The Director of Engagement and Partnerships and the Director of Intellectual Property

Commercialisation will be in attendance at the meetings but are not members of the Committee

Lucy/Jane/Brad Fortnightly

Catch-Up

- Lucy Donaldson, APVC for the Researcher Academy and Researcher Career Development

- Jane Wellens, Head of the Researcher Academy

- Brad Ewles

- To discuss any matters arising pertaining to the remit of the Researcher Academy

- To discuss ideas for collaboration with the Researcher Academy

People Experience Working Group

- Susan Dosangh, Governance

Assistant, P+OD

- Elizabeth Yearsley, P+OD

- Daryl Ormerod, SU CEO

- George Sullivan, UDO

- Jackie Dale, HR Manager

- Caroline Robertson, Student

Groups

- Tim Cosham

- Alison Ashford

To discuss the working environment

at UoNSU and discuss areas for

PGR Strategy Group

- Anna Grabowska, RAFL MHS

- Nicole Porter, RAFL Engineering

- Lucy Bradnock, RAFL Arts

- Mark Bradley, APVC Teaching and Curriculum Development

- Lucy Donaldson, APVC for the Researcher Academy and Researcher Career Development

- Richard Graham, RAFL Science

- Jane Wellens, Head of the Researcher Academy

PGR Size and Shape, Fees, and

Margins Working Group

- Eleanora Pezzoli

- Lucy Donaldson, APVC for the Researcher Academy and Researcher Career Development

Planning and Resources Committee

Copied from ToR:

Chair: Deputy Vice-Chancellor

Academic Membership:

- Faculty Pro-Vice-Chancellors

- Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Research and Knowledge Exchange Pro-Vice Chancellor, Education and Student Experience

Professional Services

- Registrar

The Planning and Resources Committee is a committee of the University Executive Board Its main purposes are the conduct of the higher level planning and resource management of the University, to monitor, measure and provide challenge to Faculties and Professional Services in the progress

of key performance measures and

to facilitate effective risk management

- Chief Financial Officer Director of Planning, Performance and Strategic Change One Human Resources representative

to be selected through the Committee Membership Selection Process

Quality and Standards Committee

Chair: Jonathan Tallant Deputy Chair: Keith Benedict For each Faculty/Campus Representative:

Arts: Sean Matthews - UG Lucie Sutherland - PG Social Sciences:

David Harvey - UG Anne Emerson -

PG Science: Chris Hayes - UG Harriet Allen - PG Engin Chair: Jonathan Tallant

Deputy Chair: Keith Benedict For each Faculty/Campus Representative:

Arts: Sean Matthews - UG Lucie Sutherland - PG Social Sciences: David Harvey - UG Anne Emerson - PG

Science: Chris Hayes - UG Harriet Allen - PG

Engineering: Barbara Turnbull - UG Daniel Beneroso Vallejo - PG Medicine & Health Sciences: Katy Cobb - UG

Kim Edwards - PG Malaysia Campus: Vengadeshvaran Sarma

Jessica Price Ningbo Campus: Hing Kai Chan Philip Hall

K Cohen Tan Chair of Foundation Year Committee: Mohamed Elmaghrbi Inter-Campus Quality Officer: TBC Academic Director of Degree Apprenticeships: Emma Weston Education Officers of the Students’

2 To oversee the application of all University regulations, policies and procedures in respect to quality and standards

3 To keep relevant Quality Manual policies under regular review

4 To consider Memoranda of Agreement for approval and renewal

5 To approve all new programme specifications/revisions to existing programme specifications

6 To approve the withdrawal of programmes upon which students are currently registered or for which applicants hold offers

7 To have oversight of the process

of approval of all new and amended modules

8 To undertake the appointment of External Examiners

9 To receive External Examiners’ Reports and School responses for consideration

Hanlei Zhou (Ningbo Campus) Postgraduate Officer: Brad Ewles Associate Director Quality and Student Management System:

Sandra Mienczakowski Head of Student Registry: Joo Pei Poh

Director of Academic Services Office: Maggie Yang

Senior Manager - Complaints and Conduct: Rachel Newnham Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the Researcher Academy: Lucy Donaldson

Associate Director Education Excellence: Alison Reeves Secretary: Hayley Robinsoneering:

Barbara Turnbull - UG Daniel Beneroso Vallejo - PG Medicine &

Health Sciences: Katy Cobb - UG Kim Edwards - PG Malaysia Campus:

Vengadeshvaran Sarma Jessica Price Ningbo Campus: Hing Kai Chan Philip Hall K Cohen Tan Chair of Foundation Year Committee:

Mohamed Elmaghrbi Inter-Campus Quality Officer: TBC Academic Director of Degree Apprenticeships:

Emma Weston Education Officers of the Students’ Union/Association:

Chris Taylor (Nottingham Campus) Iffa Elyana Binti (Malaysia Campus) Hanlei Zhou (Ningbo Campus) Postgraduate Officer: Brad Ewles Associate Director Quality and Student Management System:

Sandra Mienczakowski Head of Student Registry: Joo Pei Poh Director of Academic Services Office: Maggie Yang Senior Manager

- Complaints and Conduct: Rachel Newnham Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the Researcher Academy: Lucy Donaldson Associate Director Education Excellence:

Alison Reeves Secretary: Hayley Robinson

10 To receive schools’ monitoring reports for consideration

11 To receive reports from professional statutory and regulatory bodies with regard to accredited programmes for consideration

12 To make regular reports to Teaching & Learning Committee on its activities and plans

13 To make regular reports to Faculty meetings on its activities and plans, as well as receive Faculty concerns relating to QA matters

14 Members normally sit on the Committee for 4-5 years

Pro-Vice-Research Committee is a committee

of Senate The Committee has responsibility for executive oversight of the Research Strategy within the University and ensuring the University is compliant with external requirements related to research including Research