Strategic work to the end of 2024
Tuesday 01-06-2021 - 08:25
The tables below describe our priority work to progress our strategy by the end of 2024; we’ll update on progress and refresh our strategic priority work each year.
| GOAL | OBJECTIVES | BY JUNE 2024, WE WILL... |
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| Bring students across Durham together. | Communities: students looking for people like them are active and well-supported. | Build on the success of ‘Speak Free’ to develop three other programmes that showcase the groups, events and facilitated activities that add to the wider student experience. Propose a model for better collaboration, influence, and support of international student groups on campus. |
| Societies: help students involve each other in new interests and experiences. | Design, run, evaluate, and plan from data generated when student groups engage with Durham SU. Ensure students access student group opportunities as easily online as at our in-person Fresher's Fair. Make running a student group easier by streamlining and simplifying the touchpoints, processes and tools student group leaders use, adopting a risk-based regulatory framework. Improve our development and support offered to volunteers. |
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| Spaces: across campus and online are accessible and high quality. | Experiment with Dunelm House spaces to create more places where more students can spend time on their terms. Help students engage with the things that matter to them by changing how we collect, structure and use data to tailor communications to student audiences and key stakeholders across student communities. Understand the key user journeys and needs of the thousands of students who access Durham SU’s website every year and invest in improvements and solutions. |
| GOAL | OBJECTIVES | BY JUNE 2024, WE WILL... |
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| Build confidence in the purpose and the value of the students’ union at Durham University. | Students: support the collective organisation by them, for them. | Platform more student voices and reach more students by prioritising and resourcing student-generated content. Embed an annual insight cycle aligning with Durham SU’s democratic and managerial decision-making. Experiment with direct student-led decision-making in addition to formal meetings. |
| Student organisations: thrive in their distinct role, different but complementary to Durham SU. | Help independent student organisations access tools that help them address their everyday challenges. We’ll uplift the work of student communities across Durham and make their offers easier to find for other Durham students. |
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| Durham University: is committed to and acts in partnership with its students’ union. | Strengthen student representatives at Durham University, including a new Student Consultation Framework and a basis for our contribution to the new University strategy. Pilot student community associations in academic departments, prioritising student engagement in learning in a democratic university. |
| GOAL | OBJECTIVES | BY JUNE 2024, WE WILL... |
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| Make Durham better by tackling the big issues that hold students back. | Induction: Durham prepares every student to do well as a learner and a citizen in our University community. | Define what a good Durham University induction looks like. Partner with a Durham University department to pilot an improved induction 2025/2026. |
| Housing: for Durham, students is high-quality, affordable, and secure. | Disrupt the broken housing market by launching a platform for landlord feedback, and propose a business case for students entering the housing market. Evidence of how Durham University’s admissions and rent policies relate to bed spaces, housing cost, and the broken housing market across the City of Durham. Convince Durham University to relate their housing cost policy to actual student income. |
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| Access and participation: to Durham, and in Durham, will advance the ambitions of excluded students. | Assess formal and informal student leadership opportunities across Durham to identify areas of inequity or underrepresentation. Improve participation and influence in formal leadership opportunities for currently underrepresented students. |
