Winter insight prizes! Build insight for students, give your feedback and have a chance to win prizes for yourself, your student group or your Common Room!
For you:
Contribute to any Durham SU insight work this term and you'll go in the draw. The Durham Students' Survey takes less than 10 minutes, and by taking part you can go in the draw to win the prizes below to spend in over 180 retailers - entries close midnight on 17 January 2025 (terms and conditions apply) :
- 1 x £200
- 1 x £100
- 3 x £30
For your community:
- Your Common Room will get £2 prize money for every person after 100th person from that college who completes the survey. Make sure you tell us your college in the survey!
- Tell us one of the SU student groups you are a member of when you contribute to our insight and that group will go in the draw to win up to £150 (depending on group size) towards a group event before the end of the 2025/26 academic year.
When student leaders sit down with the Vice-Chancellor, speak up in University Senate and run your student societies and Common Rooms, they'll make the best decisions when they’re informed by you. These students already work tirelessly to listen and make decisions for their communities based on what students need, want and experience. We want to add all student insight and rigorous research to their toolkit.
You’re the expert on your student experience. Share your insight and collectively, Durham students get more powerful. Housing, costs, student groups and communities, academic induction, equity and your students’ union – your opinion will strengthen campaigns, initiatives and services.
Join current or upcoming insight research
Durham Students' Survey: Open until 17 January 2025! By completing last year's survey, students are helping this year's student leaders represent your interests in how your SU works, student housing, belonging, access and participation and more. Insight from that survey has already formed part of our submission to the University Access and Participation plan highlighting student workers' needs. It has also been published in a press article about the housing pressure experienced by students in Durham. It informed discussions around student health and wellbeing and formed a guidance report for all full-time and part-time Officers.
Durham student leaders and role holders survey (TBC): Societies, student groups, clubs and teams across campus, this survey will be for you! Whether you hold a Common Room role, lead a sports club or run a student society, we want to know what helps (or hinders) you to access, achieve and thrive in your roles for our student community. We will partner with Durham University and your Common Rooms to capture your experience. This one is TBC. We're still confirming if we can make it happen, but we aim to launch in the late epiphany term.
Durham academic reps survey: Launching late epiphany term 2025! This year, we're experimenting with how your academic interests are represented by reps within your departments, including your new Faculty Presidents. This survey will capture the feedback of course reps and faculty reps to understand the experience of representing students within departments.
Insight for students - research findings
Our most recent research is below, or browse the full list, including submissions to consultations and other reports. Use the research, reports or evaluations students have conducted via the students' union for fact-finding, informing campaigns or leading your student community.
| Category | Papers | Authors | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Education | Induction and Orientation Report | Olivia Flavell | 2024 | |
| Student Wellbeing | Mental Health Survey report | Jonah Graham, Vasiliki Bathrelou, Richard Bruce | 2023 | |
| The Future of Prince Bishops Place | Deborah Achaempong, Vasiliki Bathrelou, Ellie Scorah | 2023 | ||
| The Housing conversation response | Dan Lonsdale, Vasiliki Bathrelou, Ellie Scorah | 2023 | ||
| Reinventing Renting in Durham | Jack Ballingham, Vasiliki Bathrelou, Ellie Scorah | 2023 | ||
| Culture | Culture Commission | Seun Twins, Katie Shaw, Kim Schreck, Ellie Scorah | 2022 | |
| Leadership in Durham Report | Abigail Lewis | 2024 | ||
What we research
Things that matter to students and ways students engage with and want to engage with those things. 2023/24 is our first year of ‘Insight for students’ and we’re focusing on the basics – student voice within departments, students belonging and coming together through the SU, and the key big issues impacting you.
