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Your Officer Team Goals 2022/23

Durham SU Officers are elected by students to represent their interests. As a team, they've identified the key areas they think you need and want them to take action on this year. These won't be the only issues they work on or represent students on, but they are the three areas in which they're committed to setting themselves tough but realistic goals so they can make a significant impact on making life better for students. 

COST OF LIVING GOAL: NO STUDENT GOES HUNGRY OR COLD THIS YEAR

  • Reduce the everyday cost of living for students by providing free food options, securing a small one-off grant scheme for students, campaigning and urging the University to lobby for increased government support for students
  • Lower the cost of learning by securing University commitment to publishing and reviewing course costs, expanding free online availability of course materials and piloting loanable learning resources (lab coats etc.)
  • Ensure students who work are paid and treated fairly by getting Durham University to commit to paying the Real Living Wage, get transparency on all jobs and pay across Durham University and make a case for setting up a student/sabbatical officer trade union
  • Empower students to claim and protect their rights by creating a toolkit on their consumer rights with energy providers
  • Launch a cap on the cost of wider student experience events across Durham SU

STUDENT VOICE GOAL: STUDENT VOICE EMBEDDED IN UNIVERSITY DECISION MAKING

To do this, this year, we will focus on

  • Ensure Durham University's strategy refresh has tangible student input and that the strategy itself includes student voice as a distinct theme
  • Embed student voices in the changes Durham University are making to its committee framework, so student voices have power in decision-making
  • Updating the student consultation framework with students and Durham University to help them make good use of it in the student interest

STUDENT HOUSING GOAL: DURHAM UNIVERSITY AGREES THERE IS A HOUSING CRISIS AND COMMITS TOWARDS TANGIBLE STEPS TO TACKLE IT

We'll make sure more students can access good quality housing in Durham by:

  • Get the University to acknowledge the housing crisis, accept its responsibility for the situation, and commit to action to address it
  • Make lobbying and raising public support for the Renters Reform Bill a priority
  • Develop a business and student interest case for students collectively entering the housing market
  • Research student attitudes towards housing
 

If you're interested in the other work Durham SU and your Officers do, you check out our new 'Strategy On Page' draft, for an update on the development of our new organisational strategy.