{"id":825,"date":"2019-07-03T13:30:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T13:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.reading.ac.uk\/curriculum-framework\/?page_id=825"},"modified":"2025-10-27T16:49:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:49:19","slug":"student-engagement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.reading.ac.uk\/curriculum-framework\/student-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-825\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-825-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-825-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-825-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<div id=\"inside-wrapper\" class=\"inside-wrapper\">\n<div id=\"main-content\" class=\"content-center\">\n<div class=\"cl-main_2 c-teal\">\n<div class=\"content-body\">\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.reading.ac.uk\/curriculum-framework\/student-voice-partnership\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6130\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.reading.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2019\/08\/Back-Arrow-e1565604225291.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"45\" height=\"45\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Student Voice and Partnership in T&amp;L mechanisms <\/strong><strong>at UoR &amp; Students\u2019 Union<\/strong><\/p>\n<style>#sp-ea-2145 .spcollapsing { height: 0; overflow: hidden; transition-property: height;transition-duration: 500ms;}#sp-ea-2145.sp-easy-accordion>.sp-ea-single {margin-bottom: 10px; border: 1px solid #e2e2e2; }#sp-ea-2145.sp-easy-accordion>.sp-ea-single>.ea-header a {color: #444;}#sp-ea-2145.sp-easy-accordion>.sp-ea-single>.sp-collapse>.ea-body {background: #fff; color: #444;}#sp-ea-2145.sp-easy-accordion>.sp-ea-single {background: #eee;}#sp-ea-2145.sp-easy-accordion>.sp-ea-single>.ea-header a .ea-expand-icon { float: left; color: #444;font-size: 16px;}<\/style><div id=\"sp_easy_accordion-1777335148\"><div id=\"sp-ea-2145\" class=\"sp-ea-one sp-easy-accordion\" data-ea-active=\"ea-click\" data-ea-mode=\"vertical\" data-preloader=\"\" data-scroll-active-item=\"\" data-offset-to-scroll=\"0\"><div class=\"ea-card sp-ea-single\"><h3 class=\"ea-header\"><a class=\"collapsed\" id=\"ea-header-21450\" role=\"button\" data-sptoggle=\"spcollapse\" data-sptarget=\"#collapse21450\" aria-controls=\"collapse21450\" href=\"#\" aria-expanded=\"false\" tabindex=\"0\"><i aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"presentation\" class=\"ea-expand-icon eap-icon-ea-expand-plus\"><\/i> Institutional Level<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"sp-collapse spcollapse spcollapse\" id=\"collapse21450\" data-parent=\"#sp-ea-2145\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"ea-header-21450\"> <div class=\"ea-body\"><table style=\"height: 120px;width: 98.1366%;border-collapse: collapse;border-style: solid;border-color: #fca10f\"><tbody><tr style=\"height: 23px\"><td style=\"width: 38.172%;height: 24px;text-align: center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Student Voice &amp; Partnership mechanism<\/strong><\/span><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.3083%;height: 24px;text-align: center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Owned by<\/strong><\/span><\/td><td style=\"width: 49.5196%;height: 24px;text-align: center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>About<\/strong><\/span><\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 24px\"><td style=\"width: 38.172%;height: 24px\"><strong>The Student Panel<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.3083%;height: 24px;text-align: center\">CQSD<\/td><td style=\"width: 49.5196%;height: 24px\">The Student Panel provides feedback on institutional level priorities and projects, to help shape strategic decisions at the University<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 24px\"><td style=\"width: 38.172%;height: 24px\"><strong>Student Voice Ambassadors<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.3083%;height: 24px;text-align: center\">SSE<\/td><td style=\"width: 49.5196%;height: 24px\">The Student Voice Ambassadors Student Voice ambassadors are representative group of students and ensure all our communications feature the student voice from a variety of backgrounds.<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 24px\"><td style=\"width: 38.172%;height: 24px\"><strong>Racial Equality Panel<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.3083%;height: 24px;text-align: center\">SSE<\/td><td style=\"width: 49.5196%;height: 24px\">This work specifically looks at racial justice within teaching and learning at the University. Students will work alongside staff in reviewing submissions on Racial Equality in Teaching and Learning and curating the collection<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 24px\"><td style=\"width: 38.172%;height: 24px\"><strong>Open Student Meetings<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.3083%;height: 24px;text-align: center\">MCE<\/td><td style=\"width: 49.5196%;height: 24px\" width=\"529\">It provides the only opportunity for students to engage directly with senior leadership.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"ea-card sp-ea-single\"><h3 class=\"ea-header\"><a class=\"collapsed\" id=\"ea-header-21451\" role=\"button\" data-sptoggle=\"spcollapse\" data-sptarget=\"#collapse21451\" aria-controls=\"collapse21451\" href=\"#\" aria-expanded=\"false\" tabindex=\"0\"><i aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"presentation\" class=\"ea-expand-icon eap-icon-ea-expand-plus\"><\/i> RUSU<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"sp-collapse spcollapse spcollapse\" id=\"collapse21451\" data-parent=\"#sp-ea-2145\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"ea-header-21451\"> <div class=\"ea-body\"><table style=\"height: 192px;width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;border-style: solid;border-color: #fca10f\"><tbody><tr style=\"height: 24px\"><td style=\"width: 37.5141%;height: 24px\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Student Voice and Partnership Mechanism<\/strong><\/span><\/td><td style=\"width: 14.0113%;height: 24px\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Owned by<\/strong><\/span><\/td><td style=\"width: 48.4745%;height: 24px\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>About<\/strong><\/span><\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 24px\"><td style=\"width: 37.5141%;height: 24px\"><strong>RUSU Full-time Officer Team<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"width: 14.0113%;height: 24px;text-align: center\">RUSU<\/td><td style=\"width: 48.4745%;height: 24px\">Full-time Officers are elected Trustees of RUSU and represent the student voice at the highest level; influencing at university meetings and sitting atop multiple representation systems.<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 24px\"><td style=\"width: 37.5141%;height: 24px\"><strong>RUSU Diversity Team<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"width: 14.0113%;height: 24px;text-align: center\">RUSU<\/td><td style=\"width: 48.4745%;height: 24px\">Part-time Officers are elected to represent and campaign for specific underrepresented groups of students.<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 24px\"><td style=\"width: 37.5141%;height: 24px\"><strong>RUSU Student Voice<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"width: 14.0113%;height: 24px;text-align: center\">RUSU<\/td><td style=\"width: 48.4745%;height: 24px\">Student Voice Members set the direction of the Students\u2019 Union through policy and campaign proposals; ideas are discussed, put forward to campus-wide votes and Full-Time Officers are scrutinised.<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 24px\"><td style=\"width: 37.5141%;height: 24px\"><strong>RUSU Student Experience Forum \/ Have Your Say<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"width: 14.0113%;height: 24px;text-align: center\">RUSU<\/td><td style=\"width: 48.4745%;height: 24px\">Students get the opportunity to join an online forum, independent to the university whereby student members share their experiences with their RUSU Officers to help improve the student experience in an informal environment.<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 24px\"><td style=\"width: 37.5141%;height: 24px\"><strong>RUSU Student Members Insight Research<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"width: 14.0113%;height: 24px;text-align: center\">RUSU<\/td><td style=\"width: 48.4745%;height: 24px\">Insight research into the student experience and the impact of the Students\u2019 Union on this, also feeding back on what priorities the Students\u2019 Union should be working on.<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 24px\"><td style=\"width: 37.5141%;height: 24px\"><strong>RUSU Course Rep Consultations<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"width: 14.0113%;height: 24px;text-align: center\">RUSU<\/td><td style=\"width: 48.4745%;height: 24px\">Course Reps have the opportunity to meet with each other and their Senior Rep to share ideas and discuss T&amp;L matters, to help effectively feedback to staff at programme level.<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 24px\"><td style=\"width: 37.5141%;height: 24px\"><strong>RUSU Wellbeing Champions<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"width: 14.0113%;height: 24px;text-align: center\">RUSU<\/td><td style=\"width: 48.4745%;height: 24px\">Wellbeing Champions are school-based volunteers who work closely with the RUSU Welfare Officer to actively promote and support initiatives, services, and campaigns to improve students\u2019 mental health and wellbeing.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"ea-card sp-ea-single\"><h3 class=\"ea-header\"><a class=\"collapsed\" id=\"ea-header-21452\" role=\"button\" data-sptoggle=\"spcollapse\" data-sptarget=\"#collapse21452\" aria-controls=\"collapse21452\" href=\"#\" aria-expanded=\"false\" tabindex=\"0\"><i aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"presentation\" class=\"ea-expand-icon eap-icon-ea-expand-plus\"><\/i> School Level<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"sp-collapse spcollapse spcollapse\" id=\"collapse21452\" data-parent=\"#sp-ea-2145\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"ea-header-21452\"> <div class=\"ea-body\"><table style=\"height: 120px;width: 98.1366%;border-collapse: collapse;border-style: solid;border-color: #fca10f\"><tbody><tr style=\"height: 23px\"><td style=\"width: 38.172%;height: 24px\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Student Voice &amp; Partnership mechanism<\/strong><\/span><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.3083%;height: 24px\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Owned by<\/strong><\/span><\/td><td style=\"width: 49.5196%;height: 24px\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>About<\/strong><\/span><\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 24px\"><td style=\"width: 38.172%;height: 24px\"><strong>RUSU Senior Reps<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.3083%;height: 24px;text-align: center\">RUSU<\/td><td style=\"width: 49.5196%;height: 24px\">Senior Reps gather representative feedback from students at school level and lead a team of Course Reps within a school to help improve the student experience by feeding up to the RUSU Education Officer and staff at BOSSEs.<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 24px\"><td style=\"width: 38.172%;height: 24px\"><strong>Programme Approval Scrutiny<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.3083%;height: 24px;text-align: center\">CQSD\/RUSU<\/td><td style=\"width: 49.5196%;height: 24px\">New Programme Scrutiny Panellists are paid to remotely contribute to the scrutiny report for a new programme.<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 24px\"><td style=\"width: 38.172%;height: 24px\"><strong>Periodic Review<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.3083%;height: 24px;text-align: center\">CQSD\/RUSU<\/td><td style=\"width: 49.5196%;height: 24px\">Periodic Review Panellists are paid to attend a two-day review visit alongside preparatory reading and review reporting in order to fulfil this role.<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 24px\"><td style=\"width: 38.172%;height: 24px\"><strong>Periodic Review Student Submitter<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.3083%;height: 24px;text-align: center\">CQSD\/RUSU<\/td><td style=\"width: 49.5196%;height: 24px\" width=\"529\">Periodic Review Submitters are independent student volunteers from that programme who create a report through gathering student feedback on the quality of their programme to contribute to the Periodic Review.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"ea-card sp-ea-single\"><h3 class=\"ea-header\"><a class=\"collapsed\" id=\"ea-header-21453\" role=\"button\" data-sptoggle=\"spcollapse\" data-sptarget=\"#collapse21453\" aria-controls=\"collapse21453\" href=\"#\" aria-expanded=\"false\" tabindex=\"0\"><i aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"presentation\" class=\"ea-expand-icon eap-icon-ea-expand-plus\"><\/i> Department Level<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"sp-collapse spcollapse spcollapse\" id=\"collapse21453\" data-parent=\"#sp-ea-2145\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"ea-header-21453\"> <div class=\"ea-body\"><table style=\"height: 120px;width: 98.1366%;border-collapse: collapse;border-style: solid;border-color: #fca10f\"><tbody><tr style=\"height: 23px\"><td style=\"width: 38.172%;height: 24px\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Student Voice &amp; Partnership mechanism<\/strong><\/span><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.3083%;height: 24px\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Owned by<\/strong><\/span><\/td><td style=\"width: 49.5196%;height: 24px\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>About<\/strong><\/span><\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 24px\"><td style=\"width: 38.172%;height: 24px\"><strong>Student Partners<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.3083%;height: 24px;text-align: center\">CQSD<\/td><td style=\"width: 49.5196%;height: 24px\">Student Partners work collaboratively with academic staff at department level on discrete partnership projects to develop and implement the School Teaching Enhancement Action Plans.<\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"height: 24px\"><td style=\"width: 38.172%;height: 24px\"><strong>PLanT<\/strong><\/td><td style=\"width: 12.3083%;height: 24px;text-align: center\">CQSD<\/td><td style=\"width: 49.5196%;height: 24px\">PLanT projects are awarded \u00a3500 to support students and staff to work in partnership to identify problems, find solutions, and enhance practices in teaching and learning.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"ea-card sp-ea-single\"><h3 class=\"ea-header\"><a class=\"collapsed\" id=\"ea-header-21454\" role=\"button\" data-sptoggle=\"spcollapse\" data-sptarget=\"#collapse21454\" aria-controls=\"collapse21454\" href=\"#\" aria-expanded=\"false\" tabindex=\"0\"><i aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"presentation\" class=\"ea-expand-icon eap-icon-ea-expand-plus\"><\/i> Programme Level<\/a><\/h3><div class=\"sp-collapse spcollapse spcollapse\" id=\"collapse21454\" data-parent=\"#sp-ea-2145\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"ea-header-21454\"> <div class=\"ea-body\"><table style=\"height: 120px;width: 98.1366%;border-collapse: collapse;border-style: solid;border-color: #fca10f\"><tbody><tr style=\"height: 23px\"><td style=\"width: 38.172%;height: 24px\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Student Voice &amp; 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