Officer Reports

And just like that, it’s all over – my last officer report as VPWC! I’d like to say a massive thank you to all the staff who have supported me this year, and a very large thank you to all the students who I have had the pleasure of representing and working with this year! Reflecting on my past year, I am glad to have been able to meet some of my KPIs and for those I was unable to measure, I do believe I have made significant progress towards a better experience for students at Lincoln! From Ready to Rent and the Accreditation Policy, to Look After Your Mate and the Accessibility Report, this year has been filled with lots of challenges and amazing experiences as a result. This month I have been working on the logistics of the Wellbeing Network, as well as creating a motion about an SU Accreditation Scheme for the ASM. So that’s it, 3 weeks to go, thank you again – it’s been a brilliant year!

May has been mainly about getting feedback from students about how they are finding online teaching, about accommodation issues, financial issues, and about academic issues as well. It has been amazing to see all the support we have received form all students in these difficult times to help us help them better. With this being my last officer report, I would like to thank the University, students’ union, the students, and everyone who has helped me in my role throughout this year. It has been an absolute pleasure to be able to represent the University of Lincoln students.

Hello all! This month will consist of my final officer report…super sad! However, highlights for this month not KPI related are:
- Working with university members Liz Mossop and Judith Carey in regards to when the new academic term will be and how these communications should be approached from a student perspective. For this, overall communications and FAQ’s were created for the ease and understanding of students.
-Filming/co-presenting ‘The Swannys’, ‘SU Awards’ and BBC Lincolnshire, discussing what students are finding difficult at the moment and what the big challenges are going to be in the future.
-We hosted our first virtual ASM, where I approached discussions on how do students want their student experience to look like? What should we prioritise? And what can we learn from this pandemic? Thank you all who got involved with the discussions, your voice and opinion will be heard and represented next year.
- Still getting involved with our amazing online community through Facebook lives’ and Quizzes. It is great to see our WE ARE LINCOLN community thrive and support each other.

Finally a goodbye and good luck to all our students from myself. It has been an honour to represent you these last 2 years and will never forget all the memories we have had. I hope to keep in touch with many of you and I am sure I will come back and visit. From going on Tour, attending graduations, leading on workshops and obviously, attending Quack…..it has been such an exciting ride. So as I will be finishing my role as President on the 12th June, you will then be lead by an incredible new team! I wish all the best to the new team, you got this! And all I can say to our students is WE ARE LINCOLN, and we always will be!
Stay strong, be kind to each other and look to the future. And from me, goodbye and stay classy Lincoln – Cassie Coakley

The last few months has been a great opportunity to reflect upon the last year, the things we have achieved and the things we can improve. I have been keeping in regular contact with students, dealing with concerns, queries and questions relating to activities, assessments and housing. I have developed a Reward and Recognition Badge Scheme, I am working on an Academic Society Proposal, Lincoln Together Workshops for October, and I have been conducting some research on Parasport, how accessibly the Sports Centre is and what Parasports we can offer in the new academic year. The new Activities Officers and I have been developing a welcome video for after the committee handover. We had the 8/10 Swans final online last Friday between Engineering and Drama which was a brilliant event. Congratulations to Engineering who won the competition by three points. In addition, I have been doing the Quack Pack deliveries for the Students’ Union which has been a great way to see students and I have been busy reading all 44 of the BUCS Funding Applications and referencing it with the BUCS Funding Criteria to award it to our clubs for the 20/21 season.

This month myself and Abi have been exploring our plans for working with the Academic Societies in the new academic year and I have been thinking about how to further improve the postgraduate experience, with inductions into the student experience and how we improve their welcome to the SU. Read about the ideas I have gathered from other unions through a conference and how I want to use these ideas to enhance the rep experience and how it works for students as well as how I want to utilise my study spaces plans to help students when returning to campus