What can you gain from being a Rep? Affect positive change.
being a part of the SOAS community, which lasts well beyond your time here with us.
• Representatives can affect real, lasting positive change and through doing so in Expand and enrich your experience as part of a supportive and inclusive environment, the SOAS community. develop a whole range of transferable skills • Representatives help build a strong sense of and experiences for the future workplace cohort and community with fellow students, while working with and on behalf of your whether by getting immediate issues dealt academic community to enhance the with, campaigning for change in HE, or, student experience. by organising events that bring students together. Being a Representative is not just Strengthen your C.V and develop transferable about solving problems. You have a platform professional skills via the Rep training to do something special with peers who programme. share your interests and passion for change. • All Representatives will receive a training
session from the S.U, provided at the Gain an insight into how higher education start of T1, which prepares students for institutions function. the role and provides an opportunity for • Being a Representative is a great way to Representatives to meet one another and get an insight into how representation, form connections early in the academic advocacy, change processes and year. All Representatives are also provided organisational management functions at with the option to undertake a selection SOAS, while expanding your knowledge of of Professional Skills training workshops the higher education sector more broadly. If provided by SOAS’ Staff Development you are considering a career or further study team. While useful to Representatives, in HE, being a Rep is a great way to begin these sessions provide skills and training that journey and gain an insight into working opportunities that are useful beyond the practices, policies and processes within an work you undertake as a Representative. interesting and dynamic institution. Develop meaningful connections with Receive a Personal Reference Letter on members of the SOAS community, both inside successful completion of your role. and outside the classroom. • At the end of the academic year, on • Representatives get to know the academic successful completion of your role, all and professional services staff within their Representatives will receive an individual department through working together on a Personal Reference Letter from the Research range of issues, both inside and outside of and Representation Coordinator within the the classroom and find allies and support to S.U, which outlines the training sessions take issues forward at various institutional you have completed and any additional levels through supporting the work of the responsibilities you undertook (via either S.U Co-Presidents and Officers. Through a Student Liaison or Special Interest role) forming these connections and working throughout the academic year. together with individuals from across the School, Representatives get a real sense of 21
