George Smith

Why you should vote for me:

TL:DR - I've held student representative roles before and have fought for fairer coursework distribution loads, clearer descriptions of learning objectives within assessed work and collected feedback across different years and specialisms to present to high level stakeholders (albeit it in a slightly different type of institution). I enjoyed my previous work and would like to continue this at Imperial.

And now for the longer explanation. At my previous institution, I was the Head Workplace representative. Workplace?!! My undergraduate was an apprenticeship, so I had the responsibility of making sure that the workplace side was as good as possible. I was also the assistant-chair of the student staff learning committee, so had to occasionally work on fully academic issues alongside workplace issues. The best example of this was a paper that I co-authored with the head academic representative which proved that the coursework timetable at my old institution caused weeks with incredibly high workload, as well as weeks with very low workload - this paper made the institution change the timetable for our and all future years. Additionally, as part of the program, evidence from the workplace was assessed. I worked to make the standards against which workplace evidence was assesed better. (Making it clearer how many requirements a student needed to meet in a year, as well as improving the wording).

All of these required taking in feedback from 120(ish) apprentices and presenting to stakeholders.