Sharing Good Practice at a Grassroots Level: A Student Rep Workshop for the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences

The School of Physics and Astronomy has a well-established Student Rep system, numbering around 25 Student Reps in total, composed of Reps from all undergraduate years and postgraduate taught programmes. Students in the School actively engage with the scheme, which is so popular that it has been necessary to run elections this year. The School runs weekly informal meetings in addition to the compulsory SSC (Staff-Student Committee) meetings. We were aware of the existence of Student Rep systems in other schools but we knew little of how they operated. The aim of this project was to share good practice across the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences (EPS) with the intention of making recommendations on how to improve the Student Rep system at the University.