Why is your Student Voice Important?
As a Science and Engineering student, you hold a very important role: to make sure your voice is heard.
Let Your Voice Flow
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Join the Conversation
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As a Science and Engineering student, you've embarked on a journey with us. We'll aim to provide you with the tools to move successfully through your programme, often pointing you to additional resources and support when needed.
Your Role
We'll do our best to create an engaging learning environment for you to develop the knowledge and skills you need for the future. But we cannot do it without your ideas and comments.
Offer us Direction
Whilst we offer you direction, your feedback can help create alternative routes that we might not have considered, leading to positive changes and enhancements across the University.
In Science and Engineering, your feedback has led to...
- Improvements to study spaces: The BASE (A006) has undergone refurbishment, based on your suggestions for increased faciltiies for collaboration and groupwork.
- Changes to programme structure: In many programmes, new 20 credit modules have been introduced - giving you more opportunities to bring together information and ideas from different topics.
- Improvements to assessment: Many programmes have also increased the opportunities to engage in practical work, ensuring you have the opportunity to demonstrate your learning as you go.
- Continuation of key Academic Support: due to positive feedback, we're continuing to offer a variety of Academic Support this year, including the Computer Aided Engineering Café, Maths Café, and workshops on key areas such as MSc Dissertation support.
For examples of changes made across the University, you can refer to the central Together We Changed page.
Feedback on your Course, Resources and Support: Where to Share
Do you have something to say?
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Academic Staff
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MyUniVoice Discussion Boards
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Subject Representatives
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Focus Groups
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Surveys
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We don't expect you to come to University with a full understanding of the processes and procedures, but will do our best to ensure that:
- Guidance is clear.
- Your have access to the resources and support you need.
- The right opportunities to feedback on your experience within the Faculty are available to you.
Click through this group to find out the ways you can reach out at any point throughout the academic year if you have something to say.
The most direct way to raise feedback is to raise ideas or concerns with academic and support staff directly. This ensures that messages are kept clear, and offers you the chance to communicate your thoughts in your own words.
- Module Coordinators are best placed to deal with questions related to specific module content, lectures or assessments.
- Year Coordinators, are best placed to feedback related to your overall year of study (e.g. programme structure).
- Programme Directors are best placed to answer feedback for your department (e.g. facilities for your programme).
MyUniVoice is the University's Student Voice platform. MyUniVoice is a safe space for you to engage with staff and Reps, and get involved in discussion with students from across the University.
Use MyUniVoice to:
- Raise ideas
- Ask questions
- Contribute to already open discussions.
The platform is secure, allowing anonymous posting for your comfort, whilst allowing you full visibility of where your feedback has gone – from the time you post to resolution.
Subject Reps are students act as co-pilots of student voice in your year and programme. They ensure that feedback across your course is addressed as it arises throughout the Academic Year.
Reps remove the barriers between staff and students, attending meetings throughout the academic year where they will contribute to discussion and offer ideas based on your comments.
If you have feedback and would like to raise this with your Subject Rep, you can identify them via the Faculty of Science and Engineering Community Hub, by clicking on 'Student Reps' in the menu.
Find our more about Reps and their role through the Student Union Pages.
Focus Groups are run intermittently throughout the year. They are an opportunity for small groups of students, normally from your programme to:
- Reflect on your experience
- Hear new perspectives
- Bounce ideas off each other
- Consider alternative paths to resolve issues
You will be invited to take part in any Focus Group that is relevant to you by the Student Experience Team.
Each year the Faculty will promote a small number of surveys to you to help us keep track of what we're doing well, and how we could improve.
Keep an eye out for your chance to have your say on Module Feedback, and the annual Big Swansea Surveys campaign which runs throughout Semester 2.
Join the Discussion
Help to keep us evolving by joining the discussion on MyUniVoice. As well as getting to hear what others think, you can take part in our monthly discussion topics. The more we hear from you - the easier it is for us to make sure you have access to everything you need.
Tell us what you'd like via the board for your School now!
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Make your Voice Heard
Remember, we want to ensure all students are given the chance to raise feedback. To make sure your voice is heard, we check out our top tips for effective feedback.
Be Timely
Raise any issues or comments as they arise - this allows us staff to investigate and work with you and test out solutions that will strengthen your experience.
Provide Detail
When you raise feedback, try to provide as much detail as you're able. This helps us to direct the feedback and deal with it efficiently. If we need to know more, we might come back to you with questions to gain further insight so that we can work together on an appropriate solution.
Offer Solutions
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Feedback should be solution focused, we want to hear when there's an issue, but we also want to hear how you'd fix it. Remember, solutions should be balanced, offering an enhancement to the experience for everyone.
Other ways to feedback
There are lots of ways to offer feedback on all areas of your experience. Check out other ways to get involved below.
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Still not sure where to share?
We want your voice to remain unobstructed. If you still aren't sure of the best place to share your questions comments or feedback, please reach out to the Student Experience and Engagement Team.
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