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Membership Services Conference – Call for Sessions
August 16 - August 17
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The Membership Services Conference, incorporates WIDAR, ACSU/RAWS and Societies, Volunteering Community work MOMS and the LVPN. The conference is aimed at SU practitioners, and will have up to 300 delegates learning from each other over 24 hours.
The Union MMU in partnership with NUS, are excited to be running the second annual Membership Services Conference for specialist staff working with a membership remit. The conference agenda will reflect the theme of SU16: ‘Championing Equality and Building Inclusive Students’ Unions’. As usual, at the heart of the conference is the idea of shared mission and responsibilities across our various staff roles. This theme embodies both the aspirations and challenges of all areas of work: whether that be specifically about the work of liberation campaigns, of access policy, barriers to participation or the structuring of our services to meet and exceed the needs of our complex and diverse memberships.
Would you like a chance to develop your CV, highlight your work or ideas to a national audience of peers or simply get an idea across for their feedback and get a 10% discount?
We welcome applications for sessions that will build skills, share new knowledge or provide a glimpse into what the future may bring in terms of changing policy and students’ needs. We want this conference to be an opportunity for delegates to build something together.
Possible example topics include:
- The progress of the CMA work;
- ASB in halls and institutional strategies to dealing with it;
- Building democracy in clubs and societies;
- new media communications strategies;
- approaches to disabled students support within institutions;
- student-led campaigning;
- links between academic societies and academic representation.
As well as anything else that will help practitioners. We want to be able to choose from a diverse range of options so please share your ideas with us, be as radical as you like. If you would like to discuss this further please feel free to contact:
Ruth Dalton (activities, community and student development)
Gareth Hughes (membership services management, strategy and insight)
Jenni Hastings (advice and advocacy)
Ellie Russell (representation and democracy)
Tony Payne (volunteering)
The four broad strands are:
- Enrichment (including clubs, societies, student development, volunteering and community engagement)
- Advocacy (including advice skills and knowledge, service development and legal updates)
- Campaigns and Representation (including student reps, democracy, elections, campaigning)
- Strategy and Insight (covering new developments and fresh thinking in student and officer services and support)
We are looking for exciting sessions that clearly identify the benefits of attending, look to tell stories that arouse curiosity or concern and leave the attendees with something to take away and apply in their own organisation.
If you have broader ideas for the conference, please get in touch with the conference organisers, Alan Roberts () and Paul Norman ()
Please complete this form and return to by Monday 27th June.