Welfare & Campaigns Officer

Naomi Carter

Vice President for Welfare & Campaigns

She/Her

As VP Welfare & Campaigns, I am responsible for connecting to students about issues that concern them and their welfare, and advocating for those with Union and University staff. I am so excited to see what campaigns I can get involved in and how I can improve student experience on campus!

Course:
Global Sustainable Development BASc - graduating this year

Hometown:
Guildford

Fun fact about me:
I love to colour coordinate everything!

My role and what I hope to achieve this year:
As VP Welfare & Campaigns, I hope to run campaigns about things that students care about, feel a part of something bigger at Warwick and Mobilise student power for justice. This entails:

SU Processes:

• Improve SU communication with student body through revamping website and social media
• Facilitate student society collaborations and support student-led campaigns
• Ensure officer-led campaigns are embedded within the SU, including through allocating clear staff leads and embedding institutional memorie

Sustainability

• Create an internal SU Sustainable Partnerships Policy for merch provision, Freshers week collabs and other sponsorship agreements
• Promote sustainable clothing initiatives and swap shops w/ uni sustainability team / relevant societies
• Support Student Staff Solidarity Network food campaign
• Work with other FTOs to advocate for demilitarization / divestment

Cost-of-living:

• Continue #EPP, including working towards procurement of free-vend dispensers and creating a #EPP Ambassador network
• Work with Student Experience and the SU to develop further dwell spaces

Wellbeing

• Relaunch Sexual Health campaign, including providing free STI testing on campus and supporting student sex workers
• Develop comprehensive welfare training for SU clubs and societies
• Support student demands against sexual assault
• Develop Party Smart and drug awareness campaigns