By-Elections 2025: Morgan for VP Student Welfare

<p>I’m Morgan&comma; and I’m standing for VP Student Welfare&period; Improving the experience for all students is hugely important to me and it’s something I’ve been chipping away at as a student rep&period; I’d love to take that a step further&comma; and continue it with a leadership role&period; OU study and OU students are awesome&comma; but the university is not doing right by so many students who struggle for a multitude of different reasons&period; All students deserve the opportunity for study to be joyful and fufilling&comma; without endless battles for support and understanding&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>OUSET and the Individual Representation Service are examples of the Students Association stepping up to fill a gap left by the university&period; Thus far&comma; I’ve been working to improve accessibility and advocate for trans and non-binary students&period; What I would work for as VP Student Welfare is making sure that the university recognises the complex and often intersecting challenges that students face&period; At the moment&comma; the support is focused around a few&comma; very specific boxes&comma; and it most often fails when you don’t fit neatly into any of them&comma; such as having a common disability or being a caregiver&period; Students are whole&comma; complex humans with rich lives and intersecting challenges&comma; and the university needs to respond in kind&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I will fight for every student faced with a rubbish cookie-cutter solution that doesn’t actually solve their problem&period; I will fight for the continued survivial of the Individual Representation Service&comma; and the vital support it provides students who have a problem with the university&period; I will fight for lived experience to be at the core of decision making that affects those groups&comma; and for a broader ranger of students to be consulted&period; I will fight to make sure that the OU lives up to its promises of being open to all&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Above all&comma; go and vote&excl; Whether it is for me or for someone else&comma; the process is richer for every person who chooses to vote&period; If I’ve convinced you&comma; then I’d appreciate it if you chose to vote for me&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;zombify&lowbar;post&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;