As our name suggests, the Strategy and Insight team creates and drives forward the strategy and strategic aims of the Students Association. We have just created our new strategy, and these are the aims within it which we hope to meet and achieve over the next three years.
Our strategic aims
- Create a welcoming environment and champion accessibility for all.
- Increase engagement through evidence-based decision making.
- Enable students to lead, represent and advocate.
- Embrace change to ensure we are future facing and sustainable.
Our values
- Welcoming
- Accountable
- Bold
- Adaptable
- Sustainable
We are very busy in our team at present and have a range of exciting projects underway. Our Projects Manager, with the help of the amazing wider staff team, recently planned and organised our biennial student Conference. This included organising inspiring speakers and engaging sessions, organising student debates and voting on Conference resolutions so the Association can make the changes that students want to see.
We have a dedicated staff member who conducts all our important research that feeds the student voice into all parts of the Association. You may have remembered receiving the Annual Membership Survey where we collect student thoughts on a range of topics – this data is then collated and analysed by our Research and Strategy Engagement Officer, and used to guide what services we offer OU students.
In relation to you and other students in secure environments, we want to hear your thoughts on what we’re doing. That’s why, in our previous issue, we invited you to give your thoughts on things that mattered to you when we were planning our Conference. If you missed that issue, you didn’t miss your opportunity to get your voice heard at the Association more generally. Keep an eye out for the Students in Secure Environments Engagement Survey being sent out in the next month.
And on top of all that, we have been organising our Student Leadership Team elections! The Head of Strategy and Insight and the Projects Officer have been working with other members of the Association to organise debates, question & answer sessions and voting, and by the time you read this, we may have a whole new team of student leaders!
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