We’re passionate about making student life better and focusing on the issues that matter to you most. That's why during Student Leadership Elections, you'll have the opportunity to vote on Student Priorities and shape the work your Sabbatical Officers do next year. This ensures that the work we do is led by students, every step of the way.
Your votes pick the Big 6. Take a look at the prioritis below.
Engage with academic Schools and the University’s Registry team to address and remove back-to-back and same-day deadlines for coursework and assessments to reduce pressure on students.
Lobby the University to standardise marking criteria and improve the quality, consistency and accessibility of coursework, assessment feedback, and assessment support within academic Schools.
Collaborate with the University and academic Schools to strengthen personal academic support by increasing the availability of one-to-one sessions across a broad range of academic needs.
Work with the University to increase the availability of mental and sexual health services, increasing resources to support students, including those affected by sexual harassment or assault.
Work with the University’s Student Life teams to foster belonging at Roehampton by improving social spaces and providing 24/7 access to dedicated spaces on-campus.
Campaign to broaden financial support for all students through additional bursaries, grants and scholarships, and to make hardship funding more accessible, including for international students.
Campaign to lower on-campus prices, including catering and accommodation, and increase basic needs support to ease the cost of student living.
Drive improvements in careers and employability support by expanding paid placement and internship events and opportunities to open pathways into graduate employment.
Collaborate with the Student Futures team to enhance skills workshops, offering practical, real-world training, interview preparation, and expanded networking opportunities tailored to students’ interests and future career prospects.
Work with the university and local partners to improve transport links to and from the University, ensuring services are regular and in line with the needs of commuting students.
Collaborate with the Estates and Disability teams and wider university services to provide accessible campus maps, ensure pathways are safe for students to use, and make campus services, such as laundry facilities, accessible to all students.
Work with the University to provide swift and effective responses to student queries, ensuring that the delivery of sensitive information is delivered with compassion and sensitivity to support students' mental health.
Lobby Estates and Maintenance teams to ensure students living on campus receive timely and effective responses and resolutions to maintenance concerns.
Work with the timetabling team to improve timetables to better accommodate commuting and mature students. Collaborate with IT services to review and update the SEATS app to provide real-time information on on-campus seating availability.
Using feedback gathered from the Big SU Survey, Speak Week, Survey Superheroes, academic feedback, and more, we’ve identified 14 key themes and issues that you’ve told us are important. These range from improving campus facilities and strengthening mental health support, to enhancing your academic experience and porviding cost of living support.
During voting, you will rank these 14 priorities.
We will then collect the votes, and the 6 with the highest votes become our priorities for the next academic year. We are calling those the Big 6!
Your elected Officers will then work hard on these 6 priorities throughout the 2026/27 Academic year. Making student life better and focusing on the issues that matter most to you.
And just so you know - we are always committed to campaigning on liberation issues as a core part of our work, which is why these aren’t included within Student Priorities.