Lydia Richardson Email & Phone Number

Ormskirk, Gb

Ormskirk, England, United Kingdom

Ormskirk, England, United Kingdom

Ormskirk, England, United Kingdom

Ormskirk, Lancashire, United Kingdom

Liverpool, United Kingdom

I am the organisational lead on issues related to the Higher Education experience relating to retention, student satisfaction (NSS) and feedback, both locally and nationally. My main responsibilities involve managing projects relating to HE including the Students' Unions Faculty Student Voice Reports, and creating, developing and embedding new projects including SimOn (an online feedback tool for students), Faculty and School Reps and Faculty Representation Coordinators. Additionally I lead on the organisation and delivery of the Amazing Teaching awards, ensuring that they are as student focused as possible, while also supporting LiverpoolSU's academic advice service. I have proven experience in line management of varied teams, currently coordinating 1400 course reps and 13 Faculty and School Reps, along with 4 members of full time staff and 4 student staff members. With this role being new to the organisation, its current form is very eclectic allowing myself and the team to develop the support we put in place for students, ensuring a well rounded strategic approach.

Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom

At Liverpool Students’ Union, I coordinated over 1400 student course representatives, maintaining both the operational day to day administration and the strategic delivery of the course representative system. This involved recruiting reps, creating materials for them, and developing and delivering training across all faculties, while also being a critical friend to LJMU staff, ensuring that representation was at every level, with a clear feedback loop. I reviewed and put mechanisms in place to strengthen the system from start to finish, developing a more well rounded scheme, including more student focused projects such as Dragons Den and You’re Amazing Course Rep Awards. I led on academic development within the SU, supporting the sabbatical officers, along with being the expert within the union for projects relating to quality assurance, student satisfaction and student change, including the TEF and QAA. This involved working with student feedback, both locally and nationally, to articulate the support and needs of the students. Furthermore, this role involved the recruitment, induction, objectives setting and overall line management of 5 members of staff, both full time and student staff members, to deliver our academic success aims.

As a student reviewer, I work with the QAA to carry out reviews at different institutions ensuring that the responsibilities of said institution maintain a decent academic experience at a high standard as well as the quality of the Higher Education information

Bangor, Gwynedd

My day to day activities as Vice President Education and Welfare are very diverse and contribute to my professional development each day. As a trustee of Bangor Students Union, it is my role to ensure that myself, along with the other members of the board, ensure that the organisation runs soundly with regards to financial, legal and student led developments. Adding to this, with welfare being a part of my role, it is my responsibility to ensure that welfare campaigns are developed to reflect the student voice and need. Examples of these campaigns include University Mental Health & Wellbeing Day, a campaign in conjunction with the Welsh Government regarding Wales Opt Out with Organ Donation and a housing campaign for students to Take Their Time to Sign and look at housing standards in the PRS.Working in the Academic Representation Unit at Bangor Students' Union has allowed me to work with students at both a group, through school course representatives and also individual level with regards to one on one casework as well as individual disciplinary. Adding to this, I have the opportunity to feed in student feedback into the University to ensure that student voice's are heard every step of the way.

As a GPS mentor, the skills built up from undergraduate presentation teaching are enhanced further using new technologies such as prezi, laser pointers and more. It is my role to support postgraduate students as they engage further with more advanced presentation practice. This includes constructive criticism, reflection and guidance.

Bangor

I was responsible for allocating exam papers to other invigilators, making sure they were given all of the correct information to deliver the exam under University protocol. I made sure that candidates were informed of all the information required, such as timings, key questions/changes to exams and housekeeping of the rooms. For some candidates when invigilatoing in a separate room, it was important to make sure they knew that if the needed support, they could ask for it and again the general information required for exams, so that parity can be ascertained.

Go Wales, Bangor

During my time at GO Wales as a marketing and events assistant, it was my role to work on social media campaigns, marketing ideas and also to organise an event for the 10th Birthday of the GO Wales organisation. Part of this included working with companies to collect information from them about their experiences with GO wales as well as the graduates they employed. From this, I created a timeline of the company from interviews and a collection of case studies. In addition to this, I conducted interviews for student stewards to work during the event and work with internal as well as external organisations to coordinate the event.With regards to the social media campaigns, I worked on developing the Bangor hubs online presence using Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and also internal communities (email, forums) in order to promote what GO Wales does as much as possible.

Stonar School, Wiltshire

During my time at Stonar, I worked with students aged 10 to 18 from all over the world. Some of my responsibilities involved being house tutor to one of the dorms, teaching extra curricular English to the advanced classes and ensuring that all the lessons plans being used reflected the level for all students.

Psychological Research Msc, The Effects Of Social Power On Risk Taking And Decision Making, Merit

Activities and Societies: RAG (Raise and Give). I was also a part of the Psychology Society and took part in democratic proceedings.

Psychology With Child And Language Development Bsc, Imitation, 2.1

Activities and Societies: Lacrosse, Psych Society, BUCAS (cooking society), BAWLS (animation society), Bangor Bright Futures, RAG Bangor.

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Activities and Societies: I was involved in a number of different activities in high school These include: Theatre Group, Girls Rugby.