DAY 2 WEDNESDAY 4th JULY 2012
07:00 Breakfast 07:00am - 09.30am
09:00 Registration For day delegates
10:00 Welcome Toni Pearce, Vice President (Further Education), NUS, Alumni Auditorium in the Forum
10:10 Keynote 1 State of the union; Alumni Auditorium in the Forum Liam Burns, President, NUS and Matt Hyde, CEO, NUS
  Streams M. Leadership N.
Building
Campaigning
organisations
O.
Equality and
diversity
P.
Strategy and
Impact
Q.
Member focus
R. Organisational
sustainability
S.
Student
Activities,
Enterprise and
Employability
T.
Personal and
Professional
Development
U.
Enhancing the
student
experience
V.
Digital
Research Hub
W.
Advice Centre
Students' Unions
(ACSU/RAWS)
X:
Workers in
Democracy and
Representation
(WIDAR)
10:50 Workshop 1: Ensuring trustee
boards can
manage conflict
to provide
governance
oversight
Co-creating
change: effective
campaigning with
students
How Investors in
Diversity helps
you flourish’
Sharing “The
love” with you:
Leading service
at Leeds
University Union
Gangs and Tribes Trends in the
voluntary sector
and what this
means for
Student Unions
Supporting
student
volunteering:
building a way
forward
The Value of a
Competency
Framework
Researching
Participation and
Engagement in
Students’ Unions
Using Technology
to improve
efficiency, measure
participation &
increase
connections
Pick and Mix;
showcasing good
practice &
innovation of our
ACSU members
Democratic Structures: An Alternative Perspective
  Facilitator/s Linda Laurance Philip Hadley
Hannah
Charnock
Solat Chaudhry
Daniel Palmer
Jackie Berry Jim Dickinson

David Kane
Simon Mayell

Fiona Ellison
Ben Ward
Hilary Barnard
Ruth Lesirge
Elizabeth
Garrison
Paul Tatton ACSU Committee Godfrey
Atuahene Junior
Lorna Reavley
  Organisation Linda Laurance &
Associates
NUS Investors in
Diversity
Portsmouth Students' Union
Leeds University
Union
NUS NCVO
South West Forum
NUS HBRL Consulting NUS Hull University
Union
UCLan SU
UMSU
Portsmouth
Students’ Union
11.50 Keynote 2 Maximising your social impact with voluntary and community organisations; Alumni Auditorium in the Forum Jane Slowey, Chief Executive Foyer Foundation
12:20 Lunch  
13:20 Keynote 3 Turning an education vision into reality; Alumni Auditorium in the Forum Brett Wigdortz, CEO and Founder Teach First
14:00 Workshop 2: Coaching &
Mentoring; A
case study from
Leeds Met SU
Understanding
Parliament:
Campaigning and
Engagement
Implications of
the Equality Act
for students'
unions
A Tale of 2+
Campuses;
operating across
multiple sites
'Help! There's no sense of community' Quality Students’
Unions: Beyond
SUEI
Enhancing the
Student Experience
- 'Overseas
Development
Projects and
Charity Fundraising
Challenges'
Springboard for
Women: Raise
Your Profile,
Raise Your
Chances
Making Initiatives
in the
Community
‘Stick’
NUS Connect: An
introduction for
new officers
Students
housing; What is
on the horizon
and what do
students need?
In or out?
Elections issues,
disciplinaries
and rules you
must scrap
  Facilitator/s Antony
Blackshaw
Naomi Kent Chris Brill Daryl Ormerod
Danny Prescott
Kat Stark Karen Edwards John Lawler
Simon Gerry
Toby Horner
Jesse Banovic
Dan Higgins Jim Dickinson
Chris Shelley
  Organisation Blackshaw
Management
Consulting Ltd
Parliament’s
Outreach Service
Equality
Challenge Unit
Cumbria SU LSE/Arts NUS MAD Foundation
Newcastle SU
Bournemouth SU NUS NUS
15:00 Workshop 3: Leadership for
Under
Represented
Groups
I am the Change Race into Higher Education: Recruitment and Retention of BAME staff Strategic change
driven by student
experience
research
Tackling the
postgraduate
engagement
deficit
‘Stop,
Collaborate and
Listen’; Effective
Collaboration – A
different way of
thinking
The NUS Student
Skills Award –
what’s next?
Innovating your
way to  increased
revenue
Open Educational Resources and the evolving learning environment The Course Rep
Academy – An
Engagement
Model of
Advance
Training
  Facilitator/s Sarah
Charlesworth
Mike Ross, Yolly
Chegwidden, James
Philips, Suzanne
Holsomback
Laura Swiszczowski Sian McGreary, Ben
Hickman and Nick
Carley
Debbie McVitty Ben Vulliamy
Trevor Page
Max Mcloughlin
Lewis Coakley Vanessa Boon Peter Batty
Ricky Chotai
Sarah McNicol Victoria
Loverseed
Martin Dodd
Gareth Pye
Sam Nichols
  Organisation University of
Sheffield SU
Heriot-Watt SU, Warwick
SU, Mid Kent SU, Oxford
University SU
Race for
Opportunity
Liverpool SU
Alterline
Research
NUS NUS
Leicester SU
Demontfort SU
NUS Energise NUS Services NUS Services Unipol Student
Homes
UCLan SU
UMSU
15:50 Break Refreshments
16:10 Workshop 4: Underestimated
strengths: the
student
movement’s
contribution to
the voluntary
sector
How to campaign
for change… and
win
Out in Sport:
Experiences of
LGBT students
Finding
commonality and
shared
investment in
Union and
University
strategy
Innovation,
Service and
Building
Development
The lies we tell
ourselves
Engaging,
Training and
Motivating
Student
Volunteers
Collaborative HR
Performance for
Students' Unions
The E&E
engagement
toolkit!
The future of
NUS Digital
Pound in the pocket
‘How we support
students through
advice and
funding’
Myth-busting
your way to a
better voter
turnout
  Facilitator/s Laura Hyde

Harry Horton, Jon
Narcross
Nick
Pringle

Vicki Baars Ben Vulliamy
Geraint Edwards
Sam Budd
Ben Pilling
Nina Bentley
Jim Dickinson

Anna Burton
Emma Piper

Graham Atkinson Jo Kemp Doug Tomlinson Laura Curtis
Lauren Beckett
Tori Cherry-
Downes
Jo Walters
  Organisation Clore Social
Leadership
Programme
Abertay Dundee
SA,
UMSU, Sheffield SU
NUS NUS
Aberystwyth Guild
of Students
Bristol SU
Nina & Co. Ltd
NUS READ
International
NUS NUS NUS Hull University
Union
UCLAN
Sussex SU
17:10 Keynote 4 William Akerman, Managing Director, MyKindaCrowd, Encouraging social entrepreneurship creatively; Alumni Auditorium in the Forum
18:00

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19:30 NUS Awards