Meet your By-Election Candidates

It's almost time to cast your votes in the Union's By-Elections, but you don't have to wait long. Voting opens on 27th April at 9.00am and closes on the 30th April at 9.00am. All you need to do is login to the Union of Students website, go to derbyunion.co.uk/elections and cast your votes. Remember, you don't have to vote for all positions at once, you can come back and vote as many times as you like during the voting period.

You also get to vote for all candidates in order of preference, so you can rank them all in order. That means if your first choice doesn't win, your vote will automatically transfer to your second-favourite person so it's not wasted!

You can view the information for each candidate on the elections page but here's a list of our candidates this year:

Angelika Witasik

Running for Part Time Officer (Gender)

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Running a campaign promoting gender equality through University events

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One hour a week, open session with me if anyone has any problems or worries (individual)

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Creating a Facebook group to promote gender equality

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Wayne McFarland

Running for Part Time Officer (Gender)

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I want to look at which minority of students is most likely not to use the wellbeing services and come up with a campaign that would encourage the use and promote the services for all students

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As Gender Equalities officer I will be invested in collaboration with all equalities officers, including LGBTQ, Disabilities, Mental Health Awareness, Mature, Part-Time and International Students PTOs to aim to create a supportive and collaborative atmosphere throughout the university

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I promise I'll make it my responsibility to raise awareness of inequalities amongst all gender identities and bring representation to those who need it plus make a safe and welcoming environment for those who want to raise issues or concerns

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Sam Bradley

Running for Part Time Officer (Buxton Education HE)

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Ensure students receive guest speakers, workshops and masterclasses from a variety of industry professionals, not just restricted to chefs like in the past!

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Receive better quality feedback from practical examinations and making sure students understand what is expected of them

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Increasing support for, and better awareness of students' mental health

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Lizzie Ward

Running for Part Time Officer (Mature Students)

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Work along side the PTOs for Gender and LGBT+ to establish which minority groups aren't accessing university well-being services and union advice services. To develop this, I would like to work on making these services more accessible/friendly to minority groups

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To continue working along side the mature student’s society to plan and run events and socials targeted towards mature student community

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Continue to gain feedback from mature students regarding problems they face while at university and to work with the university and the union of students to help mature student over come these problems

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Manny Sandhu

Running for Part Time Officer (Mature Students)

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Voicing concerns and issues that have an impact on mature students and their university experience

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To work with the student union/other departments to effect changes that make mature students feel more integrated within the university e.g. wider support systems and more social activities which I will make available that are more suited towards mature students

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To work with societies and sports officers to encourage mature students to access sporting and society opportunities available to them as well as presenting new ones

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