UPSU Sabbatical Officers are UoP students that have either recently graduated, or are taking a break from study, and are elected annually by the student body to lead the Students' Union and work full-time representing the student body on your behalf on various issues across all areas of student life including promoting the welllbeing of students, developing support during the cost-of-living crisis, and jargon-busting academic policies.

Your VP Activities, VP Education, and VP Wellbeing & Diversity are all Faculty Reps. This means that as well as their VP responsibilities, they work together with School Reps to progress any feedback to a Faculty level and work in partnership with Associate Heads of School and the Associate Deans of the Faculty to improve the student experience for their respective Faculties.

A School Rep is a part-time student representative who plays a vital role in ensuring that the voices of students at the University of Plymouth are heard - they are at the centre of the academic representation system within each school. There are 12 School Representatives in total (one per School)

School Reps collate feedback from the Course Reps, and progress it (where relevant) from programme to School level. They meet with their Faculty Rep and the VP Education, to progress any feedback from students to the Faculty, as well as the Associate Head for each School to improve your student experience.

To find out who your School Rep is, search for your rep here.

A Course Rep is a student that is either elected or self-nominated (dependent on your Programme Leader’s choice) to represent the students on their course’s academic feedback. They provide a paramount link between students, University Staff, and UPSU.

Course Reps listen to their cohort's views and share that information with staff who can then act by making any necessary changes. Afterwards, they close the feedback loop to make their peers aware of the impact that their feedback has had.

To find out who your Course Rep(s) are, search for your rep here.

Your first point of contact for matters related to your academic experience, and affects other people on your course, is your Course Rep.

You can also submit feedback via the ‘Make a Change’ function on the UPSU website Make a Change (upsu.com) to report all feedback both relating to concerns or problems you are having on your course, or regarding positive development ideas that could make your course, or university experience even better. This information will be passed onto the Student Voice Team who will then pass your feedback on accordingly.

For feedback that solely affects you, please speak to your Programme Leader

If you would like some personal support and guidance related to academic offences, money, wellbeing, accommodation and much more, get in contact with our free, independent Advice Team at advice@su.plymouth.ac.uk. Alternatively, visit upsu.com/advice.

The Student Voice Team run the annual Sabbatical Officer elections, work closely with the Sabbatical Officers on campaigns related to improve the student experience, support the Student-Led Networks, and are involved with training and supporting over 600 student representatives including School Reps and Course Reps!

If you have any feedback, queries or developmental ideas relating to student representation or the services offered by the students' union, please contact us at studentvoice@su.plymouth.ac.uk.