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Student Voice & Impact 2021 Winners

Creating change is an important part of the student voice. A great campaign doesn’t just create change but also makes sure this change is sustainable and inspires people into developing a better student experience and or awareness of an issue.

Congratulations to SLS undergraduates Toluwa Lipede and Abigail G-Medhin who recently won the Students' Union Student Voice and Impact Award 2021 for Campaigning for Change, for their actions to address issues of minority representation. In 2020 Toluwa and Abbi founded and became Co-Chairs of the SLS Black Students Sub-Committee of the UG SSLC, bringing together Black students within the community, offering them a safe place for discussions and a forum to formulate ideas for action. Toluwa and Abbi recently arranged a speaker series featuring Black Life Sciences graduates, and their encouragement was instrumental in the School’s push for the University to join the BB STEM University Alliance.

Thu 01 Jul 2021, 16:08 | Tags: student, award

Students' Union Awards 2021

As well as studying, SLS students find time to go that extra mile to make a difference to student life. Congratulations to those who have made it to the SU Student Voice and Impact awards 2021 shortlist:

Faculty/Department Rep of the Year - Rejwana (Aki) Fardosh-Aki (Department Representative – a new SU role – SLS is one of the pilot departments in 2020-21)
Course Rep of the Year - Emily Sanders (PGT SSLC Rep)
Outstanding Leadership - Farrah Vogel-Javeri (UG SSLC Chair)
SSLC of the Year - Life Sciences PGT
Campaigning for Change - Toluwa Lipede & Abigail G-Medhin (SLS Black Students’ sub-committee leads)

Mon 21 Jun 2021, 16:21 | Tags: student, award

Placement Award

Placement student Shikha Gianchandani (Biomedical Science with Placement Year) is currently doing a Science Communication placement at the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), which is one of eight UK government councils. Shikha is from India but was born and brought up in Poland.

She says"My role involves highlighting the impact of the research done at STFC. Some of the work I've completed includes writing 30+ articles on a wide range of cutting-edge science, managing three departmental newsletters to bridge the communication gap to 900 people, spearheading the development of a social media strategy for two different social media channels, initiating and executing five successful campaigns, and assembling a teaching system to measure the impact of bioscience papers from the last 40 years to compare against other national facilities."

Shikha's hard work was recognised and she received two awards for 'going beyond the scope of the role to support the council's mission statement'.

Mon 21 Jun 2021, 16:20 | Tags: student, award

Student Space Society National Award 2021

Congratulations to third year Biochemistry student Katie Savva who has won the UKSEDS (UK Students for the Exploration and Development of Space) Outreach Ambassador of the Year award.

Mon 21 Jun 2021, 15:27 | Tags: student, award

Winter Graduation OSCA

The SLS winter graduation ceremony was held on Thursday 23 January in the Butterworth Hall, Warwick Arts Centre. Anna York was very active during her time at Warwick, both during her undergraduate studies and throughout her PhD in Biological Sciences, and was awarded the Outstanding Student Contribution Award (OSCA) for her achievements.
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Mon 02 Mar 2020, 11:47 | Tags: student, award