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PowerPoint Version of Digital Screens

Taught

Nomination Digital Screen

Voting Digital Screen

Doctoral 

Nomination Digital Screen Doctoral

Voting Digital Screen

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PowerPoint Version of Posters

Taught

Nomination Poster

Voting Poster

Doctoral

Nomination Poster

Voting Poster

The best practice for promotional emails is to CC arc@bath.ac.uk into them. This way we can see how you are promoting the role and students know where they can send any queries. Here are some examples of emails that you can use:

• Nomination Promotion Email
• Voting Promotion Email

Doctoral 

• Nomination Promotion Email
• Voting Promotion Email

Email Signatures - how to add an elections banner to your e-sig

• UG - Recruitment Presentation (4 Slides)
• Doctoral - Recruitment Presentation (4 Slides)

More information about Academic Reps can be found on our "Types of Academic Reps" page - this page is also ideal for linking students to a simple overview of the academic rep system.

The links below will open up a PDF in the new tab of each role descriptor you can then download the file from the viewer.

• Academic Rep 
• Doctoral Rep  
• Faculty Rep (UG & PGT)
• Faculty Rep (Doctoral)

Why you should be an Academic Rep- Shuchi (HSS)- https://youtu.be/QKFC05zmavw

Why you should be an Academic Rep- Diprati (Science)- https://youtu.be/dKJ-vepKOA0

Why you should be an Academic Rep- Taghried (Doctoral)- TBC https://youtu.be/SOLHA68lnTU 

How to Nominate Yourself in an Election- https://youtu.be/HtIOayZImUg 

How to Vote in an Election- TBC

Promoting the importance of Academic Reps to your cohort is key to getting nominations, if students see reps as powerful and respected, they will be motivated to want to take up these positions.

We have created a number of resources to help support you in the promotion of the elections, such as PowerPoint presentations, email signature banners, promotional email templates, and more on the SU Staff Hub.

Expected Practice

• Relevant Academic Staff members emailing cohorts to promote nominations being open, hopefully including references to impacts academic reps have made within the department to show their importance. 

Best Practice

• Giving a talk in a lecture about the importance of Academic Reps to promote sign-ups
• Collaborating with current Academic Reps to help promote the elections

Excellent Practice

• Creating your own resources to promote the elections - e.g. videos, posters, articles/blogs 

Sometimes departments struggle with getting students to nominate themselves to run to be Academic Reps. This can be due to a number of different reasons. 

Make sure that you have tried some of the suggestions above, it's key to make sure that you are explaining the value of the Academic Reps to the department and their cohort in those comms so check you have expressed this enough!

The SU can also offer support. Sometimes we find a bit of a push from an Officer can make all the difference in getting students to come forward. If you'd like to organise an officer to talk to your students contact us with dates and times that would be useful for you and we will see what we can do! 

Spring By-Elections 2023

• Nominations open: Wednesday 29^th March 5 PM
• Nominations close: Tuesday 4^th April 12 PM (midday)
• Voting opens: Wednesday 12^th April 12 PM (midday)
• Voting closes: Tuesday 18^th April 12 PM (midday)

Autumn Elections 2023

Dates TBC