Vote Nadine #1 because we deserve better. I’ll take on rising costs, over-assessment, student safety - EVAWG, strengthen student voice, women’s health, accessibility and international support, and make clubs, societies and campus life easier to access. Student life is about belonging not coping. Real change, not loose promises.
Dia Duit! Hi everyone!
I’m Nadine and I am the current Postgraduate Education officer. This year I helped secure increased tuition fee loans for PG students, began creating accessible study spaces, created PhD supervision contracts, started a reusable period product and menstrual health project and much more. I have a BSc in Biological Sciences and acted as both School rep and MHLS faculty rep for 2 years as a student. I have strong relationships with many university members that has, and will, allow me to make real change! Becoming the next SU president would allow me to finish the transformative work I started this year and pick up on the priorites below.
I currently sit on university senate and have been a student councillor for 5 years; I am a past member of the
Marine zoology and biological sciences societies as well as a previous committee member of the Feminist and Equality society. I am a long-term student campaigner and past solidarity action network member and will ensure the students’ right to fight for change continues and is protected.
Student life is no longer ‘fun’ but burdened with part time work, over assessment, extortionate living costs and time poverty, I will fight to ensure we never lose the student experience.
My priorities:
- Lower living costs and fairer fees
- Curriculum, assessment reform and placement support
- On campus safety – Ending violence against women and girls
- Access, Inclusion & Belonging
- Improve clubs and societies experience
- Menstrual health support
Lower living costs and fairer fees
Student life unlimited by cost!
- Continue lobbying to stop tuition fee rises and the prevention of international student levy’s
- Protect all students from hidden degree costs.
- Reduce cost of student travel, especially for placement students and extended ylink access for students past 23.
- Affordable hot meals on campus – with diverse options catering for dietary needs.
- Reduce the cost of the PEC for students and roll out free year-round sports trial sessions to support wellbeing and student community.
Curriculum, assessment reform and placement support
Assessment that works for you, not against.
- Stop over-assessment – recent analysis showed QUB over assesses sometimes 2x more than their counterparts.
- Clear central AI policy which encourages innovation but does not limit thinking.
- Improve support and mental health guidance for placement students and reduce unpaid placements.
- Clear academic expectations and support for all students new to higher education.
On campus safety – Ending violence against women and girls
No student should feel unsafe on campus!
- Provide institutional action to protect student safety and stop victim centred responsibility
- Introduce safety initiatives that work for international students, ethnically diverse students and women, on and off campus, day and night.
- Continue current student night bus initiative with an emphasis on late night library shuttles and bringing students safely home from nights out
- Active bystander and consent training for all incoming students, not just accommodation
Access, Inclusion & Belonging
- Clearer support for international students navigating visas, placements, work limits, housing and the shift in academic culture.
- Continue to improve transition support for international and mature students including academic writing and assessment expectations
- Actual support for disabled and neurodiverse students, accessible spaces that consider all student needs and stop the infantilisation of our neurodiverse students.
Improve Clubs & Societes experience
- Protect student spaces by prioritising clubs and societies in campus bookings, especially the PEC.
- Cut down admin time, make running a committee easier and support smooth handovers.
- Bring back Varsities and invest in events that build connection, belonging and fun across Queen’s
Menstrual health support
Your menstrual health should not limit your education
- Integrate Menstrual and women’s health advice into our sexual health clinic to provide real guidance because contraception will not fix everything.
- Transparent support in assessment and exam adaptations for ill menstrual health
- Hear the student voice on how their menstrual health impacts their education.
Additional priorities will be:
- Sustainability at Queen’s, increase sustainable options and reduce waste on campus. Put pressure on the QUB (delayed) 2040 net zero targets.
- Liese with na Coimisinéirí Teanga, language commissioners to support minority languages on campus