Focus for 2023

My focus this year is to:

• Improve engagement with postgrads through events and spending time with students. 
• Surveying the postgraduate students and candidates to find out what matters most to students and make sure the PSC is targeting it's resources in the best places. 
• Improving and consolidating HDR forms, policies and procedures into one place and making things consistent and simpler for students.
• Ensuring that research candidates are recognised as junior academics and treated with the respect they deserve. 
• Making the experience of studying at Curtin better for all students. 

What does this role do?

Champion the continued improvement and defend the current value of postgraduate education at Curtin University.

• Chair Meetings of the Postgraduate Students Committee and facilitate the generation of ideas and initiatives from the committee.
• Report to the Guild Council and the Vice President - Education regarding all matters affecting the postgraduate student experience.
• Represent your fellow postgrads on high level committees of the university, communicating their experiences and ideas for better postgraduate education.
• Ensure representation on all postgraduate level committee so that the student voice is heard from students.
• Communicate and engage with the postgraduate student community through social media and events.

This representative attends:

• Representation Board
• Postgraduate Students Committee
• Research Committee
• Academic Board 
• Learning and Student Experience Committee
• Human Ethics and Research 
• Global Student Leaders Board

Elected to attend:

• University Council