Student Experience

The College of Social Sciences is lucky to have one of the most extensive Student Experience teams at the University of Birmingham.

Our mission is to work in partnership with students to empower you to get involved, achieve your goals and grow at university.

These are our priorities:

Feedback - We believe that students should be partners in their learning and have a say in their experience at university.
Community - We believe that every student, no matter their background, should feel welcome and included at their university.
Development - We believe that university expands your horizons. We're here to give students the opportunity to build useful skills and develop themselves as people.
Communications - We believe in the importance of keeping students informed on the things that matter to them in ways that are useful and engaging

If you have any questions you can email our team inbox coss-studentexperience@contacts.bham.ac.uk or make a suggestion through our Suggestion Box.

Student Experience Officers

Student Experience Officers are permanent members of staff who work within each School and across the College for undergraduate and postgraduate students. We create and signpost extracurricular opportunities for students to make the most of university as well as empowering students to improve their academic experience.

You can expect Student Experience Officers to be friendly, helpful and approachable. They are often considered to be a bridge between students and the School.

Staff Members: Please let your local Student Experience Officer know of any initiatives that relate to their remits, they can provide you with data on what works best for certain demographics of students, knowledge of what's happening across the University and even some funding. Please also let them know of any events/activities as they can include them in newsletters.

Students: We are here for you! If you have any ideas for how we can improve your university experience then please let us know, we are always happy to hear from you.

What we do

Our team of Student Experience Officers work to ensure that our priorities are met by managing a number of initiatives.

We also manage projects to expand our knowledge and support for different groups of students, for example we have a new SEO who will be working specifically for non-standard programmes.

Here are just some of the examples of things we manage every day:

Feedback

Student Reps
Surveys such as NSS, PTES, UKES and SELT
Focus groups and consultations
Student involvement in committees and decision making
Managing the feedback loop

Community

Creating a community of staff and students
Welcome Week and Induction activities
Events and trips
Academic Societies
EDI and underrepresented groups

Development

Create and advertise opportunities
Collaborate with Careers, Alumni and departments on academic/industry related events
Work with Personal Tutors and Wellbeing Officers