Who I Am:
I'm Fahmida, a first-year post-graduate student at Birkbeck studying History of Art and Architecture. I am passionate about making our unique educational experience even better. As a fellow student juggling work, family, and studies, I understand the challenges we face, and I am committed to representing your voice effectively.
Five Aims
- Championing Student Wellbeing and Tolerance: Advocate for initiatives that promote mental and physical well-being, including accessibility for counselling, flexible learning options, and improved support for working students.
- Building Stronger Classes: Foster a vibrant and inclusive campus life through social events, networking opportunities, and interdepartmental collaborations. Ensure regular communication channels are open and transparent, actively collecting student feedback on course content, teaching methods and mid-term survey.
- Enhancing Learning Resources: Improve access to online resources, ensuring materials are in place if recordings have not been made. Investment in modern teaching facilities to optimize the learning experience, optional headphones, and tablets in classes for those with learning difficulties. Explanations of dyslexia and other learning difficulties before the start of modules to ensure all students are mindful of peers and their struggles.
- Water and Coffee: More water fountains available and subsidized coffee from new emerging coffee companies to offer placements at Birkbeck to trial their product for 4-12 weeks, working closely with students in marketing and product to help bring projects to life.
- Subsidized Health for Cycle/Gym/Yoga: Help improve stress levels for students by promoting exercise such as cycle by offering schemes or monthly bike rentals, working with local gyms to offer better discounts or with Birkbeck to have on site facilities to exercise mixed and single sex. Rooftop 25metre swimming pool could be ambiguous but game changing for attracting new students.
What I Bring:
My experience as Student Ambassador whilst studying my undergraduate degree has enabled me to understand the needs of students, alongside my diverse academic background, strong communication skills, and genuine enthusiasm for student representation this equips me effectively advocate for your needs. I teach Film & Television Level 3 and therefore can appreciate students’ needs and teaching structures. I am a natural collaborator, problem-solver, and a dedicated individual who thrives on making a positive impact for students at Birkbeck, especially for those from underrepresented backgrounds like myself as Bengali female to achieve success.