Student digital champions

Between 2021 and 2024, each year, 12 student digital champions were recruited by the DEO and the UoB Students’ Union, from across all faculties in the university. They worked hard to reach out to students, and worked with us to channel the student voice across the University straight to the DEO.

Student digital champions are particularly interested in finding examples of excellent student engagement, and ways to foster feelings of community and motivation when learning online. Throughout their time working with us, they’ll be creating case studies and short media pieces to share what they find, and coming up with suggestions and ideas for how we could do things differently as well as showcasing what is really going well.

The student digital champions will need to ask questions of both staff and students, have access to students’ views, work with course reps, and delve into the teaching and learning going on in Bristol so far. If you encounter them along the way, try to help them as much as possible! You can also seek them out if you want to let them know about something really interesting happening in your school, or if you’re a student and want to get in touch with them.

The Student Digital Champion role has now concluded, but we have hired Student Digital Partners, who will be working with us in partnership on projects with the team.

Past Student Digital Champions (2023-2024)

  • Arts
    • Conor Macdonald
    • Olly Dodd
  • Engineering
    • Gen Kawaguchi
  • Health Sciences
    • Emma Yi Kwan Lau
    • Laura Kennedy
    • Samantha Travers-Spencer
  • Life Sciences
    • Jodie Tang
  • Science
    • Hannah Webb
  • Social Sciences and Law
    • Mahanum Rafiq Panjwani
    • Nia Burkinshaw
    • Upendra Shahi
    • Vaibhav Kumar Singh

Past Student Digital Champions (2022-2023)

  • Arts
    • Bobby Joynes
    • Sophie Shanahan
  • Health Sciences
    • Angus Robertson
  • Life Sciences
    • Amy Preston
    • Helena Thornton
    • Leah Parker
  • Science
    • Polly Davis
  • Social Sciences and Law
    • Alex Dunn
    • Daniel Walsh
    • Georgie Pitts
    • Kexin Li
    • Olivia Muggleton

Past Student Digital Champions (2021-2022)

  • Arts
    • Annie Walsh
    • Hollie Smith
  • Engineering
    • Deepthi Nanduri
    • Gloria Bosi
  • Health Sciences
    • Emma Ford
    • Jessica Mounty
  • Life Sciences
    • Leah Parker
  • Science
    • Estefania (Nia) Deniz Fuentes
    • Hamza Teladia
  • Social Sciences and Law
    • Alex Maskell

Accessibility

  • Engineering
    • Isabella Coombs
  • Life Sciences
    • Elizabeth Hodge
  • Social Sciences and Law
    • Freya Selman

Past Student Digital Champions's thoughts about the role and their own experiences (good and bad) of learning online.