Best Advocacy Initiative

NEW CATEGORY FOR 2024!

Advocacy in universities plays a crucial role in promoting social justice, empowering students, addressing campus issues, fostering civic engagement, enhancing critical thinking skills, supporting research and innovation, and building partnerships for positive change.

SEN member organisations provide services to equip their students with services and resources to empower them to feel and do their best, and ensure that the student voice is heard.

An initiative being submitted in this category can be a new initiative or a recurring one that has been held on or off-campus, or online. This award celebrates excellence in Advocacy Initiatives and must have been run for students by a member campus during 2023/24.

Initiatives can include but are not limited to: academic and exam support, protecting student rights, legal assistance, discrimination and harassment, complaints, reviews and appeals processes etc.