Membership Services Conference 2025 Session Proposals

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Thank you for putting a session forward to the Conference. We will take your responses and use them to develop the conference agenda. Your session might be accepted as is, we might get in touch with some suggestions to tweaks in content or delivery, we might try to use it with you to develop a completely new session, or, as there are so many good ideas - we can't take them all. Either way, we want to thank you for submitting an ideas in the first place.

PLEASE READ THIS INFORMATION CAREFULLY

Please tell us about the session you are proposing. We are always interested in collaboration, new presenters, experienced presenters. We want to share practice, ideas and problems.

We want sessions and discussions that are engaging and this year we aim to start as many of those conversations before the event via NUS, Counterculture and Wonkhe by platforming your work on the podcast and in articles. Contact us to get onto one of these platforms!

If you have an idea that's not fully formed, or you need someone to bounce your thoughts off, get in touch with Alan Roberts, who is managing the programme. ( alan@counterculturellp.com ) We will also deliver one or two drop-in sessions whilst submissions are open. Either way, please email Alan and he will be happy to talk to you.

SUBMISSION INFO

#Please make your titles clearly reflect the content of the session. We love amusing titles, but nothing beats clarity for a delegate - so if you can achieve both a clear title with alongside a good pun - well done!

#Please carefully consider the type of session this is - is it more of a presentation, is it a debate, is it an actual ACTUAL workshop (where people are trying to produce a product or information there and then)?

#Please ensure that your session description accurately describes what delegates could expect to take part in.

Session presenters get a 10% discount on their delegate fee, but we only base this on one person from a union presenting in a session (i.e. if you put all of your delegation in the presenter list, you will only get one discount for one of them)

The deadline for proposals is 1pm, Monday 12th May.

Email *

Name of Presenter(s) *

Please add the email addresses of any additional presenters separated with a semi-colon (;)

please note: We will only discount one presenter per union in a session if they present.

Job Title/roles *

Organisation(s) *

Session title *

Is this the first time you have presented at a conference?

Yes

Clear selection

What kind of session or proposal is this? *

Poster exhibition (work that we have started but not yet finished)

Paper presentation (work which we have completed and evaluated in some way)

Problem solving workshop (a session where the session itself is trying to achieve something)

Update (policy, campaign, practice or regulation factual update)

Skills session (a session which seeks to train participants in some way)

Networking session (a session which aims to bring groups by practice, identity or interest together)

Fun (something that you think delegates might enjoy to do if we can make room in the programme)

Other:

Is this session suitable to beginners/those new to students' unions, or is it targeted at more experienced staff?

Targeted at beginners

Targeted at experienced staff

Suitable for both beginner and experienced colleagues

Clear selection

Is this session restricted to any particular nation (e.g. Scottish accommodation law) or open?

Is this session of interest to particularly small unions, with smaller budgets and more general staff roles?

Is there any pre-reading that could support the session, links that would be useful to share with delegates, or information that they should consider in advance?

Which field of work does this session relate to? (e.g. advice casework, elections, volunteer reward - who is the session targeted at?) *

Please describe your session - what it deals with and what its objectives are - for the session guide. (Please limit this response to a maximum of 200 words) *

All presenters will have the use of a video projector. Do you need anything else? E.g. significant audio content to support showing a video. Does you session suit being in a lecture format, a breakout discussion space...what does it look like?

When are you available to present? *

DAY 1 AM

DAY 1 PM

DAY 2 AM

DAY 2 PM

Required

Yes, I'd love to write a blog or take part in a podcast for Counterculture, Wonkhe or NUS that shares the lessons of our session with the wider student movement and I'd be happy for them to contact me about this.

Yes

Clear selection

A copy of your responses will be emailed to the address you provided.

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