Student digital champions

Each year, 12 student digital champions are recruited by the DEO and the UoB Students’ Union, from across all faculties in the university. They work hard to reach out to students, and work with us to channel the student voice across the University straight to the DEO. They’re 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.

They can be contacted via digital-education@bristol.ac.uk, or students can ask their course reps to feed back to the digital champions.

Meet the student digital champions

Get to know your faculty’s digital champions:

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

Social Sciences and Law

  • Alex Maskell

Science

  • Estefania (Nia) Deniz Fuentes
  • Hamza Teladia

Life Sciences

  • Leah Parker

Accessibility

Engineering

  • Isabella Coombs

Social Sciences and Law

  • Freya Selman

Life Sciences

  • Elizabeth Hodge

Past Student Digital Champions (2020-2021)

Arts

  • Kesta Kemp - Undergraduate
  • Tadeas Dvorak - Undergraduate

Engineering

  • Ka Tin (Mitch) Lui - Undergraduate
  • Kosidichinma Emmanuel-Anyim - Undergraduate

Health Sciences

  • Sulayman Tabassam - Undergraduate

Social Sciences and Law

  • Beatrice Peck - Undergraduate
  • Lily Sargent - Undergraduate

Life Sciences

  • Sahasmeancheytheary Tov - Undergraduate

Science

  • Hamza Teladia - Postgraduate
  • Lewis Williams - Undergraduate
  • Sophia Leaper - Undergraduate

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