Who we are

Our student panel

Our student panel advises the board on strategy and activity.

Panel members

Martha Longdon (Chair)

Martha is currently a masters' student at Nottingham Trent University and was the student union president there in 2017-18. She is currently a member of the WhatUni Student Advisory Board.

She joined the OfS board in 2018 as the student experience member and became chair of the student panel in 2019.

Chad Allen

Chad is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge and former president of the Cambridge University Graduate Union.

He joined the OfS student panel in 2018.

Georgia Bell

Georgia is a production design student and president of the students’ union at the Northern School of Art.

She joined the OfS student panel in 2019.

Rose Bennett

Rose is a masters' student and is now Student Experience Officer (Postgraduate) at the University of Birmingham.

She joined the OfS student panel in 2019.

Sinead Brown

Sinead is a GCSE student from London.

She joined the OfS student panel in 2018.

Ruth Carlson

Ruth is a civil engineering student at the University of Surrey and former interim member of the OfS board.

She joined the OfS student panel in 2018.

Shraddha Chaudhary

Shraddha is a recent graduate and former president, director and chair of the trustee board at the University of Exeter Students' Guild.

She joined the OfS student panel in 2018.

Zahra Choudhry

Zahra is currently completing a postgraduate diploma in mental health.

She joined the OfS student panel in 2018.

Samuel Dedman

Samuel is a history graduate and Vice-President (Education) at the University of Southampton students’ union.

He joined the OfS student panel in 2019.

Shakira Martin

Shakira is the former president of the National Union of Students.

She joined the OfS student panel in 2018.

Sabrina Mundtazir

Sabrina is a student nurse at the University of Huddersfield and a care leaver.

She joined the OfS student panel in 2019.

Lizzie Pace

Lizzie is a part-time mature student at Birkbeck, University of London, and a former soldier in the British Army.

She joined the OfS student panel in 2018.

Alice Richardson

Alice is a sixth-form student from the north west of England.

She joined the OfS student panel in 2018.

Joshua Sanderson-Kirk

Joshua is president of the student association at the University of Law and chair of the GuildHE student unions’ network.

He joined the OfS student panel in 2019.

Terms of reference

View terms of reference for the OfS student panel

Dates of 2019-20 student panel meetings

Thursday 4 April 2019 (training day)
Thursday 2 May 2019
Thursday 4 July 2019
Thursday 24 October 2019
Thursday 23 January 2020.

Minutes of student panel meetings

2019

Minutes from July 2019

Minutes from May 2019

2018

Minutes from December 2018

Minutes from September 2018

Minutes from July 2018

Minutes from April 2018

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