 Our next presentation, the speaker is Daniel Bonatti, who is a Western Sydney University student, also a member of a student council, the student representative council. And his presentation is about people being at the heart of the process. So let's welcome him. Hello. So I'll just share my screen. Okay, so exploring quite voices for impact. So institutions need to prioritize, cultivate and increase their space by hearing and empowering student voices from diverse groups. So about myself, I'm the engineering technologist of the year nominee. That'll be November. And I've gone back. I'm not very good at pressing these funds. So my background is I'm the current president of the student representing council at Western Sydney University. I've gone to four different universities, Sydney University, Deakin University, Torrance University, and now I'm at Western Sydney University, I recently graduated Bachelor of Construction Management Honours and got the university medal. And I have completed my master's. So I'll do a quick acknowledgement of country. So we acknowledge first people's nations as the traditional students of the country we are meeting on today. We recognize the continuing connection to the sky, land and waters and thank them for protecting this coastline and its ecosystem since timing memorial. We pay our respects to elders past and present and extend our respect of all first nations people present today. So I got in as the SRC president in only July 2023 and I'm leaving in December 2023. So this case study is a work in progress. And so after slides I'm happy to show what we've done so far. So we've got an SBA agreement, I mean a student's partner's agreement in progress. I'm actually going to make the VC next week. We've had held forums and received feedback. We've codified and got terms of reference that we're meeting. We've had motions passed because we're one of the only SRCs that are still a committee under the vice chancellor and we want to become like an association organ. So it's basically going to talk about my abstract and get the point across and then show you my case studies. So my experience as a president student represent today's dean of council at Western Sydney University is governance and decision making. So I'm a leader who is an advocate for students needs and so students come first and students need to be heard and freedom of speech and freedom of debate is essential to the idea of a university. And these freedoms should be strengthened. A model framework to have is students as partners and students at the table with academia and staff needs steps to develop. And so collaboration in governance is enhanced with level playing field of stakeholder decision making. Fourth and critical thinking needs to be captured during any think tank. This feedback evaluated and group decision making within governance and the outcome betterment of quality and learning and teaching. So my experience at all university levels of governance form this case study. So this included I've been on the academic senate, the senate education committee, the academic STEM cluster board, the academic committee such as the academic planning and core approvals committee, the multi-disciplinary teaching and learning and the STEM and the school academic committee and I have liaison with multiple disciplinary academic and high level staff advocating for students which student representative council a voice of students. And so the approach we're trying to use is human senate design. So a method against state code of view is human senate design and this is an approach to make people the heart of the process. So human senate design process is cyclic and starts at the left with discover and continues to with empathy, empathy size, eye date, screen, prototype, communicate and it is reiterated after feedback from stakeholders. So to have people heard from feedback via inquiry we open theme forums, written feedback surveys, interviews and ongoing improvement in guides and procedures and people needs and desires are captured and leads to better aligned services. The goal of employing human senate design is to develop solutions that meet the needs of western city university and students as partners need to prioritize cultivating inclusive space by hearing and empowering student voices from diverse groups. Empowerment starts with recognition and inclusion within any guides or procedures and student representative council at western cities make an impact and strives and distortion by motions and actions. So I'll just stop sharing and I'll briefly describe what my four case studies have been happening. So we've got a student partnership agreement written up and this has taken some time because one of my to get nominated as the president it was one of my election promises and we're going to see the vice chancellor on I think Wednesday and we're going to table this to him and we're trying to get a four more agreement going on how to discuss you know our opinions with him and the other the other one I was talking about as a president of the SRC I hold president's forums and during president's forums I collect various feedback from anyone that comes in it's basically a drop-in center and I get all sorts of you know complaints and feedback and what people would like done better and then the other one that the whole of the SRC is being involved in adding to the terms of reference so we didn't have the student equity collectives terms of reference written but now we've collated everything and we've got you know the disability collective, the environmental collective, definite cultural collective, the Indigenous student council, the international student association, queer collective, residential student collective, women's collective or codified you know as terms of reference and further on we recently had a special meeting where we had a forum of 100 students wishing that the SRC becomes a union or an association and also a further motion that was to reallocate SAF funding to such an organization thank you I'm happy to answer any questions thank you very much Daniel it sounds like as president you've been doing an awful lot of work and I'm sure the students appreciate that at this time I'd like to open floor to any questions we have one in the room just one moment hello so well done it's a lot of work you've put in there it seems like you've put a lot of time in my quick question would be you've done all this work right what support has been offered to you from the university to allow you to I guess engage and facilitate these initiatives and opportunities for the students okay yeah so so the actual for example the forums the president's forums each SRC student a different role they they do different forums so mine was to do with services and facilities while the other students were doing things like education and that kind of thing so basically we had to set times up and we had some support like we they'd set up rooms for us that set up that help us you know buy some food for people that might pop in so there there is that support and the the fact that they do want us to do that kind of thing because it's part of our honorariums and to do with the terms of reference these were a work in progress previous to me becoming the the president and it was really ashamed that they were lacking in participation procedures manual and it's it's something that's you know maybe should have happened before but with with the help of the other SRC members you know we try to add in you know adjust any problems and to do with the motions the special meeting there is like some hidden it's it's not formal support though as we're only one of two universities in Australia that doesn't have a union or an association we're actually committee under the vice chancellor you know there wasn't any one trying to stop us getting these motions done and and the safari allocation and yeah I suppose to hope that answers the question hi Daniel if you don't mind I'm sure there are some some organizations whether it be the faculties or student body groups or indeed student councils of universities themselves who are looking at either upgrading things like their terms of reference or the constitution or indeed if they don't have representation setting up a some form of student advisory council or or association what advice would you have for them as they were starting yeah so um I went to a student voice astraya meeting and there was someone talking to us sabreen sabreen from UTS she was ex-president and a year ago they actually did a student a student partnership agreement with UTS and the vice chancellor there and I found that really intriguing that meeting and I think this is a step forward for any association or union there is in universities because it can add steps that or or you know quality it adds quality assurance it adds levels of making the unit better for example they've got like a parallel to the src an advisory group which we have which at western city we actually have got we call it the citizen jury and the citizen jury it's just like a pop-up advisory group for the vice chancellor but I think to have more voice it'd be good if it was um uh putting um place um for perpetuity so um that would have it all the time parallel with the student representative council so my advice would be you know the more voices the uh the more student voices the better yeah okay great thank you