 This presentation is about the Student Digital Champions of the Digital Education Office in the University of Bristol. If the role began in 2020, we built on existing staff district champion roles and feedback that we've got from student survey such as the Digital Insights Survey. The 12 students that we have across six faculties have been changing the way that we work as a team, really challenging us with some new ideas. And they've also been forging a new path for us. Hi, I'm Naomi and I'm a senior digital education developer in the Digital Education Office. We wanted the roles of the student digital chance to be a really collaborative one where we worked alongside them to enable both of us to get something out of the experience. And I think we've really achieved this. It's definitely been developmental from our side and theirs. This was a brand new role and it was different from any student work that we had done before. So we had to work out how we were going to work with the students and this has changed and evolved as time has gone on. And this whole process often wasn't easy. It's hard when students come to you with ideas or issues that can send them and their peers. And we as a team can't see a way to fix those issues or implement those ideas. But despite the few hurdles that we've had to overcome, the experience has been amazing. The students have been fantastic and it's great to work with people who are so positive and committed to improving their educational experience. On a personal level, I think just the opportunity to be involved in something that's so relevant and current within the university. It's just been really nice to feel that you're helping and that the work you're doing is really useful and really relevant to staff and students. On a professional level, I think it's just been some really great work experience. Particularly this year when lots of people's internships got cancelled and with Covid the job market is seeming quite scary. And I've been really grateful to develop my professional skills through this role. So for example, it's project work. We're working as part of a broader team and then within that broader team we formed our team of the three student digital champions in our faculty. As well as that, I've been given some great opportunities. For example, I hosted the DEO morning meeting, which was just a really great opportunity and something that I hadn't done before. Honestly, I've absolutely loved this role. The feedback from all of these things, specifically the breakout room, tool care and the online mingle session was incredible. First year students from that because we actually facilitated one with the Centre for Innovation were so positive. And they just said that they were feeling so much more kind of positive about this term. And they felt that they had spoken to people that they hadn't met before and that they felt like they were part of the community. And that was amazing that our work kind of could contribute to that. And I know that it's also helped a lot of other departments have come forward and be like, OK, can I do this too? And so that's been great to see such a tangible effect. It's also great because the students feel listened to and they feel like they're being heard and that actually their feedback does have an influence on what gets done. All of this has been in the past three months. So many of the digital champions have worked so hard and so much has changed. So that's been amazing. It's also been great on a professional level in the sense that I've got just in three months three really tangible outputs to show to employers of what I've done. And what I've worked on. And like I always say, it's been such a great opportunity to in such a challenging time and what would have been such a stressful thing to turn that into an opportunity. And get involved in shaping what blended learning looks like at the University of Bristol and what this could look like in the future. And I just think that is such an incredible opportunity that I'm so grateful for. And also it's just been such a great opportunity for me on like a professional level to have this role. Because I've facilitated sessions. I've worked with the DO, which is like a much more senior team. I've worked with, you know, I've got involved in other faculties and all of this stuff like I just wouldn't have done if it hadn't been for this role. I would have very much stayed in my lane and stayed in my course. And so I think, yeah, I think that's amazing to kind of give other students the opportunity to do that and to look into that. And to understand, I guess what goes on in university and how they kind of put courses together, I think. Throughout their time with us, they produced a series of practical solutions like different toolkits and also some case studies so that we can see what's going on around the university. And they also challenged us to set up a student-facing blog, which we did, and it's called Diddy Talk. There's still so much more to do. And I think, especially when we think about what online learning or the online experience is going to look like going forward after this. I think that, you know, that's really important to involve students in what they want that to look like. What that could look like and equally what they don't want it to look like. And I think that's really important, especially at this point, where students can still feel kind of overwhelmed and slightly scared about the future because so much is still uncertain. So how could you work with students like this? Channel the student voice in your work and maybe improve inclusive practice.