سلام اعظم

Appointed as an administrative management professional to the board of directors and report to and assist the chair. I have helped shaping strategy through administrating, governing, advising, voting, and questioning and scrutinising. I have been made familiar with regulation and compliance of the organisation as an organisation overseer through the governing document, ensuring conformity and compliance with the law and adherence to byelaws. Roles involved including taking and circulating Board meeting minutes, recording the votes and resolutions, managing the action logs, setting agenda, and scheduling Board meetings.

Student Section's Activities

- Keeping track of society’s income and expenditure;
- Creating a working budget for the year and for all events;
- Applying for additional funding, and claiming back and spending money.

Skills gained:
- Knowledge of procedures such as those in claiming money back and applying for additional funds.

Research-Based Placement Student.

Psychology-, Nutrition-, and Sports-involved placement year.

Kingston-University-approved Placement job.

It is a work-experience placement year under the supervision of Child Development and Learning
Professor at the School of Psychology. This Professor is also the Director of Centre for Activity and
Eating Research (CAER) that I worked under. In addition, I worked also for another Senior Lecturer
in Psychology in the same university. The projects (translational research projects) that I assisted are
Choice Architecture, and Dynamic Dudes, which took place in Primary Schools in North Wales. In this
placement I have worked in teams with both undergraduate and postgraduate Psychology students.

Worked within the School of Psychology.

This University achieved Gold Award, the highest rating possible, in the national Teaching Excellence
Framework (TEF) since 2017.

First student at Kingston University to do placement with another university; and probably the first
student to do placement with Bangor University coming from another university. This has been
described as 'unprecedented' placement.

Supervised by Professor Pauline Horne and Mihela Erjavec.

(1 year 1 month)
Responsibilities include:
- Representing the voice of modules students to the Course Leader, Head of the Department of Applied
and Human Sciences, and Vice Chancellor through attending Department of Applied and Human
Sciences Staff Student Consultative Committee meetings; Board of Study meetings; and Science,
Engineering, and Computing Faculty Forums.
- Recording and collecting the opinion of the group on the overall course.
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- Improving the experience of the university students. (e.g. improving VLE services, such as issues with
module timetabling; through attending VLE-improving workshops, and through feedback provision).
- Helping with stocking the library with plenty of copies (twenty) of a highly demanded (usually
unavailable) textbook.

Also attended the Annual General Meeting (

to two articles per month to the newsletter. The articles cover overview of a scientific
research article outcomes, and healthy tips.

Skills gained include:
- Time management and analysing and writing information in a short period of time.
- Organisation.
- Work under pressure.

Participated in workshops such as:

- An introduction to HENRY. Transforming Obesity Prevention in the Early Years' - Kingston University

A recognised gifted student since Year Four in primary school (pre-grammar school) (with a ratio of