UNAD information

The Students’ Union Insight Department

Information gathering

Your Students’ Union Insight Team work on gathering information from all students through conducting 3 all student surveys each academic year, other surveys to smaller groups of students, focus groups, workshops, ethnographies, and online thought forums.

In the future, the Students’ Union want to invest specific effort into getting to know graduate entry Nursing and Medicine students better. We have analysed these results by filtering for postgraduate medicine and nursing students. As there were not a lot of responses from PG Nursing students, the responses have been combined.

What students want help with

• Finance (not much money to spend, issues with student loans, issues with PG funding).

• Academic pressures (being afraid of making mistakes due to real-life implications, a demanding course with tight deadlines, pressure to succeed).

• Developing new friendships after undergraduate degree.

• Feeling lonely.• Not finding the time to apply for work after University

whilst still studying.• Time management (and fitting in activities).

Satisfaction and feelings towards the Students’ Union

Postgraduate Medicine and Nursing students:

• Have an average of 6.19/10 in terms of satisfaction with the SU.• In terms of SU engagement, the majority of these students:

– Physically visit SU space once a term, or never.– Browse the SU website/ social media never, or once a term.– Volunteer, fundraise, or work for the SU never.– Attend club/ society meetings/ sessions never.

• Have a poor understanding of the Students’ Union, however this could be improved upon (55% unaware that the SU isn’t a Unidepartment; 77% unaware that the SU is a charity; 11% unaware that income raised by the SU is reinvested into enhancing student experience; 30% are unaware that you don’t have to pay to register as part of the SU; 17% are unaware that the SU represents students on a local and national level).

The Students Union

PG Medicine and Nursing students have reported:– Wanting to see more SU staff on healthcare sites SU space.

– Providing more financial/ budgeting support (especially for additional/ unexpected costs like equipment for courses).

– Help with travelling between campuses.

– Help to get nurses and midwives more involved, as their courses are very intense.

– Accommodation support.

• Feeling ‘at home’ at UoN: 6.3/10

• A ‘sense of belonging’ with the SU: 3.8/10

Societies and sports

These students:

• IMS: 2% take part, 80% do not, 19% would like to/ would like more information.

• Sports clubs: 17% take part, 72% do not, 10% would like to.

• Societies: 21% take part, 70% do not, 9% would like to.

• Volunteering: 5% take part, 91% do not, 8% would like to.

Personality and preferences

PG Nursing and Medical students:• Ranked the following in order of importance to them:

– High quality teaching– Feeling like you are succeeding on your course– Employability– Having fun at University– Standing up for what you believe in

• Many of these students report liking getting some SU information through an up-to-date website, social media, face-to-face, or through a fortnightly e-newsletter (though they do not want to receive communications which will not be relevant to them).

Personality

The Students’ Union has done some research and identified 8 ‘key personality traits’. Though it is likely that each student displays each of these traits to an extent, it appears that almost everyone falls into one of these personality types at a certain point in time. Students can chance in their personality type very quickly, or over a long period of time.

Personality

Medical students:• Rate highly in personality types

– Pragmatic High Achievers (9.4%)• These students are here because they are focussed on their future career.

They are willing to put extra time in for activities that they see as being useful.

– Social Butterflies (30.3%)• These students like to have fun, and they are willing to get involved in

extra-curricular activities.

– Dedicated Detailers (8.7%)• These students are very dedicated to their course work and often find it

difficult to relax and take a break from work. They need encouraging here, with messages like “give yourself a break”.

– Work Hard, Play Hard (18.8%)• These students balance their time well, and they are always willing to get

involved in new activities (be it social or academic).

Personality

Nursing students:• Rate highly in personality types

– Pragmatic High Achievers (9.4%)• These students are here because they are focussed on their future career.

They are willing to put extra time in for activities that they see as being useful.

– Dedicated Detailers (8.7%)• These students are very dedicated to their course work and often find it

difficult to relax and take a break from work. They need encouraging here, with messages like “give yourself a break”.

– Knowledge Seeking Specialists (9.7%)• These students have some very specific interests (it might be their course,

or extra-curricular activities), and they are passionate.

– Constructive Challengers (20.4%)• These students are not afraid to raise their voice when it is about

something for which they feel passionate. Additionally, they want to leave a legacy at University.

Personal difficulties

• 4.4% of PG Nursing and Medical students report experiencing an mental disability, 6.5% report experiencing a physical disability, and a further 4.4% report experiencing both a physical and a mental disability.– Anxiety, depression, and specific learning disorders

are amongst some of these issues.

• In the past, it has been found that some students studying healthcare subjects are worried about reporting their welfare issues, as a result of fearing it would impact their ‘fitness to practice’.

Map of the Students’ Union

The following slide represents a draft ‘map’ of the Students’ Union. In the future, we aim to fill this out with key contacts for you, so that you can feel more connectedness with your Students’ Union as a key association.

The Students’ Union

Membership Services

Commercial

Insight and MarketingPeople and Finance

Insight Marketing

Sponsorship & Fundraising

Events

Health & Safety

People & Development

Finance

Societies & Sport

Volunteering

Student Living

Representation Development

Employability

Officers

SRS’

‘Welcome’

Events

Associations

HR Training

The Guild MedSoc

UNAD

NMASUPRA

SU Shop

SU Bar

SU Print Shop

Next Steps

If you are interested in finding out more about this information, or if you would like the Students’ Union Insight Team to research something else about NMA students, contact a member of the Insight Team:• Engagement Analyst: sophie.fox@nottingham.ac.uk

• Customer Insight Manager: sarah.melville@nottingham.ac.uk