It\u2019s a new academic year! And that means many things, including newly elected NUSU student representatives. I had the joy of catching up with the new Ethics and Environment student rep and asking all about the role and their hopes for the year ahead. Read on to listen into our conversation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hi Eleanor! Could you tell me a bit about who are and your experience at Newcastle University so far?<\/strong> They\u2019ve given me the chance to meet so many great people. I\u2019ve joined various societies over the years including Environment and Earth, Model UN, Irish Dance and Latin and Ballroom. I\u2019ve also been involved in the committees for some of these. I was Secretary and then President of Environment and Earth, and now I\u2019m Secretary for Model UN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Amazing, so good to hear how societies have shaped your uni experience. So how did you get interested and involved in the NUSU rep role?<\/strong> So now you\u2019re elected, what’s the first thing you want to do? How can others get involved?<\/strong> Brilliant! Well, I\u2019m looking forward to seeing the SESC come together and for all the work it will do for sustainable action on campus.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s a new academic year! And that means many things, including newly elected NUSU student representatives. I had the joy of catching up with the new Ethics and Environment student rep and asking all about the role and their hopes for the year ahead. Read on to listen into our conversation. Hi Eleanor! Could you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12025,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,178,15,56],"class_list":["post-1362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-get-involved","tag-students","tag-sustainable","tag-sustainable-action"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12025"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1371,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions\/1371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Hi, I\u2019m Eleanor and I\u2019m this year\u2019s Ethics and Environment rep at NUSU! I\u2019m a Stage 4 student studying for an Integrated Master\u2019s in Earth Science. I\u2019ve really enjoyed my course because it\u2019s so varied, I can\u2019t believe I\u2019m in my Master\u2019s year now. I\u2019ve had a great few years in Newcastle and societies have been a huge part of my experience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sustainability\/files\/2025\/10\/E-MnN.png\")
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Last year when I was President of the Environment and Earth Society I was asked by (now retired) Senior Lecturer Dr John Appleby if I wanted to get the society involved with \u2018Hope not Heat\u2019 a youth climate event he was organising. I reached out to other student groups like the Plant-Based Unis Campaign (PBU) and the Beach Cleaning Society. We put on events in addition to the organised public \u201cHope not Heat\u201d events. John had mentioned the E&E rep role which I hadn\u2019t heard of before and I became interested! At the end of the academic year, I attended Student Council to support a PBU motion. At that student council meeting. They were also electing the E&E rep and others encouraged me to go up for it. So that\u2019s how I was elected! I’m very excited about the role given my passion for sustainability!<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/sustainability\/files\/2025\/10\/image-1.png\")
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The first thing I\u2019m doing is starting up the Student Environmental and Sustainability Committee (SESC). It will be attended by reps from sustainability linked student groups and Environment and Sustainability (E&S) course reps. It provides a link between students and staff as I also attend the University Sustainability Committee (USC) where I raise environmental concerns from students. I\u2019d really recommend becoming an E&S rep if you want to get involved and attend SESC where you can pass on environmental issues you want to raise from your School. Also, I want to encourage students to reach out to me about ideas\/concerns so I understand student opinions on sustainability and can use this to shape future initiatives!<\/p>\n\n\n\n