ROSALIE CHAPMAN for SU VP Welfare

I am Rosalie Chapman (She/Her), a second year Human Sciences student at Hertford. I come from a state-comprehensive school and am first generation. I want to ensure every student has access to an education free from sexual violence, abuse or poor mental health. I plan to incorporate extensive welfare plans across JCRs, liberation campaigns and Oxford student societies, that are adaptive, intersectional and engaging.

Why me?

Experience

• Welfare Officer/Secretary for OxSID
• Vice President of 93% Club
• Class Act Officer
• Outreach Ambassador (Hertford)

Commitment to Community

Peer mentor trained; Volunteer Vaccinator (NHS); St John Ambulance First Aid Trained; Volunteer for asylum seekers 

Pledges

Reform and Protest

• Ensure all colleges do not use NDAs 
• Expand gender neutral toilets (across colleges and uni-wide)
• Promote the election of a welfare officer in every SU member club
• Lobby for more Black, LGBTQ+, female counsellors
• Fight period poverty - make sure all colleges provide free (and anonymous access to) sanitary products 
• Increase funding for neurodiversity assessment and diagnosis 
• Ensure drug awareness safety – free drug testing kits available to students
• Mandatory training for tutors and porters to receive unconscious bias, sexual harassment and anti-discrimination training 

Sexual Violence

• Conduct an ‘Oxford Speaks Out Survey’ to collect data on the prevalence of sexual violence to inform policy
• Disciplinary procedure reform to report harassment, racism or sexual violence (moving to a 'balance of probabilities system' to support survivors)
• Publish league tables for College adoptions of anti-sexual harassment policy
• Empowered activism – participate Oxford in the global 16 days against gender-based violence campaign in November 
• Lobby colleges and city centre club venues to adopt ‘Ask Angela’ for those feelings endangered 
• College level revamp – guarantee Safe Lodge Policy across all colleges 
• Organise a ‘What were you wearing exhibition’ for IHH’s 10 year anniversary to empower survivors of sexual violence 

Education

• Better learning – make lecture recording available across all departments
• Mandatory sexual consent and implicit bias workshops (in JCR and MCRs) 
• Empower individuals – start a ‘Hate Crime Champions’ initiate
• Time Sensitive Intervention posts spread around Oxford 
• More transparency – more signposting of hardship funds, disability allowance and exam access arrangements
• Kickstart ‘drug talks’ across colleges in freshers week - on safe dosages and purity testing kits, to reduce drug harm

Mental Health

• Lobby for reading week - 9 week term
• Reform mental health support – campaign for a counsellor in each college, for immediate professional support 
• Mental health first aid workshops in freshers 
• Combatting social isolation - postgrads can be better integrated into Oxford (encourage postgraduate officer in societies)
• Improved involvement – physical and online morning drop-ins with your VP Welfare