Henry Morris (they/them) For undergraduate officer

Hi, I am a third-year Ancient and Modern Historian at Somerville. I have worked closely with the SU as the Class Act Campaign Social Secretary. In this role, I have ended up taking on many of the duties of a co-chair. I have been very involved with the Labour Club, being the Social Secretary, Membership officer, and twice the LGBTQ+ officer. I am a Zero Gravity mentor and have met with the new chancellor in a roundtable, raising issues of classism and academic disparities.  I am passionate about combating the classism prevalent at our university, making Oxford as pleasant an environment for LGBTQ+ people as possible, and working towards equity between faculties. 

I pledge to:

Reduce college disparities by: 

• Lifting the ban on working during term-time
• Overhauling and standardizing confusing and harmful suspension policies
• Reviewing mental health support
• Establishing and improving centralized hardship funds and bursaries

Make the SU work for students through: 

• Supporting societies in room booking by making SU rooms bookable and creating more spaces for societies outside of specific colleges
• Establishing a rent support fund 
• Establishing a society support fund
• Supporting the transition to the ‘congress of common rooms' by working with JCR’s and MCR’s
• Fight for the continued existence of the SU campaigns, or greatly increased support for the new community officers
• Extending and improving transition support for international students

Expose academic inequalities by: 

• Establishing university wide travel grants 
• Investigating and reporting on finantial and support discrepancies between colleges
• Investigating the differences in support for degrees
• Working with and listening to JCR academic officers
• Working to increase and equalize support for those applying to postgraduate courses