About Your Voice Matters

FAQs

• What is Your Voice Matters?

  'Your Voice Matters' highlights the impact your feedback has across the University resulting in real, student-led change.

  Your Voice Matters is about students and staff working together to make Aberystwyth University exceptional. Your feedback helps us to continue enhancing the student experience. You can tell us what we’re doing well, where we can improve and what’s important to you.

• What does Your Voice Matters do?

  The Your Voice Matters team oversee a number of Student Feedback methods. We run the Tell Us Now Service, as well as manage the Student Experience Survey (SES) each semester.

• What are the YVM posters I see around campus and on social media?

  You might have noticed our posters on campus and/or on social media, highlighting changes made based on your suggestions and ideas. Of course these posters don’t contain every action as a result of the student voice. We pick a select few to publish via the posters and social media campaign. For a fuller list of the YVM actions, click here.

• How do I contact Your Voice Matters?

  You can use the Tell Us Now contact form or email us at tnzstaff@aber.a.c.uk, as well as contacting your Student Academic Reps or Officers.

• What happens to my feedback?

  

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  What Happens to my Feedback?

  Step 1: You speak, we listen

  You tell us about your modules and student experience through:

  1. • Tell Us Now
     • Student Experience Survey (SES)
     • Academic Reps

   

  Step 2: We dive in 

  We analyse your comments and respond.

   

  Step 3: Let's make it happen

  We carefully consider your feedback. Decisions are made on which actions to take and we put them in place. 

   

  Step 4: We keep you in the loop

  We make sure to tell you about any actions that result from your feedback, via:

  • • Email
    • Blackboard
    • Face-to-face meetings

• Does my feedback really make a difference?

  Yes! We welcome student feedback, without it we wouldn’t know what matters are important to you. 

  

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  Your Voice Leads to Change

   Student Experience Survey (SES)

  • 14,082 questionnaires completed
  • 896 actions taken inspired by you
  • 80% of all modules achieved 87% student satisfaction 

  Tell Us Now

  • 439 comments received
  • 439 comments responded to
  • 301 actions taken from your feedback

  Academic Reps

  • 259 Academic Representatives
  • 50 Staff Student Consultative Committee meetings held

   

More resources

• Meet the team
• Your Voice Matters Resources for Staff