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?

  1. You tell us about your modules and general student experience
     • Tell Us Now
     • Student Experience Survey (SES)
     • Academic Reps
  2. We analyse the comments and respond
  3. We consider your comments. Decisions are made on which actions to take
  4. Feedback actions are communicated back to you 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

   MEQ

  • 12,295 voices heard in 2019/20
  • 84% of all modules achieved over 80% student satisfaction in 2019/20
  • 516 actions taken as a result of the student voice

  Tell Us Now

  • 732 comments received in 2019/20
  • 732 responses made in 2019/20
  • 677 actions taken as a result of the student voice

  Academic Reps

  • 223 academic representatives
  • 47 Staff and Student Consultative Committees (SSCC) meetings held

  Take Part Now:

  • Tell Us now tile in ApAber
  • Your Voice Matters webpage
  • MEQ URL
  • MEQ tile in ApAber
  • Find my REP on the SU website

More resources

• Meet the team
• Video
• Your Voice Matters Resources for Staff
• Photobooth Images