{"id":4492,"date":"2023-08-01T13:26:08","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T13:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/?p=4492"},"modified":"2023-08-01T13:26:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T13:26:34","slug":"meet-charis-francis-our-student-engagement-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/meet-charis-francis-our-student-engagement-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Charis Francis, our Student Engagement Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charis Francis, Student Engagement Officer in the Student Engagement team in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/about\/our-profile\/who-we-are\/education\/cardiff-learning-and-teaching-academy\">Learning and Teaching Academy<\/a> tells us about her role, projects and career history.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Tell us about your career history<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>I attended Cardiff University as a Business Management students. During my placement year, I worked as a Student Engagement Assistant within the Learning and Teaching Academy. I enjoyed it so much that I continued within this role part-time alongside my studies for the remainder of my course. When it ended, I worked as a Student Voice Officer at Cardiff University\u2019s Student Union, until coming back as a Student Engagement Officer.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What does your role involve and how long have you been in the role?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>My role is primarily a survey and data analysis role however I am involved in a range of different student voice activities such as survey promotion, student engagement communications, survey management group, the annual Student Academic Rep review, and helping lead the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cardiff.ac.uk\/jobs\/what-we-can-offer\/teaching-innovation-and-support\/working-with-student-champions\">Student Champions scheme<\/a>. I am heavily involved in the main annual student surveys such as the National Student Survey, Cardiff University Postgraduate Taught Survey, Postgraduate Research Experience Survey, and Module Enhancement. Additionally, I have been assisting in the Education Performance Oversight Group to enhance Student Experience.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What projects\/tasks are you currently working on within your role?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>I am currently working on increasing National Student Survey, CUPTS, and PRES response rates, ready for data analysis in the summer. We have just had our annual <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/2023\/06\/27\/my-experience-of-this-years-student-champion-poster-exhibition\/\">Student Champion Poster Exhibition<\/a>, which took place in person for the first time this year and was a great way of showcasing the success of the scheme.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What do you do in your spare time?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>I\u2019ve started running 3 times a week with a club to get my fitness up. Other than that, I\u2019m a huge fan of going out to restaurants for food, spending time with my dogs, and binge watching Below Deck and Married At First Sight (Australia).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/2023\/05\/04\/student-champion-poster-exhibition-2023\/\">Read more from Charis and her experience at this year&#8217;s Student Champion Poster Exhibition<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charis Francis, Student Engagement Officer in the Student Engagement team in the Learning and Teaching Academy tells us about her role, projects and career history.","protected":false},"author":6921,"featured_media":4493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[383],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-4492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lt-academy-team"],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":4492,"cy":4495},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KqgK-1as","meta_box":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/286\/2023\/08\/Charis.png","pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6921"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4494,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492\/revisions\/4494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4492"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=4492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}