{"id":13668,"date":"2021-06-25T09:36:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T09:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/?p=13668"},"modified":"2021-08-02T13:02:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T13:02:15","slug":"cardiff-student-heroes-adelina-mihaela-halchin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/cardiff-student-heroes-adelina-mihaela-halchin\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff Student Heroes: Adelina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Psychology PhD student Adelina recently won an award for her incredible work as a Residence Life Assistant (RLA) where she passionately sought to deliver a quality experience to fellow Cardiff University students in halls of residences and helped to establish the new role of a Senior RLA.<\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Having worked as an RLA since 2018, Adelina was promoted to a Senior Residence Life Assistant this academic year, continuing to help students by finding new and innovative ways to \u201cimprove the programme further\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe senior role has been very different from the assistant role because it’s more focused on the admin side of things, and supporting the onsite team,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a different set of skills compared to what I’ve been doing so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adelina said being one of six winners of the 2021 CUBO National RA Award was \u201cvery, very rewarding\u201d, saying that it took a while for the news to sink in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was really lovely to see that the work I’ve done was recognized at this level,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was very surprising and bizarre because I had no idea I was even nominated for it,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Residence Life<\/a> team is a dedicated department at Cardiff University, committed to enhancing the student experience and creating a welcoming community for students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based in the various halls of residences scattered around the city, RLAs are on hand to support students in their first year at Cardiff, ensuring a smooth and welcoming transition while fostering a sense of belonging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team puts on various events throughout the year, as well as social and cultural activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adelina has loved being an RLA over the last few years and said that it has allowed her to gain crucial skills for future employment, as well as being a huge boost to her confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt’s been really good in the sense that we had a lot of support from the permanent staff team so it always felt like someone was kind of looking out for us, and supporting us in what we’re doing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor me, it gave me a lot more confidence to go over to students, put my ideas into practice and to get creative.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ready to Recruit<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

With the team currently looking to recruit new RLAs for the next academic year, Adelina said she cannot recommend the scheme enough, adding that it is a great opportunity to get an entirely different student experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere’s a lot to learn and there’s a great experience to gain. There’s also the chance of working with an amazing team so it\u2019s all really valuable experience,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Talking about her motivations for joining the team, she explained that she felt excited to have the opportunity to give back to the student community and \u201cget creative\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is hoping to carry on working as an RLA for the next two years as she finishes her PhD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adelina encourages anyone who is looking for an exciting new opportunity to contact the Residence Life team to get more information on applying for the role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team are looking for approachable individuals who have a willingness to learn and help other students to become their much-valued assistants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Residence Life team can be contacted via email at residencelife@cardiff.ac.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Psychology PhD student Adelina recently won an award for her incredible work as a Residence Life Assistant (RLA) where she passionately sought to deliver a quality experience to fellow Cardiff […]","protected":false},"author":1499,"featured_media":13679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1364],"tags":[232,1437,309,913,1436,1435,1434,151],"class_list":["post-13668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-heroes","tag-halls","tag-halls-of-residence","tag-residence","tag-residences","tag-resident-life","tag-resident-life-assistant","tag-rla","tag-student-life"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13668"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13885,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13668\/revisions\/13885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}