The aim of our project was to make a positive change in students’ attitude towards the participation in on-campus activities and promote the involvement in the SU societies outside their academic life. To tighten the connection between students and on-campus societies, we introduced the idea of having a forum for societies with up-to-date information on all events. We propagated our idea using a variety of mediums, including a questionnaire survey, a poster and emails to the societies officer at Warwick University.First, we carried out a survey in the library by randomly asking 52 students to fill in a short questionnaire with questions about their current involvement in societies and whether such a forum could raise their interest in society events (Figure 1).
Figure 1. A survey on society participation and experienceAs shown in Figure 2, 21% of the students were not involved in any societies; 80% felt that they could be more aware of the up-to-date events on campus. What has been emphasized was that the majority of students (85%) would like a societies forum with up-to-date information of all society events. Year of study % Year 1 29 Year 2 21 Year 3 42 Year 4 6 Master 2 Involved in any society? % Yes 79 No 21 Could be more aware of what’s going on on-campus? % Yes 81 No 9 I don’t know 10 Having a forum for societies with up-to-date info on all events? % Positive 85 Neutral/Negative 15 Would it increase your involvement with societies? % Positive 71 Neutral/Negative 29 Positive attitude changes in non-society members’ behaviour % Change in attitude 73 Attitude remain unchanged 27 Figure 2. Results of the surveyAfter collecting the responses, we created a poster in order to persuade Warwick students, societies’ committee members, and the societies officer to support setting up of the events forum.
Figure 3. Persuasive poster – We want to be more connected!Subsequently, we wrote an email to George Creasy, the societies officer of Warwick, together with the poster in an attempt to persuade him to consider the forum as an effective platform on which latest information could be found. Finally, we received the reply from George (Figure 5 & 6).
Figure 4. An email to the SU societies officer
Figure 5. A reply from the SU societies officerEmma HuangNkhanise PhiriYannie Lau