Toby Page - Vice President Inclusion

I have loved my time at Southampton, spending years in roles like this one. In a world that is becoming much more scary for a lot of people, it has never been more critical for you to choose the right person for this role. You need your sabbs to fight exclusion and discrimination from a place of love. Because everyone should love their time at Southampton as much as I have.

What will I do?

• Strengthen support for survivors of abuse/assault — as well as improving systems to support the survivor, I will introduce systems to protect and safeguard people from the offender, and encourage proactivity from staff and students to aid survivors in reporting during difficult times

• Address the unacceptable response times of the mental health support systems — both the SUSU-led and the university-led services. I will introduce a one staff for one student policy to reduce logistic complexity and ease anxiety by providing consistency.

• End the iSolutions deadnaming and misgendering problem — collaborate to finally solve this harmful database management failure.

• Break barriers to education support — help undiagnosed students applying for special considerations, AERs and extensions and promote awareness of systems in place (like SSRs)

• Create permanent feedback forms to ask how I can better represent you — I will keep my campaign Instagram public so you can hold me accountable to my promises

• Introduce permanent anonymous module and society accessibility feedback forms — one of the biggest obstacles to inclusivity is that people are afraid to speak up when activities exclude them

• Rethink mandatory society welfare training — societies are fundamentally not equipped to deal with the welfare problems that arise within them. Among other things, I want to strengthen training on how to handle issues of sexual misconduct

• Create student support pages for LGBTQ+, neurodiversity, disability, race

• Continue creating and improving support for students struggling with the Cost of Living Crisis

• Hold the University accountable for ensuring accessible spaces — e.g., continuing work on sensory spaces

• Lobby University for sufficient funding on gender expression, food provision, and mental health

• Enforce regulations to stop deadnaming and misgendering in academic environments

• Introduce sustainable diet campaigns at the same time as improving sustainable food options (like vegan options) to simultaneously address environmental attitudes and behaviour

• Ensure diverse food options for all diets (dietary restrictions and dietary choices)

• Encourage societies to participate more in awareness weeks/months

• Support students during transitions into, through and out of university — especially in cases of difficult home life and adjustment to living away from home – improve resources for financial support of students in university and transitioning out of university

• Fight trans exclusion from facilities and lobby for gender neutral facilities throughout the university

• Promote inclusive sports, exercise and fitness activities

• Campaign to reduce stigma around mental health

• Ensure students on international campuses can access the same services and opportunities

• Listen to your feedback to improve how I represent you