Safiyya Ahmed

Hi everyone, I'm Safiyya and I'm campaigning to be the Design Engineering Departmental Wellbeing Representative!

I don't have the pleasure of knowing all of you wonderful design engineers, but some of you might know me as a cover UTA always willing to yap (I mean, give helpful advice), a second year sitting in level 2 to 'focus' or the Academic Rep managing the beast that is the year 2 workload. Hopefully, I can be known to all of you as a friend :)

I believe I have the empathy to be a wellbeing rep, and the experience to do it on a departmental level. As Academic Rep for year 2, I spent a lot of time negotiating with staff to manage work expectations, get extensions wherre necessary, and maintain clear communication with students, all while making an effort to check in and connect with students on a personal level as well.

Here are some of my ideas for 2025-26:

1. Get Departmental Reps more involved with each year group by joining the year co-ordinator check-ins and having more frequent, informal discussions with the year groups to understand their experiences better
2. Encourage more inter-year connection, for example by creating a system similar to personal tutorials where students of different year groups can meet to ask for help and advice

Thanks for reading my manifesto! Feel free to reach out by email or Whatsapp if you have any questions.