A third-year English Literature student, Jordan Lloyd is a former Langwith Welfare Representative and Vision Scene Editor and current member of the Norman Rea Gallery committee. He describes welfare as being fundamental to his whole university experience and says getting involved has made him realise all the good it can do to all students at the university.
His main aim is to put across a new idea to all students of what welfare is and what it can achieve. He stresses how welfare should be improving the student experience of everyone at the University and wants to give a clear and concise definition of how it can benefit every individual student. He hopes to develop college approaches to Welfare through new strategies, events and wants to plan for each college as appropriate. Jordan seeks collaboration between YUSU and each college to ensure that the two-way relationship is maintained and that welfare is working to the same level in each college. If elected, Jordan wants a more collaborative effort,which increases partnership between societies and welfare related institutions.
He aims to work with Welfare institutions like the ‘Open Door’ team, seeing how these can be put across on a college level to make them more accessible. He wants greater transparency, making the role of JCRCs and the Liberation Welfare Committee, which is attended by all people involved in welfare provision, clearer to those outside of the committees in order to prevent a backlog of issues and bureaucracy. This greater transparency is one of his major goals as he believes the first step towards improving welfare is to inform the student body of what it actually is.
An interesting fact that Lloyd told Vision is that when he was six or seven, he was cast as Santa in the school play but had to have an operation before the play started, meaning the role had to be rewritten so that Santa was in a wheelchair that year.