1. The Students’ Union Insight Department
NMA information
The Students’ Union Insight Department

2. Information gathering
Your Students’ Union Insight Team work on gathering information from all students through conducting 3 all student surveys each academic year, other surveys to smaller groups of students, focus groups, workshops, ethnographies, and online thought forums. In the future, the Students’ Union want to invest specific effort into getting to know Nursing and Midwifery students better. Because a relatively small sample of NMA students have responded to our surveys, some of the following information will either be presented based on students based on QMC, or it will be extended response answers (rather than statistics).

3. What students want help with
Finance (budgeting, getting involved in activities without spending money).
Wellbeing (mental health issues, and stress).
Accommodation issues (housemates, landlords, properties, stressed about searching).
Feeling lonely.
Subject-specific employability help.
Time management (and fitting in activities).

4. Satisfaction and feelings towards the Students’ Union
Students from QMC:
Have an average of 6.94/10 in terms of satisfaction with the SU.
In terms of SU engagement, the majority of these students:
Physically visit SU space once or twice a month/ term.
Browse the SU website/ social media once or twice a month, or never.
Volunteer, fundraise, or work for the SU never
Attend club/ society meetings/ sessions never, but about a quarter visit once or twice a week.
Have a lower than average understanding of the Students’ Union, however this could be improved upon (56% unaware that the SU isn’t a Uni department; 60% unaware that the SU is a charity; 11% unaware that income raised by the SU is reinvested into enhancing student experience; 21% are unaware that you don’t have to pay to register as part of the SU; 11% are unaware that the SU represents students on a local and national level).

5. The Students Union Nursing and Midwifery students have reported:
Wanting to see more SU staff on healthcare sites SU space.
Providing more financial/ budgeting support.
To hear more about what the SU is trying to achieve.
Help to get nurses and midwives more involved, as their courses are very intense.
More information on social media about where to go to get help.
Do more to integrate healthcare site students.
To go out and speak to Nursing and Midwifery students.
Feeling ‘at home’ at UoN: 6.7/10
A ‘sense of belonging’ with the SU: 4.6/10

6. Societies and sports Students at QMC:
IMS: 7% take part, 75% do not, 21% would like to/ would like more information.
Sports clubs: 27% take part, 55% do not, 18% would like to.
Societies: 48% take part, 42% do not, 11% would like to.
Volunteering: 17% take part, 75% do not, 11% would like to.

7. Personality and preferences
Students from QMC:
Ranked the following in order of importance to them:
High quality teaching
Feeling like you are succeeding on your course
Employability
Having fun at University
Standing up for what you believe in
Many of these students report liking getting some SU information ed to them, or communicated face-to-face (through course reps etc.)

8. Personality
The Students’ Union has done some research and identified 8 ‘key personality traits’. Though it is likely that each student displays each of these traits to an extent, it appears that almost everyone falls into one of these personality types at a certain point in time. Students can chance in their personality type very quickly, or over a long period of time.

9. Personality Pragmatic High Achievers (9.4%) Social Butterflies (30.3%)
Students from Nottingham City Hospital:
Rate highly in personality types
Pragmatic High Achievers (9.4%)
These students are here because they are focussed on their future career. They are willing to put extra time in for activities that they see as being useful.
Social Butterflies (30.3%)
These students like to have fun, and they are willing to get involved in extra-curricular activities.
Dedicated Detailers (8.7%)
These students are very dedicated to their course work and often find it difficult to relax and take a break from work. They need encouraging here, with messages like “give yourself a break”.
Work Hard, Play Hard (18.8%)
These students balance their time well, and they are always willing to get involved in new activities (be it social or academic).

10. Personal difficulties
12% of Nursing and Midwifery students from QMC report struggling with a mental disability.
Anxiety, depression, and specific learning disorders are amongst some of these issues.
In the past, it has been found that some students studying healthcare subjects are worried about reporting their welfare issues, as a result of fearing it would impact their ‘fitness to practice’.

11. Midwifery
Specific attention ought to be paid to midwifery students within this cohort, as many report feeling separate from both their Students’ Union, and NMA. We do not currently have a very large database from which to draw conclusions about this group, but there is potential for us to set up a specific online channel to communicate with Midwifery students, so that we can get to know about their issues, and feed back relevant findings to NMA. Please contact us if this is something that you would be interested in us perusing.

12. Map of the Students’ Union
The following slide represents a draft ‘map’ of the Students’ Union. In the future, we aim to fill this out with key contacts for you, so that you can feel more connectedness with your Students’ Union as a key association.

13. The Students’ Union Commercial People and Finance
UNAD
‘Welcome’
Officers
Associations
Events
SRS’
The Guild
MedSoc
SUPRA
NMA
SU Print Shop
Sponsorship & Fundraising
SU Bar HR
Training
Events
SU Shop
Insight
People & Development
Marketing
Commercial
The Students’ Union
People and Finance
Insight and Marketing
Finance
Membership Services
Societies & Sport
Student Living
Employability
Volunteering
Representation Development
Health & Safety

14. Next Steps
If you are interested in finding out more about this information, or if you would like the Students’ Union Insight Team to research something else about NMA students, contact a member of the Insight Team:
Engagement Analyst:
Customer Insight Manager: