Hola, Hello, Bonjour, Salut, Guten Tag, etc.

Hi. I'm Kelly Davies and incase you've been hiding under a rock (or avoiding the several election emails), I am your new Postgraduate Rep at the De Montfort Student's Union.

This means I will be in charge of looking after the best interests of all Masters, PHD and Research students at De Montfort University (hereby refered to as DMU). Needless to say, I have to represent alot of students.

Alot of people will be wondering just what I have planned for this year. A lot of things is the simple answer. I have promised alot of things to the Postgrad community in my manifesto so my biggest problem is making sure I fufil these promises. For record, I said the following in my manifesto:

• I want to organise a day and night time event during this year's FreshFest exclusive for Postgraduate students. This will allow new students to meet fellow postgrads and older students to meet postgrads from other courses/faculities. 
• I also want to get more postgraduate students involved in the DSU and it's extra-curricular activities. This is something that will be my main all year project as currently, we don't tend to have that many postgrads involved in activities within the SU. 
• I also plan to have regular drop ins. So that any student can come and have a chat, a cup of tea and let me know about their current issues.

 I also want to do alot more with housing as well as alot of PHD students are currently struggling with this issue. I'm hoping to work with SULETs to look to establish the possibility of properties that are suitable for PHD Students.

I shall be using this blog to tell you all about my wonderful adventures and what I'm doing to make life amazing. So here is to a fun year.

Kelly