Ideas Forum

Welcome to the Ideas Forum! This is a place where you can submit any idea for change about your university experience or vote and comment on existing ideas.

If you can get at least 25 other students to vote for your idea, the Union officers are then able to consider it. Don't stop at 25 though - the more votes and comments an idea gets, the more power it gives us to try to action it!

Once an Idea has reached at least 25 up-votes, it will be sent to Executive Committee and/or Student Summit which are meetings where Union staff and students discuss, vote on and potentially action your idea. So don't hold back, let us know what you want us to do! (You can even post anonymously if you prefer to)

The Ideas Forum is such a direct and effective way to get your voice heard and you can use it as many times as you like during your studies - we know that your needs and wants change year on year, so use the Ideas Forum to reflect the current issues you are facing and let us know what it is you care about.

Before you post please consider the following

  • Make sure your idea clearly states what you want to change and why – things like how it would be funded, who it would apply to – give as much detail as possible. If you don’t, we may have to delete your idea or it could be rejected by students for being too vague.
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  • 27 score
    27 votes

    Reinstate the therapeutic arts library at Britannia Mill

    Submitted 1 month ago by Ellis Morgan Expires on 02 Apr
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    • Wellbeing
    • Education
    • Opportunities
    • Accessibility
    • University Sites and Campuses
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    Recent closure of the library at Britannia Mill has left students isolated, with no study spaces and and no longer able to access essential resources or printing facilities. Students studying music therapy, art therapy and dramatherapy are typically in lectures 9am-7pm one day a week, alongside full time placement supporting vulnerable populations, thus often unable to access alternative sites. The library was removed with no consultation and was always well utilised- reinstate the library.
Tracey Taylor
8:39pm on 7 Oct 24 Library resources for the nursing students have also been significantly reduced at Chesterfield in the exact same manner.
Rosie Olivier-Heggs
8:56am on 11 Oct 24 It would be great to have a library in the building we attend. I live an hour away, work, and have dependents. There is no time for me to go to the library at Kedleston Road.
Tim Stokes
11:50am on 11 Oct 24 I have been at the Uni for 3 years doing my undergraduate, and I used the library often. I am now doing my masters in which my longest break from 9am - 7pm is 45minutes, which is simply not long enough to go to KR for any substantial study time. This perpetuates a feeling of being "forgotten" by the main campus, we are the smallest building, with the least facilities and the poorest food and drink options that closes at 3, useless when we're there until 7. The fact that students were not consulted on this matter when we're paying so much to be here is a disgrace
Laureanna Holgado
1:11pm on 11 Oct 24 It’s really disappointing and makes no sense to me that the library is no longer there. I am a music therapy student and all my classes are at Brit Mill. I feel like we are left with very little resources.