Part-Time Officer Roles

RUSU defines a Black student as anyone who self-defines as Black including, but not limited to, African or Caribbean populations and people of African or Caribbean descent. This can also include students with a Black/mixed ethnic background.

RUSU defines a disabled student as anyone who self-defines as disabled, whether they are physically disabled or have a hidden disability, such as mental health issues.

Environmental and ethical issues are often an underrepresented issue in society. RUSU recognises the importance of having a student to represent and campaign to improve sustainability within the union and university.

RUSU defines an international student as anyone who self-defines as having an international background, whether that means anyone who comes to the UK to study or who have lived in or meaningfully interacted with two or more cultural environments. This includes students from both within and outside the European Union (EU) and those who pay both home and international fees.

At RUSU we use the acronym LGBQ+ to represent students that identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer or questioning or within any other sexual minority or gender identity.

RUSU defines a mature student as a student who started their undergraduate course aged 21 and over or their postgraduate course aged 25 or over.

RUSU defines a Minority Ethnic student as anyone who self-defines as South-Asian, East-Asian or any other minority ethnic group. This can also include, but is not limited to, students of Middle Eastern or Asian descent; and/or descended from the indigenous populations of the Americas and/or the South Pacific. This can also include students with a mixed ethnic background.

RUSU defines a postgraduate research student as a student on a postgraduate research mode of study or who is in the writing up stage of their postgraduate research.

RUSU defines a postgraduate taught student as a student on a postgraduate taught mode of study.

RUSU defines a trans students as someone who identifies as a different gender to the one they were assigned at birth.

RUSU defines a woman as anyone who self-defines as a woman, including (if they wish) those with gender identities which include ‘woman’, and those who experience oppression as a woman.