Life Sciences and Environment School RHUL

🎉 Celebrate staff and students! 🎊

This is the perfect opportunity to say ‘thank you’ - recognise the hard work, appreciate the support and celebrate the success of your staff and students by nominating them in this “celebrating staff and students” initiative! 😸

From ensuring you feel comfortable and confident to engaging with you throughout the term, we are surrounded by staff and students who work to make our term as enjoyable as possible 🫂

You can nominate today, and throughout the rest of term! Scan the QR code or follow the link in our bio (linktree > ‘celebrate staff and student’)

- Dominika 👩🏻‍🔬

🎉 Celebrate staff and students! 🎊

This is the perfect opportunity to say ‘thank you’ - recognise the hard work, appreciate the support and celebrate the success of your staff and students by nominating them in this “celebrating staff and students” initiative! 😸

From ensuring you feel comfortable and confident to engaging with you throughout the term, we are surrounded by staff and students who work to make our term as enjoyable as possible 🫂

You can nominate today, and throughout the rest of term! Scan the QR code or follow the link in our bio (linktree > ‘celebrate staff and student’).

- Dominika 👩🏻‍🔬

💛 Wellbeing day is THIS WEDNESDAY! 🧘

Join us at the Wolfson Building (1–6 PM) for an afternoon dedicated to rest, creativity, and connection.

From crochet and journaling to cat hour, games, and meditation, there’s something for everyone 🫂

Plus, between 2–4 PM, advisors from the Wellbeing Department will be in the foyer for relaxed chats, a great chance to connect, ask questions, or just say hi. 🌿

Pop in for an hour or stay for the whole afternoon, your wellbeing matters, and we can’t wait to see you there!


➡️ Swipe left to see the full timetable and floor plan

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Post made by Daisy and Danijela 😻

- Dominika 👩🏻‍🔬

✨ COUNTDOWN TO WELLBEING DAY — 14 DAYS TO GO! ✨

We’re getting ready for an afternoon all about pausing, recharging, and reconnecting 💛

On Wednesday 12th November (1–6 pm), the Wolfson Building will turn into a hub of calm and creativity, with activities designed to help you slow down, breathe, and feel good. 🌿

This special event is just for LSE students (Biological Sciences, Earth Sciences, Geography, Health Studies & Psychology) and is a chance to take time out, meet others, and celebrate community and wellbeing. 🌈

Join us for a relaxed, uplifting afternoon 👀✨

As we head further into the term, we are all looking for a chance to pause, recharge and connect with ourselves and one another 🧘

We’re excited to announce that Wellbeing Day will take place on Wednesday the 12th of November, with activities between 1-6pm across the Wolfson building and surrounding campus spaces 🤗

This will be a relaxed, uplifting afternoon created exclusively for ALL LSE students (Biological Sciences, Earth Sciences, Geography, Health Studies and Psychology) 💁💁‍♀️💁‍♂️

We’re currently building the day’s line-up and would love for departments and societies to get involved, whether by hosting an activity, sharing ideas, or showcasing what you do best. It’s a great opportunity to engage with students and be part of something that celebrates community and wellbeing 🌈

If you’d like to get involved, pop us a DM or email [email protected] 📨

- Dominika 👩🏻‍🔬

Today was our first Rep Fair of the 25/26 academic year 🙌

We had so much fun chatting to you all about our work as representatives, from course to senior course to school level representation! Thank you to all the representatives who helped out today, the academics who managed to donate hundreds of fantastic books (which we and the students LOVED), and the amazing SU voice team for setting this up- this wouldn’t be possible without you! 🫂

Have a look through our post to see who your course representatives are, alternatively visit the SU ‘find my rep’ page 🧑‍💼👩‍💼👨‍💼

If you missed us today, not to worry! There will be another Rep Fair in January where you’ll have another chance to meet us, feedback your experience and grab some freebies 🍬📚

Sign-ups to become course representatives are open until the 12th of October, so be sure to put your name down as soon as possible 📝

Don’t hesitate to reach out to me via instagram or email ([email protected])!

- Dominika 👩🏻‍🔬

The annual Rep Fair returns! 🙌

This Thursday, you can find myself & some of your academic representatives in the EWD Library foyer from 11am-2pm 📆

This is the perfect opportunity to chat to us, give us your feedback & get yourself some snazzy donated books & snacks📚🍬

Looking forward to seeing you there! 🙋🏻‍♀️

- Dominika 👩🏻‍🔬

Are you ready to be a part of student representation? Become a course rep!🧑‍💼

Recruitment is now open until the 12th of October, so be sure to sign up ASAP (QR code on second slide) ✍️

The course reps are responsible for gathering and sharing feedback about their course (whether that’s module, assessment or lecture relevant feedback) during student-staff-action-meetings (SSAMs) which take place in-person a few times a term 🗓️

This is a fantastic relaxed role which you can get involved with to boost your skills for both personal and professional development, whilst creating great connections & making a positive impact on your course for yourself, your peers & future students 🫂

If you have any questions about the role, feel free to message me!

- Dominika 👩🏻‍🔬

Most importantly, if you want to:

-stay updated about upcoming events
-career and development opportunities
-LSE related updates (such as student-staff-action-meeting outcomes)
-your chance to get involved with student voice

…make sure to follow our page! 🙋🏻‍♀️

I will be reposting departmental updates or time-sensitive posts on our stories, so make sure you have notifications turned on 🔔

- Dominika 👩🏻‍🔬

So… a little bit about me (your LSE School Representative) 👩🏻‍💼

I’m Dominika, going into my 3rd (and final 🥲) year as a Biochemistry student!

I started my journey at RH through a foundation year, which I thoroughly enjoyed. That additional year gave me the experiences, skills and stability I need to run, and be elected, for LSE School Representative in 24/25. Last year we had made such a positive impact on our departments, from pushing student feedback to monthly celebrations, which only fostered my desire to stay in the role just a little longer…. and so here I am! 😁

Last year I supported professional and personal developmental opportunities, cultured effective communication methods between students, reps and staff, voiced and tackled student feedback and celebrated your achievements 👏

This year, while I continue to work on the initiatives I already started, my main goal is fostering ways of student-centred learning to support your engagement in and beyond the lecture theatre. I will do this by gathering both student and staff feedback on effective engagement methods. I will coagulate the feedback in a report to share with both students and staff. I hope this will help students understand how to engage with their learning, whilst providing staff with a range of tools to use during their teaching 🛠️🧑‍🏫

I look forward to this busy and exciting academic year! If you have any questions, suggestions or comments, please don’t hesitate to reach out to me via instagram or email ([email protected]) 📨

- Dominika 👩🏻‍🔬

Hello to our incoming and welcome back to our returning students! 🎉

The School of Life Sciences & the Environment is one which fosters community, aims to provide continuous support and challenges itself for further development, all to better student experience 🫂

The LSE School consists of 5 incredible departments (Biological Sciences, Earth Sciences, Geography, Health Studies & Psychology) which are advocated for by our student course representatives🧑‍🎓

We always value and strongly encourage feedback- if you have any questions, suggestions or comments, please don’t hesitate to reach out! 🤝

Looking forward to getting the 25/26 year started! 👀

- Dominika 👩🏻‍🔬

In light of Deaf Awareness Week, I’d like to highlight the fantastic work of our wonderful RHUL Academics in joining discussions for identifying where new signs for scientific terminology were needed 👋🌍

The following extracts are from a blog by science museum group:

- ‘The real problem is the lack of vocabulary for sciences,’ said Dr Audrey Cameron OBE, University of Edinburgh. ‘[Historically] we had to rely on finger spelling, so we realised it was important to set up a glossary.’

The Royal Holloway scientists described the origins and applications of several objects from the collection before being questioned by the sign language experts on the terminology they used. The sign language experts highlighting words that may need translating into BSL.

Together, the participants then developed potential signs, ensuring both clarity and specificity for the new signs, while remaining faithful to the science behind the terms. This collaboration is just one illustration of how museum collections can inspire unique research projects.

Ten signs discussed in the workshop have now been added to the glossary. These include signs for seismograph, seismometer, earthquake, focus (of an earthquake), seismic waves, polarisers and Dobson’s ozone spectrograph (one of the objects the team looked at). -

To read more about the process behind the creation of the signs, visit: blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/new-bsl-signs-inspired-by-the-science-museum-group-collection/

Fantastic involvement by our very own Earth Sciences Department! 👏

- Dominika 👩🏻‍🔬