Runyi 'Elodie' Yan - Vice President Inclusion

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  • Help everyone to speak out whenever you need
  • Support better visibility for societies and student-led events
  • Make information clearer and easier to find
  • Support culturally inclusive events for connecting international and home students
  • Promote mental health awareness, LGBTQ+ inclusion, and equal opportunities

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Why vote for Runyi?

As an international student who has lived in three different cultural environments, I know how easy it is to feel unheard in a new place. Sometimes a lack of information, the fear of speaking out, and being too scared to be different can seriously impact a student’s life.

If elected as VP Inclusion, I want to make it easier and safer for students to speak out, improve how information is shared by the University, and help different student communities actually connect with each other. This includes creating anonymous ways for feedback to be shared, giving student societies and events more visibility, and supporting more cultural and wellbeing-focused activities.

To me, inclusion isn’t about prioritising one group over another, it’s about making sure everyone has a fair chance to be heard, supported, and involved. I want to work closely with societies and students to make sure inclusion efforts reflect real student needs.

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Answered by Runyi on 11/03/26 21:33

I will start with building anonymous chat room for speak up safely, and put my hand on building public banner on campus, preparing expanded welcome pack for fresher coming in September!

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Answered by Runyi on 11/03/26 21:37

Hi! Of course I believe in transgender! We cannot choose how we’d like to be born, but we are ourselves because our soul! Transgender bathroom issue is a very complicated topic but putting wide range of gender neutral bathroom and changing room would sort this issue, providing reassurance to all gendered population.

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Answered by Runyi on 11/03/26 21:31

The reason why I wanted to created an anonymous feedback route in the University was because we had a tutor that sexually harassed a lot of students for years. In the end our department handled that matter well but if there was a way to speak up safely against those assaulters, no matter who they are. A lot of students that had those terrible experience were often silent and traumatised because they would be standing against the authority, and anonymous feedback would take that concern out of our way.

This question was also asked to Ruge 'Ruger' Sun, Emmanuel 'Manny' Odoh, Jay Coe, Aman Khatarkar, Xanthe Bird, Virgil Friedman, Olawale 'Ola' Sanni, Mysticson Cardozo, Abosede 'Tabitha' Ajani, Lei Huang, Raphael Rafferty, Annie Whyman, Barun 'Bunny' Kumar

Answered by Runyi on 11/03/26 13:35