Speak Week

If you ran the University, what would you keep and what would you change?

What is Speak Week?

Speak Week is an annual campaign run by the Students’ Union, where we give all students the opportunity to provide feedback on the changes that they want to see at Cardiff University. This is your chance to make your voice heard on the issues that really matter to you.

Our Sabbatical and Campaign Officers will be joined by student volunteers who will be reaching out to as many students as possible, encouraging meaningful discussion, and asking for recommendations for change. The feedback we receive every year is reviewed, analysed, and used to inform future campaigns and discussions with senior staff in the university and Students' Union.

What happens to your feedback?

All comments received during Speak Week will be analysed by our elected officers, and a Speak Week report will be written. This report will inform campaigns and priorities for the elected officers over the year, and will support the officers in lobbying the university for positive change. University schools and departments will also be gathering feedback during Speak Week, and they will use their specific feedback to make school-based changed.

This year, your feedback will also be used to inform our Quality Enhancement Review, for which we will be forming a student submission ahead of the 2025/26 academic year.

If there is more information we want to get about the feedback we receive, we may run focus groups with students to help inform our elected Officers in their campaigning and lobbying.

These are just a few examples of what Speak Week has done for students in previous years:

- The University and Students' Union worked on a Cost-of-Living campaign.
- The ASSL opening hours were extended to 24 hours.
- Wi-Fi coverage around campus has been improved.
- Card payments for University Catering became available around campus.
- Exam timetables published two weeks earlier than before.

You can read a summary of feedback received for 2024/25 here.

You can read a summary of feedback received for 2023/24 here.

You can read the full Speak Week report for 2022/23 here.

Here are some other ways to have your voice heard!

- Talk to your Student Academic Representatives about any changes you want to see in your school!
- Submit an idea to our Student Senate or Annual General Meeting.
- Contact your Sabbatical or Campaign Officers to discuss a campaign idea.
- Run in our elections for a student leadership role within the Students' Union.

For any questions about Speak Week, contact the Student Voice team through SUCampaigns@cardiff.ac.uk.

Pe byddech chi'n rhedeg y Brifysgol, beth fyddech chi'n ei

gadw a beth fyddech chi'n ei newid?

Beth yw Wythnos Siarad?

Mae Wythnos Siarad yn ymgyrch blynyddol wedi’i gynnal gan Undeb y Myfyrwyr, lle rydym yn rhoi cyfle i bob myfyriwr ddarparu adborth am y newidiadau maent am weld ym Mhrifysgol Caerdydd. Dyma’ch cyfle i leisio’ch barn am y materion sy’n wirioneddol bwysig i chi.

Bydd gwirfoddolwyr myfyrwyr yn ymuno â’n Swyddogion Sabothol ac Ymgyrchu er mwyn cysylltu â chymaint o fyfyrwyr a phosib, gan annog trafodaethau ystyrlon a gofyn am argymhellion am newid. Mae’r adborth rydym yn derbyn pob blwyddyn yn cael ei adolygu, ei ddadansoddi, a’i ddefnyddio i lywio ymgyrchoedd a thrafodaethau gydag uwch dimoedd rheoli’r Brifysgol ac Undeb y Myfyrwyr yn y dyfodol.

Beth sy’n digwydd i’ch adborth?

Bydd yr holl sylwadau a dderbyniwyd yn ystod Wythnos Siarad yn cael eu dadansoddi gan ein swyddogion etholedig, a bydd adroddiad Wythnos Siarad yn cael ei ysgrifennu. Bydd yr adroddiad yma yn llywio ymgyrchoedd a blaenoriaethau’r swyddogion etholedig yn ystod y flwyddyn, a bydd yn cefnogi swyddogion wrth lobïo’r Brifysgol am newid cadarnhaol. Bydd ysgolion ac adrannau’r Brifysgol hefyd yn casglu adborth yn ystod Wythnos Siarad, ac mi fyddan nhw’n defnyddio eu hadborth penodol er mwyn gweithredu newid ar lefel ysgol.

Eleni, bydd eich adborth yn cael ei ddefnyddio ar gyfer ein Hadolygiad Gwella Ansawdd, a byddwn yn ffurfio cyflwyniad myfyrwyr ar ei gyfer cyn blwyddyn academaidd 2025/26.

Os oes rhagor o wybodaeth hoffem gael am yr adborth rydym yn ei dderbyn, efallai gwnawn gynnal grwpiau ffocws gyda myfyrwyr er mwyn helpu llywio ein swyddogion etholedig yn eu hymgyrchu a lobïo.

Dyma dim ond rhai esiamplau o’r hyn mae Wythnos Siarad wedi’i wneud ar gyfer myfyrwyr mewn blynyddoedd diweddar:

- Gweithiodd y Brifysgol ac Undeb y Myfyrwyr ar ymgyrch Costau Byw.
- Ymestynnwyd oriau agor yr ASSL i 24 awr.
- Gwellwyd wifi ar draws y campws.
- Modd talu â cherdyn ar gyfer arlwyo’r Brifysgol ar draws y campws.
- Cyhoeddi amserlen arholiadau dwy wythnos yn gynharach nag o’r blaen.

Gallwch ddarllen crynodeb o adborth 2024/25 yma.

Gallwch ddarllen crynodeb o adborth 2023/24 yma.

Gallwch ddarllen adroddiad llawn Wythnos Siarad 2022/23 yma.

Dyma rai ffyrdd eraill o sicrhau bod eich llais yn cael ei glywed!

- Siarad â’ch Cynrychiolwyr Academaidd Myfyrwyr am unrhyw newidiadau hoffech weld yn eich ysgol!
- Cyflwyno syniad i Senedd y Myfyrwyr neu'r Cyfarfod Cyffredinol Blynyddol.
- Cysylltu â’ch Swyddogion Sabothol ac Ymgyrchu i drafod syniad am ymgyrch.
- Sefyll yn ein hetholiadau ar gyfer rôl arweinyddiaeth myfyrwyr o fewn Undeb y Myfyrwyr.

Os oes gennych unrhyw gwestiynau am Wythnos Siarad, cysylltwch â thîm Llais y Myfyrwyr trwy SUCampaigns@caerdydd.ac.uk.