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Applications for 2024-2025 open soon!

26th February 2024
Applications for #150Leaders 2024-2025 will open Monday 25 March and close on Monday 6 May 2024. We will organise a webinar for prospective applicants on March the 21st.   You are interested in being part of the Student Leadership Programme and want to learn more? Register for our recruitment webinar on Thursday 21 March, 17.00. […]

Sustaining the inspiration: Keeping the Motivation Alive Beyond the Opening Conference

15th February 2024
A guest blog by 150Leader Sally Hao, Adult Nursing Student at the University of Brighton. It has been over four months since the Student Leadership Programme Opening Conference in Manchester, September 2023. Each of us was motivated by different sessions, whether it was Alumni’s speeches, national healthcare leaders’ presentations, or the ‘Dragon’s Den’ competition. Despite […]

#150Leaders Webinar: Being a Just Leader

1st February 2024
Register now for our next #150Leaders Webinar:     Being a Just Leader, 20 February, 15.00-16.00 Join Prof Calvin Moorley, Professor of Diversity and Social Justice at London South Bank University, as he discusses the crucial role of being a just leader, particularly in scenarios that involve diverse groups. Free webinar open to all healthcare […]

Blog | Are neurodivergent students getting the support they require?

19th December 2023
A guest blog by Jessica Pidcock, Nursing Child Student at Sheffield Hallam University and member of SSHINE (Sharing Student Healthcare Initiative for Neurodiversity & Equity). Earlier this year, I finally received my formal diagnosis of autism. I had known I was ‘different’ from a young age and suspected I was autistic after going through the […]

Blog | The NHS Longterm Workforce Plan: A student leaders’ experience in parliament

17th November 2023
Rachel, Student Midwife at University of Surrey and one of the #150Leaders, was invited by the APPG University group and Universities UK at the New NHS Longterm Workforce Plan Launch, to reflect on challenges met by healthcare students. In this blog, Rachel shares her experience and suggests areas for improvement within healthcare education. Following on […]

Blog | Validation, connection, and empowerment through 150 Leaders SLP Conference

9th November 2023
Jenny Brodie is a final year Nursing Mental Health Student from Abertay University and one of our 150Leaders. In this blog, Jenny explores how attending the Student Leadership Programme Conference has encouraged her to step into student voice roles and supporting her fellow students more. The 150 Leaders SLP is highly regarded by my university […]

Blog | Future Leaders or ‘just students’?

3rd November 2023
Isla, Paramedic Science Student from the University of Stirling and one of our #150Leaders, shares how she felt empowered meeting like minded student leaders, including fellow student paramedics, from all over the UK, thanks to the Student Leadership Programme. Oftentimes as a student I have felt like that, ‘just a student’. Only learning, so nothing […]