Our #1: Sebastiaan Bensink

We are proud of announce the new candidate faction of PSB! They will be the voice of the students within the BSS faculty next year. Feel free to come and have a chat with them when you see them somewhere around the faculty.

My name is Lars and I will be the Chair of this year's student faction of PSB. I am currently in the last year of my bachelor's in Psychology.  Next to this, I am a non-rowing member of Gyas. I also started working as a customer service specialist with Belsimpel. In my free time, I love playing games, drinking a beer with my housemates and friends, and going for a round of padel.

On Wednesday, the 16th or March, PSB will host a Think Tank for students of our faculty from 11:00-12:00.

💙 BECOME PART OF FACTION 2022-2023 💙The elections for the Faculty Council of BSS will take place in May. PSB represents all students of the faculty and now it’s your chance to join us!Are you interested in representing your fellow students and work for a high quality of education, more attention for the mental health of students and many more important topics like this?Don't doubt and apply!Interested?Apply before Sunday, February 20 before 23:59h by sending your motivation and CV to applications.psb@gmail.com

Due to the Corona-pandemic, the social- and study-related lives of students (has) changed drastically. In the last months of 2020, PSB (Faculty Council BSS) published a student-focused questionnaire, aimed at increasing our understanding of the issues that students face related to their well-being and their perception of education during the pandemic. In the document below, we summarize our findings. Due to time-related issues, this summary contains the direct outputs and findings of the questionnaire. If, however, there are concrete questions concerning a specific group of students and their response to the Corona-pandemic (first year students/international students etc.), feel free to ask us for a more detailed analysis via psb.gmw@rug.nl. If such questions arise, we hope that we can assist you.

There are various positions within the PSB group. In the coming weeks we will provide more information for each of the positions via social media. Do you have questions about the positions, or about doing a council year in general? Please contact one of us. We are always open for answering your questions!Kind regards,Faction '20-'21

The Faculty Council is the official representative advisory body of the faculty. The Faculty Council of the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences consists of nine students and nine staff members. This year PSB was represented by 6 of the 9 seats for students.Every week we have a meeting. First, we meet up around twice a month for an informal meeting to talk about our own policy, to catch up and have dinner or drinks (in normal times)!Besides our own meetings, we have the preliminary meeting, where we prepare the main meeting from the next week. The Faculty Board joins our main meeting. During these meetings we discuss all kinds of subjects in the field of education, research, personnel management and finance. There are a number of recurring topics, like the teaching and examination regulations, the quality of education, the multi-year budget, the sustainability and the well-being of staff and students.Because the meetings aren’t too often, you can easily combine being in the Faculty Council with studying. So, are you interested in being involved with the decision-making processes within our faculty?Would you like to advise the Faculty Board of BSS and are you interested in further improving several aspects within the faculty, such as the quality of education and employability?Apply now for next year's Faculty Council by sending an email to psb.gmw@rug.nl before Friday, February 19 at 23:59 including your CV and your motivation letter. Both Dutch and international students can apply! Your motivation letter can be written in Dutch or English.In case you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact one of us. Don't miss out on this opportunity to represent all students of our faculty!

Let’s meet the new member of our Faculty Board: Peter de Jonge!

A lot has happened in recent months regarding to well-being and education. All this is a result of the covid pandemic. For you, PSB wants to work harder for better education and more well-being among students. Help us by filling in this survey! It will only take a few minutes and you can help yourself getting better education and more well-being.Link: https://rug.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_abzMziKCpt7jwVL

It’s the first of october, the start of the Stoptober month. PSB supports this initiative, also as way of promoting the non-smoking policy of the @universityofgroningen 🚫