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This is Manchester Voices, a podcast
run by students
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at the University of Manchester.
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welcome to this episode of Manchester
Voices, where we'll be talking about
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feeling safe as a student
at the University of Manchester.
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Ways we could improve safety on campus,
as well as looking forward to our Reclaim
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the Night campaign.
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Our march on Thursday 21st of November.
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But before we get into it,
I'd like to introduce myself on the panel.
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So I'm Aisha, I'm the wellbeing and
liberation officer at the students union.
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And my link to the theme of safety
is because I'm the lead on the.
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I'm the knight campaign.
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And I'm also really passionate
about safety in the city, and helping our
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students feel safer.
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I'm. Honey, I'm
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in third year, and I'm doing criminology.
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During my course as well.
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I do a lot of safety and things like that.
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So I'm really interested in this aspect
in the uni.
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And I also work in retail hospitality
in my time here at university.
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Hi everyone, I'm Nancy,
so I'm in my first year,
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here at the university
and I am studying adult nursing.
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So obviously being my first year,
I am miles away from home,
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so it's my first time
living away from parents,
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living away from family,
living away from my twin sister.
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So my link to the theme is kind of trying
to keep myself safe
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for the first time in my life,
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and especially because I'm studying such
a vigorous course, such as adult nursing.
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I mean, five days a week.
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I work long shifts in the hospitals
and keeping myself safe, coming back
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from home, going to the hospital,
and just in and around my curriculum.
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Hi, I'm Ruth.
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I'm a foundation year medicine student,
but it's my second year
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here in Manchester,
and my link to the theme
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is that I've worked in hospitality
over the past two years.
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So yeah, just the like process
of coming back from work.
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3 a.m.
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a lot goes on.
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So yeah, yeah, I think we have
a good range of perspectives in the room.
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So I feel like we're going to have
a really good discussion.
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So I think we'll get into the questions.
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So,
anybody feel free to jump in at any point?
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But, first
one is how safety feel on campus at night.
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And are there specific areas or situations
that often make you feel less secure?
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I'll go first.
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I always, I just feel when I was thinking
about that question that,
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I've actually always felt
really safe on campus at uni.
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However, I would say aspects of it
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is probably waiting for the bus at night.
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Like I luckily
I don't really spend that much time
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at night on campus,
but that like waiting for the bus
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stop in the dark is usually the bit
that I'm like a bit unsure about.
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So do I feel,
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funny that you ask that.
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I don't really, I don't
you'll never catch me outside at night.
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So, I can't really contribute
to the conversation
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in terms of how safe I feel,
but genuinely like generally on campus,
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I feel absolutely fine, really safe
all the time.
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I've met a lovely group of people
who I'm always with,
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and they're like my best friends
now. And we're always together.
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So I think, yeah, I'm
pretty safe in the daytime.
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In the nighttime.
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All right. Really?
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Yeah.
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I'm gonna to agree with you
that I do feel quite safe on campus.
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I love a late night session,
so I have been on campus
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quite a lot at night,
but it's definitely waiting for the bus.
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And, like,
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when there's drunk people and people come
and talk to you, it's always a bit like.
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Often they don't mean anything wrong.
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But you've always got, like, that thought
in the back of your head, like,
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I've got to keep myself.
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So yeah, I think because it's so open
and spacious as well.
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And like most people that I can like,
see out.
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Yeah. And most people are students.
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Also with the fact like, I know
I don't think I'd be in led too late.
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Probably not past nine.
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Yeah, I'm
not that much of an academic weapon, but
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but I
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know that, like the there's no cars
allowed down Oxford Road.
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Yeah. Is it 6 a.m. till 9 p.m.?
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Yeah. So it's like a big. It's
something like that. Yeah.
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Which I think is really nice
because then that keeps that uni bubble.
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Yeah.
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Really that
which stops, you know, outside. So.
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Yeah.
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And it's, it's great because there's
always busses going down Oxford Road.
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So it doesn't matter if you've just run
for a bus and you've missed it
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the next minute.
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So you'll never be out stranded
by yourself for too long at nighttime.
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Yeah.
Which I think is a good plus. Absolutely.
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Apart from maybe like the edges of uni.
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Maybe like. Yeah, in rush Home.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Cos that space like by Allen Gilbert.
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No I think Gilbert wears
it on the very edge.
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The as in Oxford Road 150 bus goes down.
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If, if you've ever walked down that and
that's, that's a bit precarious as well.
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Yeah.
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We talked about going into you that way.
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Could be yes.
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Yeah, probably. I've been here
three years, but I still do.
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That's
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where, I've, I mean, I'm
going to pose a question to you guys.
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Do you think that that differs
from like on Central Campus
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defers
to like, university accommodation places.
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So like Fallowfield,
Withington, rush home.
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Do you think it's.
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Do you,
do you think your safety feels different?
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On on the sun. Yeah.
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I always feel much safer.
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Which is.
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It's really funny
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because you live in your accommodation,
but I always feel much safer on campus
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when I know everyone around me
is studying at the same universe is me.
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Everyone's going about their day, head
into lectures or,
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they've got something to do.
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I always feel more safe.
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And their security on campus as well.
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Which there is,
I think, in the student home.
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But if you go privately or like,
you're sharing a house with people.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah,
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I actually have a bit of a different
experience to the accommodation
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because I feel like a lot of people in uni
went to Fallowfield.
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Yeah. In that bubble. Yeah.
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But I actually was in Weston
Hall, which is in the city.
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And I just think we really had
that security that you guys have
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because we were like, right on the city,
on like the streets, on the streets.
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But you know. Yeah.
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Yeah. The, the safe.
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It was not really
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I wasn't that like out there was not fence
that went around like Fallowfield.
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How that does,
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it was just the building which I think
was probably just a bit different.
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Like I didn't remember
seeing any security.
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And if they were, I think they were
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sleeping.
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I think also one thing to mention.
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So I live in a house down in Fallowfield,
just on the topic of Fallowfield.
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And I think me and one of my flatmates
were discussing this
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at the start of the academic year.
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And basically, I do believe,
correct me if I'm wrong, that
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this is I'm the last cohort
that's going to be living in all this.
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It's all taken down.
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And yeah, there's a new building
that's coming up.
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So it was really interesting.
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So you have two keys to enter my building.
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So one entered the building.
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Now the building's got about 3 or 4 flats
maybe.
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And then another key
that gets you into your own flat.
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And that's the same key
that you use to get into your own door.
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So because it's the key
that getting into the flat, that means
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everybody has the exact same key
for their own door.
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Really, if if that makes sense.
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So like open your actual flat.
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Yeah. Open your door.
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Yeah. Is it like a card or is it like.
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No, it's a key.
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Wow. So that was, that was,
that was really interesting.
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Or like I mean luckily I live with,
an amazing bunch of girls.
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But if you ever had any problems
with your flatmates, yeah, that would be
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that would be quite a scary situation
to be in outside.
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So especially because you move in
and they're all strange.
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Yeah.
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And you're all in first
and yeah, that's a lot of a lot of trust.
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Yeah.
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But we're the last cohort that I'll be
experiencing is so it's it's not too bad
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I think like in like on Central
University campus.
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So here like I've always felt quite safe,
but like in, so I moved
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so when I was a student, I lived in
Manchester anyway because I'm from here.
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So I stayed at home, but I moved to
Fallowfield when I started this job
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last year.
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And like, that was like
a completely different experience.
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Like, I think got late at night
because there's, like, on Central Campus,
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there's a lot of street lighting, like
there's a lot of, like, people around.
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But in Fallowfield, like, sometimes it can
feel like you're the only one and like,
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you're like you're constantly
turning around to see if there's, like,
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anybody there.
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I think that's that's probably
the specific areas that make me feel
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less secure.
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I think like, even
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like when you get into Withington,
it's like the lighting is better.
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I think it's just a Fallowfield area.
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It's just it's
very it's very like dark and gloomy.
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Yeah.
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And especially like late at night if
there's a lot of, like, drunk people that.
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Yeah.
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It can tend to feel really scary,
especially when you're sober.
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So. Yeah, it's the walk
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from the bus to the house
that's the scariest.
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But it's like when you leave, you know,
that main road where, like, Sainsbury's
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is. Yeah, it's when you come off of that
that you're like, yeah,
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yeah, like just run this lot. But
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coming back from, you've got your bags
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and just went down the road
and all the cars
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and it's still funny.
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So just on like
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the university's current safety services,
like safe zone.
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What how do you know about that?
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Like, how do you feel about the service?
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Do you think there's could be room
for any improvement?
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I actually really like the service.
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I think it's really good.
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I think just having it as well
makes you just feel more secure,
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because knowing that someone will come
and get you.
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Yeah, it's actually really nice.
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I know it doesn't, like, expand
out of the campus area.
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Yeah.
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This is like a they have like a circle of.
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Yeah.
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So it is about half counterproductive
because we're saying
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how safe we feel on campus already.
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But then it doesn't go beyond campus.
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I think it maybe should go to
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the halls.
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Like maybe just that use
that as a boundary line
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or make that a new safe zone as well,
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because you can't have everybody
living out there like, you know,
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but I, I really like the fact
that it's easy to use.
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Yeah. It's clear.
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And I thought also I could discuss about
like the emotional safety of it as well,
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the fact that it offers,
like the counseling aspect and the like
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maybe if you need to like, report
a friend struggling,
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that's quite easy to use as well on there.
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Yeah. And it's good the way the,
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from what it's
all before I moved to university,
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I remember there was like
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a website or something of all the apps
and all the services
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that are available for you
for when you come to university.
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So I had already had it downloaded
and ready to go before I even got here.
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So that even calmed my nerves
before I even stepped foot into the city,
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because I knew there were services
like Safe Zone,
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that were gonna keep me protected
and help me keep safe.
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So that was also a nice thing.
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That's really interesting
that you'd say that.
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Yeah, because I hadn't actually
heard of it until the start of this year.
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So, yeah, that uni, without knowing
that I was out there to be used.
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But maybe that's my fault
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now. Definitely.
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Yeah. I don't remember
how it was introduced to me.
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I think I just it just appeared one day,
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I think, like, I didn't know
until I became an officer about Safe Zone.
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And then I got told about it.
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So that's like three years
without knowing about it.
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But I think it's like a signposting thing.
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So like I yeah, I think just a
signposting would probably be helpful.
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I wanted to ask you a question like,
have you interacted with like security on
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campus or like anything,
like the members of security on campus?
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And if so, like,
how do you feel about that service there?
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I don't think I have, apart from
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maybe the people that sit on the desk.
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Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. So.
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And they actually so helpful.
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I think they're actually one of my
first points of contact that I have any.
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Yeah. Struggle.
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So no.
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Apart from that no I haven't either.
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The only security I think I've ever spoke
to while I've been here is,
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do you know the guys
that just stand outside of schools, bar?
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So I'll just I'll not go in,
but I'll have a chat.
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Be like, because they know me.
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Because I'm always up with my shop in
and I'll be like, hi, guys.
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I'll be like, oh, hi, Nancy.
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So yeah, that's nice.
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But I've no, I've never needed
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to contact security
or speak to them about anything.
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Yeah, I know they walk around allergy
some sometimes and I've seen them go up
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to like tables with laptops on their own
and like, keep an eye on that.
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And then told the person when they come
back, oh, it might be a good idea
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to take that with you, but, yeah,
I've not interacted with them very much.
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Yeah. When people leave that whole Apple
ecosystem.
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Yes, yes. Oh, yes.
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Hold that,
hold that space. Yeah. Like laptop.
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I think laptop theft and bike theft
have been like one of the main
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conversations of like safety recently.
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But yeah, I was just asking the question
just to see what. Yeah.
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It takes on security on campus.
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Where.
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But, I know, like,
a lot of students have, like,
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very stuff about,
like, the security methods and and stuff.
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So I just wanted to see if you all did
any take, but that's all good.
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Yeah, just on that,
just on the next question.
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So do you feel like your identity
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or status impacts
your sense of safety on on campus?
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Are there specific services available
to help you or potential room
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for improvement in that area?
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I mean, my status, I would say
like as a woman.
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Yeah. Yeah. In particular. Yeah.
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I don't know if this is a uni problem
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or just a societal problem, but
you definitely have to be more cautious.
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Like,
I was actually on the bus today, literally
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coming here at 3:00.
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That was like,
I got on the bus and there was like
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a man sitting next to me, and it was just
he would just
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wouldn't stop staring at my face.
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And it was just like
when he was so uncomfortable.
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And that just happens, like, all the time.
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So I think if you're quite like,
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not a confident person or like, but
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yeah, yeah, I think that is
an issue that like, you just
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need you could do with
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some help, like learning
how to deal with these issues.
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Yeah.
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And I think it extends
beyond campus as well, especially when was
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speaking about Fallowfield before.
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There's a certain point where you get too
along where Oxford and local road meet,
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where, it's almost as if the culture
just snaps and changes immediately.
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And you'll just see, like as a girl,
you'll just see loads of men,
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at different restaurants
along the street, like,
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like waiting for people to come over
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or like me and my friends
literally got called the other day.
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It was a 19th birthday on,
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the weekend, from this random.
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So that just made us speed
walk faster in the world.
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But, yeah, it's really, really,
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I don't know if intrusive is the word
to use or very uncomfortable, I think.
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But you can just.
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You can. He was.
I could tell that I was uncomfortable.
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Like, everyone goes about it
their own way, on the reactive busses.
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So I just asked if he was okay.
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But, yeah, definitely.
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The girls standpoint
is, I was very different to the boy.
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Sorry.
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I was actually looking on the Reclaim
the Night website, and there was a quote
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on there about, like,
women have a curfew that men don't have.
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Oh, absolutely.
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Like, I was quite I could point actually.
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You know, say that.
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But 3 p.m.
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like that's not.
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Oh yeah. It's like the 100%. Yeah, yeah.
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Another thing with maybe status as well.
00:16:02:17 - 00:16:07:04
You could talk about
maybe where I'm from, quite a rural area.
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So I'm from a really small town and yeah,
I'm from Stratford upon Avon, so.
00:16:13:03 - 00:16:14:19
Shakespeare. Yeah.
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And, yeah.
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So we don't really have, like, issues
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like the,
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you know, the lady that comes on the bus,
the one half the the the student.
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Yeah. The.
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Yeah, the one four, seven
I've seen on TikTok.
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Yeah.
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That lady like little things like that.
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I just I'm
not I've never been used to in the fact of
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like the way that sometimes drugs impact
people here as well.
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So I think maybe raising awareness
of like other issues so they would not
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just like forced upon you to learn.
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I also think another bit of identity
is just members of the public
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knowing that you're a student
or assuming that you're a student.
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It just it puts you at risk
when like you're
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like going around Fallowfield
and out of campus
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and people just coming over to you or,
like
00:17:09:01 - 00:17:11:18
two people trying to scam you
and things like that.
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I've heard a few stories
on that mentioned, but, it's, Yeah.
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Very scary.
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Yeah.
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I think like, because I'm like queer.
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I'm also Muslim.
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Like, I'm obviously a woman.
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I feel like,
like all the all those three together,
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like, leaves me open to a lot of,
like, issues.
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Yeah. Like even yesterday, like this.
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This woman was just being racist
to me in the street.
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Which was not fun.
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But, like, if she was, she was talking
about a lot about Muslims and, like.
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And then she said, we're all white here.
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And I said, I'm, I'm not, but. Okay.
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So yeah, it was
that was one of the issues I felt, I say
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something to say, yeah, one of the biggest
multicultural cities in the UK.
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Yeah. So that was one thing.
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And then, like, as a queer person, also,
I don't think people take it seriously.
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Like when I, when,
like, people try and, like, flirt
00:18:09:13 - 00:18:12:17
and I'm like, I'm not,
I'm, I'm literally gay.
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And then they just
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don't take no for an answer
and they just don't keep pestering.
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Yeah. It's not fun.
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And then, yeah, as a woman,
I just like, normally
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if I'm going out late at night,
I literally, like,
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put her to put a beanie on time
my, her back,
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and go out like that
because I feel like, it's safer that way.
00:18:32:20 - 00:18:33:05
Yeah.
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You're safe. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
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But on the flip side of what you're saying
about, like, the problems of it
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being a big city
and coming from a small town
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because I do as well is like, I feel like
Manchester is so much more open
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to different things.
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So I'm queer as well.
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Like seeing Gay village, seeing so many
people like, coming from different areas.
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It's so cool.
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And I feel like in a way,
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having that community gives
you kind of a safety valve.
00:19:01:21 - 00:19:03:14
Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
00:19:03:14 - 00:19:07:22
I definitely think that like compared
to the stories that other people
00:19:07:22 - 00:19:11:12
have told me, like Manchester is like
specifically good for queer people.
00:19:11:18 - 00:19:15:02
Not always, but better than other places.
00:19:15:08 - 00:19:18:18
I mean, I wish
it was safer for everyone, but,
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sometimes it isn't,
but I definitely think, like the Gay
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village specifically, I've always felt
quite safe and gave it, like,
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even if I've had issues, like, there's
always been people to back me and like,
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and to help me and just be like,
yeah, that isn't right.
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Like, even yesterday when I was facing
that, this guy, like, came and was like,
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you shouldn't be saying that.
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Like, so it was really nice to hear.
00:19:42:05 - 00:19:44:00
But yeah, I love that. Yeah.
00:19:44:00 - 00:19:50:16
So on on the topic of like,
feeling safe, how how safety
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if you're traveling to, and from campus
or when you're working late at night,
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I know you all have, like,
different experiences with that.
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And you all have different, like,
roles, so, Yeah,
00:20:02:06 - 00:20:05:24
how how safety feel and is there
any particular challenges
00:20:05:24 - 00:20:08:24
you face with, with the line of work
that you do as well?
00:20:09:08 - 00:20:14:14
So working in Piccadilly Gardens,
if anyone knows what
00:20:14:14 - 00:20:18:09
that is, it's quite famous
for being having a stereotype,
00:20:18:19 - 00:20:22:19
and working that it's quite interesting.
00:20:22:19 - 00:20:26:08
You definitely come across
a lot of different types of people.
00:20:26:09 - 00:20:26:22
Right.
00:20:26:22 - 00:20:32:12
In that is very different
to the atmosphere on campus.
00:20:32:20 - 00:20:34:02
Yeah.
00:20:35:13 - 00:20:37:24
So many stories.
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Weird, weird weird people.
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And it's just,
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I mean, you just have to like deal
with and.
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Yeah.
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And adapt with to
because I want to get paid.
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Yeah.
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But what kind of thing
would you like me to say about it?
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I mean, just like if there's
any specific things that you do
00:21:00:08 - 00:21:03:08
want to raise about, how safe you feel.
00:21:03:09 - 00:21:07:15
If you do want to mention any specific
things or things that could be changed.
00:21:07:15 - 00:21:11:18
I was this one time and I that was this
man because it was all glass.
00:21:12:01 - 00:21:16:06
Around that one and there was this man
and he was banned because he had
00:21:17:10 - 00:21:18:22
stole stuff. Okay.
00:21:18:22 - 00:21:20:13
He wasn't allowed in anymore.
00:21:20:13 - 00:21:24:07
And he like had seen me from the glass
and he's like
00:21:24:20 - 00:21:28:14
for like an hour like pressing himself
up against the glass,
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like doing like sexual things
and to the point
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where I actually had to get the manager
to, like, walk me home.
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So I think that's always like something
that's important.
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Like, don't ever risk it.
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Don't be like, oh, he's he's gone.
00:21:43:11 - 00:21:46:02
He's been gone for half an hour.
Like I'll be fine. Yeah, yeah.
00:21:46:02 - 00:21:47:10
Never think like you'll be fine.
00:21:47:10 - 00:21:48:24
Just always
00:21:48:24 - 00:21:53:08
like always be safe and just say
yeah I actually do walk me home or yeah,
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I will get an Uber or any of these things,
even if it makes you just feel better.
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Like,
just always do it because you never know.
00:22:02:21 - 00:22:03:12
You never know.
00:22:03:12 - 00:22:06:11
People are so unpredictable. You just
00:22:07:13 - 00:22:09:00
you don't know what they're
00:22:09:00 - 00:22:12:11
going through in their story as well,
why they're behaving like that. So
00:22:13:18 - 00:22:14:19
I'm sorry that happened.
00:22:14:19 - 00:22:15:15
Oh, gosh.
00:22:15:15 - 00:22:16:16
That's horrible.
00:22:16:16 - 00:22:19:13
Yeah. Sorry, I forgotten the question.
00:22:19:13 - 00:22:23:05
And how safety if, traveling to
and from campus for work.
00:22:24:17 - 00:22:27:12
So I don't make, yet.
00:22:27:12 - 00:22:28:10
Fingers crossed.
00:22:28:10 - 00:22:33:19
So my, like, I am involved with quite a
quite a few things in the university,
00:22:33:19 - 00:22:39:16
so I, really just travel to campus
and then back to my accommodation.
00:22:40:01 - 00:22:42:11
So genuinely,
00:22:42:11 - 00:22:45:13
like I said earlier,
I'm always with my group of friends.
00:22:45:13 - 00:22:47:14
I think if I was to
00:22:47:14 - 00:22:51:00
even go to campus alone,
I'd probably feel a little bit less safe.
00:22:51:08 - 00:22:55:18
But having that group of people
that you feel safe with and, you know.
00:22:56:03 - 00:22:59:07
Yeah, if anything, there's people with me
00:22:59:07 - 00:23:02:07
that can like the,
the it's such a big place.
00:23:02:15 - 00:23:04:15
It's such a big space.
There's witnesses everywhere.
00:23:04:15 - 00:23:05:16
And I've got my friends here.
00:23:05:16 - 00:23:11:12
I feel, I feel like getting those bonds
and like, especially as you're
00:23:11:12 - 00:23:14:24
in first year as well,
getting that early is really important.
00:23:14:24 - 00:23:18:12
If you don't have that,
obviously don't worry, because it comes,
00:23:18:20 - 00:23:20:00
it will come eventually.
00:23:21:03 - 00:23:22:04
But like having just
00:23:22:04 - 00:23:25:05
that group of people just to be like,
look, I'm going to be back about nine.
00:23:25:05 - 00:23:25:14
Yeah.
00:23:25:14 - 00:23:28:14
Just so they have that in their head and,
00:23:29:00 - 00:23:32:03
and share your location
with people that you trust as well.
00:23:32:03 - 00:23:33:09
That's really important.
00:23:33:09 - 00:23:35:04
Like my family's
all the way back in Newcastle,
00:23:35:04 - 00:23:38:09
but I still send my location
to those who have got no idea where I am.
00:23:38:09 - 00:23:42:10
So yeah, I think that, in terms
of your adult nursing course.
00:23:42:15 - 00:23:45:11
Do you, have to do placements
00:23:45:11 - 00:23:47:20
out of the places
that, like, you have to work late?
00:23:47:20 - 00:23:50:18
Yes. So the placements,
because we're in the first semester.
00:23:50:18 - 00:23:53:18
So our physical placements
in the hospital start
00:23:54:00 - 00:23:56:01
next semester,
so to start in the new year.
00:23:56:01 - 00:23:58:01
But we have done community placements.
00:23:58:01 - 00:24:02:15
So, that entailed me
traveling from Manchester,
00:24:02:15 - 00:24:03:24
but it's still Manchester, but traveling
00:24:03:24 - 00:24:07:22
from Fallowfield,
and Oxford Road into Stockport.
00:24:07:22 - 00:24:09:22
That was where my community placement was.
00:24:09:22 - 00:24:14:00
And again, that I had like,
you weren't allowed to go anywhere
00:24:14:00 - 00:24:15:05
and you were put in a group
00:24:15:05 - 00:24:17:24
and you go with that group
and you and you group organize that. So,
00:24:19:11 - 00:24:21:04
we planned it really well.
00:24:21:04 - 00:24:25:07
We got the bus down, we worked our routes,
which clinic we were going to go to,
00:24:25:09 - 00:24:26:23
which sites we were going to see.
00:24:26:23 - 00:24:28:11
And it was a really good day.
00:24:28:11 - 00:24:32:18
But I think that's because, like,
my course
00:24:32:18 - 00:24:35:18
made sure that you've got a group
that you're in that,
00:24:35:19 - 00:24:38:24
we're not just going to send you
to some random town and by yourself.
00:24:39:02 - 00:24:40:22
Oh, so, yeah. Yeah.
00:24:40:22 - 00:24:45:02
To just easy way and to learn about
health in Greater Manchester.
00:24:45:02 - 00:24:49:00
So, I felt really safe that day
of probably one of the funnest,
00:24:49:13 - 00:24:50:14
best days I've had.
00:24:50:14 - 00:24:53:09
Yeah, it makes it more fun as well
if you've got other people especially.
00:24:53:09 - 00:24:54:15
Yeah. And it wasn't friends.
00:24:54:15 - 00:24:55:09
It wasn't friends.
00:24:55:09 - 00:24:59:06
It was like they just put a lot
of names down and that was your group.
00:24:59:06 - 00:25:02:05
So you got to make new friends. Yeah.
So it was good.
00:25:02:05 - 00:25:04:02
I really enjoyed it. Yeah. School
00:25:05:04 - 00:25:06:01
do I got,
00:25:06:01 - 00:25:11:13
well, over the summer,
I was working in Salford at summer camp.
00:25:11:15 - 00:25:16:22
The university, and I know we've spoken
a lot about, like, safety at night time,
00:25:17:12 - 00:25:21:08
but, of course, the really horrific
00:25:21:08 - 00:25:24:08
right wing strikes and riots were going on
00:25:24:14 - 00:25:27:20
and people were protesting, so, I guess
00:25:28:22 - 00:25:31:22
bringing it back to big city,
that's another bad side of it.
00:25:32:01 - 00:25:35:07
So we had to like, close all the doors
and stay inside the uni
00:25:35:07 - 00:25:39:12
because there was like, the possibility
of the protest happening down the street.
00:25:40:00 - 00:25:40:14
Oh, wow.
00:25:40:14 - 00:25:42:08
So yeah,
00:25:42:08 - 00:25:46:08
I think you've just got to look out
for the people you're with and make sure.
00:25:46:16 - 00:25:50:06
Yeah, even if it doesn't happen,
that you've got like a plan.
00:25:50:23 - 00:25:51:23
Yeah.
00:25:51:23 - 00:25:53:12
That's that's another important thing.
00:25:53:12 - 00:25:55:06
Maybe for first years as well.
00:25:55:06 - 00:25:58:02
If you're going somewhere
that you haven't been before,
00:25:58:02 - 00:26:00:17
make sure that, like,
you know, your way back.
00:26:00:17 - 00:26:01:04
Yeah.
00:26:01:04 - 00:26:06:06
Rely on I know you're saying rely
on other people, but, like, also be aware.
00:26:07:09 - 00:26:08:24
Carry your own things.
00:26:08:24 - 00:26:11:06
Like your own cards, your own phone.
00:26:11:06 - 00:26:13:04
Make sure your phone is fully charged.
Yeah.
00:26:13:04 - 00:26:14:09
The amount of friends or people
00:26:14:09 - 00:26:17:10
that I've encountered that like, I've,
I've had to book them Ubers
00:26:17:11 - 00:26:19:21
because I'm not comfortable with them
getting the bus an hour away
00:26:19:21 - 00:26:21:20
because one of my best friends
lives in Salford.
00:26:21:20 - 00:26:25:24
Or, I've had to like,
00:26:25:24 - 00:26:29:09
go halfway to their accommodation
and then come back halfway to mine.
00:26:29:09 - 00:26:32:01
Just because just.
Or they're not by themselves for too long.
00:26:32:01 - 00:26:32:06
Yeah.
00:26:32:06 - 00:26:36:21
Because they've not got a fully charged
phone or they're out of battery.
00:26:36:21 - 00:26:38:18
So it's very, very scary.
00:26:38:18 - 00:26:40:06
But for me, it just goes back
00:26:40:06 - 00:26:42:15
to looking out for yourself
and looking out for each other. Yeah.
00:26:42:15 - 00:26:44:18
And the as you have the safe taxi scheme.
00:26:44:18 - 00:26:45:21
I don't know if you guys know about that.
00:26:45:21 - 00:26:48:06
I didn't know, but we.
00:26:48:06 - 00:26:50:09
So you phone, street cars or you.
00:26:50:09 - 00:26:54:11
If your phone dies, for example,
you can, like, tell a bartender or,
00:26:54:11 - 00:26:56:04
you can, like, one of the public phones.
00:26:56:04 - 00:26:58:17
You can call, yeah.
00:26:58:17 - 00:27:00:19
So what's it called? Street
cars. That's one.
00:27:00:19 - 00:27:04:11
And then,
you come in and pay the fare the next day.
00:27:05:10 - 00:27:08:10
You just have to give your ID to,
00:27:08:17 - 00:27:09:20
The taxi.
00:27:09:20 - 00:27:12:03
Yeah, the taxi person. Your unique ID not.
00:27:12:03 - 00:27:12:24
You're like, okay.
00:27:12:24 - 00:27:16:13
And then they'll give it to the union.
00:27:16:16 - 00:27:18:19
And then you can come and pay it
the next day.
00:27:18:19 - 00:27:23:04
But yeah, that's to like to help
students out if they, if they need it.
00:27:23:04 - 00:27:29:15
And we also have, a like our student
angels team who go down like the Deansgate
00:27:29:15 - 00:27:33:12
Oxford Road corridor, and walk down
to see if like if anybody needs help or
00:27:33:21 - 00:27:36:21
if any students are struggling
and they can help with that.
00:27:37:04 - 00:27:39:01
I think things like this need to be like
00:27:39:01 - 00:27:42:11
advertised more needs
because I never knew about this.
00:27:42:11 - 00:27:46:08
Like maybe we should have like a course on
in first year or something.
00:27:46:08 - 00:27:51:07
Like, I remember we had like a malpractice
little course, like a 20 unit thing.
00:27:51:08 - 00:27:51:20
Yeah.
00:27:51:20 - 00:27:52:20
But I think they should have something
00:27:52:20 - 00:27:56:12
like this as well because like,
no one I'm in third year.
00:27:56:16 - 00:27:57:20
I didn't know that. Yeah.
00:27:57:20 - 00:27:59:19
Even just like in welcome we. Yeah.
00:27:59:19 - 00:28:01:16
Just mention
the things that are out there.
00:28:01:16 - 00:28:04:20
Yeah I think I think like that's
they've been trying
00:28:04:20 - 00:28:08:02
to push like obviously consent
training was a big one.
00:28:08:08 - 00:28:12:03
But unlike also talking
about other services, but because there's
00:28:12:03 - 00:28:16:19
so many services like it's really hard
to like find to, to push them all.
00:28:17:18 - 00:28:18:08
But yeah, I
00:28:18:08 - 00:28:21:08
do agree that it does
need to be like signposted more
00:28:21:09 - 00:28:24:14
I think on also on that question, like
I used to work in hospitality as well.
00:28:24:19 - 00:28:28:07
So I worked in a restaurant
for five years, like not far from here,
00:28:28:13 - 00:28:31:22
near Brooke Hall, accommodation,
00:28:31:22 - 00:28:35:01
which is kind of like opposite
the Royal Infirmary.
00:28:35:03 - 00:28:35:13
Right.
00:28:35:13 - 00:28:36:12
Essentially.
00:28:36:12 - 00:28:40:19
But, I used to, like, walk home
from there, unless my sister picked me up.
00:28:40:19 - 00:28:43:05
But, that wasn't all the time,
00:28:43:05 - 00:28:46:07
because she left at one point to, to,
go do a different job.
00:28:46:07 - 00:28:49:10
So, but I would end
up, like, walking home because,
00:28:50:09 - 00:28:53:19
like,
I would finish at, like, 12 ish, maybe.
00:28:53:19 - 00:28:57:15
And then I'd walk home because, like, you,
I mean, the taxi was like 6 p.m.
00:28:57:15 - 00:28:58:16
and walking on was free.
00:28:58:16 - 00:28:59:21
Yeah.
00:28:59:21 - 00:29:04:04
But like, even though but like, that's
also like, especially if you're working
00:29:04:04 - 00:29:08:14
so many hours to just like to get money
you don't want to waste it on.
00:29:08:23 - 00:29:09:03
Yeah.
00:29:09:03 - 00:29:13:12
On taxes and labors, but sometimes
you feel like you should have to ask why.
00:29:13:12 - 00:29:17:24
Like as part of the reclaim campaign,
we kind of want to push for employers to,
00:29:17:24 - 00:29:22:17
like, offer their, employees like safe
transport, home after work, in busses
00:29:22:17 - 00:29:26:09
an hour because I think it would like,
really, really, really help.
00:29:26:11 - 00:29:30:07
A lot of students,
especially like placement students.
00:29:30:08 - 00:29:33:08
Hospitality workers, people
that work in the nighttime economy.
00:29:33:11 - 00:29:36:07
It's just because Manchester's,
like really big for nightlife.
00:29:36:07 - 00:29:38:19
And that's one of the reasons
why a lot of people come here.
00:29:38:19 - 00:29:43:08
Like the nightlife, the,
the, the opportunities they have to go
00:29:43:08 - 00:29:47:05
to, like warehouse project,
and like all the club nights.
00:29:47:05 - 00:29:50:07
But obviously we need to make sure
that people are feeling safe
00:29:50:07 - 00:29:53:12
enough to do that because then
if people aren't feeling safe,
00:29:53:12 - 00:29:56:19
you're not going to get the people there
nor the people to work it.
00:29:57:17 - 00:29:59:21
So like, it's really important.
00:29:59:21 - 00:30:03:01
I think that's why, like city council
and the,
00:30:03:12 - 00:30:06:15
the Manchester Combined Authority
should be listening to those.
00:30:06:16 - 00:30:06:22
Yeah.
00:30:06:22 - 00:30:10:02
If they want, like the nighttime economy
to survive, essentially.
00:30:10:14 - 00:30:14:14
I know there's a big safety thing
with drug use as well,
00:30:14:14 - 00:30:18:16
especially like, would you count
as a bit of a bit of a part of uni?
00:30:18:16 - 00:30:21:17
I would, yeah, social a bit.
00:30:22:22 - 00:30:23:08
Yeah.
00:30:23:08 - 00:30:27:14
Well, I think it happens in all unis,
and I know there's like a few policies
00:30:27:14 - 00:30:31:01
that have changed slightly as well,
which I think are really important.
00:30:31:08 - 00:30:36:24
So when I was in first year,
if you were caught to be on on drugs or
00:30:36:24 - 00:30:41:12
anything like that, there was potential
threat to be kicked out of your halls.
00:30:42:19 - 00:30:44:15
How? Funds. Yeah. Fined.
00:30:44:15 - 00:30:47:15
And, it's been changed now to,
00:30:47:20 - 00:30:50:04
What what would you what will happen?
00:30:50:04 - 00:30:51:02
Harm reduction.
00:30:51:02 - 00:30:55:15
So it's I mean, do you want to expand on
to, you can take it for sure.
00:30:55:15 - 00:30:59:19
So essentially, like,
if you get, if you get caught, like,
00:30:59:19 - 00:31:02:05
it will just be like a welfare
check, like, is everything okay?
00:31:02:05 - 00:31:05:13
But it was like aiming to reduce the harm
and like, the stigma
00:31:05:13 - 00:31:09:08
surrounding drug use, because we know that
people are going to do it regardless.
00:31:09:08 - 00:31:12:12
We want them to do it safely
and practice it safely, because there's
00:31:12:12 - 00:31:15:19
this whole like, it's uni.
00:31:15:19 - 00:31:18:23
I feel like it's an unspoken thing
that happens.
00:31:18:23 - 00:31:21:08
Like, I think people will try new things.
00:31:21:08 - 00:31:24:10
And I think
especially for people that are, oh,
00:31:24:17 - 00:31:29:12
I know everyone's 18,
but some people aren't like mentally 18.
00:31:29:24 - 00:31:32:24
And, and I think people would do it
00:31:33:13 - 00:31:36:13
out of peer pressure
and then they wouldn't
00:31:36:17 - 00:31:39:16
maybe ask for help because of this whole
00:31:39:16 - 00:31:42:13
you're going to get kicked out,
and you're gonna get fined.
00:31:42:13 - 00:31:45:11
And I think that's
what led to so many problems.
00:31:45:11 - 00:31:45:16
Yeah.
00:31:45:16 - 00:31:48:20
With that, that we still see as well,
which is really scary.
00:31:48:20 - 00:31:52:18
But I think that's a a good safety thing
that they've implemented now.
00:31:53:01 - 00:31:53:18
And we also have
00:31:54:19 - 00:31:56:02
drug testing kits that
00:31:56:02 - 00:32:00:24
the, as usual, to check if,
if you're getting drugs from someone.
00:32:01:01 - 00:32:01:07
Yeah.
00:32:01:07 - 00:32:04:08
Like if, if they're safe
and not like, laced with anything.
00:32:04:10 - 00:32:05:16
Yeah.
00:32:05:16 - 00:32:08:16
Good to know.
00:32:10:01 - 00:32:11:14
Just just another question then,
00:32:11:14 - 00:32:15:04
how do you think students
and local businesses,
00:32:15:04 - 00:32:18:15
could have influence
in making campus safer?
00:32:19:00 - 00:32:22:00
Especially for those out at night?
00:32:22:20 - 00:32:25:11
Well, I really do
00:32:25:11 - 00:32:29:18
like the the,
helping that students get home.
00:32:29:18 - 00:32:30:17
That's a good thing.
00:32:30:17 - 00:32:31:00
Yeah.
00:32:31:00 - 00:32:34:04
Also with the businesses,
00:32:34:04 - 00:32:38:15
especially down the main routes,
walking to Fallowfield,
00:32:38:15 - 00:32:41:15
I'm just selecting Fallowfield
because that's where most,
00:32:42:23 - 00:32:44:09
maybe have, like,
00:32:44:09 - 00:32:49:17
lights on all the time and
light in the air because it's so dark.
00:32:49:17 - 00:32:53:09
Yeah. Businesses could maybe do
00:32:54:11 - 00:32:56:06
more security cameras
00:32:56:06 - 00:32:59:24
or, I don't know,
or maybe have security guards outside.
00:33:00:01 - 00:33:05:00
The only security guards that I really see
walking down that is a while.
00:33:05:00 - 00:33:07:19
Two, five, six. That's on the actual,
like, road side of that.
00:33:07:19 - 00:33:13:05
And that's, that's really all I see
of safety when walking down that road.
00:33:13:10 - 00:33:14:22
I actually never walk down that road
00:33:14:22 - 00:33:17:22
because I never feel comfortable
walking down that road.
00:33:18:03 - 00:33:20:15
Yeah, and it's also really long, but
00:33:20:15 - 00:33:23:15
it was in the park near it, just
00:33:23:16 - 00:33:26:18
oh like at not if you go to the Platt
Fields Park at night.
00:33:26:18 - 00:33:29:12
Like it's so scary. I really hope no one's
going to pass through the park at night.
00:33:29:12 - 00:33:31:18
I mean, I did, but I was once
I was just really stressed.
00:33:31:18 - 00:33:34:02
So I just decided to go
and like play basketball there.
00:33:34:02 - 00:33:36:15
But, it was very random.
00:33:36:15 - 00:33:39:03
But it's it's really scary.
00:33:39:03 - 00:33:41:24
Yeah. I guess I'm the
00:33:43:09 - 00:33:44:24
social aspect side.
00:33:44:24 - 00:33:49:10
If you're out and about going home
with a group of people and you see someone
00:33:49:10 - 00:33:52:16
who looks like a student by themselves,
oh, yeah, ask them questions.
00:33:52:16 - 00:33:55:16
Don't be scared to rewrite. Don't be.
00:33:55:21 - 00:33:57:10
Don't. What's the word for it?
00:33:57:10 - 00:33:59:00
Don't ignore it and just think.
00:33:59:00 - 00:34:01:09
Assume that oh,
they're just going home by themselves.
00:34:01:09 - 00:34:02:13
You don't know what's happened.
00:34:02:13 - 00:34:04:22
Maybe they're walking home.
They've not got money to get home.
00:34:04:22 - 00:34:07:18
Yeah. The friends have stranded them
like you don't know the situation.
00:34:07:18 - 00:34:08:20
So simply asking.
00:34:08:20 - 00:34:09:05
Yeah.
00:34:09:05 - 00:34:12:09
I think it's always the first
and the best thing to do.
00:34:12:09 - 00:34:13:03
Yeah. Like.
00:34:13:03 - 00:34:15:12
Yeah. Unlike if they're drunk. Yeah.
00:34:15:12 - 00:34:16:11
Or anything like that.
00:34:16:11 - 00:34:19:07
Make sure,
like they know where they're going.
00:34:19:07 - 00:34:20:20
Yeah. Maybe just walk them home.
00:34:20:20 - 00:34:23:09
Like we all live in the same area,
I'm sure.
00:34:23:09 - 00:34:28:07
Like it's not too far away or like,
yeah, just put them in an Uber
00:34:28:12 - 00:34:29:21
and make sure it's the right Uber.
00:34:30:22 - 00:34:33:08
Yeah,
I think and like I mentioned earlier,
00:34:33:08 - 00:34:37:11
like in our building
there's like four flats in the building.
00:34:37:12 - 00:34:40:11
So like we all have each other
on social media even though
00:34:40:11 - 00:34:43:11
we're not all living in the same space
in the same kitchen.
00:34:43:17 - 00:34:46:03
It's just good to know, like,
how's everyone doing?
00:34:46:03 - 00:34:47:18
However, how's everyone's weekend?
00:34:47:18 - 00:34:49:23
Just catching up with each other
the other night?
00:34:49:23 - 00:34:54:08
A girl not in my flat and the other flat
upset us and came home really drunk.
00:34:54:18 - 00:34:56:18
So none of her flatmates.
00:34:56:18 - 00:34:58:13
I think this was due in reading week.
00:34:58:13 - 00:34:59:23
None of her flat me to end.
00:34:59:23 - 00:35:02:16
So we just invited her into our flat,
and she, you know,
00:35:02:16 - 00:35:05:16
she was thrown up over the toilet,
our toilet, which we had to clean.
00:35:05:16 - 00:35:08:00
But as long as she was safe
and she was okay
00:35:08:00 - 00:35:10:19
and she had people there for her,
we didn't mind. Yeah.
00:35:10:19 - 00:35:14:03
And I think just not ignoring people
you don't know what people
00:35:14:03 - 00:35:16:17
are going through. Yeah. Of course.
Look after yourself.
00:35:16:17 - 00:35:21:22
But also, be of good heart
and try and look out for people.
00:35:22:02 - 00:35:23:05
Even if the stranger. Yeah.
00:35:23:05 - 00:35:26:08
I think like being an active bystander.
00:35:26:08 - 00:35:26:13
Like.
00:35:26:13 - 00:35:30:05
Yeah, in that sense because like,
even this was like in a separate incident.
00:35:30:05 - 00:35:33:10
But I was in London one time and somebody,
this guy was following me.
00:35:33:20 - 00:35:38:03
So then like there was two people, like,
two girls that were like,
00:35:38:06 - 00:35:41:19
stood over the River Thames
and I was like, he's following me, please.
00:35:41:19 - 00:35:43:04
Can you, like, look after me?
00:35:43:04 - 00:35:47:06
They walked me like, straight to the,
like the, underground station
00:35:47:06 - 00:35:51:05
and, like, took my number, made sure
I was okay, make sure he wasn't following.
00:35:51:05 - 00:35:54:04
And it's just like, things like that
can always be really nice.
00:35:54:04 - 00:35:57:10
Even if people are coming to you saying,
I don't feel safe, like walking with them
00:35:57:10 - 00:36:00:18
because there's strength in numbers,
and not in that sense.
00:36:00:18 - 00:36:01:21
And I think, like,
00:36:01:21 - 00:36:04:19
just making sure you're aware
of your surroundings and aware of things.
00:36:04:19 - 00:36:06:00
Yeah.
00:36:06:00 - 00:36:10:13
Even simply just walking with someone,
to somewhere that they find safe
00:36:10:22 - 00:36:13:20
or, like, even when I did, like,
00:36:13:20 - 00:36:19:03
a late night, silent disco DJ shift,
and like, these girls that were in the sun
00:36:19:03 - 00:36:22:17
in, in the silent disco were like,
oh, like, are you okay getting home?
00:36:22:17 - 00:36:23:20
And I was like, yeah, I'm okay.
00:36:23:20 - 00:36:26:05
But it was nice
that they. Yeah, were like,
00:36:27:05 - 00:36:30:07
considerate and like, caring and like,
hey, like, are you sure you're okay?
00:36:30:07 - 00:36:32:15
And yeah, it was it was really lovely.
00:36:32:15 - 00:36:36:13
I think just like being wary,
being open and just, like, keeping an eye.
00:36:36:22 - 00:36:38:07
Been. Absolutely.
00:36:38:07 - 00:36:38:20
Yeah.
00:36:38:20 - 00:36:42:13
Something I would want to mention
that might be a bit controversial
00:36:42:13 - 00:36:45:13
to the university culture. Is,
00:36:46:21 - 00:36:51:15
so with the whole societies,
the whole fascist thing as well.
00:36:51:20 - 00:36:56:19
So, I, I feel like something
that people could maybe
00:36:56:19 - 00:37:01:20
take more responsibility
of is looking after their freshers,
00:37:02:01 - 00:37:05:21
maybe because, you know,
you know, all the stories of,
00:37:05:21 - 00:37:11:05
like, the societies and things like that
and how it can be a bit like lairy, but,
00:37:11:20 - 00:37:14:10
I don't think you should
00:37:14:10 - 00:37:17:10
maybe not force, but like,
00:37:17:22 - 00:37:22:20
force people to drink so heavily
on these nights out and then, like,
00:37:23:03 - 00:37:26:21
almost not keeping up with them,
like not being academic.
00:37:26:21 - 00:37:27:20
Yeah, yeah.
00:37:27:20 - 00:37:32:03
It's very, there's been so many times
I've been in like two, five, six and,
00:37:32:08 - 00:37:35:23
like, in the toilet
and some girl is just not okay.
00:37:35:23 - 00:37:39:14
And it's like you meant to be in a
in a society.
00:37:39:14 - 00:37:40:22
Yeah, I was happy.
00:37:40:22 - 00:37:41:04
Yeah.
00:37:41:04 - 00:37:44:07
And I've got friends
that were in their societies as well.
00:37:44:15 - 00:37:47:15
I'm not going to mention them, but,
00:37:47:15 - 00:37:50:17
like the things that I used to hear
that they used to like, kind of peer
00:37:50:17 - 00:37:52:21
pressure them to do,
it's like, yeah, come on now,
00:37:52:21 - 00:37:56:09
if you're at your social circle or
like something like that, you should have
00:37:56:20 - 00:38:00:05
some responsibility to like,
know people's limits.
00:38:00:05 - 00:38:04:16
Like, I know it's funny,
I'm doing quotations. But
00:38:06:02 - 00:38:07:02
is it like, it's
00:38:07:02 - 00:38:11:05
like you should maybe take on a bit more
responsibility of these people, I think.
00:38:11:05 - 00:38:12:05
Like what?
00:38:12:05 - 00:38:16:06
What's, what some societies have said,
it has really helped is to have, like,
00:38:16:15 - 00:38:20:11
at least 1 or 2 sober committee members
because, like,
00:38:20:11 - 00:38:24:14
if you're having socials
where drinking is involved,
00:38:24:14 - 00:38:28:04
then, yeah, making sure you have somebody
that is like,
00:38:28:11 - 00:38:31:17
is fully concentrated
on making sure that everybody is safe.
00:38:32:14 - 00:38:34:00
In that situation,
they might be able to not be able
00:38:34:00 - 00:38:37:00
to control it all,
but at least you have them there.
00:38:37:00 - 00:38:37:12
Yeah.
00:38:37:12 - 00:38:41:16
If you if you're struggling
or if somebody needs an Uber home or
00:38:41:16 - 00:38:45:12
so even at like the feminist collective
bar last year, like one of my friends
00:38:45:12 - 00:38:46:10
was the sober member
00:38:46:10 - 00:38:50:00
and it was just nice to have them, like,
be able to check in with everyone.
00:38:50:18 - 00:38:55:04
I think, yeah, I think the drinking
culture is like heavy in, in sports clubs.
00:38:56:06 - 00:38:57:02
Massive.
00:38:57:02 - 00:39:00:02
I'm not talking about my size. I.
00:39:01:07 - 00:39:01:22
Yeah.
00:39:01:22 - 00:39:05:12
Especially for freshers who've just turned
18 and they're in a new city.
00:39:05:12 - 00:39:07:03
Yeah. They haven't got their group. Yeah.
00:39:07:03 - 00:39:08:13
And they're trying to socialize. Yeah.
00:39:08:13 - 00:39:10:23
They're just trying to like keep up. Yeah.
00:39:10:23 - 00:39:13:22
Someone look out for them.
00:39:13:22 - 00:39:14:16
Of course.
00:39:14:16 - 00:39:14:19
Yeah.
00:39:14:19 - 00:39:18:05
Does anybody have any,
any other thoughts on
00:39:18:05 - 00:39:22:01
on general safety just before,
we wrap up and I'll talk
00:39:22:02 - 00:39:25:12
briefly about our reclaim aims,
but yeah, feel free to mention anything.
00:39:25:23 - 00:39:27:15
Yeah. I've got one more.
00:39:27:15 - 00:39:31:16
Just another thing that the uni
has also implemented this year is
00:39:31:16 - 00:39:36:02
the seats thing, which is a love hate
relationship for some people.
00:39:36:04 - 00:39:37:23
Yeah, yeah,
00:39:37:23 - 00:39:39:03
it's definitely love hate.
00:39:39:03 - 00:39:40:15
Yeah.
00:39:40:15 - 00:39:42:24
Whenever I hear people talking
bad about it, I'm just like.
00:39:42:24 - 00:39:45:24
I feel like it's really important to have,
though, to, like,
00:39:46:04 - 00:39:48:21
keep checking up on the students.
00:39:48:21 - 00:39:50:23
Yeah, because some people could, like,
00:39:52:01 - 00:39:53:00
go missing or anything.
00:39:53:00 - 00:39:55:10
But without this, like check up
00:39:55:10 - 00:39:59:23
of the attendance and things like that,
I think it's actually really important.
00:40:00:00 - 00:40:03:00
I like that we have it now.
00:40:03:04 - 00:40:05:18
And I also love that it says 100%.
00:40:05:18 - 00:40:08:18
Oh, go on, I want to hear you take say,
00:40:09:24 - 00:40:12:05
where do I start? So, at the start of.
00:40:12:05 - 00:40:14:07
Yeah, I was like,
oh, this makes so much sense.
00:40:14:07 - 00:40:16:23
Like, you just have to log
attendance online and see you there.
00:40:16:23 - 00:40:19:23
But a problem that actually arised
00:40:20:01 - 00:40:23:10
arose, out of my course was,
00:40:23:10 - 00:40:27:14
one of our senior lecturers
actually emailed all of us students.
00:40:27:14 - 00:40:31:16
Now, my cohort is about
a group of students of 300 people,
00:40:32:02 - 00:40:33:13
which is under 300 people.
00:40:33:13 - 00:40:37:15
And what was happened
was people who weren't in attendance,
00:40:38:00 - 00:40:41:00
would get their code off and off
00:40:41:06 - 00:40:44:18
and log their attendance,
and say the were there, but they weren't.
00:40:44:24 - 00:40:49:07
And obviously studying a health care
registered course, with a code
00:40:49:07 - 00:40:53:15
and a guideline and a registered regulate
regulated body, I think not.
00:40:53:15 - 00:40:56:18
So it, it obviously like.
00:40:57:24 - 00:40:58:22
Given given
00:40:58:22 - 00:40:59:07
a rise
00:40:59:07 - 00:41:01:09
to questions on people's
fitness to practice,
00:41:01:09 - 00:41:04:04
even though we're not registered
nurses yet and we're still students,
00:41:04:04 - 00:41:08:04
so that kind of shook
everyone up and more like, oh, sorry,
00:41:08:04 - 00:41:10:01
guys,
I'm not be sending the code in anymore.
00:41:10:01 - 00:41:14:13
And sometimes it would just
some lecturers don't use it.
00:41:14:13 - 00:41:17:04
Some lecturers
still use manual registered.
00:41:17:04 - 00:41:21:16
So you would for that lecture
you would not have a code because
00:41:21:16 - 00:41:22:17
there wasn't one.
00:41:22:17 - 00:41:25:02
And then it would log you in option
when you were there.
00:41:25:02 - 00:41:26:24
That was quite frustrating.
00:41:26:24 - 00:41:29:02
But apart from that.
00:41:29:02 - 00:41:29:09
Yeah.
00:41:29:09 - 00:41:32:09
Because I wouldn't know if I,
because I didn't know anything.
00:41:33:04 - 00:41:35:03
Yeah. Yeah. That was.
00:41:35:03 - 00:41:35:19
Yeah. Yeah.
00:41:35:19 - 00:41:37:24
No it's same for us as well in medicine.
Yeah.
00:41:37:24 - 00:41:40:13
Yeah definitely no sharing allowed.
00:41:40:13 - 00:41:43:02
Yeah I think like probably I think
00:41:43:02 - 00:41:46:03
a lot of the student concerns
were because last year
00:41:46:03 - 00:41:49:21
it was like in-person or in-person check
ins for international students
00:41:50:04 - 00:41:54:16
and wanted to have a system
where it would feel like, like,
00:41:55:02 - 00:41:58:04
like
we're doing welfare checks on everyone.
00:41:58:12 - 00:42:01:05
So I think that's
00:42:01:05 - 00:42:04:19
I think the people that didn't get checked
in last year
00:42:04:19 - 00:42:09:00
feel like they're doing it to, like,
monitor them rather than like, welfare.
00:42:09:04 - 00:42:09:15
Yeah.
00:42:09:15 - 00:42:14:05
And I think that's because, like,
a lot of people can't come to,
00:42:14:05 - 00:42:15:19
I mean, cost of living,
like a lot of people
00:42:15:19 - 00:42:19:14
can't come to lectures because they have
to work in order to pay for university.
00:42:19:18 - 00:42:20:23
So I think, like,
00:42:20:23 - 00:42:24:24
they think that they're going to get in
trouble if they don't attend the lectures.
00:42:25:05 - 00:42:28:05
I mean, in your courses,
it might be a little different, but,
00:42:28:05 - 00:42:31:18
yeah,
they're usually quite, quite mandatory.
00:42:32:13 - 00:42:34:04
But I think get off the
00:42:34:04 - 00:42:35:23
they'll think they'll get in trouble
if they don't attend.
00:42:35:23 - 00:42:38:19
Essentially.
Yeah. Yeah. It's just a welfare check.
00:42:38:19 - 00:42:39:24
Yeah. So what about safety?
00:42:41:19 - 00:42:42:04
But yeah.
00:42:42:04 - 00:42:44:23
Any any other thoughts? It's okay. If not.
00:42:44:23 - 00:42:47:16
Sometime at like 9:00 tonight,
I'll think of another topic.
00:42:47:16 - 00:42:50:10
Yeah, but I'll be sure to mention that.
00:42:50:10 - 00:42:52:14
But no, that's that's all I can think of.
00:42:52:14 - 00:42:53:13
Yeah.
00:42:53:13 - 00:42:56:12
Yeah,
definitely feel safe in in Manchester.
00:42:56:12 - 00:42:56:19
Yeah. Yeah.
00:42:56:19 - 00:42:57:21
I've loved it so far.
00:42:57:21 - 00:42:59:20
Honestly
I've had I've only been here two months
00:42:59:20 - 00:43:03:01
and I've had the best two months
in my life, so it's been really good.
00:43:03:12 - 00:43:04:20
Oh good.
00:43:04:20 - 00:43:07:00
I think like, yeah.
00:43:07:00 - 00:43:09:18
Obviously we have our Reclaim
the Night campaign every year.
00:43:09:18 - 00:43:10:02
Yeah.
00:43:10:02 - 00:43:13:23
Which has led, well,
I wanted to be more student
00:43:13:23 - 00:43:16:12
led this year, but I'm like,
essentially the campaign lead.
00:43:16:12 - 00:43:20:12
And then I, like, mobilize students
to, like to figure out our aims
00:43:20:12 - 00:43:23:12
for the campaign
and what reclaim should look like.
00:43:23:16 - 00:43:25:23
So this year we've decided on three games.
00:43:25:23 - 00:43:30:00
So one of them is like,
to have a night bus that runs 24 hours,
00:43:30:07 - 00:43:34:05
for people
that, might need to get busses,
00:43:34:05 - 00:43:38:19
but missed the last bus, for example,
from town, it's like 430 last bus.
00:43:39:04 - 00:43:42:06
But if people work in placement
or people are working like long hours
00:43:42:06 - 00:43:44:21
early in the morning,
some clubs are open until like 7 a.m..
00:43:45:23 - 00:43:47:07
But yeah, some,
00:43:47:07 - 00:43:50:09
bus services don't run until then.
00:43:50:09 - 00:43:53:09
So 24 hour bus service,
but making sure that we have like,
00:43:53:15 - 00:43:56:07
people on those busses
to make sure everybody's safe.
00:43:56:07 - 00:43:56:19
Yeah.
00:43:56:19 - 00:44:00:07
Like for example,
similar to, like, the student angel system
00:44:00:13 - 00:44:01:23
of how many people are actually there.
00:44:01:23 - 00:44:06:21
So like welfare checks,
and not necessarily like police
00:44:07:07 - 00:44:10:12
because,
students don't feel like students often
00:44:10:12 - 00:44:13:17
don't feel safe with the police
on, on transport, which is so far.
00:44:13:22 - 00:44:17:22
And the second one is like, lobbying
for like the council to,
00:44:18:09 - 00:44:22:06
support in like, legislation or policy.
00:44:22:12 - 00:44:23:10
That means that employers
00:44:23:10 - 00:44:27:13
would have to like, pay
for their employees to get home safely.
00:44:27:13 - 00:44:33:00
Whether that be like, a bus ticket
or a taxi, taxi home, whatever.
00:44:33:06 - 00:44:34:18
It's up to the employee.
00:44:34:18 - 00:44:38:04
But something we really, push for on
the third one is like trans
00:44:38:04 - 00:44:41:17
inclusion, within, like, conversations
about nighttime safety.
00:44:42:11 - 00:44:45:17
Because, like a lot of the steering
groups that have started the campaign
00:44:45:17 - 00:44:49:21
this year, trans, feel
neglected by the city because there's,
00:44:50:10 - 00:44:53:13
obviously, like women's
safety is a massive thing, but also, yeah,
00:44:53:16 - 00:44:57:13
there's a lot of like, transphobia
and gender based violence towards
00:44:57:13 - 00:44:58:12
trans people. Yeah.
00:44:58:12 - 00:45:01:09
That is also really important to address.
00:45:01:09 - 00:45:02:22
So that's our three aims.
00:45:02:22 - 00:45:03:19
Reclaim this. Yeah.
00:45:03:19 - 00:45:07:24
So yeah,
it's going to also come to fruition.
00:45:08:20 - 00:45:10:10
So yeah. Yeah.
00:45:10:10 - 00:45:11:03
Thank you.
00:45:11:03 - 00:45:13:19
Hopefully you see that on the 21st.
00:45:13:19 - 00:45:15:21
We're doing benchmarking the day before.
00:45:15:21 - 00:45:19:03
We've got a football game
with, the vice chancellor.
00:45:19:06 - 00:45:21:17
So that's exciting.
00:45:21:17 - 00:45:25:23
I mean, if you guys so so our offices
is, eight of us,
00:45:25:23 - 00:45:28:23
one of them is unable to make it because,
they've got a concern.
00:45:29:16 - 00:45:30:16
But it's us.
00:45:30:16 - 00:45:33:21
And then the vice chancellor
and the chief operating officer,
00:45:33:21 - 00:45:35:09
which is he's called Patrick.
00:45:35:09 - 00:45:39:05
So they'll be playing football with us
at Sugden Sports Center on Friday.
00:45:39:15 - 00:45:42:03
So if you it's free tickets.
00:45:42:03 - 00:45:45:15
So, I mean, if you're if you're down
to come down, then we'll see you there.
00:45:45:23 - 00:45:46:15
I'll, I'll be there.
00:45:49:00 - 00:45:50:02
So yeah.
00:45:50:02 - 00:45:52:11
Thank you for all for coming
and for sharing your thoughts.
00:45:52:11 - 00:45:54:20
Thank you for hosting.
Thank you very much.