Unite Students

We've upgraded our website to make it easier for students to find and book rooms. Check it out: www.unitestudents.com 📲

We're hoping to redevelop one of our key Southampton properties – our 560-bed Mercury Point: https://lnkd.in/eR9bT_m3   Our 810-bed property would replace the existing building, freeing up privately rented homes.   We've invested £90million over the past year to upgrade our properties and improve service levels.   Tom Brewerton, our Group Development Director, said:   “We’re excited about the planned redevelopment works at one of our key properties in Southampton as we work to continuously improve the student experience across our portfolio." #construction

Have you seen the £65million refurbishment of three of our properties in #Manchester? In 2022, we created 137 additional bedrooms for The Manchester Metropolitan University and The University of Manchester students. The work at Parkway Gate, Kincardine Court and New Medlock House included: £12.1million 92-bed new build extension at Kincardine Court 🏗 New gyms, dance studios and live music rooms 🎤 Improved sustainability features 🌍 754 refurbished bedrooms 🛏 Upgrades to reception areas, kitchens and social spaces 🥗 One of the properties - New Medlock House - was voted best #StudentAccommodation property in Manchester by residents last year according to StudentCrowd’s #StudentVoiceAwards Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eX9GHXiT

We're working closely with Unite Foundation and the Social Market Foundation on this exciting research to better understand estranged and care experienced students’ experiences of access, progression and success at university. We'll be sharing our policy recommendations with government. We are the principal donor of the Unite Foundation, which supports estranged and care experienced students with rent-free accommodation in our properties.

Read an interview with our CEO Joe Lister in today's The Times. We're a #FTSE100 company, but this wasn't your normal business lunch ... https://lnkd.in/eh2tYssF

We've just finished a project to transform our student and communal spaces at our Pier Quays property in Kent The £170,000 refurbishment updated two common rooms, added a new cinema room, and upgraded furniture, among other benefits.

Our employee Positive Impact programme gives our teams the opportunity to create projects that give back to their local communities. Our Sheffield team achieved our highest employee rating in 2023 for their project which worked closely with Sheffield Childrens Hospital. "The project is one of my favourite parts about working for Unite Students,” says Hollie Street, our General Manager in Sheffield. “Not only do we get to make a difference to the local community, but it brings the team together as one – the volunteering days are so positive for morale.” Their work has included donating charity pin badges to our residents during check-in, and collecting donations at our reception desk which raised more than £700. The team also run holiday gift drives and charity abseils at Sheffield Hallam University, which raised just shy of £4,000 last year, including our employee charity match, making it almost double the previous year’s total. All donations from 2023 have gone towards the hospital’s fundraising for the construction of a National Centre for Child Health Technology, a world-class research and technology centre to be built in Sheffield. 🖥 Read more about our community work: https://lnkd.in/e78jPZhe 📹 Video by: Corinne Riley ft. Hollie Street and Caitlin Hallatt 🎼 Music by: Infraction

Students’ digital needs have changed since our app first launched in 2013. We’ve created a new app to better meet those needs and enrich our residents’ stay with us.

In our latest podcast - Innovations and inspiration for 2024/25 - Ellie Drave, our Product Manager shares how our new app will change our resident experience 📲 https://lnkd.in/ecH7_XrS “Students have been at the forefront of the new app development from the very, very beginning. Once we had identified the initial set of features, we did extensive user research on each of those features to understand students’ priorities. We then used that feedback to craft initial versions of the designs, which we again, prototype tested with students” “Once the feature has been developed, the actual live app itself is placed into the hands of students so that they can play around with it. Not only to try and break it for us so we can fix issues, but also we can get real life feedback from them.” Our new app, launching for this academic year, aims to improve the experience of booking with us, to moving in and living in our buildings, all the way through to check-out. ✏ Read the transcript here: https://lnkd.in/ecH7_XrS 🎧 Listen on Spotify: https://lnkd.in/e_MbWu8c 🍏 Listen on Apple podcasts: https://lnkd.in/e4XEAvBK

We’d like to say a huge thank you and good luck to our Industrial Placement students who have recently finished their time working with us and are now heading into their final year at university.   For second year university students, the placements were created to provide young people the opportunity to gain valuable paid industry experience. We’d like to wish Liv Francis, Rue Muabe, Linus Adzanku, Nifemi Omoshuli, Adassa Walker, Jack Pearce, Joel James, Godbless Acheampong, Felix Cheesman, Fatimah Minhas and Archie Davis good luck in the next stage of their lives! 📹 Video by Corinne Riley ft Emma Rowden and Jenni Brooks BSc (Hons) Psy. MCIPD FLPI