Full Time Paid Positions

The 6 full-time Executive Officers will lead the Students’ Union, run campaigns and projects to improve students’ lives, lobby and work with University Senior Management and are paid £26,000 for their year in office. Elected students take a year out of their studies or complete the role directly after completing their degree.

Liberation positions**

We understand that forms of structural oppression marginalise certain groups of students. That’s why we elect 9 self-defining liberation representatives to lead on issues affecting these students. These positions include Black & Minority Ethnic, Disabled & Specific Learning Difficulties, LGBT+, Trans and Women’s Representatives. To vote for these positions you must self-identify within the liberation group, to do this, click on the button below. This information won’t be publicly visible and it won’t be stored on your record. To find out more on how you can self-identify, watch the video here.

Science and Engineering Board positions

Every school has one elected representative position that you can vote for. There are also faculty-based International, Postgraduate and Welfare representative positions. These positions form part of Faculty Boards that meet to discuss the needs and interests of students and work to make changes and improvements to the student experience in their faculty. Alongside their individual responsibility areas the following School and Faculty Representative positions also sit on the Science & Engineering Board. The Board will discuss and advance the interests and needs of students studying in the Faculty of Science & Engineering.

* Additional non-representative positions - these positions are non-representative roles that do not sit on Student Council

** To stand, or vote for these positions you must self-identify within the liberation group.

All positions officially take office from 1 August 2020