Annual Student Meeting

• Annual Student Meeting guide

Motions for debate:

1. Should Students' Union incorporate Apartheid-Off-Campus Week in the Students’ Union Liberation Calendar?
2. Should the Students' Union only sell and distribute pre-packaged drinks from local businesses?
3. Should the Students' Union introduce mandatory Islamophobia awareness training to all Students' Union staff including Executive Officers and lobby the university to implement the training for all Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) staff?
4. Motion wording document to follow: Should the Students' Union organise more intercultural events for university students during studies as well as after studies?
5. Should the QMSU lobby Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) to negotiate with the QMUL Encampment for Palestine, and should the QMSU directly lobby QMUL to agree to the following demands? (Amended title 12/07/24)
6. Should the Students' Union lobby the university to create a platform where students & staff are able to raise issues regarding security staff on campus anonymously?
7. Should the Students' Union reform the external speakers process to be more transparent with student groups & societies about their external speakers review process?
8. Should the Students' Union pressure Queen Mary (QMUL) to stop the Westfield Nursery closure and consider the students' voice?
9. Should the Students' Union ensure a seamless transition for new students

How the motion order was decided

1. All motions were numbered in the order in which they were received.
2. The numbers were entered into the random sequence generator provided by random.org
3. The Secretary and Governance Officer generated the random sequence on a Teams call in the presence of the Students’ Union President and an independent witness drawn from the external members of the QMSU Board of Trustees.
4. The draw took place at 4pm on Monday 1st July following the motion deadline the 12pm deadline and was signed off by the relevant parties prior to the full agenda being published.
5. Any motions accepted at the Chair’s discretion after the published deadline will be added to the end of the agenda in the order in which they are received.
6. The above process has been published on the Students’ Union website since the Annual Student Meeting was confirmed and has been communicated to all proposers and seconders.

An amendment is a change to a motion that is on the agenda for the Annual Student Meeting. The suggested changes should be substantive, and the Chair is unlikely to accept amendments that relate to spelling, grammar or style, unless the amendment would change the meaning of the motion.

Read our Amendments guide to learn more about submitting an amendment to a motion prior to the Annual Student Meeting.