Union Elections 2024: UCU Commons slate and endorsements
Later this week you should receive your ballot papers for this year’s elections. Please fill in and return ASAP - the window for voting closes on 29 February! Please make sure your postal address details are up to date in MyUCU as soon as you can, and reach out to colleagues to make sure they are aware this vote is happening.
UCU Commons Slate
We are so proud to bring you our slate of fabulous candidates. They are:
Laura Chuhan Campbell (she/her), Durham University
(Representative of women members)Robin Clarke (he/him), University of the Arts London
(London and the East HE / UK elected member HE)Jo Edge (she/her), University of Edinburgh
(Representative of women members)Christopher O’Donnell (he/him), University of the West of Scotland
(UK elected member HE)Alex Prichard (he/him), University of Exeter
(UK elected member HE)Sophia Woodman (she/her), University of Edinburgh
(UK elected member HE)
UCU Commons Endorsements
Furthermore, a few weeks ago we asked all General Secretary and Vice President candidates, plus some independent NEC candidates, some questions about their policies and priorities if elected to help inform our choices of which non-Commons candidates to endorse. You can read our blog post on this here, but the headlines are:
General Secretary
We endorse Jo Grady for re-election to the post of UCU General Secretary.
Vice-President
We endorse David Hunter for election to the post of UCU Vice-President.
NEC seats
We endorse Mark Taylor-Batty for the North East HE seat. In London and the East HE seat we recommend giving your first preference vote to Robin Clarke, but we also endorse both Alison Hawkings and Nico Rosetti.