Your Representatives

A central duty of the Students' Union is to provide a channel for students to be represented: to represent views to the College, to departments, to course leaders, to the University, to NUS, to government, to complaint panels, to funding bodies, to support groups...its is across the board and it is decided by you.

 

There are two basic "representative" co-ordination bodies - the Council, full of elected student reps from across the College and SU membership and "advocacy services", where out professional staff take on your case to support you - and that could be defending a complaint, making an appeal, supporting you setting up a club or society, launching a campaign.

 

The representatives you have, some of whom are members of the Council are:

 

* Course representatives, one or more for each year or course (decided locally by you!)

* School officers, elected by all students, with at least one for each School of the College - responsible for liaising with the course reps

* Club and societies - each has an executive committee and together they appoint reps to the Council

* SU Officers - they have at least one portfolio each ranging from academic affairs, postgraduates, campaigns and environment to social space, ents, external affairs and welfare.

* College Committee Reps, most of whom have another role in the SU, but essentially can be any student elected by their peers under the SU rules

* Yourself - need to raise an issue or flag something, you can do this directly with the SU - we have a staff team who can support you getting through to the right student representative who can raise your issue with who ever you like!

 

jo@birkbeckunion.org - for student engagement generally

rob@birkbeckunion.org - for council etc