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UPC and Student Parliament

Contact details of Parlaimentarians will be added in due course...sorry for any inconvenience. If you have any questions about student Parliament please contact deputypresident@upsu.com. 

Parliament Chair: The parliament chair is solely responsible for chairing Student Parliament once a month. Parliament consists of 50 student representatives who want their voice to be heard so the chair must be fair, diplomatic but firm. The Chair must remain impartial and run meetings with an agenda of being unbiased and neutral.

- Tom Milson

 Campaigns Chairs

There are also several Campaign Chair positions on Student Parliament. These positions are responsible for chairing specific campaign sub-committees on Parliament. The Chairs must recruit volunteers to sit on the committees and ensure that the sub-committee works effectively. Any student can represent on a sub-committee and attend Student Parliament. The Chairs are one of the main representatives for all Union issues regarding their campaign.

Campaign Chair positions include:

Postgraduate Campaigns Chair:

·         Position Open - Interested? 

Mature Students Campaigns Chair:

·         Peter Winkley 

Racial and Ethnic Campaigns Chair:

·         Shaughn Lewis 

Ethics and Environments Campaigns Chair:

·         Tara Lander 

Welfare Campaigns Chair :

·         Position Open - Interested?? 

Education Campaigns Chair:

·         Lea-anne Fenemore 

Women’s Campaigns Chair:

·         Victoria Coker 

Students with Disabilities Campaigns Chair:

·         Position Open - Interested? 

LGBT Campaigns Chair:

·         Ashley Larter 

International Students Chair:

·         Position Open - Interested?

These representatives make up the part time officers of the SU and are elected alongside the sabbatical officers in February.  As well as representing their groups on Parliament they also chair their own campaigns committees which plan and carry out various campaigns throughout the year. 

The remaining members of Parliament are made up of students whose sole responsibility is to represent their various groups; however they may have other responsibilities outside of Parliament. Those groups are:

Independent Reps: Ensure that the democratic principles of UPSU are upheld, and represent all students at the University of Plymouth.

·         Clare Uren

·         Hannah Niblett

·         Jamie Young

·         Katie Moore

·         Rebecca Greenwood

·         Thom Boulton

·         ?

·         ?

Sports Reps: Works closely with VP Sports (Chris Rees)

·         Conor Heaven

·         Elizabeth Jenkins

·         Kate Crompton

Societies Reps: Works closely with VP Activities and Communication (James Redfearn)

·         Jessica Luce

·         Kirsten Lowe

·         ?

Media Rep: Works closely with VP Activities and Communication (James Redfearn)

·         Lauren Knight 

Volunteer Rep:

·         Vicky Higgs (President)

·         ? (elected form ViP society)

RAG Rep: Work closely with the VP Activities and Communications (James Redfearn).

·         Naveen Siddiqui (President)

Halls and Private Accommodation: Represents the interests of student’s living in halls of residence and enables issues to be dealt with in an appropriate manner.

·         Emma Doe

·         Hannah Lambourn

·         ? 

UPC Reps:

These positions are only available to students studying at one of our 18 University of Plymouth Colleges (UPC). Their role is to enable the fair representation of Partner College Student’s. These positions are part-time paid positions, working 8 hours/week. UPC Reps are a constant point of contact between students their college and UPSU and are expected to promote UPSU activities and opportunities. There are currently UPC Rep positions at 7 of our largest Partner Colleges, these include:

·         Natalie Parsley (Somerset College of Art and Technology)

·         Catherine Tetreault (South Devon College)

·         Sophie Hunt (North Devon College)

·         Jade Benjamin (City of Bristol College)

·         ? (Truro College)

·         ? (City College Plymouth)

·         ? (Cornwall College)

·         Elected from course reps within their Faculty.

Interested? Contact Alison Smith at vpedandwelfare@upsu.com.

·         Elected representative from the PCMD Parliament.