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The Student Parliament

Where can you ask UPSU managers why the bar is painted grey? Or University big wigs why catering isn't up to scratch? Whilst also holding your executive Sabbatical Officers to account and setting the political strategy for your union?

Student Parliament is the highest democratic structure at UPSU outside of open meetings (such as Annual General Meetings) which consists of student representatives elected by students at the University of Plymouth to make sure that UPSU is doing what it is supposed to do and in the way that it is supposed to do so.

Future meetings will be held at 18:30 on the top floor Babbage Building room 406 on....

30th October 2012

27th November 2012

15th January 2013

AGM 5th February 2012 in the Sublime Bar, UPSU from 18:00

14th March 2013

Documents from these meetings can be found here

For more information on how to get involved in Parliament please contact:

Rob Young: c hair@upsu.com

Sabbatical Officers

The Sabbatical Officers are full-time paid students, who either take a year out of their study to participate or who have just graduated.
The Students elect the officers to run the union and Student Parliament holds them to account - it even has the power to fire them if they do things really wrong!!
Details about the Sabbatical Officers can be found here.

Student Parliamentarians

The Student Parliament consists of a number of 'Campaigns Chairs', 'School Representatives' and non-portfolio 'Independents' as well as the Parliament Chair.

The following people have been elected so far;

Parliament Chair - Rob Young

Deputy Chair - Richie Skipper

Sabbatical Officers - Jazz Singh-Khaira, Rich Garratt, Steph Driscoll, Sarah Pook and Dave de-Beger

Independent Representatives - Ben Jack Gladstone, Richie Skipper and Esther Idowu, Hugh Waters, Charlie Green, Ellena Fletcher, Chris Hunt and Ruth Ampong

LGBT Campaigns Chair - Anna Loomes

Racial and Ethnic Campaigns Chair- Arfan Bhatti

Women’s Campaigns Chair - Ruby Fuller

Placement Students Campaigns Chair - Felicity Gove

Students with Disabilities Campaings Chair - Carolyn Watson

International Students’ Campaigns Chair - Hengyan Zhang

Postgraduate Campaigns Chair - Vacant

Mature Students’ Campiagns Chair - Vacant

Ethics and Environment Campaigns Chair- Vacant

Welfare Campaigns Chair - Katie French

Education Campaigns Chair -Chris Carter

Media Rep - Thomas Boaden

Volunteer Rep -Natalie Rayner

Raising and Giving (RAG) Rep - Joss Webber

Sports Rep - Becca Stiffell

Societies Rep - Oliver Windsor

Chair of Scrutiny Committee - Ben Gladstone

Chair of Equality and Diveristy Committee - Alan Willetts

School Reps

More information about School reps can be found here

Faculty of Art
School of Architecture - Lilly Hein-Hartman

School of Art and Media - Sarah Bowman

School of Humanities and Performing Arts - Aaron Latini

Faculty of Science and Technology
School of Computing and Maths - Samantha Hamilton

School of Marine Science and Engineering - Scott Hadley

School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences - Emi-Jo Mawson

SOGEES - Emily Haggie

School of Psychology - Raymond Stacey

Faculty of Health, Education and Society
School of Education - Maggie Godden

School of Health Professionals - Madeline Hocking

School of Nursing and Midwifery Vacant - Tim Murray

School of Social Science and Social Work - April Watkins

Plymouth Business School
School of Tourism and Hospitality - Jan Ribera

School of Law - Karen Bond

School of Management - Mike Dalton

Partner College Reps

to be elected at each Partner College (contact deputypresident@upsu.com if interested)

City College Plymouth - Cezary Ostrowski

Petroc College - Leilah Hoinville

Truro and Penwith College - Heather Shaw

South Devon College - Alan Willetts

Somerset College -

Annual General Meeting

Every year UPSU holds an Annual General Meeting (AGM), this year's meeting is on Tuesday 5th February 2013

At this meeting you can-

Hold your Executive (Sabbatical) Officers to account. Are they representing your opinion fully?

Question the finances of your union. Are you happy with where your money is going?

Pass big policy for the future of UPSU

For more information contact your president: president@upsu.com

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