Resources for UCB Staff

This page contains information about the UCB Guild Elections for 2023 for Staff at University College Birmingham.

About the Elections

Annualy, students at UCB elect students to lead the Guild in the following year. This year, these roles are:
  • Equality Officer
  • Education Officer
  • Activity and Community Officer 

For more information on each role, please see our role descriptions here.

Important Dates:

Date

Activity
8 April - 14 April 23:59

 

Nominations Open
15 April

 

Candidate Academy

12 Noon 17 April

 Candidates announced

10am 22 April - 24 April 5pm

Voting Open 

 

 

Rules & Regulations:

We want to encourage fun, vibrant and exciting campaigns, but elections must also be free and fair. That is why we are providing guidelines on the elections for all candidates.

The election rules can be found here.

University and Guild staff are allowed to generally support the elections, and encourage students to get involved and vote. They should not show any favour or support for any specific candidate. 

 

How You Can Help

1. Encourage students that you know to run to be a Guild Officer

Encouraging the students that you work with to run in the election might give them the confidence boost that they need. It could be that you've noticed a Course Rep is a great advocate and would be good at the job, or that you know one of your students is looking for work in leading a charity!

If you'd prefer to do this anonymously, you can send in an anonymous recommendation here. Using your submission we will contact the student to let them know that someone thinks they would make a great Guild Officer. 

 

2. Let students know that nominations are open

Promote nominations in your classes, when you talk to students or via your canva pages. Nominations are open from 20th March until 14th April. Students can nominate themselves here.

 

3. Help train students at Candidate Academy

Candidate Academy is a series of training and workshop opportunities that we offer to students who are interested in running in the election. These sessions include information on campaigning, training on comms, social media and public speaking. 

If you have ideas for training or can offer an hour during the week commencing 17th April 2023 to deliver a training session, we would love to hear from you. Please contact Mike Towl, our Head of Operations at mike@ucbguild.co.uk. 


4. Encourage students to vote during the elections
During elections, encourage students you work with to vote. You could do this via a lecture shoutout, a slide in a presentation, chatting in one-to-ones or using a Canvas notification. We think it's really important for students to exercise their democratic rights and having champions in the University promoting this too would be great! 

 

5. Invite us to your classes

Our current Guild Officers are available to do lecture shout-outs or come to tutorials to chat to students about the Guild Elections and why they are important. If you'd like us to come to one of your classes,  please contact us at cassie@ucbguild.co.uk.

 

6. Tell us about your experience of working with a Guild Officer (or even being a Sabbatical Officer if you've been one!)

If you've ever worked with a Guild Officer, or been a sabbatical Officer yourself before, we would love to hear your testimony - just drop us an e-mail.