Your Students’ Council is made up of voluntary, elected Student Reps and your Full Time Elected Officers. Every member of the Students’ Council represents the views of a different community at UCLan, and are elected by students, for students every year.
Council Members represent your views and debate constructively on key issues at meetings. They also check that your Full Time Elected Officers are keeping standards high across the Students’ Union!
Students’ Council votes on Union policy (submitted through Your Big Ideas) and ensures that existing policies are put into action. Each Big Idea approved by the Council, is then Union policy which lasts three years.
Elections to become a member of your Students’ Council take place in March for the following year.
The Council meets three times a year, and everyone is welcome. If you’re not a member of the Students’ Council and you’d like to attend, or you’d like to find out more about how to become a member of the Council, get in touch at yourunion@uclan.ac.uk.
Liberation & Section Reps
Your Students’ Union has a team of seven Liberation and seven Section Representatives:
Liberation Reps
- Women Students’ Representative
- Black Students’ Representative
- Asian Students' Representative
- Arab Students' Representative
- Disabled Students’ Representative
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual (LGB) Students’ Representative
- Trans* Students’ Representative
These Student Reps sit on Students’ Council to make sure that the voices of students who are typically marginalised are heard. They voice any concerns or issues of students from their dedicated communities at Council meetings.
Section Reps
- Care Experience Students' Representative
- International Students’ Representative
- Postgraduate Students’ Representative
- Ethics & Environment Representative
- Men Students’ Representative
- Burnley Students' Representative
- Westlakes Students' Representative
- Chair of Council
The International, Postgraduate, Care Experienced, Burnley, Westlakes and Men’s Reps sit on Students’ Council to make sure that the voices of students from these communities are represented.
The Ethics & Environment Rep sees that the Students’ Union and University are working in a sustainable and ethical way, and the Chair of Students’ Council oversees Students’ Council democratic processes and Chairs the meetings.
Fancy getting involved with Students’ Council? You can nominate yourself to become a Rep next year when the Students’ Union Elections happen, or email us at yourunion@uclan.ac.uk to find out more.
Key Docs
Agendas & Minutes
2024
2023
2022
2021