Welcome to your Elections hub! Here you’ll find key information about the upcoming elections happening within your Union, and how you can get involved.
Whether you’re voting for your student group committee or electing the new sabbatical officers who lead the SU, make sure you exercise your right to vote and get your voice heard.
If you're interested in driving forward our Student Communities by coordinating activities, leading on campaigns and representing your community in all corners of university life, stand now to become a Community Officer!
Communities give underrepresented groups the best platform possible to have their voices heard on campus and beyond. Community Officers lead their community by supporting and representing its members.
Nominations open 10:00 on Friday 18 September and close 23:59 on Friday 16 October.
If you have any questions or you'd like a one-to-one chat with a member of staff about any of the roles, please get in touch at voice@su.rhul.ac.uk.
Job description
This election will fill positions for our remaining Community Officers, who represent underrepresented groups of students on campus, and our remaining Department Reps, who will work alongside the VP Education to support academic representation. This election will also fill any remaining Student Group positions and introduce Union Council to the student body, with students electing their representatives.
To nominate yourself, all you have to do is click ‘Stand’, complete the information, and submit your nomination.
To be eligible to run in the election to become a Community Officer, you must make sure you self-define in your profile. Only full members of a Community (i.e. those who self-define into individual groups) are eligible to nominate themselves and/or vote. Check out the definitions of each Community to see if you are eligible. Regardless of how you identify, you can also sign up as a member of a Community to be kept up to date with anything that goes on in it!
All PGR and PGT students are automatically self-defined, but still need to sign up for membership to be informed of anything the Community Officers are up to!
You must also be enrolled as a student in the 2026/27 academic year.