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Who will represent you for the remainder of this Academic Year? Who will make sure that your voice is raised at the highest levels of the University and the Guild? Only YOU can decide!
But how? All you need to do is explore the candidates in the running for the Part-Time Ethnic Minority Student Officer and Trans and Non-Binary Students’ Officer position, read their elections promises to see what they hope to work on if elected and cast your vote in order of preference.
If you have applied, you can still see all relevant documents relating to your chosen role and everything you need to know for your campaign below. You can also reach out to the Elections Team if you have any further questions.
10am 29 November Applications Open
10am 2 December Applications Close
Tue 3 December Candidate Training
10am 4 December Voting Open
4pm 6 December Voting Closes
*Notice of Campaigning Period: For the By-Election, the official campaigning period will align with our voting period. This is therefore notice that campaigning and all associated regulations will be in effect from 10am on Wednesday 4 December until 4pm on Friday 6 December
There are two roles available:
These roles are a paid Part-Time post and are open to any normally registered University of Birmingham student and is carried out alongside your studies.
For each role, meetings may be online, in-person or hybrid, and any access needs of students will be considered.
Please note - As per the Guild’s Bye-Laws and Election Regulations, elections for Liberation Officer roles (of which Ethnic Minority Officer and Trans and Non-Binary Officer are included) full members may only stand in elections for Liberation positions, who self-define as belonging to that liberation group.
For more information, please email elections@guild.bham.ac.uk.
The Applications Pack includes important elections documents.
These include elections rules and wellbeing support, as well as useful resources to help you with your application and campaign.
All candidates must take responsibility to read these regulations and ensure that their campaign teams know about these. Not knowing about the regulations is not an excuse for breaking them. If the regulations are unclear or you need more help at any time, please email the Elections Team.
Please refer to Bye Law 8 with regards to Elections and Bye Law 6 with regards to Committees of the Guild.
The Guild believes that a Zero Tolerance approach should be taken towards any form of harassment based on defining protected characteristics that takes place in any of the Guild’s venues or events.
The University is committed to creating a working and learning environment free from harassment and discrimination in which all staff, students and visitors to the University are treated with dignity and respect.
The Complaints Procedure explains how we will deal with any elections complaints.
A student or candidate wishing to submit an election complaint must do so by using this Complaint Form. This must be sent by email to elections@guild.bham.ac.uk.
All complaints must be substantiated with evidence in support of their complaint where possible.
When you apply you must submit a written statement to tell everyone why they should vote for you, and a candidate photo. You can find advice on how to do this in the documents below.
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