Autumn Elections 2024

Imperial College Union works in close partnership with the University to maintain the quality of the Imperial educational experience. At the heart of this partnership is the Academic Representation Network, which brings together hundreds of Reps from every year group, department and faculty.

Academic Representatives are elected to speak up for their peers and to collaborate with senior academics and professional staff to tackle problems within their course. Our Reps have succeeded in making significant and long-lasting improvements in a wide range of areas, such as the content of curricula, feedback quality and timelines, exam timetables, online learning resources, and the physical facilities available to our students.

Any student from any year can become an Academic Representative. The following roles are being elected:

• Academic Year Representatives: one or more Reps for each year of Undergraduate study in every department.
• Academic Departmental Representatives: a Representative per department.

Our Postgraduate Representation Committee brings student Reps together to identify and tackle postgraduate issues, both academic and wellbeing across the Imperial community.

Postgraduate Representatives work with College staff, as well as Wellbeing and Academic Representatives to tackle big issues such as stress and pressure, mental health, the quality of personal tutoring, how our students are supported, the transition back into study for students who took time off, and more.

The following roles are being elected:

• PGT Rep Chair: one Rep that represents all PGT students.
• PGT and PGR Academic and Welfare Officers: one role leading on Academic and Wellbeing work in each faculty.
• PG Department Representatives: a Representative per department.
• PG Year Representatives: a Representative per course. 

In these Autumn Elections we’re electing committee roles in our nine new Liberation & Community Networks. Each network is chaired by the Liberation & Community Officer that you elected in the Leadership Elections earlier this year. However, there are an additional three roles available in each network, and you can find out more about what each does below.

Campaigns Officer

The Campaigns Officer of each network will be responsible for organising, coordinating and delivering campaigns to tackle issues related to each network. They’ll coordinate activities for Liberation and Community awareness and celebration months such as Black History Month or Mental Health Awareness Week.

Community Engagement Officer

The Community Engagement Officer of each network will be responsible for building a community amongst members of the network and keeping them engaged in the activity of the network. They’ll manage the communications to members – managing social media and writing emails – and create any publicity material.

Welfare Officer

The Welfare Officer of each network will be responsible for fostering a safe space and supportive community to benefit the wellbeing of the members. They’ll create welfare related resources that are relevant to members of the network, organise wellbeing activities and be a point of contact to offer signposting support to individual students.

Large Clubs, Societies and Projects (CSPs) elect their committees through our annual elections. You could be one of those leaders, helping to plan events, manage finances and ensure your club continues to enrich the lives of members.

What will candidates need to know?

Click here for the Rep overview 24-25