Student Elections: Meet The Candidates

Voting is now underway in this year's Student Elections

Only UoB students like you get to decide who becomes the next Exec officers in 2023/24.

In this post, you'll get to know the candidates who are hoping to receive your votes. You can find out even more about them when you head to the ballot paper. Be quick though, you only have until 4pm on Thursday 9 March 2023.

Meet the candidates

There are four Exec officer positions up for grabs, with a number of candidates running for each of them. The positions are;

Co-President (self-identifying man or non-binary)
Co-President (self-identifying woman)
Co-Vice President (self-identifying man or non-binary)
Co-Vice President (self-identifying woman)

Below are videos to watch for each of the four positions. Click on each of the candidate's names to read their election profiles.

Co-President (self-identifying man or non-binary)

The candidates for Co-President (self-identifying man or non-binary) are;

AARYAN P
Shane A Billington
Ryan Murphy
RON (Re-Open Nominations)

Co-President (self-identifying woman)

Chidinma
Lynsey Rush
Nivetha Nehru
Tabitha Ajao
RON (Re-Open Nominations)

Co-Vice President (self-identifying man or non-binary)

The candidates for Co-Vice President (self-identifying man or non-binary) are;

Co-Vice President (self-identifying woman)

The candidates for Co-Vice President (self-identifying woman) are;

Laura Calin
Amina Awal
RON (Re-Open Nominations)

Vote now!

Now that you've gotten to know the candidate's it's now time to vote. Voting is super easy (there's a video on how to vote if you get stuck) and shouldn't take you any longer than 5 minutes.

NUS Conference Delegates

You can also vote for the candidates who have put themselves forward to represent the Beds Students' Union at the NUS National Conference which takes place on 15 and 16 March.

The conference brings together students from across their membership to debate issues from a variety of student experiences, to decide the campaigning priorities for the year ahead.

Our candidates are listed below and you can click on their names to see their candidate profiles.