Student Elections: Introducing your 2023/24 Sabbatical Officers

It feels like in the blink of an eye our Student Elections have come to a close. The students hoping to take on one of four elected roles have worked hard to get out and meet as many students across campuses as possible and you, our wider student body have come out and voted for those you believe will best represent you and all students here at the University.  So THANK YOU to all who ran and voted.

We are delighted to announce a 13.41% turnout of voters, up almost 50% on the previous year with Luton, Milton Keynes and Aylesbury recording the highest voter turnouts.

So...our winners are:

Co-Presidents 2023/24

• Ryan Murphy - Co-President (Self-identifying Male/Non-binary)
  
• Chidinma Akwada- Co-President (Self-identifying Woman)
  

Ryan will take up his role of Co-President in July alongside Chidinma, until then Ryan will continue to support you in his current capacity as Co-Vice President, alongside your current officers. 

Co-Vice Presidents 2023/24

• Collins McEphraim - Co-Vice President (Self-identifying Male/Non-binary)
• Amina Awal - Co-Vice President (Self-identifying Woman)

You can find out more about the results and counting process here.

If you were unable to attend the two results events and would like to watch how the results were revealed, you can view the event on our YouTube channel. 

NUS results:

Alongside voting for Sabbatical Officers students were also given the opportunity to choose the students you would like to represent you at the annual NUS conference.  The chosen students are as follows:

• Prince Chukwu
  
• Lynsey Rush
  
• Laura Calin
  
• Oluwatomisin Sadiq
• Nivetha Nehru

The above students will join your current Co-President Quadri Yusuf at the conference on March 15-16. We will bring you an update on key themes discussed shortly.

Prize Draw Winners

As a thank you to everyone who voted, everyones names were added to a prize draw and the following 7 students will each receive a £100 cash prize.  Winners were chosen using a random number selection system.

• Aylesbury - Vati Dicko
  
• Bedford - Mia Peck
  
• Birmingham - Natalie Richards
  
• London Bridge - Olubukola Afuape-Martis
  
• Luton - Gobindpreet Singh 
  
• Milton Keynes - Lukasz Strekowski
  
• Specialist - Gillian Denmark