Student Leader Elections 2022 - Information for Staff

The biggest and most exciting thing to happen in our SU Calendar is here!

At the start of each year, we begin the search for our new Student Leaders.

There are lots of positions available and any student at Queen’s can run for one, no matter what School they’re from or what year they’re in. There are a variety of Student Officer and Academic Rep positions available:

• Full-Time Student Officers (6 Positions)
• Part-Time Student Officers (10 Positions)
• Faculty Representatives (3 Positions)
• School Representatives (15 Positions)

Staff and student reps working effectively together in partnership enhances the student experience, supports more responsive service provision and creates greater shared understanding of the challenges faced by staff and by students.

Working together, we can make the academic, and overall, student experience as good as it can be.

Voting takes place on Monday 28 February and Tuesday 1 March.

The Role of University Staff

Staff can help by:

• Promoting voting in the elections (28 Feb - 1 Mar). Supporting guidance and a toolkit are available on this page. The toolkit contains sample social media posts and sample emails to assist with promotion.
• Remaining impartial towards candidates throughout the election process. This means that staff should not endorse candidates or encourage students to vote for particular candidates, or provide access to resources that they would not ordinarily make available to all candidates in an election.
• Allowing students to promote themselves to students. (This could include: allowing candidates to speak briefly to students before a lecture / tutorial / lab; playing a brief video provided by a candidate or allowing them to post a short statement / social media links to your students.)

 

The Promotional Toolkit

Our voting toolkit will help you to promote voting to students. It contains sample social media post and sample emails to assist with promotion. Voting takes place from 28 February - 1 March.

 

Download Toolkit Graphics

Download the graphics that you need for your communication channels.

Candidate Promotion (14-27 February)

     

 

        

 

Voting (8am, 28 February - 8pm, 1 March)