Members elected to the UCU committee for the 2017-2018 academic year are in post from today. The committee members for this year are: Elected committee officers President: Vicky Blake Vice-president: Tim Goodall Treasurer: Nigel Bubb Honorary secretary: Brendon Nicholls Recruitment and membership secretary: Ben Plumpton Equality secretary: Gabriella Alberti Campaigns secretary: Lesley McGorrigan Health and safety secretary: Neil Maughan Elected committee members Alaric Hall Andy Stafford Andy West Charles Umney Gavin Reid Hugh Hubbard Jonathan Saha Malcolm Povey Mark Taylor-Batty Mark Walkley Paul Steenson Simon Hewitt* Stephen Lax Steven French The committee can appoint up to four additional committee members, and will be emailing members to seek nominations for those posts. There were an unusually high number of nominations for men when we asked for nominations before the annual general meeting, so if you’re thinking about whether to nominate someone or seek nominations for one of the four posts, please bear this in mind. (*The incoming committee has agreed Simon Hewitt will fill the elected vacancy created by Anna Fleming leaving the university for another job, this is subject to approval of the next ordinary general meeting.)