We may well have another busy period coming up so I want to make sure you all know who your UCU reps are and where there are gaps where we still need reps. The current list is at leedsucu/departmental-representatives.

For each area the committee would like to have a department rep, an anti-casualisation rep (intended to be someone on an insecure contract), a postgraduates rep, a workloads rep and a health and safety rep.

If you’d like to stand as a rep please ask two colleagues in your area who are UCU members to email ucu@leeds.ac.uk nominating you for the role. We’re going to give a deadline of 12pm Monday 17 February (the deadline is in case more than one person wants to do the role, so we’re not doing it on a first-come basis like a race).