The new UCU branch committee for the 2018-2019 academic year takes office from 1 August. Thanks to everyone who served on the committee for the last year, especially those of you who haven’t stood for re-election, who have done a great deal to help UCU members over many years. Members who were on the committee last year but aren’t this year are Andy Stafford, Charles Umney, Gavin Reid, Jill Edwards, Kyle Griffith, Simon Hewitt, Stephen Lax and Steven French.

We’re welcoming new members to the committee: Alan Roe, Andi Rylands, Chloe Wallace, Dima Barakat Chami, Lata Naranaswamy, Laura Loyola Hernandez, Peter Tennant and Rachel Walls.

The full list of members elected to the committee for this academic year is at leedsucu.org.uk/committee-members-2018-2019

The full list of department representatives, including postgraduate reps, anticasualisation reps and workload reps, is at leedsucu.org.uk/about-us/departmental-representatives. There are still some departments without a UCU rep – email ucu@leeds.ac.uk if you would like to nominate a colleague to be a UCU rep or if you’d like to do it yourself.