You elect seven full-time officers every March in the Bristol SU Elections, and they are paid to work full-time to lead the SU for a year. Each officer represents a different area of the student body and helps to improve your experience as a University of Bristol Student!
Collective Priorities
Officers choose three main objectives to focus on for the year ahead, based on student priorities. Read the priorities for 2025/26 below:
Student Poverty
We’ll be focusing on transport, accommodation and student provisions to reduce costs for students and lobby externally for wider change.
Empowering Communities
By championing mental and physical wellbeing, we want to help students build their community through accessing the support and spaces they need.
Academic Satisfaction
We'll continue working with the University to improve assessment feedback and accessibility, by supporting the academic interests of all students.
See how your Full-Time Officer Team are working with the University Executive Board to action their priorities as they secure key University commitments for the academic year.
Take a look at what we’ve each been doing
Katie Poyner | Union Affairs
Lucy Pears | Student Living
Linlu Ye | Equality, Liberation & Access
Ella Lovibond | Sport & Student Development
Mia Stevens | Undergraduate Education
Sharan Khemlani | Postgraduate Education
Jessie Yeung | International Students
Officer Objectives
At Student Council and our Annual Members Meeting the student body bring forward motions for policy that they'd like us to pursue.
Aside from our priorities and campaigns (like Welcome, Mental Health Awareness Week and LGBTQ+ History Month), we work on policy passed by our students at our democratic events, AMM and Student council.
Once a motion is passed by vote at one of the above meetings (and if necessary, ratified at the next student council) they become active policy for three years.
Below you can see our progress on everything we've been asked to work on by students, as well as all previous policy
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