Alex Dunn

Alex Dunn is a final-year Law student and is serving a two-year term on the Board of Bristol Students' Union. Alex joined the Board in 2022 and is serving as Co-Chair of the Board for the 2023-4 academic year. 

Alex has held a variety of roles within Bristol SU and the University over the past two years. In his first-year, Alex joined the Orchard Heights JCR Committee, where he delivered various student wellbeing initiatives and events. In this role, he successfully secured funding from the University to start a Harm Reduction programme, providing free sanitary and contraceptive products for 450+ students. 

Alex continued his passion for student leadership as Editor-in-Chief of Dicta 2021, the University's Law magazine, and Vice President of the University of Bristol Law Club. With over 1,200 members, the Law Club is one of the largest student societies at the SU. In Alex's 2022-23 Committee year, the Law Club collaborated with 20+ sponsors to deliver 50+ in-person events to students of all years at the University. Alex founded the Law Club's Diversity Mentoring Scheme, pairing first-year students from backgrounds typically underrepresented in the legal industry with student mentors. 

Alex now runs the Commercial Team at Epigram, the University's long-established student newspaper. He also continues to work for the University as a Student Ambassador, including as a Mentor for the Widening Participation Summer programme. 

In his work on the Board, Alex hopes to advance the SU's vision of "A Union for all students", holding Senior Leaders to account for the priorities of the student population. He is keen to hear from students with feedback about how the SU operates to serve their interests. 

Leonardo Coppi

Leonardo Coppi is a third-year Electrical and Electronic Engineering student and an elected Student Trustee of the University of Bristol Student's Union for 2023. Throughout his time at Bristol, Leonardo has strived to ensure that fair student representation is heard at all levels of decision-making.

During his first year, Leonardo was elected as the Junior Common Room President of Badock Hall and worked to deliver representation for students. Collaborating with senior university staff, he secured the opening of previously shut-off facilities and lobbied to make communal spaces welcoming and fit for purpose, making way for strong community-building initiatives in student residences.

In his second year, Leonardo was elected to the Student Union's Democratic Standards Committee. There, he worked to safeguard democratic processes and ensured they operated in a fair, transparent, and accessible manner. Approving election rules and motions submitted to Student Council, scrutinising FTOs in Standing Committee meetings, and allocating resources for Network events led Leonardo to understand the benefits he could bring as a Student Trustee.

Leonardo's enthusiasm for volunteering and student democracy has been hugely influenced by the United World College movement to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future, and he ensured students were heard and supported in their course as a Bristol Electrical and Electronic Engineering Society (BEEES) committee member.

Rachel Formby

Sude Capoglu

Noelle Rumball (Co-Chair)

Noelle Rumball studied Philosophy and Mathematics at the University of Bristol (BA Hons 2003; MA 2005). She currently works as an interim manager and consultant for universities, primarily in data and strategic planning. This follows 12 years in Higher Education in a variety of senior roles.

She has led services of up to 100 people, cross-campus and cross-city. Before moving to HE, she defined and measured success for various public sector bodies and learned to wrangle Excel like nobody’s business.

In addition to her role at Bristol SU, Noelle is a Non-Executive Director at ACH (a refugee-focused housing association with an education subsidiary). She is also a Trustee for Eastside Community Trust and a Governor for Leeds Arts University.

Rajnish Razdan

Rajnish Razdan is the Creative Director and MD of Riggs & Razdan, (an independent integrated advertising agency) and also a scriptwriter with Have I Got News For You. He started his career as a copywriter before becoming a board level Creative Director with various advertising agencies.

Rajnish has worked across both commercial and not-for-profit sectors, assisting the likes of BMW Motors, PayPal, Macmillan Cancer Care and Mencap with their comms. He also sits on the South West regional council for the (BIMA) British Interactive Media Association and part of Chaiwalleh, a new organisation focusing on helping S Asians develop their careers and skills across marketing and comms.

Steph Harris

Helen West

Helen is Bristol born and bred. After achieving a BA Hons in modern languages at Southampton University, Helen returned to Bristol to study Spanish & French at Post grad level at the University of West of England. Helen served two years there as a full-time officer representing student welfare and campaigning for student interests.

Helen has spent most of her working life in UK University Students’ Unions. From student to sabbatical officer and then to CEO, she now works freelance to support Students’ Unions in a variety of ways such as interim CEO; conflict resolution work with SU teams; officer team building and leadership programmes; Board development days.

Helen trained with the International Institute for Restorative Practices (https://www.iirp.edu/restorative-practices/explained) to become a facilitator. She works with diverse organisations to offer a restorative approach to conflict resolution and mediation.

Helen served for several years as an elected member and trustee on the National Executive Committee of UKCISA, the Council for International Student Affairs.

She led and chaired the national Diversity Action Working Group on behalf of the Association for Managers in Students’ Unions (AMSU). She has run various workshops on EDI awareness and on Equality legislation – the moral and business case. Helen has a strong sense of equality and justice and is passionate about creating a free and fair world in which we can all participate and realise our potential.

Lucinda Parr

Lucinda joined the University of Bristol as Registrar and University Secretary in March 2019. After graduating from Goldsmiths College with a BMus in Music, University of London in 1999, Lucinda secured employment there as an Admissions Officer whilst studying for her MMus in Historical Musicology and has continued to work in Higher Education ever since.

In 2013, after almost 13 years at Goldsmiths working across Registry, within Faculty, Governance and Strategic Projects Lucinda left her post as Director of Executive and Governance Services and moved to London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) to become their University Secretary and Registrar and Chief Compliance Officer.

During Lucinda’s time at LSHTM her key achievements include the transfer of two African Medical Research Council units to become part of the university, effectively doubling the size of the institution, and the reshaping of Student and Academic Services to improve student experience and success. Lucinda is a member of various sector organisations, a member of Advance HE's Governor's advisory forum, South Bristol Youth and The Children and Young People’s Board.