Who can help you make change?

We’re proudly student-led! Every year, students from all over UCL are elected to represent your views, tackle common concerns, and create community to help make life at UCL even better. We’re here to listen and work alongside you!

The right person to contact depends on what you want to change. Choose the area closest to your issue, and we’ll help you find someone who can help.

Making change across UCL and Beyond

Sabbatical Officers

Sabbatical Officers are elected student representatives who take a year out from their studies to work full-time on behalf of UCL students.

They lead the Union, represent your interests at the highest levels of the university, sit in senior meetings where key decisions are made and ensure your voice is heard.

Each Sabbatical Officer focuses on a different area.

A Sabbatical Officer may be the right person to contact if your issue is about:

Equity & Inclusion Officer:

Equity and inclusion across UCL or the Union, barriers preventing students from taking part in student life or support for Student Networks and the communities they represent.

Activities & Engagement Officer:

Clubs, societies, sports, physical activities, arts, student media, volunteering, skills development, employability, and opportunities to engage in student life.

Education Officer:

Teaching and learning, assessment and feedback, libraries and study spaces, digital education, academic policy, and other educational issues affecting students across UCL.

Postgraduate Officer:

Academic or social issues affecting postgraduate taught or research students, including postgraduate support, research resources or creating a strong and supportive postgraduate community.

Students’ Union President:

The cost of student life, campus buildings and study spaces, campus safety, environmental and sustainability, and national higher education issues.

Welfare & Community Officer:

Accommodation and housing, mental, physical or financial wellbeing, student support, international or immigration issues, or relationships with the local community.

Your communities & life experiences

Student Officers

Student Officers are elected students who carry out their roles alongside their studies. They represent particular student communities, experiences and areas of student life.

Some Student Officers also lead a Student Network, bringing together students with shared experiences and representing their collective interests. Others focus on a particular issue, location, or type of student activity.

A Student Officer may be the right person to contact if your issue is about:

Identity, inclusion and belonging:

The People of Colour Students’ Officer, Disabled Students’ Officer, LGBTQ+ Officer, Trans Officer and Women’s Officer lead their communities of students. They raise shared issues regarding representation, accessibility, inclusion, safety, and belonging.

Your studies and your student experience:

The International Students’ Officer, Mature, Part-Time, Parents & Carers’ Officer, Commuter Students’ Officer, Research Students’ Officer and UCL East Students’ Officer represent students whose experience of UCL may be shaped by where or how they study, travel, research, or balance university with other responsibilities.

Housing, costs and access to student life:

The Accommodation & Housing Officer represents students on affordable, accessible and good-quality living environments. The Social Class & Mobility Officer represents students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds and raises issues including the cost of living, hidden costs and barriers to accessing opportunities.

Arts, societies, sport and volunteering:

The Arts Officer, Societies Officer, Sports Officer and Volunteering Officer represent students involved in these parts of Union life. They gather feedback, raise shared issues and help shape opportunities, facilities, funding, support and participation.

Environmental sustainability:

The Sustainability Officer represents students’ priorities on environmental and ethical issues affecting the Union, UCL and wider student life. This includes student-led sustainability initiatives, campaigns and influencing environmental decision-making.

Your Education

Academic Reps

Academic Reps are students elected to represent your views about teaching, learning and your wider academic experience.

They listen to students, raise shared issues with UCL staff and work with them to improve education. Different Academic Reps work at course, department and faculty level, so you can find someone whose role matches the scale of your issue.

An Academic Rep may be the right person to contact if your issue is about:

• assessment and feedback;
• teaching or course content;
• timetabling;
• supervision or academic support;
• learning resources;
• communication between students and staff;
• an issue affecting students on your course, in your department or across your faculty.

Academic Reps include Course Reps, Research Student Reps, Lead Department Reps and Faculty Reps. Faculty Reps also take part in the Education Zone, where students discuss wider ideas and issues about education at UCL.

You can contact an Academic Rep to share your experience, raise an issue affecting other students or find out whether similar concerns have already been raised.

If your issue affects education across UCL, the Education Officer may be a more useful person to contact.

Your Hall Community

Hall Community Officers

Hall Community Officers are students elected to represent residents in their hall community. They listen to students, raise shared issues and help make halls welcoming and inclusive places to live.

They also organise and take part in activities for residents, meet with UCL Accommodation staff and connect students in halls with UCL and the Union. Hall Community Officers contribute to Welfare & Community Zone, where students discuss ideas and issues affecting student wellbeing and community life.

A Hall Community Officer may be the right person to contact if your issue is about:

• building community in your hall;
• events or activities for your hall community;
• making your hall more welcoming or inclusive;
• how residents’ views are heard by UCL Accommodation or the Union.

Your Clubs, Societies and Activities

Activities Reps

Activities Reps are students elected to represent people involved in clubs, societies, sport, arts, student media and volunteering.

They gather feedback, raise shared issues and help shape projects and decisions that improve student activities at UCL. Activities Reps take part in the Activities Zone and work alongside the relevant Student Officers and the Activities & Engagement Officer.

An Activities Rep may be the right person to contact if your issue is about:

Arts:

Opportunities for student creativity, arts societies, spaces, funding, visibility or access to arts activities.

Societies:

Issues affecting several societies, including funding, support, Union processes, society regulations or opportunities to take part.

Student Media:

Issues affecting student media groups or the wider student media community.

Sport:

Sports clubs, facilities, events, participation, inclusion or other barriers affecting student sport.

Volunteering:

Access to volunteering, support for student volunteers, participation or the impact of volunteering opportunities.

You can contact an Activities Rep to raise an issue affecting students across an activity area or find out whether similar concerns have already been raised.

For help with the day-to-day running of your own club or society, use the support available for your committee.

Wellbeing in your Club or Society

Club & Society Welfare Reps

Club and Society Welfare Reps are students elected to represent the welfare and wellbeing needs of members across clubs and societies.

They listen to students, raise shared concerns and help make sure members’ experiences inform wider Union discussions. Welfare Reps take part in Welfare & Community Zone, where they can raise issues affecting student wellbeing and community life.

A Welfare Rep may be the right person to contact if your issue is about:

• wellbeing within your club or society;
• making activities more inclusive or accessible;
• a concern affecting members across one or more student groups;
• how club and society members can feel safer and better supported;
• an idea that could improve the experience of students taking part in clubs and societies.

You can contact a Welfare Rep to share an experience, raise a concern affecting club or society members, or suggest a wider improvement.

Welfare Reps are not a replacement for confidential or specialist support. If you need advice about an individual problem, use the Union’s Advice Service or access support through Student Support and Wellbeing Services.

Not sure who to contact?

Some issues affect more than one part of student life. You don’t need to work out our representative structure yourself.

Tell us what you want to change and we’ll help you find the most useful person or route.