Tuesday 02-12-2025 - 12:58

With Student Officer elections just around the corner, The Union will be sharing important info about each stage of the elections. Here, we'll tell you all about how to run as an Officer.

From 09:00 on Wednesday 3 December to Friday 6 February at 12:00 noon you can put yourself in the running to be a candidate in the Student Officer Elections.

There are 5 full-time roles available with a full time salary including:

 

+ President

+ Education Officer

+ Wellbeing Officer

+ Societies and Development Officer

+ Sport Officer

 

Have a look over this page to find out everything you need to know about this years' Student Officer Elections, including a step-by-step process on how to run as an Officer.

 

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Key dates

 

09:00 on Wednesday 3 December 2025: Elections open for students to run as an Officer

12:00 noon on Friday 6 February 2026: Deadline for students to run or recommend someone for a role

Monday 9 February 2026: Candidate briefing

17:00 on Wednesday 11 February 2026: Candidate deadline for website materials (vision statement and photo)

Wednesday 18 February 2026: Campaigning starts and candidate Q&A's

08:00 on Monday 23 February 2026: Voting opens

12:30 on Thursday 26 February 2026: Voting closes

15:30 on Thursday 26 February 2026: Winners announced

 

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Recommend someone

 

Don’t want to run yourself but know someone who’d be a great Student Officer? Send in your recommendation now.

 

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Top tips for running as a Student Officer

+ Submit a professional, friendly-looking, and high-quality photo of yourself - getting your image right can make all the difference, as this is the first impression that voters will get of you.

+ Remember that not every voter may spend a lot of time reading your vision statement, so your candidate photo is really a chance to sell yourself as a great candidate.

+ Your vision statement is a chance to get across your ideas about what you would do if elected. It’s also a chance for voters to find out a bit about you.

 

Here are some examples of how your vision statement will look to voters.

First up - an example of someone who’s taken the time to write a detailed and professional vision statement: looks pretty good right?

 

 

Next, we’ve got an example of someone who’s made a good start – but hasn’t quite finished: not bad, but would you vote for them if they had hardly said anything?

 

 

Lastly, here’s someone who’s been slightly unprofessional and has a distorted pic: you'd be lucky to gain many votes if your vision statement and photo looked like this! 

 

 

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Follow these tips and you’re bound to impress voters!