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Division of General Counsel, Governance and Compliance

Global Studies to Senate By-Election 2019

UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX

SENATE

Notice of By-Election of one member of academic staff from the School of Global Studies to Senate to serve until 31 July 2019

Tuesday 26 February 2019 

This notice is to announce the by-election of one member of the academic staff from the School of Global Studies to Senate to serve with immediate effect to 31 July 2019. This by-election is caused by the early end of tenure of Professor Rorden Wilkinson from his elected position on Senate and accordingly the vacancy is for the remaining period of his term of office.

Eligibility

Provision is made for two members of the academic staff to be elected to Senate by and from the academic staff of each School of Studies, the other elected member is Professor Carl Griffin.

In accordance with the relevant Regulations, the following members of the School’s academic staff are eligible to nominate, be nominated and vote in this election:-

those on Teaching or Research Faculty Conditions of Service who (a) hold University appointments on the census date and (b) whose continuous service with the University will be at least one year by the end of the contract which is in force on the census date.

The electorate will be the members of the School’s academic staff as defined above on the census date of 1 February 2019.  

Election procedure

The first step is the nomination of candidates. The Nomination Form can be found here. 

Nominators should check that their nominee is willing and eligible to serve. Self-nomination is permissible.

Completed forms must be returned to Kate Knight (Governance Officer, Sussex House Room 327 or by email to k.knight@sussex.ac.uk ) by 12 noon on Monday 6 March 2019. Please note that if you are submitting your form in hard copy it is your responsibility to ensure that it reaches the Governance Office by the required deadline.

Each Nomination Form received will be acknowledged. Ballot papers will be issued if necessary after the closing date for nominations together with details of the voting procedure. The result of the election will be announced on the above page of the Planning, Governance & Compliance website.

Kate Knight

Governance Officer