The Open University branch of the University and College Union
As part of the UCU Build the union campaign - members can volunteer to be a UCU contact - read more about what is involved or register to be a UCU contact on the UCU Build the union website.
The executive committee consists of the branch officers and 12 ordinary members who are elected once a year by ballot of the membership, plus a few ex-officio members and a limited number of co-opted members. The executive committee is responsible for the day to day running of the branch and determines the composition of our negotiating teams. The executive also sets up working groups, which usually consist of executive members but sometimes include other members. Click here to view the current Executive Committee.
The AL reps are elected once a year by our AL members in each region. They are points of contact, and local representatives for ALs, and collectively they function as the AL reps’ committee, which plays an important role in advising the branch executive committee on matter relating to AL employment. Click here to view the current OU UCU AL reps Committee.
East Midlands R05, Nottingham | Brendan Quinn |
North West R08, Manchester | Elaine Walker |
Wales, Cardiff | Please get in touch if you could be the UCU contact in Cardiff. |
Scotland, Edinburgh | Please get in touch if you could be the UCU contact in Edinburgh. |
Ireland, Belfast | Pease get in touch if you could be the UCU contact in Belfast. |
We would like UCU members to become departmental representatives/UCU contacts and on the Open University campus, we have the following reps/contacts, if you would like to be a Departmental UCU rep then please contact the UCU Office on 53069 (Deb Shann on Microsoft Lync) or ucu@open.ac.uk. If your OU unit/department is not listed then we do not have a rep or contact in that unit, please get in touch if you could volunteer to take on this role.
Academic Services | vacancy |
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) | Chris Williams, Ros Crone (History department), Julia Chukwuma (Economics department) and Francesca Benatti (English and Creative Writing) |
Faculty of Business and Law (FBL) | vacancy |
Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) | John Busvine, Kit Power and Kevin Church |
STEM - Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) | Iman Naja |
Faculty of Wellbeing, Education & Language Studies (WELS) | Severine Hubscher-Davidson, Wayne Taylor, Alison Higgs and Lesley McGrath |
Marketing & Communications | Michael Bartlett |
PVC (Students) | Rachel Garnham |
RES - was Research & Academic Strategy | Helen Bowes-Catton |
We are pleased to report that we have several Union Learning representatives trained. For queries about employee education and training, contact ucu@open.ac.uk.
We are interested in hearing from any other members who are interested in becoming UCU Health and Safety representatives - currently these people are Health & Safety reps for the branch.
Lesley Kane
Peter Piper
Saleem Rashid
Kit Power, Workload H&S rep
Caitlin Adams
Further information about Health and safety.
Please contact the UCU office to ask about our Health & Safety Workload reps: ucu@open.ac.uk
The branch has multiple reps active on sustainability and Just Transition issues, with branch activities co-ordinated by Peter Wood, Branch Vice President and national co-chair of the UCU Climate and Ecological Emergency Committee. To attend Green Reps training, or to join the relevant branch working group, contact: ucu@open.ac.uk.
Phone us on 01908 6(53069) or Deb Shann on Skype for Business or Teams
Call into Room 015, Wilson C block, Walton Hall