Composition

Following a review of the effectiveness of the Senate, the composition of the Senate and following subsequent changes to the number of Schools in the College of Physical Sciences and the merger with the Rowett Research Institute is as follows:

a) Ex officiis

Principal (Convener)
Senior Vice-Principal
Heads of College (3)
Other Vice-Principals (5)
Heads of School (13)
College Directors of Teaching & Learning (3)
College Directors of Research (3)
Heads of Graduate Schools (3)
Conveners of the Academic Standards Committees (2)
Directors of Undergraduate Programmes (7, one of whom is currently the Convener of the ASC((Ug))
The University Librarian

b) Elected Members

80 teaching and research (including honorary and part-time) staff (i.e. approximately twice the number of ex officio members excluding current holders of Established Chairs) elected approximately pro rata by, and on the basis of, the total electorate within each School (see below), to serve for a four-year period, with half retiring every second year and with retiring members eligible for re-election for one further four-year period.

c) Student Members

President of the Students’ Association
Vice-President (Education & Employability)
Junior Vice-President (Education & Employability)
The Area of Study Conveners (7)
One postgraduate representative from each of the three Colleges

In addition, the Vice-President (Welfare & Equal Opportunities) is in attendance.

Distribution of Elected Seats by School

Name of Constituency	Number of Seats allotted to Constituency
(a) University of Aberdeen Business School	5
(b) School of Divinity, History and Philosophy	5
(c) School of Education	6
(d) School of Language & Literature	4
(e) School of Law	4
(f) School of Social Science	5
(g) School of Biological Sciences	6
(h) School of Medical Sciences	8
(i) School of Medicine	15
(j) School of Psychology	4
(k) University of Aberdeen Research Research Institute of Nutrition and Health	2
(l) School of Engineering	5
(m) School of Geosciences	4
(n) School of Natural & Computing Sciences	6

The number of seats allotted to individual constituencies (a) to (n) above may be varied by the University Court on the recommendation of the Senatus Academicus.