Role of Elected Members

Elected Members

The elected membership of the Senate has been based on School constituencies, with the number of seats allocated to each constituency being indicated below:

Name of Constituency	Number of Seats allotted to
(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	5
(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 & Dentistry	15
(j) School of Psychology	4
(k) University of Aberdeen Rowett Research Institute of Nutrition and Health	2
(l) School of Engineering	5
(m) School of Geosciences	5
(n) School of Natural & Computing Sciences	6

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

Members are elected to the Senate on the basis of serving for a four-year period, with half retiring every second year and with retiring members being eligible for re-election.

Election is by Single Transferable Vote to ensure an adequate spread of disciplines and grades among the elected members.

Each constituency comprises the Professors, Readers and Lecturers, including clinical staff and the holders of research posts of equivalent status, who at the time of election are not members of the Senate ex officio.

The primary roles of elected members of Senate are as follows:

to attend a majority, if not all, of the four Senate meetings each year
to represent the views of their constituency on items that are to be discussed/debated at the Senate, where constituents contact their elected representative prior to a Senate meeting to discuss such matters.

[Note: The unconfirmed Minutes of Senate meetings will be published on the University’s Committee web-site soon after each Senate meeting and will be accessible by all staff. The Minutes will be confirmed at the following Senate meeting].