GUSA elections and nominees

‘I’m running because I am very keen about the environment and there’s a lot more GUSA can do to improve their environmental standards’

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Sophia Killi | Guides

Elections began today for the Glasgow University bodies with GUSA representatives standing outside the gym to make a presence.

GUSA is one of the most crucial student bodies in terms of people’s physical and mental health at the Glasgow University campus. Hopefully with the right people for the job and representing the gym staff’s work rights, there will be no strikes in the beginning of next year.

Running to be next year’s President is Mario Killmann, with Eilidh Mitchell and Sarah Hedley running as candidates for Vice President.

Running for GUSA Secretary is Karl Kirkpatrick and Brodie Bell is representing Alumni Convenor with Sophia Birch as Events Convenor.

Running for Finance Convenors are Annabel Cooper and Sahej Grover while Dominique Hewitson and Laura Baillie ran for Outreach Convenor and Fundraising Convenor respectively, both were uncontested.

For Health & Fitness Convenor candidates, we have Chloe Drew and Rory Grant along with Edward Corbett, who ran for the uncontested position of Publicity Convenor

The GUSA Travel Convenor candidates are Eoghan Guthrie and Owen Headley, while Izzy Ford and Evan Edwards are both running for the candidacy of Welfare Convenor.

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We managed to speak to a few of the candidates outside the Stevenson gym this morning as elections began.

Running for GUSA Vice President, Eilidh Mitchell told The Glasgow Tab: “‘I think GUSA needs to see some culture change and there’s four main areas I’ve identified for improvement, looking at welfare, inclusion, standardisation of things that are run within GUSA and equality.”

“I’m running because I am very keen about the environment and there’s a lot more GUSA can do to improve their environmental standards”, said Owen Hedley, a second year geography student running for Travel & Sustainability Convenor.

Evan Edwards, running for re-election of GUSA Welfare Convenor commented: “I think there is so much more potential left in this role for me and I really want to continue all of the work I’ve been doing with my Welfare team, such as LGBTQ+ inclusion especially seeing the Stevenson and the Garscube sports complex as barriers to participation for non-binary athletes, and also following up with some of the work we’ve been doing with eating disorders in sport and men’s mental health following the Movember campaign.”

Annabelle Cooper, a fourth year Medicine student is running for GUSA Finance. She said: “I believe that sport needs to remain accessible to people no matter their financial background, I was treasurer for Lacrosse this year and I’ve come up with a lot of ideas on how to improve the accessibility of GUSA to everyone.”