This committee oversees university processes for academic standards. They look at all of the university processes in place, such as how the university forms practical decisions regarding courses, and ensures that they are robust, consistent, transparent and reviews any proposed changes to processes.

Senate is one of the highest decision-making bodies at the University and is responsible for promoting research, promoting and regulating learning and teaching, and for maintaining the quality of standards of the University’s academic provision. The Guild’s officers, along with three elected Student Reps, work throughout each academic year to ensure that student voice is at the heart of the decisions made by Senate about/for the University.

This committee reviews the University’s investment strategy and oversees the University Endowment Fund. Four fund managers are tasked with investing money in order to generate a profit for the University. Hannah, an ex-Vice-President, secured a commitment from the University to divest £9m of investments from fossil fuel companies.

This is the trustee board of the University and its most senior decision-making body. Everything goes through Council and its sub-committees (planning and resources, governance and appointments, honorary degrees). Council is where you can influence key decision makers. Two subcommittees include: Joint Committee on Honorary Degrees This is a council sub-committee where members decide who is going to receive honorary degrees at the annual winter and summer ceremonies. Nominations Committee To seek and consider nominations for, and to make recommendations to the Council, for the appointment of; potential lay members to Council, and other Council-appointed members (drawn from Senate, Professional Services, and members of particular University committees and bodies).

The University clinical societies (Medicine, Dentistry & Vets) meet to discuss updates and other information. Student Officers sit on the meeting as a non-voting member. This meeting is out of response to LMSS, LUDS, LUVS disassociating with the Guild and the University now taking oversight of these “societies”.

The University consult with the Guild on rent setting for future academic years at this meeting. This did not previously take place until a former Student Officer’s ‘Cut the Rent’ campaign which won students a ‘memorandum of understanding,’

Liverpool Student Homes is a student accommodation service that is funded by University of Liverpool, John Moore’s University and Hope University. The group includes members from different universities who report on the service in their respective campuses.

This committee meets annually to look at the standards that LSH expects landlords who are registered with LSH to adhere to.

The Safe and Welcoming Campus Environments Project addresses sexual violence on campus and other issues students may face that make them unsafe. Bystander Intervention training was developed and supported through this group. In this group, officers have worked on the OFS expectations for universities tackling sexual misconduct, how that translates into improving the university disciplinary policies, our sexual violence campaign work, consent workshops, and any additional issues such as expanding the board of discipline. The Guild has been consulting with the University on their misconduct policy, specifically the non-academic element of it. The result is the introduction of effective and varied consequences for the panel to choose from to differentiate from academic misconduct cases and provide adequate support to involved students.

The group was initially formed as a collaborative campaign which now meets to discuss city-wide and University campaigns around sexual violence in the night-time. This community group includes representatives from Liverpool City Council, Sefton Council, RASA, Merseyside Policy, LJMU, JMSU, UoL, and the Guild. The group also supports implementing specific training for workers in the night-time economy.

Working in the reams of the student mental health project, the group will work with services across to Liverpool to ensure there is a collaborative and joined up approach when supporting student mental health.

This is a cross-organizational group that includes all the Universities and city partners to discuss city-wide safety campaigns.Chloe, an ex-Deputy-President, worked with this group to reform the University’s Report and Support system. This resulted in the introduction of an annual review of the University’s sexual assault reporting system to ensure it is agile in responding to new forms and conditions of incidents. In response to the spiking endemic at the start of the 21/22 academic year, ex-Vice-President Jamilia sought action at this committee to protect students. She produced the “Zero Tolerance” proposal which sought to update the Liverpool City Region Council’s Licensing Policy to tighten up health and safety training, incident reporting systems and expand considerations to make venues responsible for protecting customers from a wider range of issues such as racism and other forms of hate crime, as well as gender based and sexual violence. The proposal was adopted by Student Safety as part of their package of work and has been taken to a senior city safety committee, CitySafe JAG. Work is ongoing.

In October 2019, the Equality and Human Rights Commission released a report on their inquiry into the racism experienced by staff and students in UK Universities, see report here. From this, the University set up a response group to co-ordinate anti-racism work across the institution. The group has written a plan with recommendations related to race equity work in the University. Guild Officers have fed into the University’s Racial Equality Action Plan, designed to lay the foundations in a step into tackling racial inequality/racism on campus.

Discussing and leading on the University’s sustainable approaches, the group facilitates the sustainable activities on campus and partners with Guild and city-wide campaigns. The University’s annual Sustainability Report is discussed at this group. All of the other Sustainability Committees report to this group.

This committee forms the strategic relationship between the University and the Guild. It monitors and signs off the Guild’s reports and accounts. This committee acts as a forum to discuss university and Guild joint campaigns and activities.