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UCPH elections 2018: Here are the contested elections

University elections 2018 — The lists of candidates for this year's UCPH election are ready. There will be a contest for the students' seats on the Board – and also for staff and student seats in several academic councils and boards of studies. Here is an overview where you can see whether you need to vote when the election starts on 26th November.

The UCPH election is a complex matter. In fact, the election consists of 85 separate sub-elections: The students vote for the Board (1 election), students and staff vote for academic councils(12 elections) and their boards of studies (probably 60 elections), and the PhD students vote for the PhD committees (6).

However, not all elections are decided by a ballot. The reason is that in several elections, the exact number of candidates are running for the seats. Then there will be an uncontested election, and the ballot is cancelled.

Now the candidate list for 2018 is ready – and thereby an overview of where there are contested elections, and where you as a student or staff member can be sure you have to vote.

Here is the list of contested elections

As usual, students will be competing for one of the seats on the Board. This means that all students can vote. There will be four election lists on the ballot: One from Frit Forum, one from Konservative Studerende and two from the Student Council (who have never lost an election to the Board at UCPH).

In addition, both students and staff have contested elections at a number of academic councils and boards of studies.

Here is the list:

Academic staff (VIP)

The Academic Council of Humanities (English, Germanic and Romance studies)
The Academic Council Health Sciences (Pharmacist)
The Academic Council Health Sciences (Basic subjects)
The Board of Studies for the Saxo Institute (Ethnology)
The Board of Studies for the bachelor programme in Law
The Board of Studies for Food, Human Nutrition and Sport (Department of Food and Resource Economics)
The Board of Studies for Medicine and the health science master’s degree (Department of Clinical Medicine)

Technical-administrative staff (TAP)

Academic Council, Humanities
Academic Council Natural Sciences

Students

The Board of the University
Academic Council Humanities
Academic Council Law
Academic Council Social Science
The Board of Studies MEF (Rhetoric)
The Board of Studies for the bachelor programme in Law
The Board of Studies for the Master’s in Law and Part-time Programmes
The Board of Studies for Global Development
The Board of Studies for Psychology
The Board of Studies for Political Science
The Board of Studies for Dentistry
The Board of Studies for Economics

PhD students

PhD Committee Health (Pharmacist)

How to vote

The vote for the UCPH elections takes place electronically on the election site on KUnet from 26th November at to 30th November at 15.00

If your vote is uncontested, and you don’t have to vote, you will find out when you log in to vote.

But wait. Who is actually running in my UCPH election?

If you want actual names, you need a bit of patience. UCPH has uploaded a 178-page pdf file with all the candidates for all elections – including those selected by an uncontested election – and writes: “Use the search function Ctrl + F to find the relevant electoral bodies and candidates”.

We at the University Post cover the election in a number of articles up to (and during) the election 26th-30th November – including interviews with leading candidates for the Board election.

Contributions are welcome

You can post featured comments for the election debate to uni-avis@adm.ku.dk.

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