Lead LUU
Nominations for Lead LUU 2025 are open!
Thank you for getting involved by nominating yourself or a friend, supporting a candidate, or voting!
Take the future of LUU in your hands
Lead LUU is the annual Leadership Programme to find LUU’s leaders. It is one of the LUU’s elections which allows students to develop their leadership and campaigning skills, and gives them an opportunity to be empowered, have their voice heard, and make a difference.
LUU exists with students at the heart of every decision, which is why it is essential that you get involved and share your voice about who should represent you and what issues and ideas matter to you the most.
- Nominations open | 18 November
- Nominations close | 31 January
- Exec 1-1 meetings | 20 January – 31 January
- Candidate Academy | 6 – 7 February (required training – attendance is compulsory)
- Creation Week | 10 – 14 February
- Campaigning opens | 10 February
- Voting | 10am, 17 February – 2pm, 20 February
- Results Night | 21 February
Are you a candidate?
By nominating yourself to join the Lead LUU leadership race, you will receive the support and training needed to lead a successful campaign, and you’ll win the role through gaining votes from other students. If you win the election, you will become one of the Executive Officers at LUU, which is a paid (£22,976 – as of April 2024), full-time, one-year role, with all training provided. The University of Leeds can provide you a visa during your year working as an Executive Officer, if you require one.
As an Executive Officer, you will be handling negotiations between the University, the Union and the student body, and leading empowering, supportive and fun campaigns. You will gain employability skills, networking opportunities, and the chance to improve the student experience.
“The Lead LUU election experience was not easy but the most fun, thrilling and crazy opportunity I have ever had! The campaign was such a great opportunity to meet with students and discuss the change they would like to see across Leeds. It was fun exploring creative ways of campaigning and really helped me with my confidence!” – Lucy, Union Affairs & Communications Officer 2024-25
Are you a voter?
University of Leeds is a community of students with a wide variety of backgrounds, circumstances, interests and challenges. For LUU to represent and support this diverse community, it is important that we get to hear from as many students as possible. By getting to know the candidates, supporting their campaigns and voting, you are participating in shaping the future of LUU. Your voice matters.
What are the roles?
Here to make sure your social life thrives at Uni – whether that’s getting the right funding for your favourite clubs and societies, tackling the cost of sport, or making sure our co-curricular activities are the best in the country.
Changes things up for the better so that the University is always providing students with the best academic experience, helping them to get the most out of their degree.
Here for your health and happiness at Leeds. They’re focused on making sure students have access to any help and support they might need whilst at University.
They make sure the Union, University and further afield are accessible and inclusive for everyone. They fight to make your time at Leeds fair.
Represents our diverse international and postgraduate community, creating opportunities to share cultures and experiences, and ensuring that these groups are fully represented.
This Officer is all about the governance, democracy and finance of the Union. Keeping it up and running, and fair for you, and helping to govern the University to make sure it reflects your views.
Heads up the student newspaper and brings you informative and interesting news about university life.
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