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Want to know who was chosen to help lead YOUR Students' Union over the next year? Read the full breakdown of the results (choose the documents tab) and check out the winners:

Postgraduate Students' Officer:

Mahamid Ahmed is your newly elected Postgraduate Students' Officer with 418 votes. This year's race for Postgraduate Students' Officer was a tough competition - every one of your votes counted! The Postgraduate Students' Officer represents all LSE postgraduates in the Students' Union and the School. He will campaign and work with the School on the issues affecting postgraduate students, plan events and projects for postgraduates, and is an active member of the Student Executive Committee.

Postgraduate Research Students' Officer:

Salma Raheem was elected to represent all research students at LSESU and the School. She will work to improve academic and social development for postgraduate research students.

Postgraduate Student Trustee:

Scott Gammon was elected your Postgraduate Student Trustee member. The Postgraduate Student Trustee represents the views of all students at the Trustee Board, which assumes ultimate legal and financial responsibility for LSESU and oversees its strategy and governance. He will help ensure that everything the Students' Union does is for the benefit of its members – LSE students.

BME (Black and Minority Ethnic) Students' Officer:

Samiha Begum is your BME Students' Officer - a brand new position for Michaelmas Term 2014. The BME Students' Officer represents members and campaigns on issues that relate to BME liberation. She will work to promote equality and inclusiveness within the Students' Union, LSE and other levels.

Mature and Part-time Students' Officer:

Laura Mertsching was re-elected to be your Mature and Part-time Students' Officer. Laura will represent mature and part-time students at LSE and is an active member of Student Executive Committee.

Academic Board:

James Wurr and Tooba Mushtaq are your Academic Board student members. The Academic Board is the highest academic committee in the School, and is the most important body with regards to your course and teaching, learning and academic standards. The committee is chaired by the School’s Director, Craig Calhoun, and, in theory, all permanent academic staff can attend and vote – it is the UGM of academia! It’s this committee that decides things like class sizes, admissions criteria and scholarships. Elected student members of the Academic Board are responsible for representing students' views, raising concerns from across departments with the Board, and work with the School on the academic issues students care the most about.

Court of Governors:

Tom Glen Harry was elected with the most votes to the Court of Governors, along with Kabu Senapitak, Katie Budd, Mahatir Pasha and Megan Tretheway. The Court of Governors is where Governors of the School meet and discuss key strategic matters and policy areas, such as widening participation, the student experience and quality of research. These elected students represent the views of other LSE students at the Court.

NUS Delegates:

Emily Haimeed and Jon Foster are your new NUS Delegates for 2014-15. NUS Delegates represent the views of all LSE students at the NUS National Conference in April. They are responsible for raising issues and motions at the conference and for feeding back to students what happened.

General Course President:

Lisa Han is your General Course President. She will be the lead representative for General Course students at LSESU and the School. He/she organises events and activities to help General Course students feel more involved at LSE.

The LSESU Travel Fund helps students at LSE to access extracurricular travel opportunities, take part in activities, develop key skills and, more importantly, to really make the most of their university experience. It is supported by the LSE Annual Fund and more info can be found on the LSESU website. Follow our blog for a series of reports from recipients of the fund this year, where they went and what they did. 

Sunday 23rd March

Arrived in Bucharest. We had the whole day to explore and get an initial impression of the city and the people.

Monday 24rd March

Visited the Palace of Parliament. Its construction required destruction of vast parts of Bucharest's historic district in addition to the relocation of about 40,000 residents. The guided tour provided a fascinating example of the way ideology and power shape and dictate urban planning.

Panel with Gabriel Pascariu from the University of Architecture and Urbanism, Irinel Soriostenu, Councillor of Ilfov county, and Cozia Georgescu. The session focused on the importance of the Bucharest region and on the lack of financial support the rest of Ilfov receives due to the present of Bucharest within its boarders. Bucharest is in essence an outlier that skewed the statistics and data of the whole county. The session discussed the recent development of the city of Ploiesti and the reasons some neighboring counties manage to benefit from the proximity to Bucharest while other fail to do so.

Last week was a great way to see off the end of a busy year – it was great to see so many people up and dancing by the end of the evening (yes, even yours truly pulled out a painfully awkward shuffle), and everyone who came seemed to have had a great time. As the first time that we’ve had such an event outside our new student centre, it was certainly a success that we’ll be looking at repeating next year.

  While we are still working away on student issues here at LSESU, I realise that many of you will have left or are leaving the UK shortly. To you, and to those people staying here to hand in dissertations with bleary-eyes in September, I wish you all the very best for the future. For all those I have met and have worked alongside this year, it has been a genuine pleasure - a year is far too short a time.

One last note (and I apologise if you are bored of hearing this by now) - the Students' Union is here to help you and if there is anything you need assistance with please don’t hesitate to get in contact. My email is [email protected]. Now I also have a summer of dissertation-writing, so it may also be easier to contact LSESU directly – all the relevant emails and telephone numbers can be found on the website.

  Other than that, all that I have left to do is to wish you good luck and all the very best for the future.

  Yours,