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UCL's formal committees

Academic Support contact for initial enquiries - Gary Hawes

These pages contain information about UCL's standing committees, including details of their constitution and membership, terms of reference and dates of meetings.

Committee Minutes for sessions prior to 2010-11 are not publicly accessible.  For Minutes in and after session 2010-11 access restrictions continue to apply to unconfirmed Minutes and confidential Minutes.

Further useful information is available through the following links:

• UCL Committees Code of Practice
• Guidance on servicing UCL committees and using the UCL house style for the drafting of committee Agendas and Minutes [PowerPoint Document, 640KB]
• Template for UCL committee Agendas [Word document, 65KB]
• Template for UCL committee Minutes [Word document, 69KB]

UCL standing committees 

Below is a list of currently established standing committees of UCL. Standing UCL committees are formally established by Council, which is UCL's governing body.

Although the individual webpages for each committee include links to Minutes of meetings (subject to any access restrictions that might necessarily apply on the grounds of confidentiality), UCL staff also have the option of viewing hard copy versions of the Minutes of UCL committees by appointment with the Records Office (subject to any confidentiality restrictions that might necessarily apply).

• Organogram of standing UCL committees 2011-2012 [Word document, 45KB]

Name of committee	Reports to (by submission of Minutes)	Reports to (by submission of an annual report unless otherwise indicated)	Chair	Secretary
Council			Sir Stephen Wall	Tim Perry
Academic Board [AB]	Council		President and Provost	Jason Clarke
Academic Committee [AC]	Council; Academic Board		Professor Anthony Smith	Jason Clarke
Academic Promotions Committee [APC]	Academic Board		President and Provost	Terry Hosten
Audit Committee [AudC]	Council	Council	Mr Mark Knight	Jason Clarke
Discipline Committee [DisC]	Council		Ms Elaine Genders	Gary Hawes
Discipline Review Body [DRB]	Council		Mr Peter Thornton	Gary Hawes
Education Committee [EC]	Academic Committee		Professor Mike Ewing	Sandra Hinton
Committee for Equal Opportunities [CEO]	Academic Committee	Council (via Academic Committee)	Professor Stephen Smith	Rachel Port
Estates Management Committee [EMC]	Finance Committee		President and Provost	Andrew Grainger
Ethical Investment Review Committee [EIRC]	Council	Council	Mr Mark Knight	Jason Clarke
Finance Committee [FC]	Council		Ms Anne Bulford	Nick McGhee
Health and Safety Committee [HSC]	Council	Council	Mr Rex Knight	Jonathan Blackman
Honorary Degrees and Fellowships Committee [HDFC]	Council		Sir Stephen Wall	Gary Hawes
Human Resources Policy Committee [HRPC]	Council		President and Provost	Gary Hawes
Investments Committee [IC]	Council; Finance Committee		Ms Anne Bulford	Karen Milloy
Joint Staff Student Committee [JSSC]	Academic Committee	Academic Committee	Dr Ruth Siddall	Rob Traynor
Library Committee [LC]	Academic Committee	Council (via Academic Board)	Professor David Price	Gary Hawes
Nominations Committee [NC]	Council	Council	Sir Stephen Wall	Tim Perry
Quality Management and Enhancement Committee [QMEC]	Academic Committee	Academic Committee	Professor Mike Ewing	Sandra Hinton
Remuneration Committee [RC]	Council	Council (regular report)	Sir Stephen Wall	Gary Hawes
Research Degrees Committee [RDC]	Academic Committee		Professor David Bogle	Gary Hawes
Research Governance Committee [RGC]	Academic Committee		Professor David Price	Rachel Port
Scholarships and Student Funding Committee [SSFC]	Academic Committee		Professor Michael Worton	Rob Traynor

In order to keep the information on these pages up to date, all changes in membership of UCL standing committees and sub-committees should be reported immediately to Gary Hawes.

Proposed changes in membership which require an amendment of the constitution of the committee should also be referred to Gary Hawes.

UCL agreed a number of Corporate Equality Objectives in 2001, one of which is to ‘improve the gender balance and representation of under-represented groups on UCL boards, working groups and committees'. In light of this, committee officers are encouraged to take all reasonable steps in future to replace long-serving members of committees, or to fill current or impending vacancies on committees, with staff from under-represented groups.