The Committee is formed of members with a variety of responsibilities and interests. If you would like to make a general enquiry or learn more about getting more involved, please email the Administrator.
Please see below for the names of those on the committee, their role and how to contact them. After the chair, members are listed alphabetically by role.
Please note this page is currently under construction.
Chair: Caroline Proctor chair@warwickucu.org.uk
Assistant Secretary (Anti-Casualisation): Alex Baker anti-casualisation@warwickucu.org.uk
The Anti-Casualisation contact is responsible for overseeing matters pertaining to anti-casualisation across the university.
Assistant Secretary (Communications): communications@warwickucu.org.uk
Assistant Secretary (Disabilities): Charlotte Heath-Kelly disabilities@warwickucu.org.uk
Charlotte Heath-Kelly works on the PAIS department’s academic staff. She has been a member of Warwick UCU since she joined the University a very long time ago. She became involved in the committee around 20/21, when she first encountered the reasonable adjustment and Occupational Health processes. The struggle of navigating these formal processes led her to become disabilities officer on the Warwick UCU committee (which she remains to date), to try and share experience of how to navigate the system. She also became an active caseworker for the branch, to this same end. She was a branch co-chair during the prolonged industrial action and MAB but has since moved into the Casework Coordinator position – where she has oversight of the full range of formal cases currently being supported by the branch.
Assistant Secretary (Equality and Diversity): Gabrielle Lynch equality-diversity@warwickucu.org.uk
The Equality and Diversity representative is responsible for highlighting and overseeing equality and diversity issues as they affect UCU and the university more widely.
Assistant Secretary (Health & Safety): Andrew Marsh
Andrew Marsh works in the Department of Chemistry and joined the UCU Branch Committee as Health and Safety Representative in 2023. He has been a Department Representative for about 10 years and has also acted as a Caseworker helping to resolve disputes between UCU members and University management. He lives locally, cycle commutes and helps organise Warwick’s Bicycle User Group (staff and student members who cycle to work always welcome!).
He represents UCU members on the University Health and Safety Committee as well as Chemistry’s local Health and Safety Committee. Please get in touch with any workplace health, safety and wellbeing concerns you might have.
Assistant Secretary (Membership): Becks Andrew; membership@warwickucu.org.uk
Becks Andrew works in Professional Services as an Executive Officer at the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine and has been at the university on and off for about 15 years. She has worked in a variety of departments over this time as both a temporary and permanent member of staff. She completed her English Literature PhD at the University of Birmingham in 2021.
The Membership Secretary is responsible for working in conjunction with union members, departmental representatives and the committee to ensure that we attract new members, retain existing members, and assist in creating a sense of community.
Assistant Secretary (Pensions)
Assistant Secretaries (PGR): Carys Hill and Mohammad Javanmard
Carys Hill is one of our PGR Reps on the Warwick UCU Committee. Carys is a PhD Researcher and GTA in the Sociology Department. Having been an active member of the Warwick PGR Collective, she got involved with UCU through their PGRs as Staff campaign which campaigned on issues including exploitative funding contracts, poor working and teaching conditions, and securing a better future in the sector. Along with her PGR Rep colleague, Mohammad Javanmard, her main work as a PGR rep has been continuing the work of the Committee and previous PGR Reps negotiating a better deal for GTAs at Warwick, the fruits of which we will hopefully see soon! Carys and Mohammad also run fortnightly meetings with UCU PGRs. If you’d like to get involved, please email administrator@warwickucu.org.uk who can pass your details.
Assistant Secretary (Professional Services)
Casework Coordinator: Charlotte Heath-Kelly; casework-coordinator@warwickucu.org.uk
Charlotte Heath-Kelly works on the PAIS department’s academic staff. She has been a member of Warwick UCU since she joined the University a very long time ago. She became involved in the committee around 20/21, when she first encountered the reasonable adjustment and Occupational Health processes. The struggle of navigating these formal processes led her to become disabilities officer on the Warwick UCU committee (which she remains to date), to try and share experience of how to navigate the system. She also became an active caseworker for the branch, to this same end. She was a branch co-chair during the prolonged industrial action and MAB but has since moved into the Casework Coordinator position – where she has oversight of the full range of formal cases currently being supported by the branch.
Migrant Staff Representative: Marina Veličković
Marina Veličković is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Law School. Having spent considerable time and money throughout her life applying for visas, she initially got interested in migrant staff rights when she joined the Cambridge UCU branch as a PhD student. One of the things she is working on at Warwick is advocating that the University starts reimbursing ILR (and second visa) applications for staff. If you’d like to join her on this mission, please get in touch with the Administrator to join our Migrant Staff Working Group.
Treasurer: Felix Michelet treasurer@warwickucu.org.uk
The treasurer is responsible for overseeing Warwick UCU’s budget and payments to other causes and staff when required.
Other Members:
These positions are designed to bring a wider voice to the committee from departments that might not be represented elsewhere.