Branch Committee

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Branch Officers and committee members, 2026/27

Chair: Ian Higham

Vice Chair: Joanne Taplin-Green

Secretary: Kate Meagher (Contact: ucu.secretary@lse.ac.uk)

Treasurer: Tania Burchardt

Membership Secretary: Peter Skrandies (Contact: ucu.membership@lse.ac.uk)

Communications Officer: Darren Moon

Equalities Officer: Bryan W Roberts

Anti-Casualisation Officer: William Byrd

PSS Officer: Joanne Taplin-Green

Ordinary branch committee members: Fenella Cannell, Alex Frankovitch, Sara Geneletti, Craig Gent, Remco Heesen, Isabel Shutes, Fran Tonkiss

The committee is also supported by our Branch Administrator, Rosie Strathearn-Brady.

Negotiating Committee, 2026/27

Ian Higham (Chair of the Union side of JNCC and JNICC)

William Byrd (JNCC)

Remco Heesen (JNCC; JNICC)

Bryan W Roberts (JNCC)

Joanne Taplin-Green (JNICC)

Fran Tonkiss (JNCC; JNICC)