Campus Radicals

Robbie Gillett

Robbie Gillett became politically active in 2001 attending the Mayday protests. Since then he’s been involved in anti-war demos, the DSEI arms fair protests and a blockade at Faslane. He is also involved with Plane Stupid.

Tim Street

Tim Street is the Universities Network Co-Ordinator for Campaign Against Arms Trade. He is currently working on "Study War No More," a report on military research at UK universities due out in Oct/Nov 2007.

Sara Hall

Sara Hall is a PhD student in the Hebrew and Jewish Studies Department at University College London (UCL). She believes that ethical investment is the future and campaigns for her university to ditch their shares in arms companies.

Tim Collins

Tim Collins is studying for his M.Litt in Middle East and Central Asian Security Studies at St Andrews and has an offer to pursue a PhD in Iranian political history at the same institution.

Ben Ullmann

Ben Ullmann is the President of the University of Bristol Students' Union in charge of education and representation. He is also Vice-Chair of the Aldwych Group which represents students from the Russell Group of Universities.

Daniel Humphrey

Daniel Humphrey is a second year BA Development Studies student at the University of East Anglia. He has been a member of the UEA Amnesty International society for two years and will be president next academic year. Daniel is an avid campaigner for universal human rights worldwide.

Hana Bieliauskas

Hana Bieliauskas is a junior at Ohio University majoring in magazine journalism. She is currently studying in London.

Chinwe Akomah

Chinwe Akomah is in her final year of studying for a BA in Politics and Sociology at Warwick University. When she graduates she plans to study to become a newspaper journalist.

Veronica King

Veronica King is 22 and originally from Leeds, where she first got involved in the student movement as vice-president of an FE College in 2000. She studied Politics & Communication Studies at the University of Liverpool, graduating in July 2004.

Lauren Newell

Lauren is the U8's Press Officer and serves on its Executive Committee. She is currently studying Sociology with Social Policy at the University of Warwick.

Neil Dunsire

Neil Dunsire is studying Politics and International Relations at Aberdeen and is involved in the SNP's Scottish Parliamentary election campaign. He is director of publicity for the Federation of Student Nationalists

Harry Giles

Harry Giles is a 20-year-old Philosophy student at St Andrews. He's an activist working on campaigns at his University as well as for People & Planet - the support network for student activists - and part of the Anarchist Academics e-network.

Jamie Allinson

Jamie Allinson is president of Edinburgh University Stop the War society. He is doing a PhD in Politics at Edinburgh. He has been an active campaigner for a different kind of globalization since living in the occupied West Bank.

Jack Sommers

Jack Sommers is a 21-year-old Politics student at Fitzwilliam, Cambridge. He worked as a volunteer on John Kerry's presidential campaign in January 2004. He is deputy editor of The Cambridge Student.

Louise Sweeney

Louise is a National Executive Committee (NEC) member and on NUS' Welfare Team

Claire Anderson

Claire studies History at Birmingham University. She was President of her student union LGBT society in her final year, and ran their first ever national campaign, 'Stamp Out Homophobia in Schools'.

Ruquayyah Collector

Before taking up her role as Black Students Officer Ruqayyah was the Education Officer for Leeds University Union. Ruqayyah is the first-ever Muslim woman to sit on the NUS National Executive Committee in a full-time post.

Alex Kemp

Alex was elected as NUS Disabled Students' Officer in February 2006 and began his term of office in July 2006. He believes in a progressive movement of disabled students working together to further their rights to access education.

Ben Feder

Ben Feder is 20 and studying BA Law and Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). He co-founded the SOAS Detainee Support Group with friends from the university and is an active campainger for migrants rights in the UK.

Gemma Tumelty

Gemma Tumelty is President of the NUS. She studied at Liverpool John Moores University, became NUS National Secretary 2005-06. She was the seventh woman to become NUS president in the organisation's 83 years.

Kierra Box

Kierra Box co-founded Hands Up For Peace in February 2003 when she was 17. She is a patron of the National Youth Agency and a trustee of the Young People Now Foundation.