Faculty elections

Find out the results of the recent elections for Faculties which closed earlier this year including which elections are going to ballot.

Voting for elections going to ballot opens on 22 March and closes on 19 April.

Faculty election results

Elected without ballot

Executive Committee Member

  • Dr Dan Hayes
  • Dr Kathryn Hollins
  • Dr Eilis Kennedy
  • Dr Pallab Majumder
  • Dr Mudasir Nazir
  • Dr Jenny Parker
  • Dr Liz Searle

Elected without ballot

Chair

  • Dr Ashish Kumar

Financial Officer

  • Dr Venkat Chetan Reddy Majjiga

Executive Committee Member

  • Dr David Coyle
  • Dr Carla Figueiredo
  • Dr Robert Freudenthal
  • Dr Agnes Louise Johnston
  • Dr Hubertus Himmerich
  • Dr Caroline Leeming
  • Dr Georgia Templeton

Elections going to ballot

Vice-Chair

Candidates standing for election:

  • Dr Agnes Ayton
  • Dr Adaeze Bradshaw

Elected without ballot

Chair

  • Dr Jon Van Niekerk

Vice-Chair

  • Dr Priyadarshini Natarajan

Financial Officer

  • Dr Jeya Balakrishna

Elections going to ballot

Executive Committee Member

Candidates standing for election (five to be elected):

  • Dr Vishal Agrawal
  • Dr Luke Baker
  • Dr Kapil Bakshi
  • Dr Sophia Pillai
  • Dr Hamid Rahmanian
  • Dr Aamer Sajjad
  • Dr Claire Woolcock

Elected without ballot

Financial Officer

  • Dr Marc Mandell

Elections going to ballot

Executive Committee Member

Candidates standing for election (five to be elected):

  • Dr Hosakere Aditya
  • Dr Anna Fryer
  • Dr Laurence Reed
  • Dr Sridevi Sira Mahalingappa
  • Professor Tayyeb Tahir
  • Dr Maytal Wolfe
  • Dr Michael Yousif

Elected without ballot

Executive Committee Member

  • Dr Priya Khanna
  • Dr Mehnaz Zafar

Faculty elections FAQs

The timetable for 2023 elections is as follows:

Date 
2 December 2022 (noon)Nominations open
27 January 2023 (noon)Closing date for submission of nominations
10 February 2023 (noon)Extended closing date for unfilled positions
22 March 2023Voting opens
19 April 2023Voting closes
20 April 2023Results of elections declared
TBC July 2023Terms of office begin at AGM

Please read our canvassing code which sets out the rules on canvassing during elections.

Members, Fellows and Specialist Associates who are members of the Faculty are eligible to vote in Faculty elections.

If you're eligible to vote (please check eligibility section above), you'll automatically be included in the electorate.

The email address that you have registered with us as your default will be given to Civica Election Services who will send you an email with a link to the voting site.

Each link is unique so can’t be shared with others and the voting site can’t be found through a search engine. If you're having issues with your ballot email or you're eligible but have not received the email, please contact elections@rcpsych.ac.uk.

Further questions

If you have any other questions about elections that have not been answered here, please contact the elections team on elections@rcpsych.ac.uk.

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