Faculty elections
Nominations for Faculty roles are now closed.
You can see below the results of elections that closed in February, including details of which contests are going to ballot and information on voting.
Faculty election results
Elected without ballot
Financial Officer
- Professor Saeed Farooq
Elections going to ballot
Vice-Chair
Two candidates:
- Professor Angela Hassiotis
- Dr Lindsey Sinclair
Executive Committee Member
Nine candidates for five roles:
- Professor Matthew Broome
- Dr Ken Courtenay
- Professor Helen Crimlisk
- Dr Tiago da Silva Costa
- Professor Cynthia Fu
- Professor Peter Haddad
- Professor Kenneth Kaufman
- Dr Savva Pronin
- Dr Piyush Pushkar
Elected without ballot
Chair
- Dr Julia Lewis
Vice-Chair
- Dr Edward Day
Elections going to ballot
Executive Committee Member
Seven candidates for six roles:
- Dr John Dunn
- Dr Iyad Heja
- Dr Andrew Hill
- Dr Bradley Hillier
- Dr Pardis Mostajabi
- Dr Jawad Raja
- Dr Laura Robbins
Elected without ballot
Vice-Chair
- Dr Helen Whitworth
Financial Officer
- Dr Panchu Xavier
Elections going to ballot
Executive Committee Member
16 candidates for six roles:
- Dr Duncan Alcock
- Dr Katina Anagnostakis
- Dr Stephen Attard
- Dr Harm Boer
- Dr Rebekah Bourne
- Dr Nicola Claxton
- Dr Emma Hogan
- Dr Iain McKinnon
- Dr Emma McPhail
- Dr Juliette Mullin
- Dr Ruairi Page
- Dr Elspeth Pike
- Dr Samir Srivastava
- Dr Laura Steven
- Dr Niamh Sweeney
- Dr Kripa Ullal
Elected without ballot
Financial Officer
- Dr Samuel Tromans
- Dr Heather Hanna
- Dr Richard Laugharne
- Dr Rajesh Rama Iyer
- Dr Ambreen Rashid
- Dr Paul Winterbottom
Elections going to ballot
Chair
Two candidates:
- Professor Sujeet Jaydeokar
- Professor Rohit Shankar
Vice-Chair
Three candidates:
- Dr Jana de Villiers
- Dr Hassan Mahmood
- Professor Raja Mukherjee
Elected without ballot
Chair
- Dr Jessica Yakeley
Vice-Chair
- Dr Vikram Luthra
Elections going to ballot
Executive Committee Member
10 candidates for five roles
- Dr Sophie Atwood
- Dr Tom Cant
- Dr Dimitrios Chartonas
- Dr Lawrence Congdon
- Dr Orestis Kanter Bax
- Dr Natasha Liu-Thwaites
- Dr Reena Manghnani
- Dr Beena Rajkumar
- Dr Aleksandr Sapunov
- Dr Rajiv Shah
Elected without ballot
Financial Officer
- Dr Matthew Rowett
Elections going to ballot
Vice-Chair
Two candidates:
- Dr Ruta Kontautaite
- Dr Rachel Thomasson
Executive Committee Member
13 candidates for six roles:
- Dr Murtala Abdussalam
- Dr Adam Al-Diwani
- Dr Hugo Amaro
- Dr Mohammad Arbabi
- Dr Emily Easter
- Dr Czarina Kirk
- Dr Ivan Koychev
- Dr Nida Munawar
- Dr Edward Palmer
- Dr Basavaraja Papanna
- Dr Savva Pronin
- Dr Venkata Yelamanchili
- Dr Taylan Yukselen
Elections going to ballot
Executive Committee Member
10 candidates for eight roles:
- Dr Zerak Alsalihy
- Dr Rebecca Chubb
- Dr Charlotte Deasy
- Dr Zena Harvey
- Dr Claire-Marie Hosein
- Dr Anitha Howard
- Dr Josie Jenkinson
- Dr Ivan Koychev
- Dr Thomas McCabe
- Dr Christoph Mueller
Elected without ballot
Financial Officer
- Dr Sushma Sundaresh
Elections going to ballot
Executive Committee Member
11 candidates for six roles:
- Dr Sarah Abdelsayed
- Dr Laura Bladon
- Dr Afraa Delvi
- Dr Hussien Elkholy
- Dr Nazish Hashmi
- Dr Asad Hayat
- Dr Nikolett Kabacs
- Dr Hind Khalifeh
- Dr Leena Patel
- Dr Katherine Smart
- Dr Athanasios Tsoumpris
Faculty elections FAQs
The timetable for 2026 elections is as follows:
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1 December 2025 | Nominations open |
| 20 February (noon) | Extended closing date for submission of nominations |
| 18 March | Voting opens |
| 15 April (noon) | Voting closes |
| 16 April | Results of elections declared |
| TBC 16-18 June | Terms 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'll 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 a question about an executive committee job role, such as term of office, frequency of meetings etc., please contact the manager of that committee.
For any other questions about elections that have not been answered here, please contact the elections team on elections@rcpsych.ac.uk.