Congregation Meeting, 25 February 2025

A debate on a resolution published in the Gazette, No.5444, p.284, 30 January 2025 took place at the Congregation meeting on Tuesday 25 February. 

Text of resolution: 
‘That a Redundancy Panel be constituted to consider whether to recommend dismissal by reason of redundancy in respect of one member of staff who is in a G6 professional services support role in UAS.’

Speakers in the debate (in order):
Antony Willott (mover of resolution), Planning and Council Secretariat
Markos Koumaditis (seconder of resolution), People Department
Professor Mark Middleton, Faculty of Clinical Medicine
Boyd Rodger, Nuffield Department of Population Health
Dr Dylan Carver (mover of the opposition), St Peter’s
Professor Aris Katzourakis (seconder of the opposition), St Hilda’s
Antony Willott (reply), Planning and Council Secretariat
Dr Dylan Carver (reply), St Peter’s

Result of Vote:
The result of the vote taken was in favour 28 votes, against 16 votes.  The resolution was therefore declared carried. However, a postal vote was subsequently requested, so an electronic ballot will be arranged.  In the meantime, the resolution shall not be deemed to be operative nor to have been carried or rejected.

Voting on the legislative proposal in the meeting of Congregation was determined by ballot.

The result of the vote on the resolution to constitute a Redundancy Panel was as follows:

A postal vote was requested in respect of the resolution. In line with contemporary practice, this will be delivered electronically by Civica. Members of Congregation (as of 3 March 2025) will all be sent a voting link on 13 March.  Voting will close on Thursday 27 March at 16:00 (BST). The outcome of the votes will be published below, and the original report of voting from Civica will be attached here.

• A transcript of the meeting (PDF, 770KB)

Published as a supplement to the Gazette of 6 March 2025.

• Flysheet - Motion to vote in favour of the resolution (PDF, 88.2KB)