This constituency is comprised of four members of Congregation elected by Congregation from members of the faculties in the Divisions of Humanities and of Social Sciences.
Elections to this constituency restrict candidates to members ofthe faculties in the Divisions of Humanities and of Social Sciences. This means that all members of Congregation are eligible to nominate a candidate or to vote, but prospective candidates who want to stand for election must be a member of one the faculties in the Divisions of Humanities and of Social Sciences. (A list of these can be found in Statute VII http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/statutes/784-121.shtml).
The full term of office is four years (or less, when a by-election is held to fill the residue of the term of office for an elected member who is standing down early).
Elected members of Council will ordinarily be expected to serve on a small number of other committees (typically between one and three, usually including at least one of the main committees of Council i.e. PRAC, GPC, Education Committee, Personnel Committee, Research Committee).
