Please see our webpage on Student Representation for more information on the Common Awards Management Board and the role of Student Representatives.
If this process has triggered your interest in acting as a Common Awards student representative in 2024/25 it is not too late to put yourself forward. Please contact the Common Awards team on common.awards@durham.ac.uk
The candidates below have put themselves forward for election to the Common Awards Management Board. Each TEI will now individually hold an election process for Common Awards students to vote on their chosen candidates.
Following their election process, each TEI will then provide the Common Awards Team with a list of all candidates who received votes in ranked order. Once ranked preferences have been received from each TEI, the Common Awards Team will use a Single Transferable Vote system to identify the three candidates with the highest number of votes across all TEIs.
The election will run until 22nd March 2024.
Background and Experience
Remley Mann
Lindisfarne College of Theology
Diploma in Theology, Ministry and Mission
I spent my professional life as an educator, with a particular passion for making education accessible to all and for promoting lifelong learning. Before I retired in August 2022, I was Principal at King Edward VI College, Stourbridge - an A-level college with a very diverse student population of approximately 3,000 students. I have experience of dealing with a broad range of student issues, including the promotion of student voice and safeguarding. Although the end of my career was focused on the strategic issues related to delivering a high quality student experience and outcomes, my career was shaped by my passion for teaching and my view that educational opportunities are transformative. Now, I feel very privileged to have the opportunity to study with Lindisfarne College of Theology (LCT). I am as excited today about the course as I was before I started. Students at TEIs come from a wide range of life experiences and we all benefit from the growth we promote in each other. I believe I would make a good student representative because of my experience and because I care deeply about contributing positively and constructively so that our TEIs continue to thrive, grow and develop.
Thomas Morgan
St Padarn's Institute
MA in Theology, Ministry and Mission
I currently serve as a full-time Salvation Army officer (minister), having completed my training at William Booth College, London, in 2022. During training, I was a student representative on the course board, offering student feedback on academic issues.
Prior to training for ministry, for a number of years I was Head of Performing Arts in a large secondary school in Birmingham. Alongside this, I trained a number of teachers, as well as working as a part-time lecturer in education at Birmingham City University.
I am passionate about education, particularly teaching and learning. This interest has been developed further into theological education and training. With my previous experience in education and teaching, as well as my current experience within The Salvation Army, I feel I would be able to be an able student representative.
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