Senate
You can view the Senate Standing Orders here.
Subject to oversight and control by the Council, Senate is responsible for promoting research, for promoting and regulating learning and teaching, and for maintaining the quality and standards of the University’s academic provision.
Senate’s powers and duties are detailed in Ordinance 19 of the University’s Statutory Framework.
Senate has a membership of 87, comprising the Vice-Chancellor, the Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, the Pro-Vice-Chancellors, the Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellors, the Deans of Schools/Institutes, eight heads of Level 1 academic units from each Faculty, eight representatives from each Faculty elected by and from among the academic staff employed on substantive Teaching and Research or Teaching and Scholarship contracts, the four Student Representative Officers and one student representative from each Faculty.
Meeting dates
Senate usually meets on 4 occasions during the academic year. Dates for the 2024/25 session are as follows:
- 20 November 2024
- 29 January 2025
- 19 March 2025
- 25 June 2025
Senate Minutes
Please note that minutes of meetings are not published online until they have been formally approved by the Committee at its next meeting.
2023-24
22 May 2024
20 March 2024
24 January 2024
15 November 2023
19 September 2023
2022-23
28 June 2023
29 March 2023
25 January 2023
16 November 2022
2021-22
26 January 2022
30 March 2022
29 June 2022
2020-21
30 June 2021
24 March 2021
27 January 2021
4 November 2020
2019-20
6 November 2019
29 January 2020
17 June 2020
2018-19
31 October 2018
30 January 2019
27 March 2019
26 June 2019
2017-18
1 November 2017
21 March 2018
2016-17
2 November 2016
22 March 2017
21 June 2017
2015-16
10 September 2015
4 November 2015
20 January 2016
29 June 2016
2014-15
5 November 2014
18 March 2015
24 June 2015
For further information, please contact the Secretary to Senate, Mike Edge.
Only pdf documents of minutes dated post-2018 are in an accessible format for screen readers. If you would like older documents in an accessible format please email accessibility@liverpool.ac.uk.