Ulster Society Officers 2008/09

At the AGM of the Ulster Society the following members were elected to service on the committee for the forthcoming year (2008/09).

President

Dean McSorley

Deputy President

Ian Gow B.A.

Secretary

Neil Baird

Treasurer

Kirsty Bell

Honorary Presidents':

Lord Laird of Artigarvan

Lord Professor Bew of Donegore

Director of the Ulster Society:

Gordon Lucy B.A.

Ulster Society Officers 2007/8

President:

Andrew Charles B.A.

Andrew is a Ph.D. Postgraduate student researching within the field of Health Science. As a Graduate of Politics and Social Policy at Queen's he is a former member of the SRCSU (2004-06) and a past Editor of "The Gown", the independent student newpaper at Queen's. He has a personal blog, andrewdavidcharles.co.uk

Vice-President:

Thomas Hogg




Secretary:

Dean McSorley

Dean is studying International Studies. He is also a member of Students' Representative Council.


Treasurer:

Scott Carson

Scott is studying Politics. He is a member of Students' Representative Council and Chair of the International Students' Committee.



Events Secretary:

Sharon Simpson

Sharon is a final year geography student and the Student Community Action officer in the Students' Union. She is also a former member of Student Representative Council (SRC).




Director of the National Ulster Society:


Gordon Lucy B.A.

Born in Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh.Educated at Portora Royal School, Enniskillen and Queen’s University of Belfast. Gordon Lucy has an Honours degree in History and is a qualified teacher.He is a well regarded Ulster historian and the author of a number of books on unionist history, including The Ulster Covenant (1989) and The Great Convention (1995), and has co-edited (with John Erskine) Varieties of Scottishness (1995), which examines the relationship between Ulster and Scotland, and (with Elaine McClure) The Twelfth: What it means to me (1997), Remembrance (1997) and Cool Britannia? What Britishness means to me (1999) and most recently Schomberg (2004). Mr Lucy is also Hon. Treasurer of the Ulster-Scots Heritage Council, an umbrella organisation for Ulster-Scots groups both in Northern Ireland and the Republic.



Honary President:

Lord Laird of Artigarvan

Lord Laird, an Ulster Peer who has played an active role in the politics of Ulster. A former Chair of the Ulster-Scots Agency and Stormont MP.






Associated Political organisations:

QUB Young Unionists:


Chair: Richard Cairns

Secretary: Richard Reid


Website: http://www.youngunionists.org.uk

QUB Democratic Unionists:

Chair: Thomas W. Hogg

Secretary: Sharon Simpson

Website: http://www.queensdua.co.uk

Ulster Society Officers 2006/7

President:
Graham Steven Barton
Graham is a final year Law with Politics undergraduate, he is Speaker to the Students Representive Council of the Students Union (SRCSU) and a member of the University Academic Board.


Vice-President:
Andrew Charles
Andrew is a Ph.D. postgraduate student researching within the field of Health Science. As a Graduate of Politics and Social Policy at Queen's he is a former member of the SRCSU (2004-06) and a past Editor of "The Gown", the independent student newpaper at Queen's. He has a personal blog, andrewdavidcharles.co.uk



Secretary:
Thomas Hogg
Thomas is a first year History/Politics Undergraduate, he is a member of the SRCSU, a Staff/Student Consultative Representitive, member of the RAG Committee and Chairman of the Cultural Affairs Committee.

Treasurer: Robert Davis
Robert is a second year Mechanical Engineering undergraduate student, he is a member of the SRCSU, the School of Engineering Education committee, the International Student committee and a member of the Univeristy Academic Council.

QUB Young Unionists Liaison:
Jennifer Dunn

Secretary:
Richard Reid




QUB Democratic Unionist Association Liaison:
David Cather

Secretary:
Sharon Simpson



National Ulster Society Liaison:
Richard Scott

Party Liaison (Events Sec.):
Sharon Simpson
Sharon is a Geography undergraduate, a member of the SRCSU, a Staff/Student Consultative Representitive, a member of the Welfare committee and the council member of the School of Science & Agriculture Education Committee.

Past Officers

Ulster Society Officers 2005/6

2005/2006

President: Jonathan Stevenson

Secretary: Sharon Simpson

Treasurer: Philip Allister