All University of Ulster Students are automatically a SU member and can accordingly avail of all the associated privileges. The Students' Union has become a large semiautonomous part of the University of Ulster. The Union can roughly be split into two halves, the Representational Role and the Commercial role. The Union is run by 9 full-time elected officers who have varied responsibility for the day to day operation of the Union. These sabbatical Officers are elected annually by the Student body and take a year out from their studies to work for the Union.
Student representation consists of working at a local and national level.
On local level sabbatical officers are involved in numerous Students' Union and University committees. On a national level we are affiliated to two National Unions under the Bi-lateral agreement. The National Union of Students UK and the Union of Students in Ireland. The Students' Union is a democratic organisation and every student has a role to play in ensuring that the Union meets the needs of the students. The Students' Union also has a wide range of commercial operations that are set up to ensure students can avail themselves of student friendly services that they need at subsidised prices.