Council of University Classical Departments | CUCD

About CUCD

The Council of University Classical Departments is the professional forum for all teachers of classical Greek and Roman subjects in British Universities. It has four meetings annually: three meetings of the Standing Committee, and a plenary Council meeting in November, at which all UK Classics Departments (and remnants thereof) are represented (see the constitution and “Contacts, Representatives, and Member Institutions” below). As well as serving as a voice for classical teachers in higher education on matters of academic and professional significance, CUCD collects annual statistics on students numbers in UK classical degree programmes, and publishes the CUCD Bulletin, which is available on-line from volume 24 (1995).

CUCD maintains JISCmail lists for the following groups in UK Higher Education to enable more frequent discussions and sharing of support and ideas between colleagues who hold key administrative roles in Classical and related departments/subject groups:

  1. Heads of Department/Subject leads;
  2. Directors of Research/Impact/REF/Knowledge exchange;
  3. Directors of Teaching/Student Experience/Education/Undergraduate studies;
  4. Admissions/recruitment/outreach.
  5. A list already exists for EDI officers (I will copy details already sent to the list below).

There is also a super-list, called simply CUCD, which will include all subscribers for the other lists, and will be used for information and announcements relevant to UKHE Classics in general.

The instructions for joining the various lists are below. They will be circulated each academic year for new role holders to join or remove themselves. All except EDI are currently set up as public discussion lists, but groups could decide to change status to a private discussion list if needed. Moderators will make sure there is no spam, and discussion is constructive and on topic. It may be useful to arrange occasional in person meet ups, either separately or at existing conferences.

Joining details.

1. CUCD (general UK HE Classics information and announcements) List owner: CUCD Chair (Helen Lovatt)

– Mailing list sign up form is available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CUCD&A=1

– Subscribers can post to this list by sending an email to CUCD@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (the message is distributed to everyone subscribed and saved to the list’s archive).

– Subscribers/potential subscribers can contact the list owner via CUCD-REQUEST@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

2. HoDCUCD (discussion and support for Heads of Department/School/Subject leads in UK HE Classical and related subjects) List Owner: CUCD Chair (Helen Lovatt)

– Mailing list sign up form is available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=HODCUCD&A=1

– Subscribers can post to this list by sending an email to HODCUCD@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (the message is distributed to everyone subscribed and saved to the list’s archive).

– Subscribers/potential subscribers can contact the list owner via HODCUCD-REQUEST@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

3. EducationCUCD (discussion and support for Directors of Teaching/Student Experience/Education/Undergraduate studies in UK HE Classical subjects) List owner: Chair of Education Committee (Liz Pender)

– Mailing list sign up form is available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=EDUCATIONCUCD&A=1

– Subscribers can post to this list by sending an email to EDUCATIONCUCD@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (the message is distributed to everyone subscribed and saved to the list’s archive).

– Subscribers/potential subscribers can contact the list owner via EDUCATIONCUCD-REQUEST@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

4. ResearchCUCD (discussion and support for Directors of Research/REF coordinators/Impact/Knowledge Exchange) List owner: Director of the ICS (Katherine Harloe)

– Mailing list sign up form is available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=RESEARCHCUCD&A=1

– Subscribers can post to this list by sending an email to RESEARCHCUCD@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (the message is distributed to everyone subscribed and saved to the list’s archive).

– Subscribers/potential subscribers can contact the list owner via RESEARCHCUCD-REQUEST@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

5. AdmissionsOutreachCUCD (discussion and support for Admissions tutors/directors of recruitment/outreach officers) List Owner: CUCD Treasurer (Rosanna Omitowoju)

– Mailing list sign up form is available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=ADMISSIONSOUTREACHCUCD&A=1

– Subscribers can post to this list by sending an email to ADMISSIONSOUTREACHCUCD@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (the message is distributed to everyone subscribed and saved to the list’s archive).

– Subscribers/potential subscribers can contact the list owner via ADMISSIONSOUTREACHCUCD-REQUEST@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

6. EDI Officers (discussion and support for EDI officers in UK HE Classical departments) List owner: Chair of EDI committee (Elena Giusti)

The CUCD-EDI committee has created a mailing list of EDI officers across Classics & Ancient History departments in the UK and I am just sending out a call to update it. 

If you wish to write directly to the list for any EDI-related issue the address is 

CLASSICSEDI@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

If you are a new EDI officer, or if you know that your department has a new EDI officer, could you please email me at E.Giusti@Warwick.ac.uk so that I can add you to the mailing list?