The University’s ‘Declaration of Outside Interests’ form, which requires staff to declare any potential conflicts of interest with their University employment, contains a section where staff are asked to list 

‘Details of other interests which are felt to be relevant, e.g. memberships of associations, societies, cooperative movements’.

Members have asked us whether this means they should declare their membership of UCU. For avoidance of doubt, the University has made clear that members are neither required nor expected to declare their union membership or membership of a political party or association. UCU membership details are confidential to the union and not disclosed to the employer or any other third party.