Sabbatical Officers

The Sabbatical Team are your student representatives. Together, they ensure that your voice is heard at GSA and GSASA, and work to support the student body in campaigning and through the Student Representative Council.  

Student President 2023 - 2024

Ted Tinkler

Pronouns: they/them 

Ted is a Glasgow based artist, researcher, and workshop facilitator rooted in craft and tactility. They work with the animacy and performativity of crafted objects to play with ideas of intimacy, liveliness, multiplicity, and trans-ness. Ted’s ongoing research centres around speculatively re-imagining intimacy and time-based care through matters of queer theory, handkerchiefs, and soil.  

They are a knitting clad, jam-making, quilter, lace-knitter, spinner, and wood-worker. A lover of deep and embedded student representation. An advocate for academic inclusivity, social justice, joy, and liberation. 

Email: t.tinkler@gsa.ac.uk 

Vice President 2023- 2024

Alicia Bickerstaff

Pronouns: she/they  

Alicia studied Design Innovation and Citizenship at the Innovation school here at GSA. Their work centers around social research and design theory. They have just finished their masters project looking at concepts of heteronormativity within higher education.  

Alicia is also a freelance event photographer. They cover large scale events and have worked in club venues throughout Glasgow including the flying Duck and room two. Events are spaces to build community and so many precious moments are often forgotten or missed. They also have a background in fashion shows and event design which led them to get involved with event organization here at the GSASA.

Email: a.bickerstaff@gsa.ac.uk 

Illustrations by Anastacia Macdonald