Leeds Beckett University UCU is the union of academic and academic-related staff working at or for Leeds Beckett University.

UCU is a collective democratic organisation. As members we agree together our policies and our negotiating agenda. We elect department representatives and a branch committee from the academic and academic-related staff (including postgraduate students who teach) at the university to make sure others in the union knows about workplace problems in our areas, to represent the academic and academic-related staff in meetings with university senior management and to support individual members with problems at work.