Access Initiatives

The School of Geography and the Environment is fully committed to a range of initiatives specifically designed to encourage applicants from a diverse range of backgrounds and support them through the application process.

Each year Geography runs a UNIQ summer school, offering potential applicants the chance to experience what studying Geography at Oxford is like and to support them in making a competitive application.

From 2022, Geography will be part of Opportunity Oxford, which offers selected Oxford offer-holders the opportunity to participate in an academic bridging programme.

This day will be an in-person event at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford on Monday 18th September 2023. The day will start at 10:30 and finish at 15:00. This day will provide the opportunity to have taster lectures, discover what it is like to study Geography, and hear from current students from BAME backgrounds about student life at Oxford.

The deadline for applying for a place is 6pm on Friday 18th August.

UNIQ is a free support programme that helps students prepare for University and explore subjects that interest them during a summer school. UNIQ helps many students from diverse backgrounds to make successful applications to the University of Oxford.

Find out more information about the UNIQ Geography module

The Black Academic Futures scholarships, which launched in 2020, will offer up to ten UK Black and Mixed-Black students financial support and an exciting new opportunity to pursue graduate study at Oxford.

Opportunity Oxford is an ambitious academic programme that helps to prepare talented UK offer-holders from under-represented backgrounds for successful student careers at Oxford University.

Target Oxbridge is a free programme that aims to help black African and Caribbean students and students of mixed race with black African and Caribbean heritage increase their chances of getting into the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge (known collectively as Oxbridge).