The College Record 2022
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Reports and <strong>College</strong> Activities<br />
We have continued our work as part of Oxford for the North West, working with<br />
colleagues at St Peter’s, Corpus Christi and Pembroke in order to deliver webinars<br />
to students from the region, as well as in-person in-reach events for current students<br />
to help them settle in and find a community here. We’ve also enjoyed supporting<br />
the work of other fantastic outreach programmes, such as Target Oxbridge and<br />
Opportunity Oxford, and continued working with our colleagues in Cambridge,<br />
going on road trips to deliver in-region events in schools and colleges in our shared<br />
link areas.<br />
<strong>The</strong> academic year ended with the return of in-person Open Days – after three long<br />
years! With that came our first big residential event, with just shy of 100 Year 12<br />
students and their teachers coming down from state-schools in the North-West and<br />
staying with us at Queen’s for our Open Days Plus Residential Programme. It was<br />
wonderful to see these students making the most of their time at Queen’s, taking<br />
part in taster Tutorial sessions with our Tutors and Lecturers, asking lots of questions<br />
of our Student Ambassadors, and enjoying the social side of life here too as they<br />
participated in quizzes and punting trips in the evenings. Many of the students<br />
reported that they felt much more confident about making an Oxford application<br />
after the residential and that they recognised that they would be able to find a likeminded<br />
community here, which is fantastic to hear. We will be keeping our fingers<br />
crossed for them as they submit their UCAS applications – hopefully we will get to<br />
see some of them matriculating at Oxford in Michaelmas 2023!<br />
After over three years, I will be moving on from Queen’s at the start of the new<br />
academic year to pursue a Masters in Higher Education at Oxford. I’m looking<br />
forward to carrying out independent research and hope to spend time investigating<br />
patterns of educational disadvantage in UK coastal schools and how disadvantaged<br />
students’ rates of progression to highly selective higher education institutions are<br />
affected by a coastal upbringing. I have very much enjoyed my time at Queen’s and<br />
have loved working with prospective students and supporting them on their journey<br />
to their post-18 choices. <strong>The</strong> best part of this job has to be seeing students who I<br />
worked with when they were at school successfully navigate the Oxford application<br />
process and see them now thriving as undergraduates at Queen’s – and representing<br />
the <strong>College</strong> as Student Ambassadors on our Outreach programmes too! I am sure<br />
that Access and Outreach at Queen’s will go from strength to strength and the<br />
diversity of our future cohorts will continue to improve and represent the very best<br />
and brightest students from all walks of life here at Oxford.<br />
38 <strong>The</strong> Queen’s <strong>College</strong> | <strong>College</strong> <strong>Record</strong> <strong>2022</strong>