Student-led support

Academic representatives

Academic representatives are elected to act as the voice of students in Faculties, Departments or Schools. They are the person you should approach if you have any comments or concerns about your course or the wider Department that you want heard. You can learn more about the role of academic reps on the Cambridge Students' Union website.

BME Campaign

The Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Campaign - a Cambridge Students' Union campaign - represents, supports, and advocates for all BME students at the University of Cambridge. The Campaign also have an Education Rep on their committee, if you're looking to voice your concerns about Cambridge teaching, the curriculum, assessment practices and so on.

Decolonisation groups

A huge amount of work is going into making lasting change to the curriculum at Cambridge. The Curriculum Reform will allow better integration of authors from the Global South across different curricula, not as token authors but as required reading. The reforms are also looking at creating stand-alone courses that detail issues from the Global South as well as the Global North. For more on the various efforts across the University towards creating a change in the curriculum visit the Decolonising the Curriculum page.

Peer learning

You can also gain valuable academic support from your peers. A recent student-led APP PAR Project focused on the advantages of informal study groups on mental health and wellbeing.