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Access Week 2025: From Local to Global

Designed to emulate 'a week in the life of an Oxford undergraduate', Access Week is an annual summer residential at Pembroke College. Select pupils from our target regions who have participated in our Access and Outreach programmes were invited to attend the residential, which took place this summer. We welcomed 120 pupils who participated in tutorials, seminars, mock interviews, academic trips, and much more.

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Reflections of a Recent Pembroke Graduate

Michaelmas term is fast approaching, which can only mean one thing – an onslaught of Freshers will be imminently arriving to Oxford and Pembroke. Starting university can be a big transition for anyone. We thought we’d ask one of our fresh graduates, Rohit Ghosh, to reflect on his time at Pembroke, looking all the way back to his own Freshers’ week.

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Pembroke Wins Green Impact Gold

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Earlier this year Pembroke's recent sustainability progress, propelled by an enthusiastic group of students and staff, was recognised with a Gold Green Impact Award.

Green Impact is a United Nations award-winning programme designed to support environmentally and socially sustainable practice in organisations. The programme aligns with the University’s Environmental Sustainability Strategy and is an opportunity for staff and students to come together to deliver sustainability changes to their college. More details about the programme can be found here.

Members of staff with Pembroke's Green Impact Award

Over the first half of 2025, a small team of Pembroke staff and students worked together to build on the College’s existing sustainability initiatives – including our decarbonisation work, our biodiversity site and the café’s returnable cup scheme – to develop and strengthen our sustainable practices and engage the wider College community.

JCR Environment and Biodiversity Reps and members of 
the Green Impact Team, Amelia and Olivia, at the Pembroke Orchard

Guided by Green Impact’s toolkit of effective actions, Pembroke took part in University-wide and national programmes such as Green Action Week, Vision Zero and Great Big Green Lunch; delivered events ranging from a Sustainable Travel Breakfast and Gardening Sessions to a student research presentation on meat consumption in Oxford colleges; and implemented changes big and small, from a stationery sharing point to improved waste and recycling procedures. These and other actions were reviewed by the University Green Impact team, earning us the Gold award at the end of the programme.

Undergraduate Hanna Czaban speaking on 'Emissions from 
Meat Consumption at Oxford Colleges and What Needs to Change'

As a College we are committed to reducing our impact on the planet and creating an environment where sustainable choices are the norm. Alongside initiatives which engage the whole community with sustainable day-to-day actions, we are working on a number of larger-scale decarbonisation and biodiversity projects in line with our Sustainability Strategy.

You can read more about sustainability at Pembroke here.