My name is Peter and I was here at St John's College with some other students
here at Cambridge University starting the campaign #BlackMenofCambridgeUniversity.
I just wanted to be part of a campaign that really challenges the
stereotype of what a Cambridge University student looks like because
essentially perception is key to what happens in real life if you do not see
people like yourself at such an institution then you won't apply to it,
it's quite simple a lot of the time. I mean I applied to this University
because I saw people who looked like myself on access programmes and I feel
that in this day and age a lot of positions of power are still firmly reliant
on the institutions and backgrounds you came from, whether that's academic
institutions or employment-based institutions, so we need more people like
myself and other people from diverse backgrounds to fill these institutions,
if they want to, so we can essentially change how society looks like
we can structurally change the face of society today. It's also important
that people understand the fact that at Cambridge you can study what you enjoy
you don't essentially, particularly in this country, need for your degree and
profession to match, we don't necessarily need to do that. I'm at Cambridge
University reading Theology, Religion and Philosophy and if I had one pound for
every time someone asked me, 'do you want to be the first black Archbishop of Canterbury?'
Then I'd be a millionaire literally.
Hi I'm Bez, I'm an HSPS student doing Politics and Anthropology and I do a
lot of fashion and sports on the side.
I was just really shocked like really aghast
and I'm just like loads of people, like Stormzy (supported us) and
like I was going on Channel 4 and BBC and loads my friends from other universities
were messaging me being like, 'Oh I just saw you on BBC, I just saw you on this.'
It was just really crazy, I was just really shocked
and surprised, it was really hard for it to fully sink in.
I got like spotted on the street twice and I was just like:
'I'm a celeb, this is the life.'
This year I finished running a fashion show in Cambridge, it was a charity fashion show.
We had various designers like Dolce & Gabbana and designers in Central Saint Martins.
There's different people come down to attend the event and
we had the international editor of Vogue come down,
press like CNN and also local news, press come down, it's a really amazing thing to do.
Organising the whole process was really, really fun
and just seeing everything come together and the whole creative
aspect and different creative contributions from various members of the University.
To be at Cambridge for me, I feel like it's a massive honour,
I still feel sometimes when I come back, I'm driving back to Cambridge for term,
I still feel kinda shocked as to the fact that I'm studying in Cambridge and
there's still some supervisions where I'm just having discussions with like
renowned academics and the access to such a high-quality education is
something I just never take for granted really.
Hi, my name is Ore and I took the #BlackManofCambridgeUniversity photos.
Aside from doing my degree, I've just finished being President of
the African-Caribbean Society which has taken up most of my past year.
I've absolutely loved it.
After the picture we released an access plan of action
where we basically said all the plans the ACS had in terms
of improving access for black students to University. So we launched our
inaugural access conference and we had 60 high-achieving black students
all get together, we ran subject-intensive workshops.
We had Director of Admissions, Dr Sam Lucy, come and speak to them,
it was an incredible day.
We had our mentoring scheme
which ran, started in July and basically ran
up until interview season where students from the society were mentoring
prospective students. I think it's also kind of led to everyone else wants to
show what the situation is like at their universities as well.
Oxford did one, we've had one of King's, lots of London universities, Harrow School did one
and again I think there is this sense of everyone wanted to join in
because it was kind of like the euphoria but it was also a sense of well if
you're gonna highlight how much of a diversity issue there is
then actually have this conversation properly, it's not just a Cambridge
problem, it's something that we're seeing at top institutions across the country.
So I think there's a sense of we've built something really, really important here
The society's developed and grown so much, that obviously passing
that on there is kind of a sense of nervousness of how that legacy is going to survive you
but I am excited, I'm hopeful that the next committee here have got
it covered and I think the fact that I still get to be involved
is really nice to help that continuity.
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