Education
Queen Mary integrates sustainability and partnership principles across teaching and staff development. Both staff and students collaborate to advance the SDGs through education and global engagement.
Inclusive Curriculum and Educational Practice
Queen Mary’s Inclusive Curriculum framework guides teaching asnd assessment design to ensure all students—regardless of background, gender or identity—can thrive. The framework emphasises student–staff collaboration, diverse voices and global perspectives within modules, and pedagogic practices that remove barriers and promote belonging. Through inclusive advising, mentoring and curricular design that reflects multiple identities, QMUL builds a learning environment where gender equality and broader equity are embedded into the academic experience.
Access and Participation Plan
Queen Mary is a sector leader in attracting students from groups typically under-represented in research-intensive universities. Of our domestic undergraduate students, 94% are from state schools, 73% are BAME, and 45% are first into higher education. We have the best record of all the Russell Group universities in England for recruiting undergraduate students from state schools and from lower-income families. In 2021, a Sutton Trust report named us as the best university for social mobility in the country.
Our Access and Participation Plan outlines our approach to improve the equality of opportunities available for underrepresented groups to access, succeed in, and progress from higher education. The Plan includes a full assessment of our performance, an overview of the measures in place and the targets we have set for improvement. Our 2020-2025 Report and 2025-2029 Report show that 30% of Queen Mary undergraduate home students come from households earning less than 15,000, 93% were from state schools and 22% were eligible for Free School Meals. For local access, over 50% of our home undergraduate students are from within 15km of campus, with 27% coming from East London specifically.