Green Templeton College

College facilities

Library and IT services

The Green Templeton library is open twenty-four hours a day providing key books in all focus subjects and quiet study spaces.

Recently upgraded Wi-Fi access is available across the whole college site and annexes, including all student rooms. There is also a computer room in which PCs and printing facilities are available twenty-four hours a day.

Sport, music and college facilities

Green Templeton has on-site facilities for tennis and squash, a multi-purpose gym building, and an active boat club based around the college boathouse at Longbridges. The college is actively involved in a variety of sports and students are encouraged to form teams around their preferred sports if not already represented at the college.

Other college societies include the Richard Doll Medical Society, a Global Health and Care Systems Society, Book Club, and a variety of musical groups including a Big Band. There is a music room available in the 18th century Observatory Rotunda.

A number of academic activities in various disciplines are based at Green Templeton, and regular lectures take place in term-time. Funding is available for student-led academic activities, such as the annual Human Welfare Conference hosted at the college.

There is a college-facilitated personal and professional development programme with interactive workshops to develop emotional intelligence, greater awareness of self and others, improved presentation and negotiation skills, as well as a popular personal coaching scheme.  

Facilities for disabled students

The library is accessible. The lecture theatre has lift access and is fitted with a loop aerial for use with hearing aids. The dining room on the ground floor of the Observatory is accessible via a ramp.

A limited number of parking spaces are available at college houses and at Rewley Abbey Court. 

Applicants with particular needs are encouraged to contact the college at an early stage to discuss their requirements and how they can be addressed. 

Welfare

Green Templeton has an experienced welfare team holding various roles to support students with their health and wellbeing throughout their studies. This includes the Dean for Welfare, Senior Tutor, College Nurse and College Doctors, Junior Deans, Peer Supporters, GCR Welfare and Equality & Diversity Representatives. Support for disabled students is coordinated by the Academic Registrar who is the college welfare lead and first point of contact for issues relating to health and welfare. Junior Deans and Peer Supporters are themselves graduate students and receive training to provide frontline response, signposting and friendly, confidential support as appropriate for welfare-related issues, whether ongoing or urgent. Further information on staff and resources is available on the college website.

MCR

All college students are automatically members of the Graduate Common Room (GCR), which is the equivalent of the MCR in other colleges. Activities are based around the Stables building in the centre of the college, which houses social gatherings and has a lounge area and hayloft work space which transforms into a setting for film nights or games.

The GCR Committee organises social and sporting events throughout the year, many of which are free. These include activities specifically aimed at students with partners and/or families in Oxford.