You don’t have to disclose whether you have a disability. However, there are benefits to disclosing. If we are aware in advance of any particular difficulties you might encounter, we can provide you appropriate support and make reasonable adjustments.

If you did not disclose as part of the application process, you are strongly advised to do so once you have arrived in College by contacting either the College's Disability Coordinator or the Disability Advisory Service. All information you provide is treated confidentially and will only be shared with tutors or other members of staff with your permission.

If you think that you have a disability when already at College, including dyslexia or a mental health condition, you can also contact the University Disability Advisory Service, Disability Coordinator or, where relevant, the College Doctor.

If you register with the Disability Advisory Service they can arrange for a Study Needs Assessment (SNA), which will inform the support you can seek.

There is some funding available to meet any additional costs arising from a disability. Home students, undergraduate or graduate, may be eligible for Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA). These are provided by Local Authorities or the Student Awards Agency for Scotland. Some graduate funding bodies also provide an equivalent to DSA.

Please be aware that the UK government is revising the terms of the DSA and the level of support may change at short notice. The University also has limited funds available to assist students with specific study-related needs. You should contact the Disability Advisory Service for up-to-date details.

Trinity offers support towards equipment and photocopying, in line with a Student Support Plan, for those students who have registered with the University's Disability Advisory Service. 

The College (in the case of undergraduates) and University/department (in the case of graduates) are willing to consider appropriate and reasonable adjustments to both teaching and, with agreement of the University, assessment (examining) while on course.

Students with a disability, including specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia and dyspraxia, or medical condition who need to apply for special study or examination arrangements will need medical or other independent, specialist evidence to support their requests for those arrangements. Examinations arrangements are authorised by the University, but made through the Academic Office. Depending on individual needs, the kind of adjustments that may be possible include extending your period of study, providing readers/scribes or Braille texts, allowing a different mode of assessment, rescheduling of examinations, providing extra time in examinations and extensions to submission deadlines, sitting examinations in College and allowing you to use word processors in examinations.

Trinity's JCR (elected undergraduates of the college) has amongst its elected representatives a Disabilities Rep. 

The Oxford University Student Union has a Welfare and Equal Opportunities full-time sabbatical representative, a part-time Disabled Students Officer and a disabilities campaign that campaigns for better understanding and treatment of disabilities.

Students with a disability may also find the OUSU’s Student Advice Service helpful.

The Bodleian Library makes available a wide range of e-books which are recommended by the University Counselling Service; these e-books, which can be accessed here, cover topics such as academic life, identity, self-care, relationships, mental health, disability and overcoming traumatic events.

 

Buildings within Trinity College vary in degrees of accessibility to people with physical disabilities. Some of our buildings date as far back as the seventeenth century and are presently not fully accessible.  However, we will do as much as we can to make reasonable physical adjustments or arrangements to make the College as accessible as possible.  

The extent to which we are able to do this depends upon individual requirements, but we do have experience of many students and staff with disabilities living and working within the College.

Access to buildings

Entrance to the College is from Broad Street where the Lodge is situated; the entrance here is level. The Lodge has ramped access and is equipped with a hearing loop system and a Textphone (01865 277587).  We also have our own wheelchair should this be required.

Accessible Toilets

A WC for use by those with a disability is located in the Levine Building, ground floor.  Please ask the Lodge for directions and/or assistance.

Trinity's Levine Building

The Levine Building is designed to be fully accessible, as part of a major development to the college estate that will improve accessibility to both our current and historic facilities. 

The building's facilities include:

• 8 fully accessible en suite bedrooms integrated into new student accommodation, all designed to allow for the provision of ceiling mounted hoists.

• Two student kitchens with accessible work surfaces.

• New disabled toilets, as well as a changing places facility, in the main building.

• Hearing Loops in the Auditorium, Function Room and Teaching Rooms.

• Level access to all public areas and teaching rooms at ground floor level, with two new lifts for access to other floors.

Additionally, the 'Jack Britton Library Foyer' provides level access to the library reception area when approached from either the Library Quad or from the Central Foyer of the Levine Building. A new platform lift in the Library reception area will allow wheelchair access to the retained Library entrances on both levels.

Accessibility upgrades: Kitchen, Hall and SCR

In a separate project, we are in the process of identifying ways to make some of the other communal areas of college – including the SCR and Beer Cellar – more fully accessible. This will involve a combination of solutions including integrating new lifts into a number of challenging historic spaces, and this work is due to be completed in spring 2023.

Please note that Trinity is an educational environment, and the College may close to visitors without notice. Visitors are advised to contact the College before planning a visit. For all general enquiries please contact Trinity College Lodge on 01865 277900 or lodge@trinity.ox.ac.uk.

For information and advice on the way in which a particular disability may impact on your experience at the University of Oxford and for assistance with organising disability-related study support please contact the University of Oxford Disability Advisory Service: 01865 280459 or disability@admin.ox.ac.uk



 

For information on domestic and residential matters please contact the Domestic Bursar, Lynne Adam.

For information on academic and admissions matters please contact the Senior Tutor, Rebecca Bullard. 

For general information please contact the Disability Lead, Lizzie Shine.

Responsibility for meeting the needs of disabled students is shared across the collegiate University. The ‘Common Framework for supporting disabled students’ sets out the principles that underpin the procedures, and aims to improve the sharing of information, clarity of roles and responsibilities, and the consistency of provision.