Oxford SU is a student-led organisation. This means that students are involved in key decisions including around our policy and providing student direction in our work. Students also play a key role in selecting the student leaders that will go on to work on your behalf and represent you in decision-making within the SU and within the wider University.

Most of our representative positions are elected by students. These leaders are students themselves, including four full-time Sabbatical Officers taking a year out of their studies to work full-time. Students propose and vote on policies that shape what the SU campaigns for and how it works.

In Trinity Term 2025, we will be piloting a new student voice model, which brings together Common Room representatives and Officers of the Students’ Union to build a collective voice. It’s a space to find out what students think about things, and agree positions deemed to be representative of the wider student body at the University of Oxford.

The Conference of Common Rooms (CCR) will be where Common Room Presidents, alongside Part-Time Officers, come together to support the SU’s student voice work. CCR is a forum for students to discuss shared interests and common purpose, and is how students can input into SU decision-making, representation, and policy development.

This model has been designed in collaboration with students. Following consultation in Michaelmas 2024 and Hilary 2025, we have developed a representative model of democracy, which means that Common Room Presidents will attend and represent students’ views. This means that if there’s something you want the SU to do, you should start the process by talking to your Common Room.

Spaces like the Conference of Common Rooms (CCR) and RepComs allow student reps to make decisions on behalf of their peers, and support the SU to ensure that its work is representative of the student body and that we are working on the things that matter most to you.

You can read the guide to CCR here 

Any student can attend and speak at CCR, but only common rooms can vote. If you would like your common room to represent you in a specific way during a meeting, you should contact your common room President in the first instance.