Fair access, policy, communications, and public affairs and strategy at UCAS
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Meet the teams
Policy team
The policy team exists to anticipate and interpret policy developments, ensuring UCAS responds effectively and strategically.
Get in touch to discuss our work: policy@ucas.ac.uk
Fair access team
The fair access team exists to support underrepresented student groups, ensuring UCAS identifies and breaks down barriers for students to higher education.
Get in touch to discuss our work: access@ucas.ac.uk
Communications and Public Affairs team
The communications and public affairs team monitors the external landscape to inform UCAS’ work and manages relationships with the media, government and political stakeholders across the four nations to raise awareness of our work and insights.
To get in touch with the public affairs team, you can email G.Marks@ucas.ac.uk and J.Farnham@ucas.ac.uk
If you are a journalist and have a media enquiry, you can email communications@ucas.ac.uk
Strategy
In 2025, UCAS launched its new corporate strategy – 'Next Chapter'.
This strategy has been developed in conjunction with the sector, and aims to see all who could benefit from UK higher education doing so.
Reports
The team works to offer meaningful context and insight into the behaviour and attitudes of applicants and students through our suite of reports, briefs, and insights.
These publications bring together UCAS’ end of cycle data, survey findings, and expertise on the HE policy landscape to explore a broad range of topics, spotlighting issues important to the sector and identifying key patterns and trends.
Consultation responses
In addition, the team coordinates and oversees UCAS’ response to sector consultations, ensuring that our views represent the best interests of our beneficiaries as a charity.