Week 3: Inspiring Oxford summer school
Stay and study in historic Brasenose College
Week 3: Sunday 20 July - Saturday 26 July 2025
Elevate your summer by exploring your passion in a dynamic and world-renowned university environment at our 2025 Inspiring Oxford summer programme.
All week-long courses are pitched at an introductory level for non-specialists aged 18 and above, and no prior knowledge is required. You will study in small groups, of up to 16 participants, taught by highly experienced tutors.
Programme update
Week 3 courses are now closed to enrolment.
Courses still open in other weeks can be viewed here.
Upcoming courses
Summer schools • Short courses
Explore the detective fiction of Agatha Christie, examining her two most famous detectives: Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. We’ll look at the historical contexts and narrative structures of some of Christie’s most successful whodunits.
- Sun 20 Jul 2025 – 26 Jul 2025
Summer schools • Short courses
Try your hand at four distinct types of short-form writing – micro-memoir, flash fiction, short creative non-fiction and prose poetry – and discover how each of them can benefit your writing life.
- Sun 20 Jul 2025 – 26 Jul 2025
Summer schools • Short courses
To what extent do we still live in a globalised and capitalist world? How helpful are the concepts of globalisation and capitalism for understanding today’s international system? Explore Global Political Economy as a framework to address these questions.
- Sun 20 Jul 2025 – 26 Jul 2025
Summer schools • Short courses
Celebrating the potential of humans, positive psychology offers an alternative view of human behaviour. As a discipline it strives to move us towards happier, healthier and more fulfilled lives. This course explores some of those ideas.
- Sun 20 Jul 2025 – 26 Jul 2025
Summer schools • Short courses
Spies, secret agents and webs of deceit, tales of derring-do and outstanding courage abound in this new course. Hear tales from all over Nazi occupied Europe and learn about the brave actions of ordinary men and women who did extraordinary things.
- Sun 20 Jul 2025 – 26 Jul 2025
Summer schools • Short courses
State-sponsored espionage is redefining great power politics. This course will undertake an in-depth analysis of what espionage is, how modern nation states are redefining it and what the implications of this will be for the 21st century balance of power.
- Sun 20 Jul 2025 – 26 Jul 2025
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Inspiring Oxford Summer School
Introductory level. A newly-expanded summer programme offering weekly courses aimed at non-specialists. Held at Brasenose College, Oxford.Inspiring Oxford Frequently Asked Questions
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