Graduate Scholarships for entry in the 2025/26 academic year

Details of scholarship: See https://www.oocdtp.ac.uk/our-studentships

Eligibility: Home/ROI/Islands/Overseas applicants for the Humanities subjects the College normally considers

Value: Course fee and a grant for living expenses at the UKRI minimum doctoral stipend rate

Duration: Up to three years (depending on period of fee liability)

Application process: No separate application process for Christ Church, but applicants should follow the OOC DTP application process

Details: This scholarship is co-funded by Christ Church and the Faculty of Philosophy.

Eligibility: Applicants for a DPhil in Philosophy.

Value: Course fees (to at least the Home fees level) and a grant for living expenses at the annual UKRI doctoral stipend rate.

Duration: Up to three years (depending on period of fee liability). 

Application process: No separate application process. The successful applicant will be transferred to Christ Church in order to take up the scholarship if they did not apply to the college. Selection is expected to take place by late March 2025.

Details: This scholarship is co-funded by Christ Church and the Faculty of Music. 
Eligibility: Applicants paying fees at home level for any one-year PGT course in Music in which Christ Church normally considers applications.

Value: Fees at home level and a grant for living expenses at the equivalent of the UKRI minimum doctoral stipend rate.

Duration: Up to one year (depending on period of fee liability).

Application process: No separate application process. The successful applicant will be transferred to Christ Church in order to take up the scholarship if they did not apply to the college. Selection is expected to take place by early May 2025.

Details of scholarship: The scholarship is jointly funded by the University and Mr. Maurice Bonham-Carter, a Christ Church alumnus. Mr Bonham-Carter is an established entrepreneur who has been active for many years in the Caribbean and wishes to give back to those countries listed by helping to broaden the experiences and further the education of exceptional students.

Eligibility: Available for applicants who are ordinarily resident in one of the following countries: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Turks and Caicos Islands, Zimbabwe. 

Eligibility: The scholarship is available to applicants who are applying to one of the following full-time one-year Master’s courses:

• MPhil Law

• MPhil Socio-Legal Research

• MSc Russian and East European Studies

• MSc Criminology and Criminal Justice

• MSc Nature, Society and Environmental Governance

• MSc Water Science, Policy and Management

• MSc Biodiversity, Conservation and Management

• MSc Environmental Change and Management

• MSt Classical Archaeology

• MSc Social Data Science 
   

Value: The scholarship covers course fees and a grant for living costs. 

Duration: Awards are made for the full duration of your fee liability for the agreed course. 

Application process: No separate application process. All eligible applicants will be considered for this scholarship, regardless of which college (if any) you state as your preference on the graduate application form. However, successful applicants will be transferred to Christ Church in order to take up the scholarship. Selection is expected to take place by late May 2025.

Details of scholarship: The Anne Campbell Scholarship was given by Emily Campbell (ChCh 1990) in memory of her late mother.  It is awarded to the Christ Church law graduate with the highest average mark in the Final Honours School who remains at Christ Church, or returns to Christ Church, in order to study for the BCL or MJur

Eligibility: Home/ROI/Islands/Overseas applicants to Christ Church for the MJur and BCL who have previously completed their undergraduate Law degree at Christ Church

Value: £3,300 towards course fees and £500 towards living costs

Duration: Ten months

Application process: No separate application process.

Details of scholarship: this award is funded by the generosity of Mr Simon Hale.

Eligibility: Home/ROI/Islands/Overseas applicants for any course in Physical Geography

Value: £5,000 p/a

Duration: Between one and three years (depending on period of fee liability)

Application process: No separate application process.

Details of scholarship: The Scholarship has been set up thanks to the Trustees of the Aird Charitable Trust, in the name and memory of Sir John Aird, who read Engineering at Christ Church from 1958 and went on to receive an MBA from Harvard University. The scholarship reflects Sir John’s interest in the sciences and his wish to nurture talent within the UK.   

Eligibility: Applicants for a DPhil in Engineering who would pay fees at home level.

Value: Home fees and living expenses at UKRI minimum doctoral stipend rate.

Duration: Up to four years (depending on period of fee liability). 

Application process: No separate application process. A successful applicant will be transferred to Christ Church in order to take up the scholarship if they did not apply to the college. Selection is expected to take place by late March 2025.

Details: This scholarship is co-funded by Christ Church and the Maths Department.

Eligibility: Applicants for the MSc in Mathematical Sciences and the MSc in Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing.

Value: A sum covering fees at home level only (for any successful applicant, irrespective of whether they are to pay home or overseas fees), together with a grant for living expenses at the equivalent of the UKRI  annual doctoral stipend rate.

Duration: Up to one year (depending on the period of fee liability).

Application process: No separate application process. The successful applicant will be transferred to Christ Church in order to take up the scholarship if they did not apply to the college. Selection is expected to take place by mid-May 2025.

Details of scholarship:

Eligibility:  Home candidates applying for the DPhil in Astrophysics

Value: Course fees and a grant for living expenses at the UKRI minimum doctoral stipend rate

Duration: Up to three years (depending on period of fee liability)

Application process: No separate application process.

Details of scholarship scheme can be found on the relevant University web pages.

Eligibility: Applicants meeting the University eligibility criteria for Black Academic Futures, Care-Experienced Academic Futures or Refugee Academic Futures scholarships with an offer for a one-year full-time course.

Value: Course fee and a grant for living expenses at the equivalent of the UKRI minimum doctoral stipend rate.

Duration: Up to one year (depending on period of fee liability)

Application process: There is no initial separate application process but applicants eligible for Black Academic Futures must include ethnicity information in their application, those for Care-Experienced Academic Futures must tick the ‘care-experienced’ box on the application form, and those for Refugee Academic Futures funding must tick the box to indicate that they have a displacement background. Further details may be found here.

https://www.afox.ox.ac.uk/students

Details of scholarship: The Scholarship is funded by American alumni of Christ Church and was established through the generosity of Peter Paine, a New York lawyer, and John Ward, a business consultant.

Eligibility: Applicants who are ordinarily resident in the USA and who completed their first degree at an American University for any course that Christ Church offers

Value: A grant for living expenses at the UKRI minimum doctoral stipend date

Duration: Up to twelve months (depending on period of fee liability)

Application process: No separate application process

Details of scholarship: See https://www.ox.ac.uk/clarendon/information-for-applicants

Eligibility: Home/ROI/Islands/Overseas applicants for subjects the College normally considers. One award is normally made in each of the Divisions as follows: Humanities, Social Sciences, MPLS, Medical Sciences.

Value: Course fee and a grant for living expenses at the UKRI minimum doctoral stipend rate

Duration: Up to four years (depending on period of fee liability)

Application process: No separate application process

University Palestinian Crisis Scholarship Scheme

Details of scholarship scheme: This scheme provides access to higher education to students displaced by the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the West Bank through the provision of full graduate scholarships to study at Oxford.

Eligibility: The scholarships are open to those who hold an offer for any one-year full-time or two-year part-time taught master's course starting in the 2025-26 academic year, and have been displaced by the current humanitarian crisis in Gaza and the West Bank. These scholarships are open to all subject areas.

Duration: 1 year (full-time) or two years (part-time) on a taught master’s course.

Application procedure: Applicants should follow the university application procedure for these awards, noting the need to indicate that you are a refugee/displaced person in your application and that support is available for preparing your application."