Refugee Academic Futures Scholarships
About this opportunity
The Refugee Academic Futures Scholarships offer financial support to pursue graduate study at Oxford to students who are refugees or other people with lived experience of displacement.
The scholarships are open to all academic subjects. Each scholarship will cover your course fees and will provide you with a grant for living costs. Awards are made for the full duration of your fee liability for your course. Scholars will be offered opportunities to receive mentoring and a bespoke programme of pre-arrival, on-course, and post-completion support.|The Refugee Academic Futures Scholarships offer financial support to pursue graduate study at Oxford to students who are refugees or other people with lived experience of displacement.
Level of Study
- Master’s - Taught
- Master’s - Research
- PhD
Eligibility
Asylum seeker, Refugee, Humanitarian protection, Limited or Discretionary Leave to Remain, Indefinite Leave to Remain, Ukraine or Afghan Schemes, British National Overseas (BNO), Other forms of sanctuary (including Calais Leave, Section 67 Leave, UASC leave and Stateless Leave), I am outside of the UK
Additional notes about eligibility criteria
The Refugee Academic Futures scholarships are available for applicants who have been displaced due to conflict, persecution, or other serious human rights violations or deprivations, whether within or outside their country of origin, and who hold an offer for either a taught or research postgraduate degree, starting in the 2025-26 academic year. This includes all full-time and part-time DPhil and master’s courses.
These scholarships support students across the University and are open to all subject areas. If you would like further information on the scholarship and the support programme it provides you can contact the Oxford Sanctuary Community via sanctuary@ox.ac.uk.
Displaced scholars from Africa should look into the Mastercard Foundation Scholars programme run by AfOx https://www.afox.ox.ac.uk/mastercard-foundation-scholars-program-university-oxford
We also have The Palestine Crisis Scholarship Scheme – you can read the full details of this scheme on the webpage here https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/fees-and-funding/fees-funding-and-scholarship-search/crisis-scholarship-scheme|The Refugee Academic Futures scholarships are available for applicants who have been displaced due to conflict, persecution, or other serious human rights violations or deprivations, whether within or outside their country of origin, and who hold an offer for either a taught or research postgraduate degree, starting in the 2025-26 academic year. This includes all full-time and part-time DPhil and master’s courses.
These scholarships support students across the University and are open to all subject areas. If you would like further information on the scholarship and the support programme it provides you can contact the Oxford Sanctuary Community via sanctuary@ox.ac.uk.
Displaced scholars from Africa should look into the Mastercard Foundation Scholars programme run by AfOx https://www.afox.ox.ac.uk/mastercard-foundation-scholars-program-university-oxford
We also have The Palestine Crisis Scholarship Scheme – you can read the full details of this scheme on the webpage here https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/fees-and-funding/fees-funding-and-scholarship-search/crisis-scholarship-scheme|The Refugee Academic Futures scholarships are available for applicants who have been displaced due to conflict, persecution, or other serious human rights violations or deprivations, whether within or outside their country of origin, and who hold an offer for either a taught or research postgraduate degree, starting in the 2025-26 academic year. This includes all full-time and part-time DPhil and master’s courses.
These scholarships support students across the University and are open to all subject areas. If you would like further information on the scholarship and the support programme it provides you can contact the Oxford Sanctuary Community via sanctuary@ox.ac.uk.
Displaced scholars from Africa should look into the Mastercard Foundation Scholars programme run by AfOx https://www.afox.ox.ac.uk/mastercard-foundation-scholars-program-university-oxford
We also have The Palestine Crisis Scholarship Scheme – you can read the full details of this scheme on the webpage here https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/fees-and-funding/fees-funding-and-scholarship-search/crisis-scholarship-scheme|The Refugee Academic Futures scholarships are available for applicants who have been displaced due to conflict, persecution, or other serious human rights violations or deprivations, whether within or outside their country of origin, and who hold an offer for either a taught or research postgraduate degree, starting in the 2025-26 academic year. This includes all full-time and part-time DPhil and master’s courses.
These scholarships support students across the University and are open to all subject areas. If you would like further information on the scholarship and the support programme it provides you can contact the Oxford Sanctuary Community via sanctuary@ox.ac.uk.
Displaced scholars from Africa should look into the Mastercard Foundation Scholars programme run by AfOx https://www.afox.ox.ac.uk/mastercard-foundation-scholars-program-university-oxford
We also have The Palestine Crisis Scholarship Scheme – you can read the full details of this scheme on the webpage here https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/fees-and-funding/fees-funding-and-scholarship-search/crisis-scholarship-scheme
What is included in this opportunity?
- Fee Waiver (no fees)
- Accommodation
- Full bursary (study costs and full living costs)
- Partial bursary (study costs and partial living costs)
- Study costs (books, travel, etc.)
Types of study available
- Part-time / flexible
- Full-time
Additional details about application process
We will contact you to ask you to apply for these scholarships if you have:
Applied for an eligible course by the relevant November, December or January application deadline for your course and received an offer; and
indicated that you are a refugee/displaced when you applied for your course.
Please note, if you do not tick the box on the application form to indicate that you have a displacement background you will not be invited to apply for the scholarship, even if you have mentioned this elsewhere in your application. If you are eligible but did not complete the question on your course application about refugee/displaced status then you can still email us (via academic.futures@admin.ox.ac.uk) by 4th April 2025 to confirm that you wish to apply.
If you are eligible for these scholarships, you will be considered regardless of which college (if any) you state as your preference on your graduate application form. However, some of these awards are only tenable at specific colleges and successful applicants will be transferred to the relevant college in order to take up the scholarship if applicable.|We will contact you to ask you to apply for these scholarships if you have:
Applied for an eligible course by the relevant November, December or January application deadline for your course and received an offer; and
indicated that you are a refugee/displaced when you applied for your course.
Please note, if you do not tick the box on the application form to indicate that you have a displacement background you will not be invited to apply for the scholarship, even if you have mentioned this elsewhere in your application. If you are eligible but did not complete the question on your course application about refugee/displaced status then you can still email us (via academic.futures@admin.ox.ac.uk) by 4th April 2025 to confirm that you wish to apply.
If you are eligible for these scholarships, you will be considered regardless of which college (if any) you state as your preference on your graduate application form. However, some of these awards are only tenable at specific colleges and successful applicants will be transferred to the relevant college in order to take up the scholarship if applicable.|We will contact you to ask you to apply for these scholarships if you have:
Applied for an eligible course by the relevant November, December or January application deadline for your course and received an offer; and
indicated that you are a refugee/displaced when you applied for your course.
Please note, if you do not tick the box on the application form to indicate that you have a displacement background you will not be invited to apply for the scholarship, even if you have mentioned this elsewhere in your application. If you are eligible but did not complete the question on your course application about refugee/displaced status then you can still email us (via academic.futures@admin.ox.ac.uk) by 4th April 2025 to confirm that you wish to apply.
If you are eligible for these scholarships, you will be considered regardless of which college (if any) you state as your preference on your graduate application form. However, some of these awards are only tenable at specific colleges and successful applicants will be transferred to the relevant college in order to take up the scholarship if applicable.|We will contact you to ask you to apply for these scholarships if you have:
Applied for an eligible course by the relevant November, December or January application deadline for your course and received an offer; and
indicated that you are a refugee/displaced when you applied for your course.
Please note, if you do not tick the box on the application form to indicate that you have a displacement background you will not be invited to apply for the scholarship, even if you have mentioned this elsewhere in your application. If you are eligible but did not complete the question on your course application about refugee/displaced status then you can still email us (via academic.futures@admin.ox.ac.uk) by 4th April 2025 to confirm that you wish to apply.
If you are eligible for these scholarships, you will be considered regardless of which college (if any) you state as your preference on your graduate application form. However, some of these awards are only tenable at specific colleges and successful applicants will be transferred to the relevant college in order to take up the scholarship if applicable.
Is this opportunity available for individuals outside of the UK?
Yes
For further questions contact the scholarship provider
Email Us sanctuary@ox.ac.uk
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