Christ Church seeks applicants of the highest academic potential and merit, irrespective of background and personal circumstances, and aims to provide a high-quality environment for academic study. Financial support for graduate students is a priority for Christ Church, and the College offers a range of scholarships each year for new graduate students. In recent years, for example, we have partnered with the Law Faculty to offer a BAME Scholarship to a DPhil student in Law, and with the University to offer two Black Academic Futures Scholarships, and thanks to the generosity of the Pitts-Tucker family have offered a fully-funded Pitts-Tucker Scholarship for a DPhil student in Medicine. Scholarships available for students starting in 2023/24 are listed below.
There is no separate College application procedure for any of the scholarships listed, but some scholarships require candidates to select Christ Church as their preferred colleges. Where applicable, this is set out below.
- Applications should be made by the January deadline for your chosen course.
- All applicants should apply to the University under the standard procedures for graduate degrees.
- Applicants who apply by the January deadline for their chosen course will automatically be considered for Clarendon awards.
Any queries about Christ Church scholarships should be directed to the Academic Office.
Research Council Awards
Two AHRC Humanities Scholarships each year in partnership with the University
Details of scholarship: See https://www.humanities.ox.ac.uk/ahrc-doctoral-training-partnership
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 AHRC application procedure
Subject-specific awards
Humanities Division
One Classics/Ancient History Scholarship in partnership with the Faculty of Classics
Eligibility: Home students applying for a DPhil in Ancient History or Classical Languages and Literature
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
One Dacre Trust Scholarship in History
Details of scholarship: This award is funded by the Dacre Trust and Christ Church
Eligibility: Home applicants for an MSt or a DPhil in History, with a preference for Intellectual History
Value: Course fee and a grant for living expenses at the UKRI minimum doctoral stipend rate
Duration: Up to one year for the MSt; up to three years for the DPhil
Application process: No separate application process
Social Sciences Division
One Geography Hale Scholarship in partnership with the OUCE
Details of scholarship: this award is funded by 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
One Oxford-Christopher Ainsley Scholarship in Geography
Details of scholarship: established in 2022 in the memory of Christopher Ainsley who read Geography at Christ Church between 1976 and 1978 and who died in 2021. It was established with the generous support of his friends, particularly his close friend and contemporary Martin Alderson-Smith, with match funding from the University of Oxford Graduate Endowment Match Scheme (GEMS)
Eligibility: Home/ROI/Islands/Overseas applicants for a DPhil in Geography
Value: Course fee and a grant for living expenses at the UKRI minimum doctoral stipend rate
Duration: Up to three years
Application process: No separate application process
One Anne Campbell Scholarship in Law
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.
One Politics or International Relations Scholarship in partnership with the Department of DPIR
Eligibility: Home/ROI/Islands/Overseas applicants for a DPhil in Politics or International Relations
Value: Course fee and a grant for living expenses at the UKRI minimum doctoral stipend rate
Duration: Up to three years
Application process: No separate application process
Maths, Physical & Life Sciences Division
One Chemistry Scholarship in partnership with the Department of Chemistry
Eligibility: Home students applying for a DPhil in a subject offered by the Department of Chemistry
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
One Mason Scholarship in Engineering
Details of scholarship: this award is funded by Dr Mike Mason
Eligibility: Home/ROI/Islands/Overseas applicants for the MSc in Energy Systems
Value: £15,000
Duration: Twelve months
Application process: No separate application process.
One Mathematics Scholarship in partnership with the Maths Institute
Eligibility: Home/ROI/Islands/Overseas applicants for a DPhil in Mathematics
Value: Course fee and a grant for living expenses at the UKRI minimum doctoral stipend rate.
Duration: Up to four years
Application process: No separate application process.
Christ Church also contributes to funding for CDT DPhil students for up to two students per year in Chemistry and up to three students in Mathematics.
Non-subject-specific awards
Four Clarendon Scholarships in partnership with the University
Details of scholarship: See https://www.humanities.ox.ac.uk/ahrc-doctoral-training-partnership
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
One Refugee Academic Futures Scholarship
Details of scholarship: https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/access/academic-futures
Eligibility: 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 a Phil course in one of the courses offered by Christ Church starting in the 2023-24 academic year.
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 but applicants must tick the ‘refugee status’ box on the graduate application form
One Holford Scholarship
Eligibility: Home/ROI/Islands/Overseas applicants for any course in which Christ Church accepts applications.
Value: 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.
One Ukrainian Scholarship in partnership with the University
Eligibility: Nationals of Ukraine and those who have been displaced by the war in Ukraine
Value: Course fees and a grant for living expenses at the UKRI minimum doctoral stipend rate
Duration: Up to one year (depending on period of fee liability)
Application process: No separate application process but applicants must tick the ‘refugee status’ box on the graduate application form
One Wakefield Scholarship
Details of scholarship: The award was endowed by the late Mrs Priscilla Wakefield Mitchell, in memory of her great-great-uncle Edward Gibbon Wakefield and his three brothers. The scholarship is also dedicated to the memory of Mrs Mitchell’s grandfather, Charles Marcus Wakefield, and to the memory of her brother Edward Roger Wakefield. Roger Wakefield was a graduate of Christ Church, Oxford.
Eligibility: applicants ordinarily resident in New Zealand who are graduates of the University of Canterbury of no more than two years’ standing or who are eligible to graduate from the University of Canterbury, who are offered a place on a one-year Master’s course offered by Christ Church with fess of up to £30k p.a..
Value: Course fees of up to £30k and a grant for living expenses at the UKRI minimum doctoral stipend rate pro rata
Duration: Up to one year (depending on period of fee liability)
Application process: No separate application process
