Scholarships
For Undergraduates
For First Degrees
Those from low income backgrounds may be eligible for sources of financial support including Oxford Bursaries and Crankstart Bursaries amongst others. For further information and to find out if you are eligible for a bursary, please follow this link to the Central Bursary portal.
In addition the Government offers further financial support for those from low income backgrounds. For information on eligibility and the level of support, please follow this link to the Central University's dedicated portal for government funding.
Those who are reading for a Second Undergraduate Degree are not eligible for Crankstart or Oxford Bursaries but you may be awarded a scholarship. All Harris Manchester offer holders for Second Undergraduate Degrees (excluding those reading Graduate Entry Medicine) are eligible to apply, including overseas students from outside the UK or Republic of Ireland. Awards will be made primarily on the basis of academic merit but applicants’ financial situation will also be taken into consideration. Offer holders will be forwarded the relevant application form in January.
International students may be eligible for some of the other Oxford scholarships listed on the Central Bursary Portal.
UK students may apply for a Disabled Student's Allowance (DSA). International students may be eligible for university fuding for some disbaility-relate costs. This assistance does not have to be repaid. Further information is available from the University's Disability Advisory Service.
Prospective students from the UK with children may apply through the government for funding to help with childcare with support issued on a case by case basis. Sources of funding include:
1. Childcare Grant. This is funding provided by the government and students apply through their LA. This is for childcare provision costs for full time students with dependent children in registered or approved childcare. It is based on actual childcare costs and is means tested.
2. Parents’ Learning Allowance. This is for course-related costs for full time students with dependent children. It is means tested and students apply through their LA.
3. Child Tax Credits. For students this replaces Dependants Grant for children. It is means tested on income and circumstances (Inland Revenue). You don’t have to be working to claim it.
On-course student parents may apply for the Oxford Hardship Fund (which has replaced the Access to Learning Fund scheme).
More information for student parents can be found here.
The Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust
The Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust supports the work of mature students of proven academic merit, and in financial need, who are pursuing further degree qualifications at an institution in the UK. Open to students from all countries, applicants must be resident in the UK at the time of applying, as well as during their course of study. The Trust supports postgraduate degrees in any subject, as well as courses in medicine or veterinary sciences taken as a second degree. All grants are made annually, and are normally between £500 and £1,500.
Please see https://www.stapleytrust.org/ for further details.
The Sidney Perry Foundation
The Sidney Perry Foundation is a non-profit organisation is dedicated to providing grants to students to assist persons to obtain education in its widest sense, other than primary, when the expenses thereof would without such assistance be beyond their means.
Please see https://www.the-sidney-perry-foundation.co.uk/ for further details.
The Humanitarian Trust
The Humanitarian Trust awards one-off grants of a maximum of £1,000 to students each year who have a shortfall in their income needed to complete their course of study.
Please see http://www.humanitariantrust.co.uk/ for further details.
For Postgraduates
Harris Manchester College offers a Graduate Studentship in Theology, tenable from 1st October 2023. This will be awarded either to a student reading for a Theology MSt (MSt Theology or MSt Philosophical Theology) or a DPhil student. If awarded to an MSt student, the scholarship would be £20,000. If awarded to a DPhil student, the scholarship would be worth £13,000 awarded annually for up to three years, renewable each year subject to satisfactory academic progress. There will be a maximum of one scholarship holder at a time and can be awarded only to those who are due to start in October 2023. The closing date for this round of applications is 19th May 2023.
Preference will be given to applicants working in an area broadly sympathetic to the aims of the Crewdson Trust, which are to promote study and research in Christian theology relevant to the production of contemporary re-statements of the Christian faith or its application, and also to encourage research into the role of religion in eliminating violence and promoting peace. In the case of applications for the doctoral scholarship, preference will be given to candidates whose doctoral research reflects the aims of the trust and in particular the interests of its founder, Joan Crewdson, e.g., sharing Joan Crewdson’s interests in liberal theology, the interaction of theology and society, and/or the interaction of theology and philosophy.
Applicants are asked to complete an application form, available here. DPhil applicants should supply a statement of their proposed research and how this might match the aims of the trust as set out above. MSt applicants are encouraged to do the same in relation to any master’s dissertations or subsequent research they may be planning, although it is recognized that such statements are unlikely to be as detailed or definite. Applicants should also supply a financial statement. Applications should be sent to the Admissions Officer at Harris Manchester College (admissions@hmc.ox.ac.uk) by the closing date of 19th May 2023. Applicants should also supply a CV and two academic references. Please ask your referees to email their references to the Crewdson Trustees c/o the Admissions Officer at Harris Manchester College by the closing date.
Applications for awards (usually of up to two thousand pounds) from the Crewdson Trust are invited from Oxford students doing advanced degrees in Theology. The aims of the trust are to promote study and research in Christian theology relevant to the production of contemporary re-statements of the Christian faith or its application, and also to encourage research into the role of religion in eliminating violence and promoting peace. The trustees may also award travelling bursaries, book bursaries and prizes relevant to the above aims. Grants will be restricted to people studying at the University of Oxford and priority will be given to UK residents and/or people who are not fully funded or have a very small income and preference will also be given to mature students and to those studying or wishing to study at Harris Manchester College, Oxford (although in practice this does not prevent successful applications from other colleges).
Anyone wishing to apply should write to the Secretary to the Crewdson Trust, Dr Eric Eve, Harris Manchester College (eric.eve@hmc.ox.ac.uk). Applicants will then be sent a form to complete and return to the Secretary, asking for a brief description of their studies and how they match the aims of the trust, a financial statement providing evidence of need, a reference from their supervisor and a current CV. Applications will only be considered once all these materials have been received. The closing date for this year’s applications is 16th January 2023, and the trustees will decide on the making of awards by the end of the month
For further sources of financial support, please see here.
