You must be a current student in order to apply for the following bursaries, travel awards and hardship grants.

Bursaries

College Fee Bursaries

The College makes available up to 15 College fee bursaries per academic year. Each fee bursary is equal to one term of the College fee. College fee bursaries are principally awarded on the basis of hardship. In deciding between candidates with equal needs, the College will have regard to academic merit. Self-funded Wolfson students who are currently on-course and reading for a doctoral or MPhil degree can apply. The bursaries are advertised in the College Newssheet in May. Further particulars will be available at this time. Closing date: TBC/Trinity 2012.

George Peters Bursary

A bursary of £500, in the name of Professor George Peters, who was a Fellow of the College (1980-2001) and Vicegerent (1991-93), is made annually each year. It is open to students from developing countries currently at Wolfson College and is awarded on the grounds of financial hardship. The Bursary will be advertised in the College Newssheet in January. Further particulars will be available at this time. Closing date: the deadline for 2011-2012 has now passed.

Travel Awards

Godfrey Lienhardt Travel Grant

The College, in conjunction with the Institute of Social Anthropology administers travel fieldwork grants (usually four) of up to £1,000 (open to non-Wolfson students also), to support fieldwork in Sub-Saharan Africa, excluding South Africa. Applicants should be pursuing research in social or cultural Anthropology. Applications should be made to the Institute of Social Anthropology. Informal enquiries to robert [dot] parkin [at] anthro [dot] ox [dot] ac [dot] uk (Dr Robert Parkin). Closing date: TBC.

Grimstone Foundation Travel Award

The Grimstone Foundation funds Travelling Fellowships for current students, of up to £2500 each. This award is to support either a cultural travel project or field work related to an MPhil or DPhil student's research project to either India or China. Applications should consist of a Curriculum Vitae and details of the travel project for which the Fellowship would be used. At the completion of the project, Fellowship-holders will be required to provide a report to the College on their return. This report might take the form, for instance, of a travel diary, a CD, a photographic memoir or an art work. These will be advertised in the College Newssheet. Further particulars will be available at this time. Closing date: TBC.

The Tim and Kathy Clayden Prize

Tim Clayden is a former Graduate Student. The Tim and Kathy Clayden Prize is open to all current postgraduate students studying the Ancient Near East and enrolled for the degree of MSt, MPhil or DPhil in the University of Oxford. For the purposes of this award the Ancient Near East is defined as ancient Mesopotamia (including Syria, south-eastern Turkey, south-western Iran and the Gulf countries) before the Parthian period. One Prize, to the value of £500 will be awarded. This will be advertised in the College Newssheet in February. Further particulars will be available at this time. The 2011 appplication deadline has now passed.

Conference and Fieldwork Grants

The Senior Tutor manages a fund from which grants are made to graduate students presenting a paper at a conference or undertaking fieldwork. Students should provide evidence of participation in the conference for which the grant is being sought and on their return should produce a report on their conference/fieldwork. Conference grants of up to £150 and fieldwork grants of up to £200 are currently offered. Applications for these grants may be submitted to the Senior Tutor at any time during the year. Application forms can be downloaded. Please see below.

Hardship Funds

College Hardship Fund

The College Hardship Fund is a discretionary fund intended to provide short-term financial support for students experiencing unforeseeable financial difficulties. To be awarded a loan or grant, students must be enrolled and be in good academic standing. Applications are considered on a case by case basis. Exceptionally, a further award may be made, but the Fund is not able to provide long-term recurrent support for students. Applications are considered by the Senior Tutor and Bursar. There is an appeals panel headed by the Vicegerent that includes two other fellows. To apply, please download and complete a College Loan/Hardship Application Form (see below) and return it to the Academic Office.

University Hardship Funds

The University offers the Access to Learning Fund, University Hardship Fund and Vice Chancellors' Fund. More information about these funds can be found here. Please make an appointment with the senior [dot] tutor [at] wolfson [dot] ox [dot] ac [dot] uk (Senior Tutor) before applying to the University Hardship Fund.

Please also see the Fees, funding & living costs pages on Student Gateway for On-course graduates.