Access and Widening Participation
Nuffield College engages in a range of activities — including specialist access programmes and targeted Oxford University scholarships — that aim to support historically disadvantaged and underrepresented groups in graduate study in the social sciences.
Nuffield College seeks applicants of the highest academic merit, irrespective of background and personal circumstances. We are committed to ensuring that the financial cost of graduate study does not deter any prospective student from applying.
In line with this commitment, the College operates an underwriting scheme whereby all new students offered a place at Nuffield are guaranteed funding. This means that, if you are not successful in obtaining funding from other sources, we guarantee that we will provide you with funding (fees and living expenses) for your period of fee liability. Some of the funding awards we make may be joint with other funding providers or scholarship schemes.
Find more information about Nuffield funding here.
Nuffield College contributes to and participates in the UNIQ+ programme, which provides talented undergraduates from under-represented groups with a seven-week opportunity to experience postgraduate research and learn how to make more competitive applications to for graduate study.
The Black Academic Futures Scholarships offer UK Black and Mixed Black students financial support to pursue graduate study at Oxford.
Scholarships cover course fees in full and a grant for living costs, for the full duration of fee liability for the course.
The Refugee Academic Futures Scholarships offer financial support to pursue graduate study at Oxford to students who are refugees or have other lived experience of displacement.
Scholarships cover course fees in full and a grant for living costs, for the full duration of fee liability for the course. Scholars are also offered the opportunity to receive mentoring and a bespoke programme of pre-arrival, on-course, and post-completion support.
AfOx is a cross-university platform based at the University of Oxford with the aim of facilitating equitable and sustainable collaborations between researchers based at the University of Oxford and African universities, as well as increasing the number of African students pursuing postgraduate degrees in Oxford.
Cara (the Council for At-Risk Academics) is a rescue mission for academics around the world who need urgent help to escape from discrimination, persecution, violence or conflict.