The following are the grants, scholarships and prizes currently available:

• Albert and Rachel Lehmann Graduate Studentship in Jewish History and Culture
• Canon Hall Greek Testament Prizes and Hall-Houghton Septuagint and Houghton Syriac Prizes 2011
• Chinese Government Scholarships to Study in China
• Gerald Averay Wainwright Near Eastern Archaeological Fund
• Graduate research support and allowances
• Graduate Studentship in Chinese Humanities
• Griffith Egyptological Fund
• H.H. Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Graduate Studentship in Islamic Art, Architecture or Archaeology
• Jeremy Black Studentship in Sumerian and Akkadian
• Sasakawa Fund Scholarships
• Sarah J. Clackson Coptic Fund
• Sheikh Zayed Graduate Studentship in Islamic Studies
• The Yousef Jameel Scholarships in Islamic Art

The Pembroke College Gordon Aldrick Scholarship in Chinese Cultural Studies

The Gordon Aldrick Scholarship, associated with Pembroke College, offers £5,000 per annum, tenable for up to three years. This is open to graduates beginning research in an area of Chinese cultural history.

Further Sources of Funding

NB For all funds and grants applications, or where Trust Funds Administrator is mentioned, you may email chris.williams@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Abramson Prize for Modern Hebrew Literature

The examiners in the Honour School of Oriental Studies (and associated Joint Honour Schools) may award a Prize each year to the candidate who has performed best in Honour School papers in Modern Hebrew Literature. It will be at the discretion of the examiners whether this will be judged by essays or final results. The Faculty Board will determine the value of the Prize. No special application is required.

Arthur Lenman Memorial Prize

A prize will be awarded by the Faculty Board of Oriental Studies to any undergraduate member of the University who gains a distinction in Ancient Egyptian in the Moderations in Oriental Studies (Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies) or is placed in the First Class in Egyptology in the Honour School of Oriental Studies. No special application is required.

Boden Prize

The Boden Prize (for proficiency in the Sanskrit Language and Literature). The prize is of the value of £50 and is open to any undergraduate member of the University. Candidates must send their names to the Trust Funds Administrator, Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, before 12 noon on Friday of the second week of Michaelmas Term. The examination will be held during Michaelmas Term.

Clough Travel Fund

A fund exists in the Faculty of Oriental Studies for the provision of travel grants for undergraduate or graduate students of Japanese in the University to enable them to visit Japan or Japan and Korea for the study of the language or literature.

Applications should be made using the application form for a travel, research or language study grant from a trust fund in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, available to download from the 'Grants, Scholarships and Prizes' section of the faculty Web site http://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/general/forms.html. An application may be submitted at any time.

The Colin Mathew Fund - Travel Awards for Historical Research

Applications are invited for small grants to support travel for the purposes of research.  The grants are intended to support research for a thesis on an historical topic: applicants must be Junior Members of the University, and may be undergraduate or graduate students. 

The Committee for the Fund hopes to make a number of awards up to a total value of £4,100: the maximum value of an individual award will be £500.

Application forms may be obtained by e-mailing Catherine.Barton@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk.  Completed forms must be submitted by Friday of Fourth Week of Trinity Term, 27 May 2011 Applicants are asked to ensure that their tutor or supervisor writes a letter in support of their application by the same date. Applications and letters of support should be addressed to: The Bursar’s Secretary, St Hugh’s College, Oxford 0X2 6LE.

Applicants will be informed of the outcome before the end of Trinity Term.

Comparative Philology Prizes

The trustees of the Derby Fund, on the recommendation of the Craven Committee, have approved an annual grant for the following prizes:

(i) a prize of £50 to be awarded for performance in the Historical Linguistics and Comparative Philology paper in Honour Moderations in Classics;

(ii) a prize of £100 for performance in any of the Philology and Linguistics papers in the Honour School of Literae Humaniores, or in the same papers offered in the Honour Schools of Classics and English, and Classics and Modern Languages, or Oriental Studies (with Classics as an additional language). No special application is required.

Davis Prize

Prize in Chinese for FHS (£100) for best dissertation. Recommended by the Examiners to the Chairman of Examiners having been approved by the Davis Committee.

Dolabani Fund for Syriac Studies

The Board of Management of the Dolabani Fund invites applications for grants from the fund. The fund's purpose is the furtherance of Syriac Studies within the University, including the support of students from Syriac churches studying their own tradition in working for formal qualifications of the University. According to the decree governing the fund, grants shall be made for the following purposes: the provision of financial support to graduate students of the University from or originating from the Middle East or the region of the Indian State of Kerala, to assist them in meeting the cost of engaging in courses involving Syriac Studies in the University; the provision of grants for the purchase of Syriac manuscripts for the Bodleian Library and for the purchase of books in or concerning Syriac for the Bodleian Library and the Oriental Institute Library.

Applications, which should include a statement of the purpose for which the grant is requested and (in the case of graduate students) the name of the applicant's supervisor, should be sent to the Trust Funds Administrator, Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, no later than the end of Week 8, Hilary Term.

Dudbridge Prizes

Prizes may be awarded each year to the candidate who has performed the best in the papers in Classical Chinese in each of the First Public and Honour School Examinations in Oriental Studies or in any associated Joint Honour School examinations.

Junior prize for FPE (£50) for performance in the Classical Chinese paper – usually if they get a first in that paper. Recommended by examiners and approved by the Committee of Management for the Trust.

Senior prize for FHS (£100) for performance in the Classical Chinese paper – usually if they get a first in that paper. Recommended by examiners. (There is no Committee of Management as this trusts is for the prize only.)

Gibbs prizes

Three prizes, each of £233, are awarded on the results of Moderations either in Oriental Studies (Chinese) or in Oriental Studies (Japanese) or in Oriental Studies (Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies) in Trinity Term 2004.

Graduate Scholarships in Jewish Studies

A limited number of scholarships are available each year to students accepted for the one-year M.St. in Jewish Studies programme administered by the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Applications are welcome from students with a good first degree in any subject; previous knowledge of Jewish Studies is not a requirement.

Scholarships cover tuition fees and accommodation costs, and are awarded competitively on academic merit at the discretion of the Centre's Admissions Committee.

Hebrew and Jewish Studies Unit

An award or awards may be made annually to an undergraduate or graduate student in the fields of Hebrew or Jewish Studies towards the cost of travel or other specific projects in connection with his or her studies. Applications, which should include a statement of the project for which the grant is requested, should be sent to the Hebrew or Jewish Studies Secretary, Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, from whom application forms are available.

James Mew Prizes

Junior prize for FPE (£50) for outstanding performance in Arabic language or Rabbinical Hebrew papers.  Recommended by the examiners and approved by the Committee of Management for the Trust.

Senior prize for FHS (£100) for outstanding performance in Arabic language or Rabbinical Hebrew papers. Recommended by the examiners and approved by the Committee of Management for the Trust.

Jill Hart Fund for Indo-Iranian Philology

The Jill Hart Fund for Indo-Iranian Philology at the University of Oxford supports elementary language teaching and learning, and philological teaching and study, of Vedic Sanskrit and of the languages belonging to the Iranian branch of Indo-European at their earliest attested stages.

The Committee of Management invites all members of the University who plan to undertake activities falling into this domain to apply for funding. There is no application deadline and applications will be considered throughout the year. Decisions about grants of up to £500 can normally be made within less than one month.

Applications should include a detailed outline of the project to be supported. They should be addressed, preferably by e-mail, to the Chairman of the Committee of Management for the Jill Hart Fund for Indo-Iranian Philology, Professor Andreas Willi, Diebold Professor of Comparative Philology, Worcester College, Oxford OX1 2HB (e-mail: andreas.willi@classics.ox.ac.uk).

Joseph Schacht Memorial Prize

Junior Prize for FPE (£50) or Senior Prize for FHS (£100) for performance in Arabic in the First Public Examination in Oriental Studies in Islamic religion, law or history in the Final Honour School of Oriental Studies. Recommended by examiners and approved by the Committee of Management for the Trust.

Li & Fung Scholarships

The University of Oxford is the recipient of an extremely generous donation from the Victor & William Fung foundation to support travel and study in mainland China. The objective of the Foundation is to promote leadership development principally through student exchange programmes in universities. The donation from the Fung Foundation enables Oxford to provide fully-funded scholarships for the year abroad in China (consisting of both fees and a bursary), and it also provides funds for students to travel to China at the end of the third year to engage in language learning, pursue internships, or carry out charity work. Any undergraduate who receives a Fung Scholarship will be known as a “Fung Scholar”, and will be expected to demonstrate himself or herself as a good ambassador of the University, and to share with other students and the community at large the benefits gained from participating in the scheme.

Mustafa Badawi Prize in Modern Arabic Literature

A prize will be awarded by the Faculty Board of Oriental Studies each year to the candidate who has written the best essay in English on some aspect of modern Arabic literature. Candidates for the Prize are free to choose their own subject for treatment. Essays must be typewritten and must not exceed 15,000 words in length (including footnotes, appendices and bibliographies). The essay must show sensitivity to modern Arabic literary texts as well as some originality and skill in critical analysis. The Faculty Board will determine the value of the Prize.

Nubar Pasha Armenian Prize

The Board of Management of the Nubar Pasha Armenian Scholarship Fund offers annually in Trinity Term a prize for studies in Classical Armenian. The value of the prize will be determined by the board of management.

Candidates for the prize shall be members of the University who have not exceeded twenty-one terms from the date of matriculation. No person is eligible for the prize whose vernacular language is Armenian.

Passages for translation into English will be set from the Classical Armenian text of the Gospel according to St Matthew, chapter 28, the Gospel according to St Mark, chapters 2 and 14, Eznik of Kolb, Against the Sects (De Deo), Book 4, ch. 1 and P`awstos Buzand, History, IV 54. These texts are contained in A. Meillet, Altarmenisches Elementarbuch, Heidelberg, 1913, pp. 144--64. The passage from Eznik also forms para. 358 in the edition by Maris and Mercier, Patrologia Orientalis, tome XXVIII, fasc. 3, Paris, 1959, pp. 514--17.

Questions to test grammatical knowledge will be set and, at the discretion of the examiners, a short unseen text. Candidates will be allowed three hours in which to answer the questions set.

Applications should be sent to the Trust Funds Administrator, Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, on or before Week 8, Hilary Term.

Nubar Pasha Scholarship Fund for the Encouragement of the Study of Armenian History and Literature

The Board of Management gives notice that it is prepared to make grants towards the cost of travelling and other expenses incidental to study or research in Armenian history, Literature, Language, and Archaeology, or in directly related fields. There is no closing date for applications, which may be made at any time by any member of the University (including the holder of the Nubar Pasha Scholarship).

Candidates should submit to the board a statement of their academic career and proposed course of research, together with details of their financial resources. Applications should be sent to the Secretary to the Board of Management of the Nubar Pasha Armenian Scholarship Fund, Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE.

Pusey and Ellerton Junior Prize

Two or more prizes will be awarded annually on the recommendation of the moderators in the Preliminary Examination in Theology, and two or more annually on the recommendation of the moderators in the Preliminary Examination in Oriental Studies, to those candidates whose performance in Biblical Hebrew the moderators judge to be of sufficient merit. The value of the prizes shall be £50. No special application is required.

Pusey and Ellerton Senior Prize

One or more prizes will be awarded annually on the recommendation of the examiners in the Final Honour School of Theology, and one or more annually on the recommendation of the examiners in the Final Honour School of Oriental Studies, to those candidates whose performance in Biblical Hebrew the examiners judge to be of sufficient merit. The value of the prizes shall be £100. No special application is required.

Segal Fund

An award will be made annually to a graduate student preparing for submission to the University a doctoral thesis in Hebrew or Jewish Studies. The award is likely to be in the region of £200--£400. Applications, which should include a statement of the project for which the grant is requested and the name of the applicant's supervisor, should be sent to the Trust Funds Administrator, Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, no later than the end of Week 9, Hilary Term.

Wardrop Fund for Georgian Studies

A Fund exists in the Faculty of Oriental Studies for the encouragement of the study of the language, literature and history of Georgia. Application forms for grants may be obtained from the Trust Funds Administrator, Oriental Institute, Pusey Lane, Oxford, OX1 2LE.

Further information on funding opportunities can be found in the 'Fees and expenses' section of the University of Oxford's website or by searching the 'Scholarships, Prizes and Awards' supplement of the current year's University Gazette.