Cambridge Trust

Woolf Fisher Scholarship at Cambridge

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Fees (International) , Maintenance , Student visa cost , Student immigration health surcharge , Other (see below)
Course length
Prospective applicant
PhD
Full Time
New Zealand
Nationality
Required
2027/28

About

The Woolf Fisher Scholarship at Cambridge is available to PhD applicants from New Zealand in any subject excluding premium rate courses. It is tenable at any College within the University of Cambridge.

This fund is offered in partnership with the Woolf Fisher Trust.

Please note, you must apply via an external application to the funding partner as well as opting into this fund in the funding section of the Cambridge admissions application in order to be considered.

Award details

Course length
Fees (International) Maintenance Student visa cost Student immigration health surcharge Other (see below)

Various additional benefits, including an economy airfare to the UK, and an economy airfare from the UK to the student’s country of residence, by the lowest cost available route each academic year.

4 (approximately)
2027/28
Yes

The Trust will, on application, provide up to a further 6 months of maintenance funding to support writing up the PhD.

Financial need (including Hardship) Academic merit

Eligibility

Prospective applicant
PhD
Full Time
New Zealand
Nationality
New Zealand
Country of residence
Overseas
112 courses, See full list
Course

Applicants must:

  • Have attended a secondary school in New Zealand for at least two years.
  • Have graduated or expect to graduate in the year of application with a first-class honours degree from a New Zealand university.
  • Be under the age of thirty in the year of application (i.e. will not have reached their thirtieth birthday by 31 December in the year the application is submitted).

Application Process

Yes
Yes

Key dates

To ensure that they are considered for this scholarship, applicants must: 1) check with Universities New Zealand the funding call deadlines and details of the application process, and apply accordingly; and 2) apply for admission to the University of Cambridge by the funding deadline specific to their course (please refer to the Postgraduate Course Directory).

The Trust’s awarding period runs from the middle of February to the end of July and is an ongoing process throughout that period. Most of our awards are made early during the months of February and March, but some of our partner funded awards involve additional processes such as interviews, which means funding decisions tend to be later from April to June. Although we cannot provide funding updates for individual applicants, the Trust will confirm on our website once we have finished issuing offers for our main scholarship programmes. Throughout the awarding period the Trust will be reallocating awards that have not been taken up. Therefore, all applicants will remain under consideration for any reallocated award for which they are eligible until the end of July. If you have not been contacted by the Trust by the end of July, you should assume that your funding application has not been successful.

Last updated: 09 Sep 2026 11:35:13