Cambridge Trust

Woolf Institute Cambridge Scholarship (PhD)

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

About

The Woolf Institute Cambridge Scholarship is available to PhD applicants in subjects relevant to the work of the Institute (excluding premium rate courses). These subjects will be within the fields of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. The scholarship is tenable at any College of the University of Cambridge. 

Interested applicants should familiarise themselves with the work of the Woolf Institute to ensure their research is relevant, and look at current Scholars and Alumni to see the range of research projects and disciplines supported by the Institute.

Award details

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

Various additional benefits

2 (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 Part Time
42 departments/schools, See full list
Department / School
37 courses, See full list
Course

Course must be relevant to the work of the Woolf Institute (scholars from diverse disciplines studying relations between Jews, Christians and Muslims).

Application Process

Yes

Key dates

The Woolf Institute and the Cambridge Trust will liaise over potential candidates in March/April 2027 for admission in the academic year 2027/28, and successful candidates will be invited by the Woolf Institute for interview as soon as possible thereafter.

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.