Funding Information

Sources of funding information for prospective and current students:

• Fees, Funding, Prizes and Awards - University of Oxford general information page

• Funding in the Humanities for graduate students

• Clarendon Award for International Graduate Students

• The Slade Bursary for MSt applicants. No application necessary - awarded on merit.

• The June and Simon Li Graduate Scholarship in the History of Chinese Art. These scholarships are awarded on merit. Please apply to University of Oxford graduate admissions in the usual way. Further details about admissions can be found here.

• Sir Denis Mahon Award at Oxford University. This scholarship covers a year's tuition fees and is available to one UK student, commencing the MSt History of Art, who is interested in studying the Baroque and/or UK post-WW2 artists. The student will need to meet and engage with the Trustees of the Sir Denis Mahon Foundation during the course of their studies at Oxford. 

Sources of funding for current matriculated History of Art students:

• Funding and prizes available in the Faculty of History (open to HoA students) are published and updated on the Oxford Historians Hub. 
• Gibbs Prize for the highest average mark over all papers in the Final Honour School of History of Art  No application necessary.
• Reaktion Book Prize for the best First Year Undergraduate extended essay on an 'image, object or building in Oxford'.  No application necessary
• Laurence Binyon Prize for travel to Asia or another area outside Europe to extend knowledge and appreciation of the visual arts. Open to all matriculated student members of the University who have not exceeded 21 terms from their matriculation; for travel to Asia or another area outside Europe (not related to course syllabi or subject of academic research) to extend knowledge and appreciation of the visual arts; up to £1,000.  Closed for applications - deadline has now passed
• Waddesdon Manor/ Department of History of Art Research Internship 2023. Closed for applications - deadline has now passed.

For current graduate students, please note that all travel insurance requests are approved by the Faculty of History, not the Department of History of Art.  To find further details about research abroad, risk assessments, and travel insurance applications, please visit the information page on the Oxford Historians Hub here.   If you have any further questions about risk assessments or travel insurance for your research abroad, please contact reception@history.ox.ac.uk