Berrow Foundation Scholarships
Berrow Foundation and Berrow Foundation Lord Florey Scholarships
A generous gift from the late Marquis de Amodio CBE provides for the award of seven or more scholarships each year to enable graduates of Swiss universities to undertake a course of advanced study at the University of Oxford as members of Lincoln College.
Application forms and further particulars for the Berrow Foundation Scholarships and Berrow Foundation Lord Florey Scholarships 2024 entry may be found below.
Completed forms should be returned to Lincoln College not later than 30th January 2024. If you have any queries please contact the Rector's Office, Lincoln College, Oxford, OX1 3DR.
General information
1: A minimum of seven post-graduate scholarships of up to three years are offered annually to cover all fees (Oxford University charges a single combined course fee that includes all university and college fees), and to provide a personal maintenance grant comparable to that offered to Rhodes Scholars (2023/24: £19,092 per annum). No contribution can be made to the cost of bench fees, apparatus, etc.
Two or more of these scholarships are named the Berrow Foundation Lord Florey Scholarships, and are restricted to study in the medical, chemical or biochemical sciences. Additional funds of £1,500 each are available to these scholars for travel to conferences for presentation of a paper or poster. Prospective candidates should note that research which involves the use of human embryos or their creation, including by cloning, or the use of human embryonic stem cells will NOT be funded by this Foundation. Lincoln College fully respects the Foundation's decision not to fund such research. The College, however, welcomes applications from candidates interested in this or related areas of research, who are able to find financial support from other sources.
2: The scholarships will be tenable for up to three academic years, subject to satisfactory progress. Scholarship holders intending to take an MSt, MSc, BPhil or MPhil programme and who later wish to proceed to the DPhil at Oxford, should be aware that they will be liable for a fourth year of Course Fees. For those for whom the University requires Fees in a fourth year for the completion of a doctorate, and when no other external funding is available, the Foundation will provide Course Fees for that year, but not a maintenance stipend. The Foundation will not provide funds to cover any continuation charges upon DPhil students who do not complete their thesis within the period of fee liability stipulated by the University for their course of study.
3: All the Berrow Foundation Scholarships are open to Swiss or Liechtenstein nationals, domiciled in Switzerland or Liechtenstein, who are graduates from the universities of Berne, Fribourg, Geneva, Lausanne, Neuchâtel or the Ecole Polytechnique Fédéral of Lausanne, and who wish to undertake post-graduate study at Lincoln College, Oxford. Applicants should either currently be members of one of these institutions, or be not more than five years beyond graduation from the first degree from one of them. The Scholarships can only be held at Lincoln College. Applicants should not currently be studying for an award at Oxford.
The Berrow Foundation’s Lord Florey Scholarships are open to eligible graduates from any Swiss university, including the ETHZ and the EPFL. They must also not be more than five years beyond graduation from the first degree, except for candidates in medicine, for whom the five years limit dates from obtaining the Federal Diploma in medicine.
4: Applications should be completed online using the form below. Candidates must also apply AT THE SAME TIME to the University of Oxford using the online application form and MUST state Lincoln College as their preferred College choice. Candidates must include with their application form a duplicate of their university application, including any written work submitted as part of that application. Candidates must arrange for two referees to send references direct to the Rector’s Office by the closing date (please provide your referees with a link to these particulars). The address to which referees should send their letters of reference is rectors.office@lincoln.ox.ac.uk.
Admissions information and online application forms for graduate student entry are available on the Oxford University website.
Should any candidate wish to apply for a course that is not currently associated with Lincoln College, please contact the College at the earliest opportunity for advice on how to complete the application form: email rectors.office@lincoln.ox.ac.uk.
5: Interviewing and selection of candidates will be by a board held (in English) in Geneva during April or May 2024. Candidates shortlisted for interviewing can expect to be contacted by email late in March or early in April 2024. The Selection Board will consist of representatives of the Berrow Foundation, of the British Embassy, of Lincoln College, and of the Swiss Universities.
6: Scholarships are offered on the following conditions:
(i) That the scholar follows a course of graduate study at Lincoln College in the University of Oxford and is expected to contribute actively to College life in the University.
(ii) That the scholar is normally expected to spend the whole period of the award in Britain.
(iii) Applicants for scholarships must have a high standard of written and spoken English before submitting their application.
(iv) A scholar may not take paid employment during the scholarship period without the consent of the Berrow Foundation.
(v) The right is reserved to terminate a scholarship at any time for reasons of unsatisfactory conduct, for breaches of the conditions of the scholarship, or for failure to make satisfactory progress. The scholar is required, in Trinity Term of each academic year in residence, to submit an annual report on his/her academic progress and extra-curricular activities.
(vi) Scholars are expected to acknowledge the support of the Berrow Foundation in their publications and public profiles.
7: The closing date for receipt of applications for Berrow Foundation Scholarships is 30th January 2024, for entry in October 2024. Applicants must ensure that they also submit the online application form of Oxford University for the course of their choice by the January deadline date for that course. Be aware that many courses (e.g in the Medical Sciences, Humanities, Political Sciences, International Relations, Computing Science, and those offered by the Oxford Internet Institute and the Blavatnik School of Government) have a deadline very early in January. Please check the relevant course website for the appropriate deadline: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses.