Financial Information
Awards, Grants and Prizes
There are a number of funds you can apply for to support your academic activities, including grants from the Keble Association and, for graduates only, the Graduate Research Fund. Keble also awards prizes for academic excellence, mostly based on performance in examinations. There’s a Blues Fund to support costs arising from participation in University sport. See below for details. Information about Graduate Scholarships is available here.
Keble Association Grants
Keble offers a number of grants for which students may apply. The grants are funded by the Keble Association, a registered charity run by former Keble students for the benefit of current undergraduate and graduate students.
Information on the grants available and application forms are emailed to all students in 0th week of each term. The deadline for applications is usually in 4th week.
Study Grants for research and other related academic costs.
Travel Grants with an emphasis on travel for humanitarian purposes.
Arts Grants for individual or group art-related activities, such as performances and clubs.
Internship grants to support cost associated with internships
The maximum award is normally £600 for study and travel, but can be more for internships and for applications judged exceptional by the grant committee.
Please contact the College Office for further information on Keble Association grants.
Keble Graduate Research Fund
Keble’s Graduate Research Fund is available to assist graduate students with costs associated with their academic studies. The maximum award is normally £400 per applicant in any one academic year.
Graduate students may apply for assistance for:
Course-related equipment
Fieldwork costs
Attendance at relevant conferences
Visits to libraries or archives outside Oxford
Please contact the College Office at college.office@keble.ox.ac.uk for further information on the Graduate Research Fund and to request an application form.
Language Courses
The Oxford University Language Centre normally offers a Fast Track Modern Languages pathway. Information on courses and fees can be found on the centre’s website. The College will reimburse 50% of the course fee, payable on completion of the course at the end of Trinity term. Please let the College Office have a copy of your course registration form (which will have been signed by your tutor) when you start. When you have finished, send a copy of the course completion certificate to the College Office; you will be reimbursed on your battels.
Other Grants and Awards
The Jonathan and Amanda Phillips Awards recognise the many different ways that students have worked on behalf of the Keble community, for example in access & outreach, charity work, environment, equality & diversity, leadership, services to the JCR or MCR Committee, or sports and societies. Staff and students are invited to nominate recipients each Trinity term. There are six awards available each year, and each winner will receive £250.
The Keble Association Arts Leadership Awards recognise and celebrate artistic excellence and leadership. Applications open in Hilary term and the awards are presented at the St Mark’s Day dinner at the start of Trinity term. The awards are worth £250 each.
The Mavis Gibson award is made to graduate studying history to support costs associated with course-related travel. There is no separate application for this award, which is considered alongside the Keble Association’s grants and awards in Trinity term.
The Owen Travelling Scholarship of £600 for travel in connection with the study of classical antiquity, to be awarded to an undergraduate studying either Ancient and Modern History, Classical Archaeology and Ancient History or Archaeology and Anthropology, or a postgraduate studying Classical Archaeology. There is no separate application for this award, which is considered alongside the Keble Association’s grants and awards in Trinity term.
The Ian Walker Prize provides funds for limited research project, travel to conferences or summer vacation project work. It is available to undergraduates and postgraduates studying topics in biology, chemistry and physics. Students are emailed in Hilary term with details of how to apply.
Blues Fund
There is a fund to support costs arising from participation in University sport. It is administered by the Senior Treasurer for Junior Members’ Activities, Professor Ed Peel. More information about the Blues Fund is available here.
Undergraduate Scholarships
Scholarships are awards made by the Governing Body in recognition of academic excellence. The annual value of a Scholarship is £200, credited to battels in Michaelmas term, and the Scholars is also entitled to two free meals a week in Hall during term (but no more than four formal halls per term). Scholars are entitled to wear a special gown and are normally invited annually to a Scholars’ Dinner.
College Prizes
The Denis Meakins Prize of up to £500 for the best ‘all round’ performance in Chemistry, taking into account academic achievement and extra-curricular contributions to the College.
The Sir Christopher Dobson Prize (£200) awarded to undergraduates for outstanding performance in Chemistry.
The Denis Shaw Fund awards a prize of up to £170 for exceptional performance in University examinations in Physics.
The Roquette Palmer Prize of £200 for proficiency in French, awarded after examination in the Trinity Term, and open to all undergraduate members of the College in their first two years of residence.
The Harris Prize (£200) is awarded to the undergraduate achieving the best performance in the Final Honour School of Jurisprudence.
The Franklin Prize for Engineering Science (£370) is awarded to the best overall performance in the Final Honours School in Engineering Science.
The Franklin Prize for the best Engineering Science Project (£370) is given to the student awarded the highest mark in the 4th Year project.
The Bennett Prize (£150) is awarded for the best in-College 4th Year Engineering Science presentation.
The Gordon Smith Prize for Geography (£200) is awarded for the best performance by a second year Geography student.
The Gordon Smith Dissertation Award (up to £200) is awarded for demonstrating excellence in research undertaken for an undergraduate dissertation
The Deidre Tucker Prizes (typically £500 for each) Law, Mathematics and Modern Languages, awarded to undergraduate in their second year.
Nigel Smith Prize (£50) awarded to most improved student studying English.
The Michael Zola Prize of £250, for outstanding performance in First Public Examinations by a student from a non-selective, non fee-paying school/college, open to all undergraduates from such schools/colleges but with a preference for Humanities.
The Durham Prize (up to £200) is awarded to a student for outstanding performance in taught masters.
Gordan Wallace Award (up to £800) for best performance by a Postgraduate Taught student in a Masters Course related to geography and environmental science
The Roy Kay Scholarship (up to £500) awarded to clinical students on academic merit.
Subject Prizes (£200 each) are awarded to the students with the best First Class or Distinction result in each subject (or subject grouping) in the First Public Examination. These prizes are awarded at dinner in Hall at the start of Michaelmas Term. The awards include the named prizes of: the Geffen Prize for English; the Harris Prize for Law; the Bennett Prize for Engineering; the Robin Geffen prize for Philosophy in memory of Professor Jim Griffin; the Robin Geffen prize for Theology and Religious Studies; and the Talyarkhan Prize for PPE.
College prizes may also be awarded by tutors as follows:
1) for a first-class performance in a College examination;
2) for sustained excellence in tutorial essays or analogous assignments and for academic improvement;
3) for a Distinction or a First in the First Public Examination
Vacation Bursaries
Chemistry Research Bursary of up to £900 for Chemistry Undergraduates undertaking research projects during the long vacation between their 2nd & 3rd years.
Walters Kundert Fund of up to £2,000 for chemists studying Part I, Part II, MPhil or DPhil. To enable Keble chemistry students to carry out secondments in research labs during vacations.