Focus AreasThe UK Scholarship Programs (OSI Chevening Awards) include one-year scholarships, generally in the social sciences and humanities, for students and scholars from Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and select countries in the Middle East and Asia to study at various graduate institutions in the United Kingdom.
The programs provide approximately 40 long-term research grants and more then 140 degree awards for study at graduate institutions in the United Kingdom. Co-funding is provided by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), Cambridge Commonwealth Trust, Cambridge Overseas Trust, Noon Educational Foundation, University College London, University of Essex, University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow, University of Leeds, University of Manchester, University of Nottingham, University of Oxford Royal Holloway, University of St. Andrews, University of Sussex, Staffordshire University, University of York, and University of Warwick. An additional 90 short-term (mainly one-month) research awards are available in all fields at Oxford and Cambridge for qualified faculty from specific countries in the region.
For more information, see the individual program guidelines or contact the Scholarship Programs coordinator in the applicant's home country.
