Sanctuary Scholarships (Postgraduate Research)

What it gives

full tuition waiver · living costs

Full academic fees + maintenance stipend at the 'prevailing UKRI rate' for 4 years (exact £ not stated on this page) + one-off £5,000 research training grant

Who it is for

asylum seeker (claim pending) · recognised refugee status · humanitarian protection · limited or discretionary leave · other categories — see terms

Level of study: research postgraduate

The student finance condition

Open to applicants who do receive student finance

Having no access to student finance is not a condition here: people with recognised refugee status who already receive a student loan can apply.

How to apply

You need a place first: apply to the programme and wait for an offer. Scholarship applications are only considered from people who already hold one.

Read the Applicant Guidance Notes for the scholarship
Apply for a Postgraduate Research course at Warwick to begin October 2026, by the course application deadline of 8 December 2025
Wait for an automated email containing your applicant ID (allow up to 48 hours), then register an ITS applicant account
Submit the scholarship application and supporting documents by 11 December 2025, 16:59
Results are communicated by email by 2 March 2026

How they select

application form

There is no interview — the decision is made on documents. On most routes there are no subject entrance exams either: the main hurdle on the way into university is proving your level of English. The exceptions are medicine, dentistry and creative courses, where tests and portfolios do appear.

Dates

Can you apply now · as of 6 September 2026

Dates not published — ask the university

The provider's page gives no date. Write to them — it is the first question in the list below.

Where the date comes from: “2025 deadlines (8/11 Dec 2025) already closed; cycle_pattern gives only relative pattern 'early December', no explicit next-cycle date/month»

Deadline

For 2026 entry: course application 8 Dec 2025, scholarship application 11 Dec 2025 16:59 (both closed); results were released by 2 Mar 2026

When applications open

Annual cycle for October entry: course application in early December, scholarship application about 3 days later, results by early March; scholarships cannot be deferred to a future academic year

Ask before you apply

We do not fill in the gaps for the institution. Here is what its own page leaves unclear — these are normal questions, everyone asks them.

What happens to the payments if I am granted refugee status mid-year?
Is the scholarship for one year or for the whole course?

Who to write to: doctoralcollege@warwick.ac.uk / +44 (024) 7657 5533

If this scheme is not for you

See the full list of schemes — it has a filter for your status and for whether student finance is available to you.
Check whether you are entitled to student finance — if it is, a scholarship stops being the only road.
Foundation year and Access to HE — routes for people who only have a school certificate.
Education hub — where to start if you have not chosen a route yet.

About the institution

University of Warwick, on the outskirts of Coventry — a recognised City of Sanctuary; the Doctoral College administers this centrally-funded postgraduate research scholarship.

Mostly school leavers. Only 11.5% of students are over 30. If you are over 35, look at other universities on the list — there are more adults there.

In detail about University of Warwick: all schemes, student ages, study modes →

Source

Every fact on this page we opened and read on the institution's own site, rather than taking it from an aggregator. Checked on: 22 August 2026.

The scheme page on the institution's site →

Also open to applicants supported by the Council for At-Risk Academics (CARA), not only asylum/refugee status holders.