University of Sanctuary Scholarship

The University of Sanctuary Scholarship is available to new Postgraduate Taught (PGT) Masters students taking up a place to study in 2022-23, who have UK Asylum status or Discretionary/Limited Leave to Remain as a result of an asylum application, and those with Humanitarian Protection, as result of an asylum application or through a dependants claim.

Eligibility will be based on the following permissions being granted by the Home Office and alignment with UNHCR guidelines:

• a refugee (subject to obtaining an appropriate permissions), or
• granted Refugee or Humanitarian Protection status, or
• discretionary Leave to Remain, or
• limited Leave to Remain following an asylum application, individually or through a dependent's claim, or
• be seeking asylum within the UK.

All applicants must have received a conditional or unconditional offer to study an eligible PGT programme at the University of Essex before you can apply for the Sanctuary Scholarship.

There are two streams of the scholarship: (i) one-year Human Rights PGT Masters programmes and (ii) all other one-year PGT Masters programmes. One scholarship will be awarded for each of the streams. See further detail below:

Stream 1: Human rights programmes, including:

LLM Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
LLM International Human Rights Law
LLM International Human Rights Law (Economic Relations
LLM International Humanitarian Law
MA Theory and Practice of Human Rights
MA/MSc Migration Studies
MA Refugee Care

Stream 2: All other one-year PGT Masters programmes, excluding the Human Rights programmes listed in stream 1.