Pembroke College Cambridge

Financial support

The College has funding available to enable the best students to come to or continue in Cambridge for postgraduate study. Part of this funding is being used by the College in joining the University in schemes of matched funding. The College also offers a number of additional awards. All awards are to be held at Pembroke College and all candidates are expected to apply for all other funding for which they are eligible. Pembroke Postgraduate Awards are conditional on the selected students being admitted as a registered Postgraduate Student of the University with effect from 1 October each academic year.

Joint awards with the University

MPhil awards
  • The College is offering 4 Cambridge UK Master Pembroke MPhil studentships (total value of each £12,000/each). These awards are available to Home students. Applications should be made via the Postgraduate Application Form. Deadline January 2024
  • The Davis McCaughey Scholarship (restricted to Australian Nationals).
PhD awards
  • The College is contributing towards the cost of 2 AHRC funded awards. Eligibility criteria are available here. Applications should be made via the Postgraduate Application Form. ***Deadline 6 January 2024***
  • The College is contributing towards the cost of 2 ESRC funded awards. Eligibility criteria are available here. Applications should be made via the Postgraduate Application Form. ***Deadline 6 January 2024***
  • The College is contributing towards the cost of 2 Cambridge Trust funded awards. Eligibility criteria are available here. Applications should be made via the Postgraduate Application Form. ***Deadline Early 2024***
  • The Jo Cox Ph.D Studentship Jo Cox, MP and alumna of Pembroke College was murdered in June 2016 whilst holding a constituency surgery in Birstall, West Yorkshire. To honour the memory of Jo the College has raised funds for a Jo Cox Ph.D studentship in Migration Studies, broadly conceived. Jo Cox was passionate about the plight of refugees fleeing conflict and other terrible human hardships around the world. It is hoped that by establishing this PhD studentship the successful candidate will make a significant contribution to our understanding of migration. There will be opportunity for the successful candidate to play an active role in the Cambridge University Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement (which includes the Cambridge Migration Research Network); this is a highly interdisciplinary, virtual centre working across a number of departments, including Sociology, Modern Languages, Political and International Studies (POLIS), Criminology, Law, Geography, and History. The studentship will cover fees and maintenance at the Home/EU rate for a period of three years, and will be tenable at Pembroke College. It is expected that the successful candidate will score highly in the University’s admissions assessment process allowing the scholar to receive partnership funding from another funding body within the University (including the ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership or AHRC DTP via nominations from relevant departments). Applicants must indicate that they wish to be considered for University funding. The funding deadline is course specific so please check the course directory to see if the funding deadline for your chosen Ph.D programme.  The Jo Cox studentship is next available in 2024/25.
  • The Boustany Scholarship in Astronomy. Further details available here. (Next available 2025/26)
  • Boustany Cambridge Pembroke Scholarship in Philosophy. Jointly funded by the Boustany Foundation, Cambridge Trusts and Pembroke this Scholarship covers University tuition fees and an annual stipend (sufficient for a single person). The scholarship is only tenable at Pembroke College, and is offered every three years to a PhD applicant in Philosophy (available 2024/25). Scholars are required to spend a 2-month internship at the Boustany Foundation (expenses relating to the internship are covered). No additional application is required for this scholarship, only the normal application to the University of Cambridge.

Pembroke Funded Graduate awards

MPhil awards

  • Pembroke MPhil or LLM Awards. These offer Pembroke undergraduates intending to remain at Pembroke to study for a MPhil or LLM degree a limited amount of funding towards the cost. Further information and selection criteria are available here.

Masters degree in Corporate Law (The MCL)

The Richard Sykes QC Studentship in Corporate Law will provide full fees and maintenance for a student from a financially disadvantaged background undertaking the Masters Degree in Corporate Law (MCL) at the University of Cambridge. The successful candidate will become a member of Pembroke College, where the studentship will be held. Further information is available here. To apply for the Richard Sykes QC Studentship in Corporate Law please complete the application form. Deadline for applications: 16 January 2024. Completed application forms should be sent to the Graduate Admissions Office, Pembroke College, Cambridge CB2 1RF. Interviews  might be held for the studentship.

If you have any additional questions please contact Moira Hassett, Postgraduate Administrator.

Financial Support for Current Students

In addition there is financial support available to Pembroke postgraduate students while they are here  - this support is detailed here.

 

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