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Blackfriars

Blackfriars

BLACKFRIARS, 64 ST GILES, OXFORD OX1 3LY

www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk

+44 (0) 1865 278441 | secretary@bfriars.ox.ac.uk

 

Blackfriars Hall is run by the Dominican Friars (Order of Preachers). With it are associated the Aquinas Institute, and the Las Casas Institute for Faith and Public Life. Blackfriars welcome applications from men and women, clerical or lay, Christian or otherwise, who wish to undertake studies in Philosophy or Theology, or in the social sciences in areas related to the interests of the Hall’s Las Casas Institute.

The Friars, and many of the Visiting Research Scholars, have a particular interest in the Thomist tradition and its application to current issues of faith, life and public policy.

Blackfriars chapel

Afternoon light in Blackfriars' chapel

Accommodation and meals

Dominican students live in Blackfriars Priory, and limited accommodation for other students is available in College-owned houses nearby.

Blackfriars arranges for students to have access to meals in nearby colleges, and the JCR/MCR contains a small kitchen area.

Blackfriars rectory

Formal table setting in Blackfriars' rectory

Funding and prizes

Blackfriars offers up to four annual scholarships of £2,500 for philosophy and/or theology students. In conjunction with its Las Casas Institute it offers up to three scholarships of up to £2,500 a year for students working in areas linked to the interests of the Las Casas Institute.

A book grant of up to £230 per year is available to graduate students. There is a small fund to assist attendance at conferences.

For more information, please also see the Oxford Funding Search..

Library and IT services

Blackfriars has a specialist library of some 35,000 volumes in Theology and Philosophy, and takes a number of periodicals not available elsewhere in Oxford.

There is also a computer suite, with extra terminals in the library. A wireless network covers the ground-floor rooms, including the library and teaching rooms.

Blackfriars gate

Light April snow over Blackfriars' gate

Sport, music and college facilities

Blackfriars students occasionally combine with students of other Colleges or with members of the congregation for musical and sporting events. The Hall pays for students’ membership of the University Gym, or an equivalent cost towards the use of similar facilities.

Graduate students are invited to the reading classes, seminars and colloquia organised by the Aquinas Institute, and to other colloquia and special events organised by Blackfriars or by the Las Casas Institute.

Las Casas Institute

The Las Casas Institute is a new interdisciplinary centre focused on ethics, governance, leadership and social justice; the Institute is also the home of the International Young Leaders Network.

The Institute welcome statements of interest from prospective graduate students who wish to be associated, including students in theology, philosophy, and politics, and students of sociology, refugee studies, development studies, social policy, international relations, law, leadership, NGO and third sector studies.

Students’ research interests at the Institute tend to include the role of religion, and of faith communities, organisations, institutions and cultures, in society and internationally. The Institute warmly welcome applications from those who have worked in and with faith communities (widely interpreted) and/or their educational and social welfare institutions.

Blackfriars students affiliated to the Institute have access to structured placements with national and international organisations; see Funding and Prizes below for information on the financial support available.

Blackfriars stair

The back staircase in Blackfriars

Facilities for students with disabilities

There is wheelchair access to the JCR/MCR, lecture room, tutorial rooms and ground floor of the Library. Arrangements can be made for the fetching of books from higher floors of the Library.

MCR

Graduate students are members both of the joint JCR/MCR and of the joint MCR/SCR. The former organises regular meals and social events. The latter holds several social evenings each term so that Fellows, tutors, friars, visiting scholars and graduate students may mix informally.

Blackfriars garden

Flowers in the garden at Blackfriars
Blackfriars col map

Founded

1221

  • Re-founded 1921
  • Private Hall status granted 1994

Head of House

The Revd Dr Simon Gaine OP

Student numbers
Graduates

20

Undergraduates

25


Places for research students

5

 

Places for taught graduate students

15

College fees
College fee for graduates

£2,532

College fee for the MBA

£3,150

 

Exceptional arrangements apply in a small number of cases

 

University fees also apply

 

Continuation fee

£100 for each term is payable after fee liability has ceased

Accommodation

Most first-year graduate students are offered accommodation in their first year, thereafter rooms are assigned by ballot


Accommodation charges

c. £1,670 per term