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Blackfriars

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. We 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.

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.

Library Resources

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.

Computing Resources

Blackfriars has a computer suite, with extra terminals in the Library. A wireless network covers the ground-floor rooms, including the Library and teaching rooms.

Art, Music, Drama and Sport

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.

Other 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.

The Las Casas Institute is a new interdisciplinary centre focused on ethics, governance, leadership and social justice. We welcome statements of interest from prospective graduate students who wish to be associated with us, 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.

Our students’ research interests tend to include the role of religion, and of faith communities, organisations, institutions and cultures, in society and internationally. We 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 for the funding help we can offer.

The Las Casas Institute is the home of the International Young Leaders Network. For more information, please visit the Las Casas Institute website.

Accommodation and meals

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Dominican students live in Blackfriars Priory. Limited accommodation for other students is available in College-owned houses nearby. We arrange for our students to have access to meals in nearby colleges. The JCR/MCR contains a small kitchen area.

Funding and prizes

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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.

Two more scholarships of £10,000 a year are offered to students whose dissertation subject falls within the remit 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..

MCR

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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.

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Key Facts 

College Address:
64 St Giles
Oxford OX1 3LY
Tel: (0) 1865 278441
secretary@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
 
Founded:

1221
Re-founded 1921
Private Hall status granted 1994


Head of House:

The Revd Dr Richard Finn OP


Student Numbers:

Graduates: 20
Undergraduates: 25


Number of Places for Research Programmes:

5

 

Number of Places for Taught Programmes:

15

  

College Fees:

Approx. £2,100 per annum
See the website
University fees also apply


Accommodation:

Some accommodation in nearby college houses may be available to graduate students


Accommodation charges:

For details, email the bursar


Continuation Fee:

£100 for each term beyond those for which full fees are payable.


Location:

Blackfriars map Click for interactive map

 

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