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 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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.