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The Michael Wills Scholarships fund students from Central or Eastern Europe to study for MSc courses in Migration Studies, Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, Economics for Development and Global Governance and Diplomacy at the University of Oxford.
The Michael Wills Scholarships are jointly funded by the Dulverton Trust and by the Oxford Department of International Development.
The Dulverton Trust is an independent, charitable, grant-making organisation established by in 1949 by the first Lord Dulverton. Since its foundation, the Dulverton Trust has made grants totalling over £85 million, which have provided much-needed support for thousands of charities. The Dulverton Trust also funds the Dulverton Scholarships at Oxford. More information about the Dulverton Trust is available on the Dulverton Trust website.
The Michael Wills Scholarships were established in the spirit of post-World War II reconciliation and are named after Captain Michael Wills MC, a former student of Magdalen College, Oxford, who was killed in action in Tunisia in 1943. Michael Wills was a cousin and close friend of the second Lord Dulverton.
The scholarship will cover 100% of University and college fees and a grant for living costs (of at least £12,900). Awards are made for the full duration of your fee liability for the agreed course.
Scholarship outcomes
The current status of the scholarship application process is summarised under Scholarship status on this page. During the application process, this will be updated from green (open for applications), to yellow (applications closing soon), to red (applications are closed and the selection process is underway) and finally to blue (the selection is complete and successful applicants have been informed).
Decisions are expected to be made around May 2015. If you have not heard from us by the time this page is updated to say that successful applicants have been notified, then please assume that your application has been unsuccessful. Due to the volume of applications we receive, we regret that we are unable to contact unsuccessful applicants individually or provide feedback on applications.
There is no separate application process for this scholarship: in order to be considered, you must submit your application for graduate study by 23 January 2015.
If you do not apply as detailed above by the deadline, you will not be considered for this scholarship.
We will use the details you insert in the ‘Nationality and ordinary residence’ section of the graduate application form to assess your country of ordinary residence. For a definition of ordinary residency and further details on how to complete this section of the graduate application form, please see the 'Nationality and ordinary residence' section of the graduate application form and also the Application guide.
We will use the details you insert in the Qualifications section of the graduate application form to determine your previous education institutions. For further details on how to complete this section of the graduate application form, please see the Qualifications section of the graduate application form and also the Application guide.
To be eligible for consideration for this scholarship, applicants must be successful in being offered a place on their course after consideration of applications received by the relevant January deadline for the course. Course applications which are held over after the January deadline to be re-evaluated against applications received by the March deadline or course applications which have been put on a waiting list are not eligible for scholarship consideration.
Please note, if you are accepted onto a different course from the one you originally applied for, you should contact us as soon as you are notified of the change in order to ensure that your application for a scholarship is maintained on your new course. A change of course may mean that you are no longer eligible for this scholarship.