Fully Funded AfOx Visiting Fellowship 2025 at Oxford University
Are you an African researcher with a passion for refugee and forced migration studies? Do you have lived experience of displacement—or are you engaged in critical research that challenges the global understanding of forced migration? The University of Oxford has just opened applications for its prestigious AfOx Visiting Fellowship Programme—and this could be the life-changing academic opportunity you’ve been waiting for.
This fully funded, year-long fellowship offers a rare chance for African academics to collaborate with world-leading scholars at Oxford University, in partnership with the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC).
What Is the AfOx Visiting Fellowship?
The AfOx Visiting Fellowship Programme brings African scholars to Oxford to deepen their research, strengthen global networks, and explore groundbreaking ideas in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies.
️ Fellowship Duration:
- Total Period: 12 months
- Format: 10 months of virtual engagement + 2-month Oxford residency (April–June 2026 during Trinity Term)
What You Get?
This is not just a fellowship—it’s a fully immersive research experience at one of the world’s most iconic institutions. All your costs are covered, so you can focus entirely on your work.
Covered Benefits Include:
- Economy return airfare to Oxford
- Full visa fee support
- Comfortable accommodation
- Maintenance stipend during your stay
- Access to Oxford’s vast academic resources, libraries, seminars, and events
Who Should Apply?
This call is open to African researchers who:
- Hold an advanced degree
- Are currently affiliated with an academic or research institution in Africa
- Are conducting research on forced migration, its causes, impacts, or policy responses
Special Encouragement for Displaced Scholars:
If you have personal experience of asylum, displacement, internal migration, or temporary protection, your voice matters now more than ever. The fellowship strongly encourages applications from those with lived experiences of forced migration—you can offer perspectives that academic theory alone cannot.
Why Apply?
This is more than a research grant—this is your passport to:
- Engage with Oxford’s leading minds in migration studies
- Co-develop international research collaborations
- Strengthen your career with global academic recognition
- Contribute to real-world solutions for forced migration crises.
Apply: https://carleton.ca/lerrn/cu-events/call-for-applications-afox-visiting-fellowship-programme/
The last date to apply for the AfOx Visiting Fellowship Programme is Friday, 6 June 2025.
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