Chevening-Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS) Fellowship Program 2026/2027 for Mid-Career Professionals (Fully Funded for Study in the UK)

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Application Deadline: 7 October 2025, at 12:00 (UTC)

Applications are actually open for the 2026/2027 Chevening-Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS) Fellowship Program. The Chevening Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS) Fellowships are aimed toward mid-career teachers or professionals who’re devoted to the promotion of educational actions which encourage a extra knowledgeable understanding of the tradition and civilisation of Islam and up to date Muslim societies.

Programme construction

Fellows will undertake a five-month interval of self-directed analysis at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS), specializing in their very own venture on the tradition and civilisation of Islam and up to date Muslim societies in a world context.

Fellows will profit from assembly a multi-disciplinary group of students specializing in the Islamic world and have the alternative to develop contacts with related people, focus on points regarding the Islamic world, together with Islamic historical past, classical Islamic sciences, economics and Islamic finance, public well being, science and know-how in the Muslim world, and the study of Muslims in the West. Fellows will contribute to the Centre’s goal to encourage and promote sustained dialogue and collaboration inside the world tutorial neighborhood of the tradition and civilisation of Islam and up to date Muslim societies.

Eligibility 

The Chevening OCIS Abdullah Gül Fellowship is on the market to candidates from Turkey.

To be eligible for a Chevening OCIS Fellowship, you need to:

• Demonstrate the potential to rise to a place of management and affect.
• Demonstrate the private, mental and interpersonal attributes reflecting this potential.
• Be a citizen of one among the following international locations and resident in one among these international locations at the level of application: Afghanistan, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Philippines, Senegal, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, or Uzbekistan.
• Return to nation of your citizenship at the finish of the interval of the fellowship.
• Hold a postgraduate degree qualification (or equal skilled coaching or expertise in a related space) at the time of application.
• Have vital skilled and/or tutorial analysis expertise (at the least 5 years).
• Have an excellent working data of English to be assessed in your application type and if you’re invited to interview.
• Not maintain British or dual-British citizenship.
• Not be an worker, a former worker, or relative* of an worker of His Majesty’s Government, or have been inside the final two years from the opening of Chevening purposes (together with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, all British Embassies/High Commissions, the Home Office, the Ministry of Defence, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Department for International Trade and the UKVI), the British Council, or a sponsoring UK college.

* Note: Immediate family members are outlined as dad and mom or step-parents, siblings or step-siblings, kids or step-children, partner, civil accomplice or single (the place the couple have been in a relationship akin to marriage or civil partnership for at the least two years).

Benefits

• Five-month interval of analysis at OCIS.
• Living bills for the period of the fellowship.
• Return economic system airfare from home nation to the UK.
• Allowance package deal for research-related actions.
• Access to a programme of cultural occasions and actions organised by the FCDO and the Chevening Secretariat.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the Chevening-Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS) Fellowship