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Charlie Perkins Cambridge Scholarship

This scholarship is available to Masters or PhD applicants from Australia who are of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent, in any subject. It is tenable at any College.

Offered in partnership with the Charlie Perkins Scholarship Trust and Cambridge Australia Scholarships.

Value

  • University tuition fee
  • Annual stipend (sufficient for a single person)
  • Immigration Health Surcharge
  • Travel costs to and from the UK at the commencement and conclusion of the Scholarship

Conditions

  • Applicants should be of Australian Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent
  • Applicants should have been awarded, or be about to be awarded, an undergraduate degree from a recognized University

How to apply

Candidates are nominated by the Charlie Perkins Trust

To ensure that they are considered for this scholarship, applicants must follow both of the following steps:

  1. check with the Charlie Perkins Trust the funding call deadlines and details of the application process, and apply accordingly; AND
  2. apply for admission to the University of Cambridge by the funding deadline specific to their course (please refer to the Postgraduate Course Directory)

For more information, please visit About our postgraduate scholarships

Funding Partner

Charlie Perkins Scholarship Trust

The Charlie Perkins Scholarship Trust was founded in memory of the late Dr Charlie Perkins AO, who was the first Australian indigenous man to graduate from university. A passionate and talented football player (he came to the UK in 1957 to play for Everton FC), his sports success helped to finance him through university.

He was instrumental in establishing the Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs in Sydney in the early 1960s, and throughout his life campaigned at all levels - community, regional and national - for justice for Indigenous Australians. He was known as an effective activist and fearless spokesman. His State Funeral in Sydney in 2000 was attended by thousands of people, and broadcast on national television.

The Trust co-funds, with Cambridge Australia Scholarships and the Cambridge Trust, the Charlie Perkins Cambridge Scholarship, which is available to Australian students of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent, who apply to take a Master's or PhD degree in any subject.

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