Together, we'll create space to think
To share life-changing academic opportunities with future generations, we’ll need to create new and relevant spaces for teaching and learning.
Provide opportunity at every stage
We also want to recognise the challenges of accessing an academic career by extending the range of scholarships we provide to graduate students and supporting Somerville’s early career academics.
And nurture the life of the mind
Nearly all of us remember having that lightbulb moment when a tutor said something which changed the way we see the world forever. Together, we can share that moment with the Somervillians of today and tomorrow.
Our Priorities Are
Champion early career academics
Somerville College previously established a strong model for supporting early career academics through the Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship. Created alongside the Department of Chemistry, this fellowship recognised the difficulties young academics face in coming back into research following a career break. The success of this early career fellowship has shown us how important these posts are, and how much they are needed across the subjects and Divisions.
Cost: £50,000 p.a.
Expand our scholarship programme
To attract and support the brightest students with scholarships and funding, freeing them from financial worry, We want to increase our scholarship provision from the Margaret Thatcher Scholarship Trust and the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development so that we can offer at least 20 fully endowed scholarships across these two programmes.
Cost: 5m endowed.
Create contemporary spaces for teaching and research
Our new flagship building on the ROQ site will provide high-spec rooms for collaboration, learning and events that showcase the work of Somerville’s scholars, academics and research centres.