UK Application Policies
We give consideration to the following applicants:
- Those who have been strongly recommended by their country’s Christian authorities (in both church and seminary), who can testify to the evangelical convictions of the applicants and to their potential, and can indicate why they need to possess a doctoral qualification.
- Those who can state their firm intention to return to their own country to teach in a seminary or university.
- Those who show evidence of ability to pursue doctoral research and normally already have a post-graduate Master’s degree.
- Those whose applications are promoted by a college or seminary, particularly with a view to faculty development.
- Those who are clear in their own minds about their desired area of research and their reasons for wishing to pursue it. We would hope then to be in a position to recommend a suitable supervisor and university. The area of research should relate to the context of the applicants’ ministry in the Majority World and to their future teaching role.
- Those who are willing to raise a proportion of their support, whether from their savings, their family and friends, their church, their seminary or other charitable trusts. We do take into account the ability of a seminary to contribute to the cost of a scholar’s needs relative to the ability of other seminaries in the same country. The maximum grant that the Langham Partnership UK&I awards to a full time student is £12,000 per year. One of our main donors requires that part of your support is provided by your church in your home country and/or the seminary where you teach. It is to your advantage if you can let us know before the 15th of January that at least fifteen hundred pounds per year will be provide by the Church in your home country or by your seminary.
- We normally expect our scholars to be under forty years of age when they begin their doctoral studies.
Statement of Faith
The Langham Partnership is an Evangelical programme affirming the historic Christian Faith. Applications for scholarships will be considered from those holding to the doctrines of the historic Christian faith. All applicants for scholarships are required to sign their agreement to the Langham Partnership International Statement of Faith annually.