Academic Visitors

** Please note that the Academic Visitor programme has been suspended for the remainder of the 2024/25 academic year. Further information about the next gathered field will be available in Michaelmas Term 2025.

The Faculty of Philosophy welcomes Academic Visitors. In principle, Academic Visitor status is available to holders of an established teaching or research post in the Philosophy department at another university who wish to spend a period of up to 12 months at Oxford for the purposes of undertaking private research.

With effect from 12th October 2021, prospective Visitors must:

(a)    hold an established teaching or research post in a Philosophy department at another university. This can include holders of distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowships (on a par with British Academy, Royal Society, or Wellcome Trust Fellowships) but does not normally include those who hold a temporary university position or a university position while completing a doctorate;

(b)    have obtained the support of a member of the Philosophy Faculty Panel at Oxford;

(c)    meet the Home Office criteria for the appropriate visa route for the visit (if applicable); and

(d)    pay an administration fee of £250 per term, should their application be approved. 

Information about the application procedure can be found below. Approved Academic Visitors are then entitled to attend lectures and seminars organised by the Philosophy Faculty, register with the Philosophy and Theology Faculties Library at Radcliffe Humanities and with the University’s Bodleian Library, and make contact with members of the Faculty as they wish. However, they are not entitled to accommodation, an office, secretarial facilities, or supervision by a member of the Faculty’s academic staff.