CAHR announces details of the Sam Pegram Scholarship for the 2025/26 academic year
The Sam Pegram Scholarship provides one international student with full funding to pursue an LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice offered by the York Law School and the Centre for Applied Human Rights.
- Funding: Full tuition fee waiver, travel and visa costs, accommodation and living costs, and overseas placement.
- Academic year: 2025/26
- Open to: International (including EU) students
- Qualification level: Postgraduate taught
- Number available: 1
This is a full scholarship that covers tuition fees, accommodation, travel and visa costs, including an overseas placement to South Africa, and a monthly living stipend for one individual student.
The scholarship is generously provided by The Sam Pegram Humanitarian Foundation in memory of Sam Pegram, a caring, kind and talented young man who tragically died in the Ethiopian Airlines’ Boeing 737 Max crash, in 2019, en route to Nairobi.
After spending two years volunteering and working for humanitarian NGOs in Jordan, Sam came to the University of York to study the LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice. After graduating, he secured a role as a research policy assistant for the Norwegian Refugee Council in Geneva, where he was working when he died.
Sam was a wonderful presence in the classroom. He was committed, thoughtful and reflexive in his fieldwork. He was deeply committed to humanitarianism, the rights of people on the move, and social justice in a broad sense. He remains deeply missed by his friends and family here at York, in Lancashire where he was from, and around the world.
Through this scholarship, others will have the opportunity to study on this course and make a positive difference for the rights of people on the move and human rights more generally.
Eligibility
Open to International (including EU) students only.
In order to be eligible, you must also have an offer for a place on this course: LLM International Human Rights Law and Practice
To apply, you must also:
- have applied to study on the LLM in International Human Rights Law and Practice at the University of York on a full-time basis
- demonstrate that you have limited financial resources and that you need the scholarship to pursue your postgraduate studies
- demonstrate a passion for human rights, either through your previous academic studies, professional work, or volunteer activities
- have a demonstrable specific interest in migration issues, and that you wish to pursue or consolidate a career working on issues affecting people on the move, including generally and in relation to their social exclusion
- have some lived experience of human rights challenges or migration issues.
How to apply
Apply online before the deadline on Saturday, 31st May 2025, 11.59pm BST
https://www.york.ac.uk/cahr/news/2025/sam-pegram-scholarship-2025/
This post was originally published on Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards.