Rhodes Scholar Video Wall

Why the Rhodes Scholarship is for you

Scholars explain why the Rhodes Scholarship is such a unique and life changing opportunity.

Yasmin Rafiei: Rhodes Scholar Research in 60 Seconds

Yasmin Rafiei (Prairies & Pembroke 2017) read Political Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on allyship and understanding power structures.

Farah Shamout: Rhodes Scholar Research in 60 Seconds

Farah Shamout (United Arab Emirates & Balliol 2016) is reading a DPhil in Engineering at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on machine learning systems which aims to produce a hospital-wide alerting system.

Ngoni Mugwisi: Rhodes Profile (Zimbabwe & Trinity 2017)

Mgoni Mugwisi is a Rhodes Scholar reading a DPhil in Electrical Engineering. Find out why he applied for the Rhodes Scholarship and about his studies at the University of Oxford.

Archit Jain: Rhodes Profile (India & Magdalen 2018)

Current Scholar Archit discusses his Rhodes experience with fellow Scholars, and how Rhodes House has facilitated his conversations and projects to push him towards his goal of completing his Masters in Economics.

Rhodes Ahead: Professor Sir John Bell GBE FRS Interview

John is a leading immuno-geneticist, a former President of the Academy of Medical Sciences and a Rhodes Trustee. He talks through his fascinating career.

Russell Bogue: Rhodes Scholar Research in 60 Seconds

Russell Bogue (Connecticut & Balliol 2016) is reading Political Theory at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on why privacy is important to a healthy democracy.

Interview with Justice Edwin Cameron

Justice Edwin Cameron (South Africa-at-Large & Keble 1976) is Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, an Honorary Master of the Bench of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, and well known HIV/AIDS and gay rights activist. In this video, he discusses his journey as a proudly gay man, and highlights the importance of inclusivity, respect and understanding for the wider LGBTQ community in Oxford and beyond.

Rhodes Ahead: Anita Mehta Interview

Anita's approach to the modelling of speech perception is ground-breaking in that she brings her previous experience as a theoretical physicist of complex systems to the field of linguistics, which gives her a unique outlook.