Each year, King’s Academy offers a series of funded calls designed to support and inspire staff in their scholarly activity, as well as fostering innovation and excellence in teaching and learning across the institution. These calls provide invaluable opportunities for staff to engage with projects that not only enhance their professional development but also contribute to the wider educational progess and impact across King's.
By aligning with key themes such as inclusive education, assessment and feedback, digital innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, or student engagement, the King's Academy Funded Calls aim to generate lasting impact on the University's educational practices and the student experience. Through this support, King’s Academy helps staff to lead transformative projects that reflect our commitment to a world-class education and the ongoing development of academic excellence.
For Academic Year 24-25, King's Academy has four funded calls covering a wide variety of themes. More information about our Funded Calls can be found on our internal pages.
Race Equity & Inclusive Education Fund (REIEF)
Funded Call Chair: Mariam Ghorbannejad
Launched in 2020, the Race Equity & Inclusive Education Fund (REIEF) has awarded a total of £100,000 per academic year to activity addressing racial inequalities and embedding inclusive education across King’s. REIEF is part of King's institutional commitments to the Race Equality Charter Mark.
Futher information and details of previously awared projects can be found here.
College Teaching Fund - Transforming Assessment for Students at King's
Funded Call Chair: Dr Jayne Pearson
The College Teaching Fund (CTF) aims to provide funding to support innovative strategic education projects in Faculties which have impact for students and staff, as well as investment in strategic education areas in the University.
Part of the CTF is competitive, where a panel awards projects based on given criteria. King’s is allocating part of the 24-25 academic year's CTF to support the implementation of the Transforming Assessment for Students at Kings (TASK) framework. The goal is to support projects that focus on implementation of principles and practices recommended for the enhancement of assessment and feedback aligned with this framework. More informatiom about TASK can be found here.
While King's is working towards the principles and practices laid out in the TASK framework, and will provide operational support for this, the CTF further recognises and supports local initiatives that will enhance assessment for students and staff. Faculties will be closely supported by King’s Academy and will be able to apply for funding for local support in this space.
For Academic year 23-24, the CTF focused on Innovations in Teaching, Assessment and Feedback in the age of Generative AI. Find out more about the 19 projects that were selected for funding, from a total of 40 applications that were submitted.
Strategic College Teaching Fund
Funded Call Chair: Dr Rebecca Lindner
A local fund for each Faculty or Centre is allocated for projects that are considered of strategic importance and that support the development of education scholarship by project leads/teams. Faculties can themselves choose what is strategically important, as well as generating a scholarly outcome.
Education for Sustainability Fund
Funded Call Chair: Dr Mira Vogel
The problems of sustainability are super-complex. To address them, we must balance interconnected environmental, economic and social dimensions that are often in tension. This means that Education for Sustainability – EfS - is oriented to values and acts as well as knowledge and skills. It brings together subject-specific knowledge, sustainability knowledge and competencies. Together these empower students to put their academic learning into action and navigate competing worldviews and priorities.
The message from leading EfS researchers is clear: higher education needs to move from scoping to action.
For the 24/25, King’s Academy and King’s Climate and Sustainability are glad to announce a fund of £60,000 to support colleagues to embed sustainability in their curriculum. An overview of last year's projects can be found here.