Support & advice

Do you have a great idea for a digital engagement activity? Are you keen to get experience of engaging people with research? Funded by the Centre for Doctoral Studies and the Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund, PhD students, research staff and academic staff at King's are invited to apply for a small grant of up to £750 to deliver an online engagement activity.

Find out more and how to apply

The Culture team offers regular one-to-one sessions for academics and research students across the university, to offer advice and highlight support available for culturally-engaged activities.

To find the best person to talk to please see our Cultural Surgeries Contact page.

Working across Research Strategy & Development, Science Gallery London and the Culture team, Impact and Engagement Services provides free consultation, grant writing advise and project costings for those seeking to build impact and engagement plans into research grant proposals, utilising Science Gallery London and the Culture team's network of creative professionals to enhance engagement practice.

To arrange an initial online consultation, please contact the relevant faculty lead below:

For researchers in Health Faculties, please contact Jamie.dorey@kcl.ac.uk

For researchers in Arts and Science Faculties, please contact Stephen.roberts@kcl.ac.uk

For general enquiries please contact Impact@kcl.ac.uk

Science Gallery London provides an environment to test and learn, with opportunities for researchers at all career stages to develop their research and public engagement practice. While the gallery will be closed until further notice, the programming team continue to plan for future seasons. Themes around vision and perception, and AI, healthcare and ethics are being developed for when the gallery opens. If your research overlaps with any of these themes, and you are interested in finding out how you could be involved, please contact hello@london.sciencegallery.com

King’s Engaged Research Network (KERN) aims to foster a growing community of researchers interested in developing and sharing best practice for engaging diverse audiences with research. It offers monthly newsletters, opportunities to get involved and information on funding and resources. KERN is open to researchers, clinical and technical staff and postgraduate students at the university.

The KERN Management Group will be on hand to advise on best practice as we adapt to digital ways of engaging. Sign Up to the KERN Mailing List and connect on twitter @KingsEngages.