There’s lot's of interesting opportunities open for you to explore whilst you're a research student at King’s.
Three Minute Thesis
Could you explain your doctoral research in just three minutes?
Our Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition challenges you to present the complexities of your research in a clear, concise and accessible way, to a non-specialist audience, in just three minutes. It celebrates the exciting research conducted by PhD students across King's and gives you the opportunity to develop your academic, presentation, and research communication skills.
Research Symposium
The Health Studies Doctoral Training Centre (HSDTC) Annual Research Symposium is a student-led event, which gives postgraduate research students an opportunity to network with colleagues, showcase their research through either oral or poster presentations, and gain valuable new research skills and careers insights through workshops.
Visit King's Doctoral College SharePoint (King's credentials required) for more details.
HSDTC Small Funding Awards
The Health Studies Doctoral Training Centre (HSDTC) provides small funding awards for doctoral researchers in the four health faculties at King's College London. This includes:
- Advanced Training Fund – to support training in a method, technique or application to advance your doctoral research project.
- Postgraduate Researcher Student Forum – funding for a new or existing student forum.
- Adobe Creative Cloud Bursaries – free 12 month subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud apps.
King’s Doctoral College Conference Fund
We recognise the importance of giving paper or poster presentations at conferences. We've created a fund to help with this. These small grants of £300 help with some costs, alongside other funding you may receive.
Public Engagement Small Grants
Do you have a great idea for a public engagement activity? Are you keen to get experience of engaging people with research? PhD students, research staff and academic staff at King's are invited to apply for a small grant of up to £750 to deliver a public engagement activity.
Global Research Grant
Apply for global mobility funding to visit a partner university around the world. This funding is also available for building a new strategic connection with a university we don’t yet have a partnership with.
Parliamentary Research Internship Programme
This parliamentary internship is a unique opportunity for PhD and postdoctoral researchers to gain exposure to the inner workings of parliament.
Established and overseen by Baroness Deborah Bull, in collaboration with the Policy Institute and King’s Careers & Employability, these 10-month part-time paid internships support the work of parliamentarians in the House of Lords and are designed to give early career researchers first-hand experience of how evidence and analysis can be used to inform policymaking.
UNIque – Careers for University Women
Join other women for a weekly webinar programme that helps you to navigate the early career research stage and career paths into academia.
The UNIque programme gives you the opportunity to step back and understand your career options, in and out of the university sector. Explore what’s important to you and get clear no-nonsense advice to help you get that next position.
You'll be setting your own goals and achieving them with a bunch of like-minded women.
Bloomsbury Postgraduate Skills Network
Join PhD students from nine leading universities in the Bloomsbury Postgraduate Skills Network and select from a range of free researcher training courses provided by King’s and our partner universities including: University College London, Birkbeck, City University, London School of Economics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, School of Advanced Study, School of Oriental and African Studies and the Royal Veterinary College.
Brilliant Club
The Brilliant Club supports students from underrepresented groups to get into top universities in the UK though support, tutoring and coaching from current PhD Students at King’s. This programme employs research students as tutors and mentors and offers paid teaching experience.
Circle U
King’s is a member of the Circle U. European University Alliance, a network of nine European universities. Together with our partners in Oslo, Aarhus, Berlin, Belgrade, Louvain, Paris, Pisa and Vienna, we’re building an inclusive, research-intensive, and interdisciplinary European University.
Circle U. offers opportunities for doctoral students to work with partners across Europe, travel and attend summer schools, symposium, training online and in-person workshops across Circle U. partners.