Amy Moore
Chief of Staff (Health & Life Sciences)
- Director of KCATO (Strategy)
Biography
Amy holds dual roles at King’s, as the Chief of Staff for Health and Life Sciences, and Director of Strategy for the King’s Clinical Academic Training Office.
In her Chief of Staff role, Amy works across the health faculties at King’s and with NHS Trust partners to deliver strategic projects. For example, she worked with partners to design and launch the King’s Health Partners (KHP) Centre for Translational Medicine (CTM).
Amy has a long-standing interest and track record in supporting clinical academic careers. She drew together early plans for the King’s Clinical Academic Training Office, built the team and led the development of the strategy, launching the new office in 2022. KCATO works across King’s Health Partners to build clinical academic capacity in all registered health professions.
The Office administers a number of strategic training programmes, including Wellcome Mental Health PhD programme, the NIHR Integrated Academic Training (IAT) programme, NIHR Insight South London and the Centre for Translational Medicine Clinical Research Excellence Fellowships. It offers a central point of contact for health professionals navigating a clinical academic career, and bespoke career development opportunities that recognise and support the unique challenges of combining academic with clinical roles.
Prior to her roles in health, Amy was Associate Director for Doctoral Environment and Development in the KCL Centre for Doctoral Studies. Before coming to King’s, she spent ten years working at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), in roles including Assistant Director of Academic Services. She was responsible for a wide range of activities including doctoral training partnerships, education policy and quality assurance, academic governance and events.
In her previous life as a researcher, she was a postdoc at the ICR working on paediatric brain tumours, and she completed her PhD in cancer research at the University of Bristol in 2009.
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Research
King’s Open Research Group Initiative (KORGI)
The King’s Open Research Group Initiative (or KORGI) is an action-oriented committee composed of an interdisciplinary mix of senior academics and experienced research staff that seek to change policy and procedures to promote transparent, accessible and reproducible research.
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University and industry experts to transform PhD supervision
King’s has been named a key partner in a major four-year project to professionalise doctoral research supervision across the UK.
Research
King’s Open Research Group Initiative (KORGI)
The King’s Open Research Group Initiative (or KORGI) is an action-oriented committee composed of an interdisciplinary mix of senior academics and experienced research staff that seek to change policy and procedures to promote transparent, accessible and reproducible research.
News
University and industry experts to transform PhD supervision
King’s has been named a key partner in a major four-year project to professionalise doctoral research supervision across the UK.