A place where all potential is recognised, individual development is supported and colleagues feel empowered to do their best work. This is our continuing vision for King’s.

We’ll continue to offer tailored career development opportunities to everyone working in research and cultivate communities that share knowledge and good practice. The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of all we do.

We’ll be robust and creative in fostering trust and belonging in our research community, guided by existing excellent work across King’s in equality, diversity and inclusion, anti-bullying and harassment and widening participation.  

Research Management and Innovation Directorate

• Understanding long-term research careers (with the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine).
• Professional development and support for academic leads of doctoral research.
• Careers Consultant for PGRs from under-represented groups.

Research Culture central team

Early Career Research Network

King's is one of four lead partners in the London cluster of the British Academy Early Career Researcher (ECR) Network, leading interdisciplinary collaborations and activities for ECRs across King's and beyond.

INKLUDE

Funded by Wellcome, with a focus on equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI):

• Review of policies and procedures
• Leadership training
• Mentoring programmes
• Co-production
• Dissemination.

Arts & Humanities

• ECR Mentoring project
• Improved data collection on progression.

King’s Business School and Dickson Poon School of Law (joint initiatives)

• Parent & Carers Support fund
• Funding to support Summer studentships for under-represented groups.

Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine 

• Focus on a career development tool and training for Early Career Researchers.
• Coaching for staff from under-represented groups (EDI).

Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences and Social Science & Public Policy (joint initiatives)

• Appointment of Research Culture Facilitator
• EC support
• Inclusive recruitment
• Support for researcher induction.

Florence Nightingale School of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care

Developing strategies for enhancing diversity in research staff (EDI).

Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience

• Appointment of Research Culture Manager
• Mapping activities
• Communications.