International travel grants
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The Graduate School offers funding opportunities for PhD and postdoctoral researchers to undertake a period of research or a particular project that helps sustain and develop partnerships with those international universities that are key partners of the College. The level of funding that will be awarded is designed to cover travel costs and make a contribution toward subsistence at the partner institution. It is anticipated that no award will be for more than £1,500.This funding is to enable time to be spent in another laboratory and/or working closely with another research group or academic at one of the above institutions, so that the King’s researcher will seen benefits for their research and their career.
Key partners
The following universities are covered by this scheme:
- University of Hong Kong
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- University of California at San Franscisco
- National University of Singapore
- Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), India
- Renmin University of China
- University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
How to apply
Former recipients
Travel grants have been awarded to the following PhD students (PhD) and post-doctoral researchers (PDR) from King’s travelling to partner institutions between February 2008 and January 2010.
University of Hong Kong
Amy Butler, MRC Centre for Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry as part of the research project on a GWAS (genome-wide association studies) study of unipolar depression (PI Professor P McGuffin, funded by MRC-GSK 2008-10) (PDR)
Christine Ecker, Section of Brain Maturation, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry for a project to extend the AIMS (autism imaging multicentre study) research network to overseas centres (PhD)
Emma Street, Department of Geography, School of Social Sciences & Public Policy for a project on 'the role businesses in sustainability planning and regeneration in Kong Kong' as part of her PhD programme which focuses on the role of the private sector in planning for sustainability in London (PhD)
Nicole Kit Yee Tang, Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry as part of a visit to strength the developing research partnership established between colleagues at UHK and the Institute of Psychiatry in the area of health anxiety (PDR)
Christine Ecker, Section of Brain Maturation, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry for a project to extend the AIMS (autism imaging multicentre study) research network to overseas centres (PhD)
Emma Street, Department of Geography, School of Social Sciences & Public Policy for a project on 'the role businesses in sustainability planning and regeneration in Kong Kong' as part of her PhD programme which focuses on the role of the private sector in planning for sustainability in London (PhD)
Nicole Kit Yee Tang, Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry as part of a visit to strength the developing research partnership established between colleagues at UHK and the Institute of Psychiatry in the area of health anxiety (PDR)
Monash University, Australia
Jonathan Dusting, Division of Engineering, School of Physical Sciences & Engineering for a project on 'the fluid dynamics of a concentric cylinder flow device' (PDR)
Christina Matteotti, Department of American Studies, School of Arts & Humanities for a project on the Aboriginal Visual Histories: Photographing Indigenous Australians project as part of her PhD programme which focuses on Indigenous groups in North America (PhD)
Christina Matteotti, Department of American Studies, School of Arts & Humanities for a project on the Aboriginal Visual Histories: Photographing Indigenous Australians project as part of her PhD programme which focuses on Indigenous groups in North America (PhD)
Joint visit to Monash University & University of Hong Kong
Siu-Fan Lee, Department of Philosophy, School of Arts & Humanities to enable discussions with a wider audience and offer seminars on subject of research undertaken for PhD thesis in the philosophy of language (PhD)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Chris Cowie, Department of Philosophy, School of Arts & Humanities as part of a new exchange programme between research students from the two Philosophy departments (PhD)
Joo-Hee Waelzlein, Liver Studies & Transplantaion, Gene & Cell Based Therapy, School of Medicine as part of a research project on foetal liver stem cells as a source for hepatocytes for hepatocellular engraftment being carried out at King’s (PDR)
Joo-Hee Waelzlein, Liver Studies & Transplantaion, Gene & Cell Based Therapy, School of Medicine as part of a research project on foetal liver stem cells as a source for hepatocytes for hepatocellular engraftment being carried out at King’s (PDR)
National University of Singapore
Yongmin Ma, Drug Discovery Group, Pharmaceutical Sciences Research, School of Biomedical & Health Sciences to gain experience with the Bio Informatics and Drug Design (BIDD) research group at NUS (PDR)