Analytical & Environmental Sciences

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MPhil/PhD

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Part Time, Full Time

Biomedical & Health Sciences gradaute student in the laboratory
RESEARCH PROFILE
  • 2008 RAE Division Ranking: Sixth out of all the Pharmacy Departments in the UK.
  • Research income: £3m.
  • Current number of academic staff: 15.
  • Current number of research students: 33.
  • Recent publications:
    • The Impact of the Congestion Charging Scheme on Air Quality in London.
    • Increased oxidative burden associated with the traffic component of ambient particulate matter at roadside and urban background schools sites in Greater London.
    • A molecularly imprinted receptor for separation of testosterone and epitestosterone, based on a steroidal cross-linker.
    • Environmental exposure, obesity and Parkinson’s disease: lessons from fat and old worms.
    • Probing gunshot residue, sweat and latent human fingerprints with capillary-scale ion chromatography and suppressed conductivity detection.
    • Detection and identification of body fluid stains using antibody-nanoparticle conjugates.
  • Research projects:
    • ‘Traffic Pollution and Health in London’ funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).
    • ‘ClearfLo: Clean Air for London’ funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).
    • 'Subject-based profiling for the detection of testosterone administration in sport - investigating the value of serum analysis' funded by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
    • 'Can genomic analysis be the answer to autologous blood transfusion detection?' funded by the Partnership for Clean Competition (PCC).
    • 'Human Biomonitoriong and Carcinogen Activation' funded by Cancer Research UK (CRUK).
    • 'Assessing the impact of combined sewer overflow sources on the occurrence of pharmaceutically related contaminants in the Thames River' funded by the Environmental Sustainability Knowledge Transfer Network (ES-KTN), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Thermo-Fisher Scientific.
  • Partner organisations:
    • Transport for London
    • Greater London Authority
    • World Anti-Doping Agency
    • UK Anti-Doping Agency
    • London Metropolitan Police
    • Various local and regional councils
    • London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games
    • Glaxo-Smith-Kline.
KEY FACTS
Head of group/division
Professor Frank J Kelly
Awarding institution
King's College London
Duration
Expected to be: three to four years FT, up to six years PT. Students are encouraged to begin their research in October so as to attend the introductory courses, but students can also register at a further three registration points during the academic cycle (January, April and July)
Location
Waterloo Campus. Some projects may require activity on non-campus locations.
Student destinations
Research institutes, international and governmental agencies, higher education
Year of entry 2013
Offered by
Guy's Campus