The College Research Committee is the committee of the Academic Board responsible for advising the Board on quality assurance and regulatory issues, on the sharing of good practice and on the development of College policy affecting research. Click here for meeting dates, terms of reference and membership of the research committee.

The committee is instrumental in making sure research staff across King's and their concerns are represented. Raising the profile of research staff as a vital and distinct community within King's and ensure that their views reflected in institutional policies and decision making at faculty and university level. The RSRC's work also informs various other committees, including Faculty Athena SWAN committees, research committees, and the UK Research Staff Association.

The Research Excellence Framework is the system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions.

All research involving human participants, undertaken by university staff and students, must have ethical approval.

The Biological Services Unit provide facilities, services and advice for all research scientists within King's who need to carry out research using animals. Find out more about King's policy on the use of animals in scientific research.

HEFCE and the other three UK funding bodies have published details of a new policy for open access for the REF2021. The policy requires that journal articles and conference proceedings with an ISSN accepted for publication after 1 April 2016 must be made open access by depositing full-text papers into an online repository to be eligible for the post-2014 REF. Click here to go to the Open Access pages.

King's College London is dedicated to ensuring research data created and used within the university is managed and curated to the highest standards throughout its lifecycle, and with due regard to relevant legislation on access and privacy, and the possibility of beneficial re-use. Click here to go to the Research Data Management pages.

Research funders require recipients of grants to provide information on outcomes of research in order to demonstrate the value and impact of publicly funded research. Research Councils UK, NIHR and several major charities have harmonised their data collection to an online system called Researchfish.

Click here for information about how to use the system (internal).

King's staff can find further information about research policy and governance on our internal pages.

Read King's policy on employing staff on fixed-term contracts.