
Doctoral development
Learn more about the training opportunities at King's.
The Centre for Doctoral Studies provides the following bursaries and grants for doctoral researchers across all faculties at King's:
Conference Fund
The Centre for Doctoral Studies recognises the importance of giving paper or poster presentations at conferences and has created a fund to assist some postgraduate students to do this. Max £300.
PGR Student Wellbeing Communities Fund
Apply for up to £700 to support initiatives which allow you and your peers to address the mental, physical and social wellbeing challenges of doing a doctoral degree.
Public Engagement Small Grants
Do you have a great idea for a public engagement activity? Are you keen to get experience of engaging people with research? PhD students, research staff and academic staff at King's are invited to apply for a small grant of up to £750 to deliver a public engagement activity.
The Health Studies Doctoral Training Centre (HSDTC) provides the following small funding awards for doctoral research students in the four health faculties at King's College London:
Up to £300 to support training in a method, technique or application to advance your doctoral research project. This includes Winter and Summer Schools where there is a clear training and development benefit.
Up to £750 to support your new or existing PGR Student Forum. Recently funded groups include AEFS PhD Seminars, the Denmark Hill PGR Association and the FANS & CAP PhD Student Forum. (Application Deadline: 24th November 2023, 17:00 GMT)
HSDTC Biostatistics & Health Information Bursaries
Up to £475 towards a short course at the Department of Biostatistics & Health Informatics delivered at the IoPPN at Denmark Hill.
HSDTC Adobe Creative Cloud Bursaries
A limited number of bursaries are available to Health Science to fund a 12-month subscription to the full-suite of Adobe Creative Cloud apps. For training and more support, visit our Visual Communication Pathway KEATS page. (Round 1 Application Deadline: 3rd November 2023, 17:00 GMT)
“The HSDTC PGR Student Forum Fund helped us set up a whole new series of PhD student seminars that brought together students from different universities.”
Learn more about the training opportunities at King's.
Training and development and careers support for health researchers.
Find out more about our Doctoral training partnerships.
About the Centre of Doctoral Studies and available student support.