On-Demand Training for Health Professional Researchers

Advancing in Academia: Health Professionals
This course seeks to demystify clinical academic careers, and the emphasis will be on managing the academic and research side of the dual career across two very different work cultures and the demands they place on individuals. You will hear from a host of colleagues across the health faculties, including KCATO Director Prof Frances Williams and KCATO Deputy Director Dr Rina Dutta as well as many experienced clinical academics including Prof Sir John Strang, Prof Angus Forbes, Prof Bijan Modarai. Now available for everyone at King's to access, via KEATS (you may need to log into KEATS and then ‘self-enrol’ on the course to access it).

Health Professional Researchers: Managing Dual Careers
This series of three webinars is aimed at research-active Health Professionals at King’s College London, and will explore the challenges faced by being both a Health Professional and a researcher. Now available for everyone at King's to access, via KEATS (you may need to log into KEATS and then ‘self-enrol’ on the course to access it).

Health Professional Researchers: Focus on Funding
This series of four workshops is aimed at research-active Health Professionals at King’s College London who are considering or currently developing research proposals for fellowship funding and would like insight, advice and guidance. Now available for everyone at King's to access, via KEATS (you may need to log into KEATS and then ‘self-enrol’ on the course to access it).

The Health Professional Researcher Forum
A regular informal meeting to connect health professional researchers, featuring talks from more senior researchers, bitesize training sessions, and peer networking. Coming soon.

Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care Clinical Research Funding Videos
A series of webinars provided by the Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care in collaboration with NIHR RDS London, RMID and Research Professional on clinical research funding are now available on KEATS.

Integrated Academic Training (IAT)

The King's College London NIHR-funded Integrated Academic Training (IAT) programme allows medical and dental trainees to undertake academic and clinical training concurrently.

The IAT programme sits within the King's Health Partners (KHP) Education Academy and links to training at undergraduate, foundation and postgraduate speciality levels as well as the extensive research infrastructure linked to the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine (FoLSM) and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN).

Biomedical Research Centres

Training is available for doctoral research students at King’s College London through our two NIHR-funded Biomedical Research Centres:

• NIHR Guy's and St Thomas' Biomedical Research Centre
• NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre

Doctoral Training Entities

King’s College London is the lead host or partner in a number of Doctoral Training Centres (DTCs) and Partnerships (DTPs) — collectively known as Doctoral Training Entities (DTEs).

Wellcome Trust

The King's College London Wellcome Trust-funded PhD Programme in Mental Health Research for Health Professionals will train the next generation of clinical academics in mental health research in a richly interdisciplinary training environment.

Clinical Academic Careers & Training Hub

The Clinical Academic Careers & Training Hub (CATCH) website aims to communicate the value of a career in clinical academia and provide information on how health professionals at various stages of training can become clinical academics.

Council for Allied Health Professions Research

CAHPR's mission is to develop AHP research, strengthen evidence of the professions’ value and impact for enhancing service user and community care, and enable the professions to speak with one voice on research issues, thereby raising their profile and increasing their influence.

King’s Careers & Employability

King’s Careers & Employability provide support for building success on your career and employability journey, wherever you may be along that path, and wherever you may be located as a current student or recent graduate of King's College London.

Research Design Service

The NIHR Research Design Service (RDS) offers a free service that supports clinicians, health and social care professionals, and academics to develop research proposals and grant applications.

They run free events, as well as drop-in sessions to provide individual feedback on your grant or fellowship proposal.

Academy of Medical Sciences

The Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS) are the independent body in the UK representing the diversity of medical science.

Their mission is to advance biomedical and health research and its translation into benefits for society.

The AMS offer free careers and training workshops, funding, and a mentoring scheme for post-doctoral clinical academics. The AMS also hosts the Clinical Academics in Training Annual Conference (CATAC). King's Dr Katherine Sleeman presented a keynote talk at the CATAC 2018. Watch Dr Sleeman's talk here.

Clinical Academic Careers Framework

This framework for optimising clinical academic careers across healthcare professions (PDF, 810kb) is provided by Health Education England.

You can also watch Developing a Clinical Academic Career, a short informative animated video about research opportunities available as part of the Clinical Academic Career pathway.

National Institute for Health Research

The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) are the nation's largest funder of health and care research and provide the people, facilities, and technology that enable research to thrive. You can also find NIHR tv on YouTube.

Medical Research Council

Investing in people is a key element of the MRC’s strategic delivery plan. At any one time, the MRC supports about 5,000 people across a range of career stages via studentships, fellowships, and grants, and through investments at universities, centres, institutes, and units.

The MRC offers competitive fellowship funding for clinicians at doctoral and post-doctoral level.

King's Health Partners Learning Hub

Achieve your potential. Learn anytime, anywhere. King's Health Partners provide free online training modules online on a range of clinical topics.