
African Creativity Beyond Borders - King's Doctoral Prize Programme
Researching the social, cultural and economic impact of African creativity.
Cohort-based training is widely thought to be a very effective way to train researchers. Our cohort programmes typically recruit five or more PhD students each year (known as cohorts) over three or more years.
These programmes offer a fully-funded PhD for home or overseas students and provide:
A full PhD studentship covers tuition fees, a stipend/living allowance for three to four years and a funding to support research costs.
We call these cohort programmes Doctoral Training Entities (DTEs) as there are so many different names for them, depending on the funder and scheme:
King’s is part of over 20 DTEs funded by all the major research funders, in particular the research councils that make up UK Research & Innovation (UKRI).
King’s leads some of these DTEs and is a consortium partner in others. Many DTEs involve more than one university as well as other partners.
King’s also funds a number of scholarships in our areas of world-class research. We collaborate with industry partners to increase the numbers of King’s-funded scholarships available.
All King’s DTEs are listed below and have their own webpages providing full details, including how to apply for a PhD studentship.
Each programme will have their own deadlines for applications so please read their webpages carefully.
The majority of funding applications open from October until March, and the application process is very competitive so it is worth starting your research today.
To see the latest funding opportunities, including those DTEs who are currently recruiting please see the King's Funding Database

Researching the social, cultural and economic impact of African creativity.

Research into audience interfaces, interaction and integration.

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Tackling the biggest challenges in oral health.

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Addressing skills challenges faced by the bio-industry sector.

Biological, biomedical sciences to research cancer biotherapeutics.

Interdisciplinary biomedical research.

Research and innovation in surgical and interventional health technologies.

Training health data scientists, computer scientists, software developers...

Training the next generation of medical imaging experts.

Interdisciplinary social science research

Human genetics, systems biology and A.I. to discover therapeutic targets.

Research for better treatments, outcomes, and lives for people with heart...

Modelling molecular and cellular biology at the tissue and organ level.

Multidisciplinary training in advanced cell and gene therapies.

Research and skills training for medievalists and early modernists.

Biomedical sciences research.

Understanding the mechanisms and translational applications for RNA.

Interdisciplinary programme training the next generation of environmental...

Tackling the technical challenges of building safe and trustworthy AI,...

Interdisciplinary programme co-created with RFI, UKHSA & industry to...

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Doctoral research across the arts and humanities.

Training the next generation of medical imaging experts.
Training the next generation of leaders in healthcare technology.

Environmental research across a broad range of fields.

Training clinical academics in interdisciplinary mental health research.

Research in advanced therapies that underpin regenerative medicine.

Training researchers across fields of the entire neuro-immune spectrum.

Physical or biological sciences, tackling outstanding questions in...

Training the next generation of experts in methods of safe and trusted AI.