Global Research Grant (Study Abroad)
King's College London
The Global Research Grant is intended to provide a financial contribution to enable King's research mobility overseas.
Award details
What the Global Research Grant covers:
Visits to universities with whom King's has an existing student exchange agreement (excluding Erasmus partnerships). Visit our undergraduate exchange partners webpage to see our list of available institutions, but please note this is not an exhaustive list and doesn't include, for example, postgraduate-only exchanges.
Visits to universities or other institutions with whom King's is engaged in some other form of collaborative activity such as a research network. You should speak to your supervisor or Head of Department to find out about current activities.
Visits to universities or other institutions demonstrating a compelling new link for King's. Your supervisor and/or Head of Department will be able to advise how a prospective visit would fit into the department’s future strategy.
Visits by students on a joint PhD programme where King's is their home university and they will be travelling to the partner university as part of their joint PhD research.
Award value
Proposals submitted by students on joint PhD programmes for visits to the partner university are expected to be up to £500 and are primarily to contribute to travel and accommodation;
The maximum allocation for all other applicants is expected to be £2,000. Applicants must submit a full breakdown of expected costs including travel, accommodation and subsistence;
Within one month of the conclusion of the period abroad, successful recipients of the grant must provide a final report, which is expected to be of 750 words or more. This is required so that the panel have evidence of the impact of the visit, and it may also be used for promotion of the Grant in future (with permission). Examples of such reports will be available in due course on this webpage.
Whilst the Global Research Grant is aimed at individuals as described below, the Global Research Grant is also intended to develop and sustain research partnerships with overseas organisations for King's academics, research groups, networks, departments, divisions and faculties.
Applicants must be one of the following:
Current taught postgraduate (PGT) student
Current postgraduate research (PGR) student
Current postdoctoral researcher active at King's in any discipline