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King’s Prize Fellowship

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Central), London (Greater)
Salary
£51,974 - £61,021 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance
Closing date
28 Nov 2024
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About us

Applications are invited for the prestigious King’s College London Prize Fellowships. We want to recruit outstanding postdoctoral basic or translational scientists who are looking to establish their own independent research careers. These awards will provide a generous salary plus running expenses of up to £30,000 for18-24 months.  They will enable appointees to establish their own research programme at King’s and to compete for intermediate-level post-doctoral fellowships from Research Councils, the Wellcome Trust and other funders. The awards may be held in any part of King’s College London but must be focused on biomedical or health-related research.

About the role

In this role the applicant will be expected to design and conduct a range of experiments in relation to their research project and prepare and present findings of research activity to colleagues for review purposes.

The applicant will draft and submit research papers to appropriate peer reviewed journals and prepare and submit future funding applicants for grants and fellowships.

The applicant will contribute to the overall activities of the research team and department as required and hold responsibility for ensuring equipment is maintained in working order and assist with laboratory upkeep.

The applicant is to always comply with the requirements of the Health and Safety regulations with responsibility for the health, safety and welfare of others in the working environment and ensure confidentiality on all matters and information obtained during the course of their employment.

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.

This is a full-time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract for 24 months.

About you

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

  1. Higher degree (MD, PhD or equivalent) in a relevant subject area: must have submitted PhD thesis before taking up the post
  2. Demonstration of understanding of, and commitment to, an academic career
  3. Evidence of team working skills
  4. Demonstration of the potential for scientific independence and the ability to lead a research team
  5. Significant publications in peer reviewed journals
  6. Potential to become a leader in your chosen field

Desirable criteria

  1. Prizes or distinctions
  2. Postdoctoral research experience in an internationally renowned laboratory (we would normally expect at least 3 years postdoctoral experience).

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

 

Further information

This post may be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service and/or Occupational Health clearances depending on the nature of the successful applicant’s research.

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

Your application must include the following information. We provide an application form to provide guidance on our requirements and help you structure your submission. To receive a copy of the application form please write to us at  healthresearchdevelopment@kcl.ac.uk

  • Cover letter (1 page). The cover letter should give an indication of fellowship applications planned or pending.
  • Résumé for Researcher (2 pages). This should answer the following questions: ‘How have you contributed to the generation of knowledge?’, ‘How have you contributed to the development of individuals?’, ‘How have you contributed to the wider research community?’, and ‘How have you contributed to broader society?’  See here for more information about these questions:  https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/research-culture/tools-for-support/resume-for-researchers/. A template is also available to download from the Royal Society.
  • CV (including 2 referees) including full list of publications (any length)
  • Outline of the proposed research project (4 pages)
  • Explanation of choice of host Research Department and academic sponsor (1 page)
  • Summary of research costs (500 words) - please provide a brief description of your indicative research costs up to £30,000 (this figure excludes your salary costs). If there are exceptional circumstances that mean the project cannot be delivered within this budget, please contact  healthresearchdevelopment@kcl.ac.uk.
  • To be considered the applicant must have the support of an academic sponsor at King’s, and must submit a letter of support from their academic sponsor with their application form.  

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘ How we Recruit’ pages.

Interviews are due to be held on 11th February 2025. Interview candidates will be expected to present their proposal to an academic review panel and answer questions in discussion with the panel.

Company

King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.

King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.

King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.

King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.

King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.

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