Application deadline for fully-funded places at this year’s Cumberland Lodge conference has been extended!
The Graduate School is offering fully-funded places for two PhD student to attend this year’s ‘Life beyond the PhD’, Cumberland Lodge conference, where we will cover conference fees, accommodation costs (in shared rooms), and any reasonable travel expenses to and from London.
The application deadline has been extended to 17th June 2016
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The Graduate School is pleased to announce that we are offering limited funds to support postgraduate students at King’s College London to attend conferences for the purpose of delivering an oral or poster presentation in 2015/16.
Four competition rounds will run for the 2015/16 academic year, and each round has a set deadline, as follows:
| Round | Deadline | For conferences commencing within the following period |
| 1 | 15 October 2015 | 22 October 2015 – 5 February 2016 |
| 2 | 15 January 2016 | 6 February 2016 – 5 May 2016 |
| 3 | 15 April 2016 | 6 May 2016 – 5 August 2016 |
| 4 | 15 July 2016 | 6 August 2016 – 5 November 2016 |
For more information about the fund, and to apply, please go to: https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/student/grad-school/pgr/support/conf.aspx.
The eighth annual Life Beyond the PhD conference for doctoral candidates will take place at Cumberland Lodge, in Windsor Great Park, from 15th -18th August 2015. The conference is open to participants of all disciplines at any stage in their doctorate, and is designed to help both those embarking on doctorates and those considering what they will do in the longer term. During the conference, attendees will:
For full details of the conference please see the flyer here.
Participants will also have the unique experience of staying at Cumberland Lodge, a charitable foundation with over sixty years’ experience of working with students from across the world, and which each year hosts approximately 180 academic visits from universities across Britain.
For 2015, the Graduate School is able to fund two places for PhD/PGR students and one place for a postdoctoral researcher to attend the conference.
If you are interested in attending, please send a brief justification (200 words maximum) for your proposed attendance addressed to Professor Vaughan Robinson, Director of the Graduate School, to donal.caviston@kcl.ac.uk, with the subject title Cumberland Lodge, by the deadline of 5pm on 22 MAY 2015. The justification should explain how you think you would benefit from attending the conference and presenting a paper.
The Graduate School will cover the conference registration fee which includes all food and accommodation (in shared rooms). We will also cover reasonable travel expenses to and from London on presentation of receipts after the event.