The King’s Commonwealth PhD Fellowship Programme 2025 for Small Island Developing States

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Application Deadline: 25 April 2025

Applications at the moment are open for the 2025 King’s Commonwealth PhD Fellowship Programme. The King’s Commonwealth Fellowship Programme PhD Fellowships, impressed by His Majesty King Charles III, supply a singular alternative for fellows from Small Island Developing States to undertake a PhD of their home nation alongside work.

In this KCFP Pathway, Fellows will enrol in a PhD programme of their home nation within the SIDS alongside working, and obtain joint supervision from a devoted accomplice college elsewhere throughout the Commonwealth (primarily Australia, Canada, New Zealand, or United Kingdom), the place they are going to attend durations of study and/or analysis strategies coaching. 

The Fellowships are open to tutorial workers and professionals with Master’s stage or equal expertise, who’re dedicated to advancing engineering, training, well being or local weather resilience of their communities.The King’s Commonwealth Fellowship will help PhD research within the following topic areas: 

• Health
• Climate change/atmosphere
• Education
• Engineering and

Benefits

• The fellowship will help every profitable recipient with the next: GBP 30,000 over 6 years (GBP 5,000 per yr) to help analysis and analysis visits to a devoted accomplice college (in Australia, Canada, New Zealand or United Kingdom). Waiver of worldwide tuition charges if they’d be charged for the visiting interval(s).
• Where out there and relevant, entry to sources such because the library of the accomplice college or databases on a case-by-case foundation.
• GBP 12,000 analysis help grant  (GBP 2,000 per yr).
• 20% wage contribution to the employer of the PhD candidate over the 6 years.
• Dedicated joint PhD supervisors from the accomplice college and SIDS home college for the entire length of the 6-year lengthy Fellowship.
• Access as a member of the ‘King’s Fellows cohort’ to coaching to help continued skilled growth and be taught related expertise, equivalent to communication, partaking with coverage makers, entrepreneurship, public talking and making use of for analysis funding.

Eligibility Requirements

All of the under gadgets should apply to be eligible:

• Applicants with a Master’s diploma or equal expertise.   
• Due to begin or already enrolled in a PhD analysis diploma programme at a ACU SIDS member college within the 2025/26 tutorial yr with an intention to finish the PhD diploma (please see record of universities under).
• PhD topic space falls inside one of many 4 KCFP analysis areas (Climate change/atmosphere, Education, Engineering and Health). 
• Applicants with citizenship or refugee standing in a Commonwealth SIDS. The following international locations are eligible:  

Africa 
Mauritius, Seychelles  

Asia  
The Maldives  

Caribbean and Americas 
Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and Grenadines, The Cayman Islands andTrinidad and Tobago  

Pacific 
Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Papua New Guinea PNG, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu  

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the King’s Commonwealth PhD Fellowship Programme