King’s Commonwealth Fellowship Programme 2025 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: April 25, 2025

Applications for the King’s Commonwealth Fellowship Programme 2025 at the moment are open. The King’s Commonwealth Fellowship Programme PhD Fellowships, impressed by His Majesty King Charles III, supply a novel OPPORTUNITY 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 companion college elsewhere throughout the Commonwealth (primarily Australia, Canada, New Zealand, or United Kingdom), the place they’ll attend intervals of study and/or analysis strategies coaching. The Fellowships are open to educational employees and professionals with Master’s degree or equal expertise, who’re dedicated to advancing engineering, schooling, well being or local weather resilience of their communities.

The King’s Commonwealth Fellowship will assist PhD research within the following topic areas: 

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

Fellowship

• The fellowship will assist every profitable recipient with the next: GBP 30,000 over 6 years (GBP 5,000 per yr) to assist analysis and analysis visits to a devoted companion 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 obtainable and relevant, entry to sources such because the library of the companion college or databases on a case-by-case foundation.
• GBP 12,000 analysis assist 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 companion college and SIDS home college for the entire length of the 6-yr lengthy Fellowship.
• Access as a member of the ‘King’s Fellows cohort’ to coaching to assist continued skilled growth and study related abilities, similar to communication, participating with coverage makers, entrepreneurship, public talking and making use of for analysis funding.

Eligibility

• 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 educational yr with an purpose to finish the PhD diploma.
• PhD topic space falls inside one of many 4 KCFP analysis areas (Climate change/surroundings, Education, Engineering and Health). 
• Applicants with citizenship or refugee standing in a Commonwealth SIDS. The following nations 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  

Those belonging to indigenous communities are particularly inspired to apply. However, this isn’t an eligibility criterion, that means, those that don’t belong to indigenous communities will even be eligible.

Application

Applications for a PhD Fellowship might be accomplished and submitted on-line. The application deadline is 13:00 (UTC) on 25 April 2025.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to King’s Commonwealth Fellowship.