How to apply

Each studentship is fully funded for 4 years.
This includes tuition fees, a stipend and a generous allowance for project consumables.

• Tuition Fees: these will be covered for both Home and Overseas students.
  
• Stipend: students will receive a tax-free living allowance of £24,780 per year (Academic Year 2025/26) paid monthly.
• Research Training Support Grant (RTSG): up to £20,000 over 4 years for research consumables and attending national and international conferences.

We welcome eligible Home and Overseas applicants from any personal background who are pleased to join diverse and friendly research groups.

Open to Home and Overseas applicants.

Applicable level of study: Postgraduate research.

Lodge an application by the deadline by following the steps below. The most recent deadline was Friday 28 February 2025 23.59 (GMT).

Create an account with King’s Apply.

Submit an application for the Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences Research MPhil/PhD (Full-time).

Questions marked * are mandatory and you will not be able to submit without answering.

Select a start date. Please note that an October start date is most typical. In some cases, February or June may be available.

Please ensure to include the following:

• A PDF copy of your CV should be uploaded to the Employment History section.
• A 500-word personal statement outlining your motivation for undertaking postgraduate research with the CDT should be uploaded to the Supporting Statement section. Please explicitly identify a research theme of particular interest in your personal statement. Our research themes are: 1) Smart Instruments & Active Implants; 2) Surgical Data Science; and 3) Digital Surgical Twins.
• Nominate the first supervisor of the project in which you are most interested. Please note that you do not need to contact the supervisor before lodging and that your nomination does not guarantee allocation to their project if you are selected to join the CDT.
• Please note that you do not need to include a research proposal.
• Funding:
• Please choose Option 5 ‘I am applying for a funding award or scholarship administered by King’s College London.
• Under ‘Award Scheme Code or Name’ enter BMEIS_CDT_AE-PSI.
• Prospective Hinduja Scholars should enter the code BMEIS_CDT_AE-PSI_HINDUJA. Hinduja Scholarships are only available to Indian nationals domiciled in India.
• Failing to include one of these codes might result in you not being considered for funding.
• Non-EU international applicants are advised that ATAS may be required. While there is no charge to apply for ATAS, processing can take up to 3 months.

1. Applications submitted by the closing date will be considered by the CDT. Shortlisted applicants will be invited to submit a 10-minute pre-recorded presentation. We will contact shortlisted applicants with information about this part of the recruitment process in due course.
2. The CDT will review the presentations submitted and successful candidates will be invited to attend an interview.
3. Project selection will be through 1-2-1 consultation between offer holders and Prof Christos Bergeles (Deputy Director, Operations) followed by informal discussion with prospective supervisors.

For any questions about the recruitment process please email us at sie-phd@kcl.ac.uk