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King’s PhD in Mental Health Research for Health Professionals

We’re delighted to announce that applications are open for October 2026 entry in the King’s PhD Programme in Mental Health Research for Health Professionals, funded by Wellcome and King’s College London, and managed by the KCATO team. We invite healthcare professionals seeking to combine a clinical and academic career in mental health research to apply. 

Programmes of research will be available, representing emerging opportunities in mental health science: 

🧠 Translational Neuroscience 

📊 Data science and digital technologies 

Applications are open to a wide range of registered health professions, including but not limited to doctors, nurses, midwives, psychologists, pharmacists and professions allied to healthcare. 

We seek to diversify the mental health research workforce and actively welcome applicants from three under-represented groups: people with lived experience of mental health conditions, diverse racial and ethnic groups, and nurses, midwives and allied health professionals (NMAHPs).

The fellowship offers full home (UK) fees, and a salary matched to the applicant’s clinical salary for three years (full-time study, pro rata for part-time study) as well as funding for research costs, training and travel. There may be a limited number of international fee waivers available for international applicants.

✏️ Find out more about the programme structure, application process and full eligibility criteria

❓Read our FAQs about the programme

💻 Register for our recruitment webinars to learn more about the programme and the application process

• Recruitment      Webinar for 2026-27 
• Webinar      for Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals (please make      sure you also register for the above webinar to hear the general details      of the recruitment and programme)

⏲️ Applications close at 13:00 (GMT) on Monday 17 November 2025.

-The next round of MRC-DTP funded studentships is coming up in the autumn 2026 for starting a year later, interviews in January 2027. International students are eligible and receive a full tuition fee stipend as well if successful. 

-LinkedIn:  www.linkedin.com/in/roland-zahn-5a399319 

 If you would like to join the lab as a PhD student, you could search for funding opportunities at King's College London, or if you are an international student, there may be funding from your country allowing you to spend part of your PhD in our lab. The MRC-DTP is now also open to international/incl EU non-UK residents, and a fee waiver for successful students has been introduced. You could also self-fund with fees being advertised below:

If you are a UK medical graduate, you could apply for academic clinical fellowships or for Wellcome or MRC stipends, but you could also apply to the fully funded Wellcome Trust PhD programme if you have already started your clinical training or have completed this, the programme is open for any health professional including clinical psychologists: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/study/research-funding/mental-health-research . I am one of the supervisors on the programme.

 If you have an MD or PhD already, you could apply for various postdoctoral funding schemes including those in your country of origin, also if you are a psychiatrist you could apply for clinical academic fellowships funded by the NHS. 

 If you are an undergraduate or clinician with no research experience you could also consider our MSc in Affective Disorders where I could supervise your research project link to our MSc in Affective Disorders page