Studying for a PhD at the Institute

The Institute is a world leading centre for palliative care research and an official collaborating centre of the World Health Organisation.   By choosing the Institute for PhD research studies, you are given the opportunity to be at the heart of the latest developments in the field.
 
You will also become part of exciting and breakthrough research projects which not only influence clinical practice, but national and international policies for palliative care. Studying for a PhD at the Institute is a great opportunity for joining, contributing and benefiting from a multidisciplinary environment. The flexibility of combining social science, psychology, nursing, medical and health services research provides the prospect for the development of cutting edge and high quality research.
 
The Institute's research team not only combines professionals from multiple disciplines, but also from different countries and cultures. The research evidence generated is highly sensitive to different cultures and health care systems, and also relevant to multicultural settings. Moreover, the collaboration of palliative care and rehabilitation teams offers a unique interface of knowledge and experience to improve care for patients facing a chronic and life limiting disease and for their families.

Photograph by Johanna Sophie Ewald

 

Example of previous funding opportunity

Frequently asked questions

 

Staff Interests

 

Professor Irene Higginson

• evaluation
• quality of life
• outcomes
• breathlessness
• clinical symptoms
• place of death
• cancer and non-cancer
• epidemiology

 

Dr Barbara Gomes

• preferences and decision-making
• evaluation of palliative care
• home care
• place of death
• outcomes
• symptoms
• bereavement
• epidemiology

 

Dr Richard Harding 

• carers
• Africa
• HIV
• heart failure
• interventions

 

Dr Jonathan Koffman

• ethnicity
• culture
• symptoms
• bereavement

 

Dr Fliss Murtagh

• advanced kidney disease
• non-malignant palliative care
• place of care and death
• older people
• trajectories and longitudinal study
• palliative care costs and complexity, including tariffs and PbR

 

Dr Lucy Selman

• spiritual care
• cross-cultural qualitative research
• complementary therapies
• qualitative methods

 

Professor Lynne Turner-Stokes

• rehabilitation
• long term neurological conditions

 

For general funding information, please refer to our visitors page.  Further information on research degrees at King's is available in the King's online graduate prospectus.
 
 
For more information about PhDs within the department, please email phd-csi@kcl.ac.uk