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  • What are King’s Experience Awards? 

    We hear it everywhere, from newspapers to research reports, from teachers to our grandparents: gaining extracurricular experience while at university can help you get ahead when you graduate.  

    Whether you do volunteering, complete an internship, work part-time, start your own business, or create your research projects, these activities are springboards to develop important skills, such as self-management and teamwork, and attributes, like empathy and resilience, that can help you shape your role in the workplace while informing your career choices in future. 

    But how can you make the most of these valuable experiences? 

    King’s Experience gives you formal recognition for activities that you do alongside your degree. Thanks to our online modules and award programs, you will develop employability skills through self-reflection.  This means that everything you do while at King’s counts. 

    King’s Experience Awards can be completed in three different streams: Service, Leadership and Research.  


    How to apply? 

    Applications for the King's Experience Awards are now open and  will close on 11 February 2023, 23:59pm.

    Please make an application here

    If you have any questions, please contact- kings-edge@kcl.ac.uk. 





    Streams 

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    Service




    King's Mentoring Champion

    King's Mentoring

    King's Mentoring is a King's Experience Award under the Service Stream which aims to help peer mentors reflect on and consolidate their contribution to the belonging and wellbeing of the King's community. The award also helps Peer Mentors develop their own service ethic and employability. 

    Champion for Change

    Champion for Change is a King's Experience Award under the Service Stream which focuses on understanding how to make the world a better place through social awareness, active allyship, consciousness of the individual impact on the society, critical thinking and in-depth analysis of local and global communities.


    Leadership




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    Careers 360

    This module focuses on Career Management, how you see yourself professionally, and how you may plan your professional future.



    Enterprise

    The King’s Enterprise Award aims to develop, enhance and recognise student enterprise activity. 

    The award is for activities undertaken outside your formal learning and is open to all current undergraduate and postgraduate students from any faculty.

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    Principal's Global Leadership Award

    The Principal’s Global Leadership Award (PGLA) enables you to learn about leadership from experts in the field and to develop distinctive leadership skills in service to society.

     



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    King's Undergraduate Research Fellowship (KURF)

    King's Undergraduate Research Fellowship give undergraduate students the unique opportunity to learn alongside our leading academics during the summer.

    Self-sourced Research Award

    If you are doing research outside of your degree programme and seek a way to get your research formally recognised, this path to the King's Experience Research Award is the opportunity you are looking for. You can apply whilst you’re conducting research, or retrospectively. 
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    Other Research Opportunities 

    There are a range of other opportunities for students to get involved with research outside the KURF scheme.



    SOF




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    Student Opportunity Fund

    The Student Opportunity Fund (SOF) is made possible through the generosity of King's alumni and is open to all undergraduate and taught postgraduate students. Grants of up to £500 are provided to individual students while grants of up to £1,000 are awarded to groups of students.


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    Assessment  

    1. King's Experience reserves the right to use material submitted for all awards in other publications: permission will be sought from the student where possible and applicable.
    2. All submissions for King’s Experience Awards must be the student’s own work. The University’s Misconduct Regulations will apply. 
    3. King’s Experience Awards are graded in the format Pass/Fail.
    4. In the event of a student failing an award, they will have the option of resubmission. If the resubmission fails, no further resubmissions are allowed. The normal academic appeals provision applies to King’s Experience Awards.  
    5. All submissions for King’s Experience awards are marked by postgraduate researchers, who are recruited, trained, and supported by the King’s Experience team.
    6. In exceptional circumstances, an extension for the assessment can be requested. In order to be considered for this, students can contact the King's Experience team directly at ke@kcl.ac.uk (all awards under the Service and Leadership Stream) or kurf@kcl.ac.uk (for KURF/self-sourced research award submissions). 
    7. The decision on whether to grant an extension will be made by the King's Experience team, who may depute the decision to administrative staff. 
    8. All students enrolled on the King’s Experience  Awards are required to submit an assessment for the Award. 
    9. Each student must submit an individual assignment. Group submissions are not accepted. 
    10. All student assessments will be added to our assignment repository. Only King’s students and staff have access to the assignment repository. Students are able to opt out by emailing  ke@kcl.ac.uk.