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What's on archive 2011

Launch: KISS-DTC

17 Jan 2011-17 Jan 2011, 17:30-19:30, River Room, King's Building, Strand Campus

Department: GRADUATE SCHOOL
Location: Strand Campus
Location map: Strand: detail
Speaker: Professor David Demeritt
Speaker institution: King's College London

The King's Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Centre (KISS-DTC) is an exciting new initiative at King's which will further enhance the College’s outstanding environment for postgraduate study and professional development.

Organised around 15 research themes addressing the broad areas of health, public services and regulation, social change and security, the KISS-DTC will provide innovative and interdisciplinary research training, connecting the social sciences with the health and natural sciences as well as the arts and humanities. A placement and knowledge-exchange programme, plus training collaborations with learned societies and other universities, will help to establish the KISS-DTC as a national hub for interdisciplinary social science.

The Principal will be hosting a launch event to showcase the engagement of social science research and training at King’s with today’s key societal challenges.

The event will be held in the River Room (2nd floor, King’s Building, Strand Campus), on 17 January 2011 from 17.30-19.00, and will be followed by a drinks reception.

EVENT PROGRAMME:

o Welcome from the Principal

o Interdisciplinary Research Under Fire
Professor Simon Wessely, Vice Dean of Academic Psychiatry, Head of Department of Psychological Medicine and Director of King’s Centre for Military Health Research, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London

o The Promise of the Urban: Cities@King’s
Professor Loretta Lees, Department of Geography, King's College London

o Collaborating with King's: A Roundtable Discussion about the Opportunities and Value of Knowledge Exchange with Postgraduates
Chair: Professor Denise Lievesley, Head of School of Social Science and Public Policy, King’s College London

o Impact and Innovation Through Interdisciplinarity: the KISS-DTC
Professor David Demeritt, Director, KISS-DTC

o Drinks Reception

If you would like to attend the event, please email elizabeth.andrew@kcl.ac.uk.

Professor David Demeritt (Director, KISS-DTC)
Graduate School – King’s College London

Contact name: Lizzie Andrew
Email: ELIZABETH.ANDREW@KCL.AC.UK
Tel: 020 7848 3747

This information is provided by the Public Relations Department
Tel: 020-7848 3202 Fax: 020-7848 3739 Email: pr@kcl.ac.uk