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Spotlight

A series of features and stories highlighting the impact King’s has on the world's greatest challenges and for the benefit of society, working to save and improve lives, enhance the economy, advance discussion and debate, influence policy and shape the cultural landscape.

Spotlight on Health Professional Researchers: Sean Harrington

King's Clinical Academic Training Office (KCATO) offers guidance, funding opportunities, professional development programmes and events for research-active...

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Transforming Mental Health Research Through Lived Experience

At the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health (CSMH), research is a collaboration shaped by diverse voices and real-world experiences. Central to this...

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Bringing care home: A new era in diagnostics for children with complex neurological conditions

Children with complex neurological conditions, such as epilepsy and intellectual disabilities, require specialised care and accurate diagnosis to support...

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Why words matter in public health

Public health messages often describe some people as ‘vulnerable’. In emergencies, people categorised as ‘vulnerable’ even receive different information and...

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Why what you are called can still determine if you get hired

Dr Mladen Adamovic’s Resume Bias Project reveals the stark reality of name-based discrimination in recruitment and offers a roadmap for building fairer, more...

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Designing better mobility support for people living with advanced illness

Researchers at King’s College London are co-designing affordable, low-tech mobility devices with people with advanced illness.

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The power of endowment: how one donation changed the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

As the world changes, often in unexpected ways, it can be valuable to cast a critical eye back in time and ask what we can learn from the scientific,...

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Fundraising tips for EDI projects

Success for Black Students (SFBS), a King’s mentoring and outreach programme for aspiring Black engineers and physicists that began in September 2022, has...

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All the world's a stage: Gaining a new understanding of Shakespeare

In our Spotlight on Arts & Humanities piece, we look at how King’s collaborations with cultural institutions and educational programmes have led to new...

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Helping to make HR evaluations clearer and more meaningful for employees

Decisions should be made for people based on a firm foundation

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The RAF's appetite for risk and the implications for warfighting

Could the armed forces reduced appetite for risk be holding it back? Dr Sophy Antrobus’s research suggested in recent decades a culture of risk aversion had...

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Gathering the evidence to reform the welfare system

The recent DWP Green Paper, entitled ‘Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working’ has provoked a great deal of discussion from...

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Penelope's Opera: amplifying the unheard voices of ancient Greek myth

In the latest Spotlight on Arts & Humanities, we look at the work of Dr Emily Pillinger, who works in the Department of Classics and in the Department of...

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A place to dream again: How philanthropic support is helping give forcibly displaced people a chance at university

The UN Refugee Agency reports that across the world, over 100 million people are now forcibly displaced and these numbers continue to grow. By 2050, more than...

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Letters of Refuge: connecting the ancient and the contemporary

In this Spotlight on Arts & Humanities, we detail the project that details what connects people across millennia — the search for shelter from war.

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