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Two King's global health partnerships shortlisted for Health Service Journal Awards

Description: Two of King's global health partnerships, King's Sierra Leone Partnership and King's Somaliland Partnership, have been shortlisted for the prestigious Health Service Journal (HSJ) Awards in the 'International Health Partnership' category.
Date:: Thursday 14th September 2017

Description: A new study has shown that failure to deliver complete nursing care explains why hospitals with lower registered nursing (RN) staff levels have a higher risk of patient death.
Date:: Thursday 14th September 2017

Description: Dr Ricarda Vidal will be leading a "ludic session" on language games with her collaborator Maria-José Blanco as part of "Anna Freud and Play", a one day conference on play in the theories and practice of Anna Freud. Dr Vidal will explore how playing with words can help understand our relationship to different languages by inviting delegates to play a game of "expanded" Boggle, which involves multilingual story-telling and translation. The event will take place in the Council Room on the King's College Strand Campus on Friday 15th September. The conference is organised by Alicia Kent from King's Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies department.
Date:: Wednesday 13th September 2017

Description: Visiting Professor in the Department of Physics Carl Bender has won the prestigious 2017 Dannie Heineman Prize jointly awarded by the American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society.
Date:: Wednesday 13th September 2017

Description: After 6 years of successful growth and innovation, Imanova Limited has been acquired by Invicro LLC to establish a unique imaging and data management company, providing comprehensive services in support of drug development and disease research.
Date:: Wednesday 13th September 2017

Description: The uncoordinated international ban on the payment of kidnap ransoms to terrorist groups could prove to be counter-productive and leave citizens at greater risk, argues a new RUSI report.
Date:: Wednesday 13th September 2017

Description: King's College London organised two workshops on the Fundamentals of Radiological Sources Security in India with the support of Nuvia India and Delhi Technological University (DTU).
Date:: Tuesday 12th September 2017

Description: Dr Jo Entwistle has been successful with her British Academy 'Cities and Infrastructures' bid. The project is entitled 'Disconnected infrastructures and Violence Against Women (VAW): Innovating digital technologies in low-income neighbourhoods to produce safer Indian cities'. There were 160 applications and only 9 were awarded in what was a very competitive bid, and this makes for an impressive success. Dr. Jo Entwistle will be working with Ayona Datta at KCL and Don Slater at the London School of Economics.
Date:: Tuesday 12th September 2017

Description: The source of spontaneous, high-amplitude bursts of activity seen in the brains of preterm babies, which are vital for healthy development, has been identified by a team led by researchers at UCL and King's College London.
Date:: Tuesday 12th September 2017

Description: Professor Jeanette Steemers has been awarded Arts and Humanities Research Council follow-on funding for the project 'Collaborative Development of Children's Screen Content in an Era of Forced Migration Flows: Facilitating Arab-European Dialogue'. The award is worth over £100,000 and involves international workshops and creation of impact reports, policy briefings, a Stakeholder Resource Book and a project website that help European broadcasters, policy-makers, producers and children's advocacy groups to better understand the information and entertainment needs of Arabic-speaking children. Jeanette Steemers will be working with Naomi Sakr (University of Westminster).
Date:: Tuesday 12th September 2017

Description: In June 2017, the Department of Classics at King's College London hosted an international workshop on the theme of the 'Dimensions' of Greco-Roman art. This event brought together 16 specialists in ancient art and the classical tradition, spread over three days of intense discussion.
Date:: Monday 11th September 2017

Description: Royal Microscopical Society elects Professor Maddy Parsons as its new Honorary Secretary for Biological Science.
Date:: Monday 11th September 2017