An exploration of male-to-female sexting behaviours and the digital mediation of intimacy, consent, risk, and trust Principal investigators: Rikke Amundsen. In line with the increasing digital mediation, sending & receiving of private sexual images & texts – ‘sexting’ has become a common means to perform intimacy. Project status: Ongoing
Computational Corpus Annotation for Quantitative Analysis of Latin Lexical Semantics (COALA) Principal investigators: Barbara McGillivray. The project will automate the process of annotating Latin texts with meaning information, enabling analysis of how word meanings have evolved over 2000 years. Project status: Ongoing
Creative AI Lab The Creative AI Lab explores artistic and curatorial practices and surfaces in which ways these practices approach AI. Project status: Ongoing
Crypto Without Borders: Investigating Stablecoin Adoption in Humanitarian Crisis Principal investigators: Margie Cheesman, Rory Crew. This project addresses the use of stablecoins in humanitarian aid at a time of unprecedented funding constraints across the sector. Project status: Ongoing
datatesting: co-developing computational methods for socially evaluating public data infrastructures Principal investigators: Jonathan Gray, Elena Simperl. datatesting brings together researchers to co-develop interdisciplinary methods for assessing the state of public data in relation to civil society concerns. Project status: Ongoing
Forestscapes Principal investigators: Jonathan Gray, Maud Borie, Liliana Bounegru. Exploring generative arts-based methods for recomposing collections of sound to support collective inquiry into forests as living cultural landscapes. Project status: Ongoing
Generative AI for critical engagement with the literature Principal investigators: Jelena Dzakula-Fuller. This project explores the potential of genAI tools for student engagement with sources ranging from academic literature to industry reports and media stories Project status: Ongoing
Impact assessment and climate adaptation: Age UK Lambeth Principal investigators: Fatima Wang. Improving charity communications about climate change resilience. Project status: Ongoing
KingsCAT: Capture and Analysis Tool for Social Media Research at King’s College London Principal investigators: Liliana Bounegru, Jonathan Gray. KingsCAT is an instance of the open source 4CAT: Capture and Analysis Toolkit set up to support interdisciplinary and collaborative social media research. Project status: Ongoing
LGBTQ+ Archival Justice: Community, Representation & Resistance Principal investigators: Dr Zeena Feldman. Offering a response to knowledge exclusion and representational discrimination of the LGBTQ+ community. Project status: Ongoing
4 February 2026 New projects pair activism and academia to drive social change Four new projects under the Activist-in-Residence scheme by the Global Cultures Institute seek to…
27 January 2026 Vice-Chancellor joins UK–Indonesia talks to deepen higher education collaboration Professor Shitij Kapur, Vice-Chancellor & President of King’s College London, met Indonesian…
17 Feb The Digital Agricultural “Revolution”: Resisting Surveillance Agriculture in Majority World 17 February 2026 We are excited to invite you to the launch of the Digital Ecologies Network.
18 Feb Digital Futures of Desire 18 February 2026 This February, join us for a Valentine's-themed exploration of intimacy in the digital age.