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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.

Bringing disability inclusion to life through multi-sensory art

How can cultural organisations move beyond legal compliance to create meaningful accessibility for blind and partially sighted audiences? That question is at...

Layers of vision exhibition

Harnessing the body's own defences: the promise of cancer immunology

Cancer immunology, also known as immuno-oncology, is a rapidly expanding area of research that works by turning our body’s own natural defence systems into a...

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Clinical Academic Research Highlights: Shining a light on brain fog

Francesca Storey's study provides new insights into the link between chronic pain and brain fog.

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Spotlight on Health Professional Researchers: Dr Haseeb Rahman

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

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How King's researchers could be on the brink of a cure for Crohn's disease

This week (1-7 December) marks Crohn’s and Colitis Awareness Week. Around 200,000 people in the UK live with Crohn’s disease, a chronic gut condition that...

Professor John Hermon-Taylor, a middle-aged man in a white lab coat, smiling warmly.

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...

Success for Black Students blog post

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

Professor Duncan Jackson and Catherine Stephens