Agrarian Inequalities, Institutional Innovation and Gender: Can Group Farming Provide an Answer? with Dr Bina Agarwal
Talk by Dr Bina Agarwal co-hosted with LSE on gender and farming.
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.
Helping to make HR evaluations clearer and more meaningful for employees
Decisions should be made for people based on a firm foundation
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
Propaganda in action: photographs document legacy of US Cold War messaging in Brazil
Visual media can play a dominant role in shaping our understanding of politics – sometimes without us even noticing. In this Spotlight on Arts & Humanities,...
What role does gender play in the world of finance?
Dr Ylva Baeckström’s research highlights how gender stereotypes affect women, both as consumers of financial advice and as professionals within the financial...
Shaping Policy at Life's End: Professor Katherine Sleeman and the Better End of Life Project
For people living at home with advanced illness, health can worsen rapidly and unpredictably. This makes it essential that they and the loved ones who care...
Advocating for women's leadership across the globe
The role of King’s Global Institute for Women’s Leadership (GIWL) is becoming increasingly urgent. Recent reports show an increase from 100 to 136 years until...
Making sense of visual art through a visual language
As part of our Spotlight on Arts & Humanities series we delve into the Making Sense of Visual Art — a project led by classicist, Dr Ellen Adams.
Delivering diabetes self-management education in Thailand to improve health outcomes
Type 2 diabetes is among one of the foremost challenges facing policymakers in Thailand. It accounts for considerable death, disability and healthcare...
Conserving classical heritage
In the latest Spotlight on Arts & Humanities, we look at how a project from the Department of Classics is helping preserve world heritage sites from the...
A bastion against the storm: How King's is helping steward Sierra Leone through the greatest threat to modern healthcare
This week is World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week (18 November – 24 November 2024), a World Health Organisation initiative to raise public awareness...
Talking back: the power of digital avatars in psychosis therapy
AVATAR therapy has shown significant promise in reducing the frequency and impact of distressing voices for those with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Working...
“He told me I was going to destroy British business” Helena Morrissey talks gender diversity in finance to Julia Gillard
Dame Helena Morrissey talks to Julia about how she got to the top in the...