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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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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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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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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Driving equity through education: How King's Access & Participation Plan advances the UN Sustainable Development Goals

At King’s College London, our mission is to make the world a better place through education, research and our commitment to service. This is rooted in a deep...

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Championing internationally trained nurses to address nursing workforce shortages

Registering with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) allows you to look for work as a nurse or midwife in the UK. However, prior to this study,...

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Using remote health care consultations to shore up healthcare systems in sub-Saharan Africa during a pandemic

Early in the pandemic, health providers across the globe were very concerned about catching COVID from the patients that they were caring for. To curb the...

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Influencing policy on better palliative care for people with dementia

Dr Lesley Williamson is an early career researcher in the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care. Through her PhD research,...

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Addressing the gap in person-centred assessment for people with dementia

In 2016, Dr Clare Ellis-Smith conducted a systematic review which identified that there was no person-centred outcome measure to support the holistic...

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