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.
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
Safewards: A dynamic model for dealing with conflict and containment
When an adult with severe mental health problems can no longer be supported at home, they can be admitted to inpatient services such as a psychiatric...
Friendship Bench: a community led approach to mental health care
The burden of mental illness is felt profoundly in communities who have less access to mental health support. In Zimbabwe, there are only 18 psychiatrists,...
Investing in the mental health of military personnel, veterans and their families
The King’s Centre for Military Health Research (KCMHR) is the main source of independent high-quality data on the mental health and wellbeing of the UK Armed...
The unheard story of trafficked people
Human trafficking is the use of threat, force, deception, or manipulation to recruit or move people for exploitation. It is a form of modern-day slavery and...
Transforming mental health care by championing personal recovery
An evidence-based intervention to support personal recovery developed by researchers at King’s is improving patient experience and transforming mental health...
Normalising the Menopause
Historically menopause has been overlooked and trivialised. Though a natural process, for some women physical and psychological symptoms of menopause can be...
How King's continues to tackle cancer and support cancer care and research
Saturday 4 February marks World Cancer Day. In order to honour this key date, we have highlighted some of the most important cancer-themed stories that have...
Co-creating new treatments to support autistic young people with depression
Autism is a spectrum of developmental conditions that affect how people communicate and interact with the world around them. At least 78 million people...
“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...