New 'Cash Lab' will explore whether giving people direct financial support - without conditions on how they spend it - can break the cycle of poverty and improve life outcomes.
Launched today by @kcl_sfg in @KingsSSPP.
Read the story 🔗⬇️ kcl.ac.uk/news/new-cash-lab-…
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🎉Celebrating 20 years of excellence!
The MA in Conflict, Security & Development at King’s explores how conflict, insecurity and development interact, combining theory and practice.
📅 Apply for 2026–27: bit.ly/4qlfG0L@KingsCollegeLon@KingsSSPP#PostgraduateStudy
🎉Celebrating 20 years of excellence!
The MA in Conflict, Security & Development at King’s explores how conflict, insecurity and development interact, combining theory and practice.
📅 Apply for 2026–27: bit.ly/4qlfG0L@KingsCollegeLon@KingsSSPP#PostgraduateStudy
Congratulations to our colleagues recognised in King Charles III's 2025 New Year Honours List ⬇️
👏 Professor Ann McNeill
👏 Professor Jennifer Rubin
👏 Professor Paul Mizen
👏 Professor Tara Renton
👏 Professor Kei Cho
👏 Mr Lorenzo Garagnani
🔗👉 kcl.ac.uk/news/colleagues-re…
EVENT: Mismanaged Decline: What politicians won’t tell you about the economy 💰📉
Economists Vicky Pryce and Andy Ross join us on 20 January to present their new book 📚
More here ⬇️
eventbrite.co.uk/e/mismanage…
🎉Exciting news! Dr Sophy Antrobus from @freeman_air has been appointed to the @UKHouseofLords as a Labour peer.
"I care passionately about the future security of our nation and very much look forward to shaping future legislation as a Labour peer."
✨bit.ly/4oP3WCa
"[The fine] shows that the EU still has autonomy and the EU can still defend its core interests..." 🗣️
Dr Chase Foster shared his thoughts on tech regulation and the EU Commission's penalty for X with the Parliament magazine ⬇️
theparliamentmagazine.eu/new…
📣 Delighted to read this review of my book ‘The Art of Delivery’ by Ferdinand Mount in @TheTLS
✍️ ‘Seldom since Samuel Pepys have the comings and goings in Whitehall been so meticulously recorded...’
Full 📕 review 🔗 the-tls.com/politics-by-regi…@BitebackPub@thestrandgroup
Great to have the BBC filming in the lab today with Prof. Andreas Baas. Andreas and colleagues have been analysing bio-beads from the recent Bio-Bead pollution incident at Camber Sands.
Stay tuned for full details when the programme airs!
@KingsCollegeLon@Kings_SGA@KingsSSPP
In a new Editor’s Pick published last week in Foreign Policy, @DrRGeistPinfold writes Gaza’s emerging post-war reality looks “less like a ‘day after’ and more like a ‘day before’.”
🔗 Read the full article: bit.ly/4axRH9w
Congratulations to two of our academics, Nicola Leveringhaus and Sofia Vasilopoulou, for winning European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grants.
Their awards are for timely research into nuclear weapons commemoration and the populist radical right, respectively.
Four researchers working across different disciplines at King’s have been named recipients of the 2025 @ERC_Research Consolidator Grants.
The ERC has announced a record budget of €728 million to be allocated to recipients this year.
Read more ⬇️
kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-academi…
Financial crisis week in 'Chancellors and the Treasury' @thestrandgroup MA Govt Studies module - fmr Treasury perm sec Sir Tom Scholar, ex SPAD to Alistair Darling, Catherine MacLeod @edballs@Mario_Pisani offered unique insights into how British govt managed a global crisis
As President Vladimir Putin’s 2-day state visit to India unfolds, Prof Harsh Pant explains what the trip reveals about India’s evolving foreign policy balancing act amid growing pressure from the United States.
🔗 Read the analysis on Bloomberg: bit.ly/4rMAL5x
Meet Jonathan Woodhead (MA War Studies, 2003). A proud King’s alum, he’s also paving the way for local politics after being elected Mayor of Biggleswade in Bedfordshire.
🔗 Read more in the new edition of InTouch: shorturl.at/cJj8e#ForeverKings🦁 @KingsSSPP
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In a world dominated by social media, misinformation spreads rapidly. But it’s not all doom, gloom and fake news. Experts at King’s are finding ways to tackle the misinformation epidemic.
🔗 Read more: shorturl.at/mPlBt#ForeverKings🦁 @kingsartshums@KingsSSPP@kingsdh
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"China has become an important player in research and development. Yet, most of the outside world has still not woken up to this fact."
@Bkerrychina explains why policymakers need to take China's science leadership seriously in @Nature
READ nature.com/articles/d41586-0…@KingsSSPP