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1st in London for education research quality. PGCEs, STEM education, linguistics, social sciences, social justice, public policy.
A recently published special issue gains new insights into the social, political and epistemic significance of the university in times of conflict, advancing a critical research agenda in a neglected field.

Read more here, with links to the full issue: www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...
Universities in conflict zones have much to teach the world
A special journal issue containing 24 papers about higher education institutions in conflict zones fills an existing scholarship gap and is evidence t...
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January 27, 2026 at 4:53 PM
📚 Make this blog by Dr Meg Maguire and Dr Emma Towers your next read.

🏆 'Reflecting on educational policy in the UK' was BERA's 5th most popular read of 2025, and interrogates the fundamental ideas that shape and complicate the UK's education policy.

🔗 Read here: www.bera.ac.uk/blog/reflect...
Reflecting on education policy from across the UK
Education policy in the UK is characterised by change, churn and disruption as successive governments somewhat inevitably recognise ‘problems’ in education to be ‘fixed’ with different...
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January 7, 2026 at 9:45 AM
This Human Rights Day, we follow an MA International Child Rights and Development student's journey through youth advocacy, from a Master's at King's, to being nominated to visit Lviv, the current European Youth Capital.

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Human Rights Day 2025: My Youth Advocacy Journey and What I Learned in…
Molly Taylor, youth advocate, human rights ambassador and MA International Child Rights and Development student shares her insights into her career and life ambition as a child rights champion,…
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December 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Young people of mixed heritage feel ‘invisible’ in educational policy and practice.

A new report from the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy funded by The Portal Trust examined the lived experiences of mixed-heritage pupils across London classrooms.

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Mixed-heritage pupils 'invisible' within school policies | King's College London
Young people of mixed heritage are being left out of educational policy and practice.
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December 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
🌍 ✏️ How can education systems be transformed to effectively teach future generations about social and climate crises and fighting them?

Join us at the next CRESTEM seminar where Dr Sophie Perry offers informed solutions to this question.

🗓️3 Dec, 14:30
📍FWB 4.63/Online

🔗 Register: bit.ly/3XuSLn4
Education for a liveable future: what kind of practice is good enough for the task at hand? | King's College London
Dr Sophie Perry presents research on transformative pedagogy for a more sustainable future.
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December 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
🗨️ Recent research in ECS looks to destigmatise the bilingual upbringing of children with Down syndrome.

🗣️Parents commented on the concerns around support available, and how negative attitudes mainly exist outside the household.

Read the full report here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Attitudes Towards Bilingualism: Insights From Parents of Children With Down Syndrome
Background Recent research indicates that bilingualism does not exacerbate the language learning difficulties commonly seen in children with down syndrome (DS). However, misconceptions persist about.....
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December 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Join for the launch of 'Harold Rosen and English in Education and the Language Arts' by Dr Simon Gibbons.

Gibbons' new book explores the prolific influence of Harold Rosen on the teaching of English.

📆 15 January, 6pm
📍River Room, Strand Campus / Online

🎟️Register here: bit.ly/4pyz4GE
December 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
From learning for unsustainability to unlearning for sustainability? How does the feeling of 'stuckness' effect teachers teaching the climate crisis?

Join us for the next online RE-SET seminar.

🗓️ 2 December, 5:30pm-6.45pm

Register for the meeting link here: www.tickettailor.com/events/schoo...
Select tickets – RESET seminar: From learning for unsustainability to unlearning for sustainability? – Microsoft Teams
RESET seminar: From learning for unsustainability to unlearning for sustainability? – Microsoft Teams, Tue 2 Dec 2025 - In this lecture, Dr Beth Christie and Dr Callum McGregor critically consider how...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:09 AM
📢 Did you know that you can stream the Magna Charta Universitatum 2020?

The flagship event concerning academic freedom and university values can be streamed on YouTube, starting from today until Thursday.

📺Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=be_h...
Magna Charta Anniversary 2025
YouTube video by Magna Charta Observatory
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November 11, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Meet the team working to address child marriage in crisis 🫂

Join us for a webinar where researchers will discuss their plans to optimise the work community-rooted and feminist groups across sub-Saharan Africa.

🗓️5 Nov, 9am GMT, 12pm EAT

📍Sign up: www.tickettailor.com/events/schoo...
Select tickets – Strengthening community-rooted feminist organisations to address child marriage in crisis – Microsoft Teams
Strengthening community-rooted feminist organisations to address child marriage in crisis – Microsoft Teams, Wed 5 Nov 2025 - Please join us for a webinar launching a new project on Wednesday 5th Nove...
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November 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Exploring the lives of blind scientists of the past and present 🧪 🔢

Dr Michele Mele presents the next CRESTEM seminar, exploring the achievements of scientists with low to no sight.

📍 WBW G/8 and online
📅 12 November, 2.30-3.30pm

🔗 Link to register: www.tickettailor.com/events/schoo...
Select tickets – Blind Scientists from Past to Present: snapshots of their lives and impact – Room G/8, Waterloo Bridge Wing, Stamford Street
Blind Scientists from Past to Present: snapshots of their lives and impact – Room G/8, Waterloo Bridge Wing, Stamford Street, Wed 12 Nov 2025 - This event will take place in person in Waterloo Bridge ...
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October 30, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Want to learn more about Colourism and Racism in Schools?🎒👥

Attend the first seminar in a new series exploring how skin shade and racialisation shape experiences in schools.

📅 Tuesday 11 November, 12.30pm-1.30pm
📍 Online

🎟️ Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/schoo...
Register for the event – Understanding Colourism in UK School and Colleges
Understanding Colourism in UK School and Colleges, Tue 11 Nov 2025 - The Understanding Colourism Among Young People in the UK Research Team are delighted to invite you to a new online Colourism and Ra...
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October 30, 2025 at 9:38 AM
'Universities have more leverage than they think.'

Prof Liviu Matei, Head of ECS, comments on the latest provision by the Trump administration on universities in the US, and warns of threats to academic freedom.

Read the full article here: www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...
HE leaders brand Trump’s compact for HE as ‘extortion’
The Trump administration’s compact offered to nine elite US universities has provoked alarm among higher education leaders. It demands surrender of ...
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October 14, 2025 at 10:18 AM
⚛️The CRESTEM seminars kick off again this week with a presentation from Anna T. Danielsson on the role of physics in creating resonant experiences for young students.

🕝 15 October, 2.30-3.30pm
📍 WBW G/8 or online

🎟️ Register for the seminar here: www.tickettailor.com/events/schoo...
Select tickets – Resonating with physics: Science education for Bildung and a life well-lived
Resonating with physics: Science education for Bildung and a life well-lived, Wed 15 Oct 2025 - This event will take place in person in WBW G/8 and online. Please register to receive the online meetin...
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October 13, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Dr Clyde Ancarno's multilingual teaching toolkit, which won the 2024 SSPP Impact Award, was recently delivered to trainee teachers in The Gambia. 🔤📚

The toolkit bridges the gap between children's native languages used at home and The Gambia's English-only schooling system.

🔗 bit.ly/41XPvTH
King's-funded multilingual education project pilots in The Gambia | King's College London
Dr Clyde Ancarno’s multilingual education initiative, co-developed with Gambian educators and shaped by teacher practice in the classrooms, was received positively by stakeholders in The Gambia.
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September 16, 2025 at 9:05 AM
💡 🗣️ Join the Georgetown University and King's College London virtual symposium series starting this Friday!

Advancing Process Data Analysis in Large-Scale Assessments
📅 12 September, 15:00 BST
📍 Online

Register now ⬇️
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Georgetown University and King’s College London Virtual Symposium Series (Series 1)
We warmly invite you to join the inaugural session of the Georgetown University and King’s College London Virtual Symposium Series, jointly led by Dr. Qiwei Britt He (Georgetown University, US) and Dr...
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September 10, 2025 at 9:34 AM
🎊 Dr Sharon Gewirtz, Professor of Education, has been appointed on the Education sub-panel for the next Research Excellence Framework (REF).

💼 Recent work by Dr Gewirtz includes her research on the @youngliveskcl.bsky.social project.

Congratulations to Dr Gewirtz on her appointment!
September 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
📢 Join Antonia Dawes for a book talk about her new release, England's military heartland, which explores life on the Salisbury Plain and of the communities next to it.

🗓️ 24 September, 7:00pm
📍Housmans Bookshop, Caledonian Road

🎟️ Get your tickets now: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/book-...
September 2, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Sign up now for our first Faculty alumni pub quiz of the year! 🏆

Alumni teams from @kingsbschool.bsky.social @kcllaw.bsky.social and SSPP will compete against each other at The Vault on Wednesday 3 September. 🤔

🔗 Book your free ticket now: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/busin...
August 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
You can now watch the 2025 ECS Annual Lecture on the ECS website.

Last month we invited Prof Emily Shuckburgh of Cambridge Zero to talk on how educators can equip young people with the skills and vigour to take on socioecological challenges.

Watch now ➡️ bit.ly/4mn40sl
August 19, 2025 at 9:23 AM
🔬 Twenty-six students attended a three-day girls optics summer school at King’s College London in July, inspiring the next generation of female physicists.

Read more here ➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/inspiri...
Summer school promotes physics amongst young girls
Twenty-six students attended a three-day girls optics summer school at King’s College London in July, inspiring the next generation of female physicists.
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August 6, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Graduating at the Royal Festival Hall? Your Alumni Team is looking forward to welcoming all new King’s graduates into our global alumni community of 220,000+ people.

Read more on the free benefits we offer to all our alumni: www.kcl.ac.uk/alumni/forever-kings-edge

#ForeverKings
July 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
📣 In the season finale of the 'It's Just Research' Podcast, our hosts have an animated discussion with Dr Panos Theodoropoulos and his research into the socialisation of precarity.

Read more and listen to the episode here: www.kcl.ac.uk/its-just-res...
It's Just Research Podcast, Season 2, Finale: The Thief and the Cash…
Dr Panos Theodoropoulos comments on precarity, migration and the politics of labour.
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July 23, 2025 at 9:33 AM
King’s College London has been ranked 31st in the QS World University Rankings 2026.

ECS is proud to have contributed to this growth. King’s is ranked 22nd in the world in Education and Training, 31st in Sociology and Management and 32nd in Social Policy and Administration.
July 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
📢 NEW PODCAST EPISODE 📢

We talk to Dr Tania de St Croix and Louise Doherty about their collaborative research project that sought to address the impact of rising evaluation of youth work and how policy threatens the spirit of youth work.

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It's Just Research, Season 2 Ep 6: Defending the spirit of youth work
In this episode, hosts Sara and Pippa interview Dr Tania de St Croix and Louise Doherty about their research on measuring the impact of youth work.
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June 18, 2025 at 10:44 AM