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School of Education, Communication and Society at King's
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1st in London for education research quality. PGCEs, STEM education, linguistics, social sciences, social justice, public policy.
📢 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
📢 2 WEEKS TO GO!

Just two weeks until our the ECS Annual Lecture delivered by @emilyshuckburgh, presenting her vision into thriving sustainably on Planet Earth. 🌎 This won't be one to miss.

Register now 👇

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2025 ECS Annual Lecture: The science, politics and technologies underpinning the climate crisis by Prof Emily Shuckburgh
Save the date for this year's ECS annual lecture which will be delivered by Prof Emily Shuckburgh OBE, Director of Cambridge Zero.
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June 18, 2025 at 8:45 AM
The launch of The Precarious Migrant Worker coincided with the release of the UK government's white papers on immigration.

The speakers included at least three migrant workers. The staff running the event also included migrant workers without whom it wouldn't have been possible.

🧵⬇️
May 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
POSTPONED 📣

We've pushed this event to the 11th of June, still at 1pm!
May 14, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Dr Francesca Meloni (@francescameloni.bsky.social) has won the Hart-SLSA award for Early Career Academics 2025 for her book Ways of Belonging: Undocumented Youth in the Shadow of Illegality. 🎉

Read more about the award and the book here ➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/dr-fran...
Dr Francesca Meloni wins SLSA Book Prize 2025
Dr Francesa Meloni, Senior Lecturer in Social Justice at the School of Education, Communication and Society, has won the Hart-SLSA Book Prize for Early Career Academics 2025 for her book Ways of Belon...
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May 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
TOMORROW: “You laugh at it as a joke, but it’s not funny:” Young People’s Experiences of Colourist Banter

Join us for this CPPR seminar delivered by colorism expert Dr Aisha Phoenix.

📆 14 May, 13:00
📍WBW 3/8

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“You laugh at it as a joke, but it’s not funny:” Young People’s Experiences of Colourist Banter
This paper explores how young people in the UK use jokes and banter to perpetuate colourism, particularly targeting those with dark and very dark skin.
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May 13, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Just days to go until we host the launch of The Precarious Migrant Worker by Panos Theodoropoulos and this is your last chance to register!

🗓️12 May, 6.30pm
📍Great Hall, Strand Campus

Register here: bit.ly/43h1TiF

@mmbuob.bsky.social @industrialworker.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social
Book launch: "The Precarious Migrant Worker" by Panos Theodoropoulos
This new book explores the ways precarity is lived and contested in Glasgow's warehouses, factories and kitchens.
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May 8, 2025 at 9:44 AM
📢🌍💚 ANNOUNCEMENT 💚🌍📢

We are pleased to announce this year's ECS annual lecture with Prof Emily Shuckburgh OBE, Director of
@cambridgezero.bsky.social

📆 Tuesday 1 July, 14:15
📍 Anatomy Lecture Theatre / K6.29

Registrations are now open: bit.ly/3GXIhY3
2025 ECS Annual Lecture: The science, politics and technologies underpinning the climate crisis by Prof Emily Shuckburgh
Save the date for this year's ECS annual lecture which will be delivered by Prof Emily Shuckburgh OBE, Director of Cambridge Zero.
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May 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM