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PROFILE

2018

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Our vision is to make the world a better place.

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King’s College London is a world-leading university. Rated among the world’s top 25 universities,1 King’s is ranked sixth in the UK for the quality and quantity of its research activity2 and 11th in the world for its international performance and outlook.3

Since its foundation in 1829 King’s has defined itself in terms of its service to society, and it now has more than 31,000 students and some 8,500 staff members dedicated to making the world a better place.King’s location in the heart of London enables it to form and lead international conversations in policy, government, law, culture, religion, medicine and business.

1. QS World University Rankings 2017–18 2. Research Excellence Framework 2014

3. Times Higher Education 2017

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King’s Strategic Vision 2029 looks forward to our 200th anniversary in 2029. It shows how King’s will make the world a better place by focusing on five key strategic priorities: educate to inspire and improve; research to inform and innovate; serve to shape and transform; a civic university at the heart of London; and an international community that serves the world.

Educate to inspire and improveKing’s is a world class university with a long and strong tradition of providing excellence in education and research. We offer students the opportunity to develop in-depth knowledge and sophisticated methodologies in their chosen discipline(s) as well as broader skills and attributes through examination of a wide range of issues from multiple disciplinary perspectives. Our research strengths are inextricably linked with our educational offering, which is why research-enhanced education is positioned at the heart of our approach.  Launched in September 2017, King’s Education Strategy sets out a roadmap for King’s to follow over the next five years to enable us to deliver our vision ‘to educate to inspire and improve’.  The six strategic goals for education are:

• to drive world-class learning and knowledge creation through research-enhanced education

• to expand learning opportunities through flexing the curriculum and increasing access to co-curricular activities

• to embed civic engagement and service learning across King’s

• to ensure all King’s students are equipped for success

• to support positive wellbeing as a fundamental ethos of the university

• to embrace students as co-collaborators of the educational experience.

STRATEGIC VISION

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Serve to shape and transform King’s was established to be distinctive by not simply serving our own concerns, or those of our students, but by being committed to benefiting others in the wider world. Service is fiercely embraced and deeply embedded in the ethos and history of King’s. The university ensures its students develop not just intellectually, but also personally, ethically and spiritually, with the character and wisdom to use their knowledge for the benefit of others. King’s is committed to embedding civic engagement and service learning across the curriculum. The King’s research portfolio has a demonstrable global impact on society. Institutionally, we continue to open up the university to be porous to new ideas, innovations, individuals and communities. King’s students and staff have developed a number of service-led programmes, examples of which are:

• Philosophy in Prisons: a project delivering enquiry-led philosophy classes in a London prison, led by a philosophy research student and supported by the King’s Philosophy Department

• The Alliance for a Cavity-Free Future: a dental health charity created with the goal of eliminating cavities for people of all ages, based within the King’s Dental Institute

• The Sanctuary Programme: King’s collective response to one of today’s greatest global challenges – the 60 million refugees fleeing conflict. The programme involves major initiatives for online learning, delivering new ways for refugee communities to access higher education, and volunteer language exchanges.

Through these activities, King’s serves the needs and aspirations of society, in our individual capacities and together as the community of King’s.

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Guy’s Campus.

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A civic university at the heart of LondonThe future of King’s is interwoven with the future of London – as a place to live, work, learn and experience. Connecting the global to the local, we are both drawing London into King’s and putting our expertise to work to address London’s challenges and opportunities and ensure its health and success. Incorporating London’s many possibilities within King’s education, research and service, we are creating the problem-solvers and change-makers that can help to shape the future. To achieve this, we are strengthening connections with London’s businesses, policy-makers, agencies and institutions, deepening relationships with our local boroughs, and extending our partnerships with London’s other higher education institutions.Examples include:

• the King’s Experience London Award, which recognises students’ contributions to volunteering, local charities, schools and communities, combining experiential learning with supported reflection to enhance skills and employability

• a new partnership between the Mayor of London and the Environmental Research Group at King’s which will improve the way the public are informed about incidents of poor air quality in the capital, providing continuous monitoring using the London Air Quality Network and a forecast of air pollution in London, delivering alerts to the Mayor’s office and general public as required

• King’s Legal Clinic, through which students in The Dickson Poon School of Law provide free legal advice to those in need, putting their learning into practice while serving the communities around us.

King’s aspires to be of, and not just in, this great city in which we make our home. Our commitment to the communities and the city around us is shared across the university and embedded in everything we do.

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Bush House, home of the new King’s Business School.

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An international community that serves the world King’s is a world-leading institution with a truly multicultural community. We interact with places, ideas and people who share our vision to make the world a better place and find solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges. King’s is committed to providing a transformative student experience through an internationalised curriculum that produces globally-aware graduates who can influence positive global change. Our diverse portfolio of partnerships with prestigious institutions allows us to collaborate extensively, fostering impactful research and providing an enriched educational experience. This includes mobility opportunities for all of King’s students, through either joint or dual degrees or a range of study abroad options. We have an extensive portfolio of international partnerships in every continent. In partnership, we have developed joint research institutes, global PhD programmes, dual academic appointments, volunteering opportunities and access to global business networks, creating an international community that serves the world. King’s attracts the best international minds to study and work in London, with around 40 per cent of our students and some 36 per cent of staff coming from overseas. King’s Summer Programmes attract students from over 75 countries to programmes in London, New York, Berlin and Hong Kong. In 2017, King’s received over £34 million in international research funding to cultivate innovative research. King’s and its School of Global Affairs are home to a network of Global Institutes covering the social, economic and political powerhouses of the 21st century. International and interdisciplinary research helps to understand the present and contemplate the future of our world.

See kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/strategy

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King’s graduation ceremony at the Barbican Centre.

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A TRADITION OF EXCELLENCEFounded under the royal charter of King George IV in 1829, King’s is one of England’s oldest university institutions, whose 200 years of academic distinction have helped to build today’s world-leading university. Mergers with other distinguished higher education institutions including the Institute of Psychiatry (in 1997) and the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals (in 1998) have added to King’s status and reputation. King’s famous 19th century innovators include Sir Charles Lyell, founder of modern geology; Sir Charles Wheatstone, pioneer of telegraphy; visionary physicist James Clerk Maxwell, and Lord Lister, who established antiseptic surgery. The university’s faculty of nursing was founded by Florence Nightingale in 1860 at St Thomas’ Hospital, as the world’s first professional school of nursing. Creative writers nurtured at King’s institutions include John Keats, Thomas Hardy, WS Gilbert and Virginia Woolf. In the 20th and 21st centuries King’s has played a major role in advances that have shaped modern life, such as crucial contributions to the discovery of the structure of DNA by Professor Maurice Wilkins and Dr Rosalind Franklin; pioneering developments in broadcasting and communications technology by Sir Edward Appleton, and important advances in drug development and pharmacology by Sir James Black. Alumnus Chaudry Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan was one of the founders of Pakistan; Sir Ivison Macadam created the National Union of Students, and Dame Cicely Saunders established the modern hospice movement. Great names from King’s continue to change the world. Among our current notable alumni are Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu; 2013 Nobel Physics Laureate Professor Peter Higgs, of Higgs Boson fame; authors Hanif Kureishi CBE, Sir Michael Morpurgo OBE DL, Susan Hill CBE and Alain de Botton; Ph

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Dame Katherine Grainger, five-times Olympic rowing gold medallist; Harriet Green OBE, Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the year 2014; Sir Deryck Maughan, former CEO of Salomon Brothers; Alex Beard, Chief Executive of the Royal Opera House; Farah Storr, editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine; Susan Gilchrist, CEO of Brunswick Group; Dev Pragad, CEO of Newsweek Group, and Margo Marrone, founder of the Organic Pharmacy. Twenty members of the House of Commons are King’s alumni, including Shadow Cabinet Member Sir Keir Starmer QC MP and Dr Sarah Wollaston MP, Chair of the Health Select Committee. Among the 17 members of the House of Lords who are King’s alumni are Professor Lord (Ajay) Kakkar, Professor of Surgery at UCL and Chair of UCL Partners; former Foreign Secretary David Owen, and former Chief Rabbi of the UK Lord (Jonathan) Sacks. Alumni also include many members of the Judiciary in the UK and overseas.

See alumni.kcl.ac.uk/notablealumni

Dame Cicely Saunders (1918–2005) established the modern hospice movement.

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Faculty %

Arts & HumanitiesStrand

3,520 1,311 430 5,261 17%

King’s Business SchoolStrand

995 889 58 1,942 6%

Dental Institute Guy’s, Strand, Denmark Hill, Waterloo, St Thomas’

737 439 84 1,260 4%

The Dickson Poon School of  Law Strand

881 1,144 56 2,081 7%

King’s Learning Institute 0 287 0 287 1%

Life Sciences & MedicineGuy’s, St Thomas’, Denmark Hill, Waterloo

4,357 1,136 669 6,162 20%

Natural & Mathematical Sciences Strand

2,503 480 285 3,268 10%

Nursing & MidwiferyWaterloo

1,978 792 52 2,822 9%

Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & NeuroscienceDenmark Hill

414 1,302 449 2,165 7%

Social Science & Public PolicyWaterloo, Strand

2,581 2,419 516 5,516 18%

Incoming Study Abroad Students* Strand, Waterloo

573 40 0 613 2%

Total postgraduates 12,838 41%

Grand total 18,539 10,239 2,599 31,377 100%

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*The full-year enrolment for Incoming Study Abroad students in 2017–18 is 1,014

• In 2016–17, over 47 per cent of King’s UK entrant students were from Black

and Minority Ethnic backgrounds.

• In the last 10 years, King’s has seen the Russell Group’s largest increase in

the percentage of entrants from lower social groups, and over 26 per cent

of the university’s UK students are now from these groups.

• 62 per cent of King’s students are female.

Arts & Humanities

Life Sciences &  Medicine

Social Science & Public Policy

Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience

Nursing & Midwifery

Incoming Study Abroad Students

Natural & Mathematical Sciences

Dental Institute

The Dickson Poon School of  Law

King’s Learning Institute

King’s Business School

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Students’ country of domicile 2017-18

King’s has a strong international community including students from some

150 countries worldwide.

UK

Domicile UG PGT PGR Total %

United Kingdom 11,939 5,436 1,572 18,947 60%

European Union 2,778 1,242 423 4,443 14%

Other international 3,821 3,561 604 7,986 25%

Undisclosed 1 0 0 1 0%

Grand total 18,539 10,239 2,599 31,377 100%

European Union

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Members of staffOn 1 January 2018 Excluding honorary and occasional staff.

Faculty Academic & research staff

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Number of employees

Arts & Humanities 338 590 149 1,077

Dental Institute 115 188 88 391

King’s Business School 79 61 35 175

The Dickson Poon School  of  Law 90 128 37 255

Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience

893 34 330 1,257

Life Sciences & Medicine 1,215 62 622 1,899

Natural & Mathematical Sciences 261 71 102 434

Nursing & Midwifery 152 36 61 249

Social Science & Public Policy 408 308 149 865

Professional Services 14 83 1,862 1,959

Grand total 3,565 1,561 3,435 8,561

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FinancesConsolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income & Expenditure

For the year ended 31 July 2017.

Income £000Tuition fees and education contracts 299,916Funding body grants 122,996Research grants and contracts 192,563Other income 133,251Investment income 6,330Total income before donations and endowments 755,056Donations and endowments 23,094Total income 778,150

ExpenditureStaff costs 436,656Other operating expenses 269,652Depreciation 40,541Interest and other finance costs 17,259Total expenditure 764,108

Surplus before other gains and losses 14,042

Gain on disposal of fixed assets –Gain on investments 14,309Surplus before tax 28,351

Taxation –

Surplus of the year 28,351Actuarial loss in respect of pension schemes (4,301)Total comprehensive income for the year 24,050

Represented by:Endowment comprehensive income for the year 19,410Restricted comprehensive income for the year (1,978)Unrestricted comprehensive income for the year 6,618 24,050 Ph

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The Duchess of Cambridge met the Chairman of Council Lord Geidt when she visited the Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute at King’s Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience in January to find out more about the IoPPN’s pioneering ‘bench to bedside’ perinatal mental health research.

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Allan Ramsay, George III (1761).

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Homing in on the Hanoverians

Digitised papers publicly available for the first time reveal intricate detail about day-to-day Court life in the Georgian period and shine a light on the family relationships of the Hanoverian monarchs. More than 50,000 papers from the Georgian period have now been digitally scanned and made public as part of the Georgian Papers Programme: a partnership between Royal Collection Trust, lead academic partner King’s College London, and international participants including primary US partners the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture and the College of William & Mary, as well as other key US institutions such as the Library of Congress, Mount Vernon and the Sons of the American Revolution.  Among the 17,000 pages recently released is the precise expenditure of the Civil List in 1747-8 under George II (which outlines the costs of transporting rebels to America); the last will and testament of George II’s daughter Princess Amelia, and correspondence highlighting the difficult relationship between George II and his son Frederick, Prince of Wales, who died before ascending the throne. With the full authority of Her Majesty The Queen, the project is part of Royal Collection Trust’s objective to increase public access to and understanding of primary source material held in the collection. More than 50 visiting postdoctoral, graduate and undergraduate fellowships, and five visiting professorships, based at the Royal Archives, will support the programme over the coming years.

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King’s Business School was opened by Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, in November 2017.

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King’s Business School opens

King’s Business School, the university’s ninth and newest faculty, opened in 2017. The School’s vision is to set a new direction for business education and research, combining the agility of a start-up with the heritage of King’s, and to build the UK’s premier undergraduate business school in conjunction with top quality specialist master’s programmes. With an emphasis on relevance and diversity, the faculty fosters an entrepreneurial mind-set in students ready to embrace the opportunities and challenges facing business and society.The Business School is housed in the centre block of Bush House, the former headquarters of the BBC World Service. This location on Aldwych, mid-way between the governmental headquarters of Westminster, and the City of London, provides an ideal hub for King’s engagement with business, the City, start-ups and government.

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Science Gallery London - bringing culture and science together

Science Gallery London, opening in 2018 on the Guy’s Campus, connects art, science and health to drive innovation in the heart of London. It brings together scientific researchers, students, artists and local communities, and draws on the university’s connections with King’s Health Partners and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust, to present a programme which addresses some of the world’s greatest challenges. The Gallery will have free entrance and changing seasons of exhibitions, performance, events and debate each year. It will provide a platform for live research and experimentation through public engagement, as well as rich learning opportunities for students, helping to inspire the next generation of creative thinkers. In all its faculties, King’s has partnerships with artists and cultural organisations which enhance curricular and co-curricular learning and enrich research while serving the cultural sector and surrounding communities. These activities range from tailored teaching, training and internship programmes, through research collaborations and cultural enquiries, to exhibitions and public events. They not only offer our students new ways of learning, networks and skills that increase employability, but also inspire our academics to approach and communicate research in new and imaginative ways. King’s has a range of spaces dedicated to cultural activities across the university, including the Gordon Museum of Pathology at Guy’s and, within the Cultural Quarter at King’s, the Inigo Rooms, Somerset House East Wing and the Arcade at Bush House.

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Natural tooth repair with Alzheimer’s drug

A new way of stimulating the renewal of living stem cells in tooth pulp, using a drug which treats Alzheimer’s disease, has been discovered by a team of researchers at King’s Dental Institute.Following trauma or an infection, the inner soft pulp of a tooth can become exposed and infected. A thin band of dentine is naturally produced, which seals the tooth pulp but is insufficient to repair large cavities. Currently, dentists use man-made cements or fillings to treat these cavities, but this often needs replacing a number of times and the tooth may eventually have to be extracted. King’s scientists, led by Professor Paul Sharpe, have now proved a way to stimulate the stem cells in the tooth pulp and generate new dentine in large cavities, potentially reducing the need for fillings or cements. Using biodegradable collagen sponges, the team applied low doses of small molecule glycogen synthase kinase (GSK-3) inhibitors to the tooth. The sponge degraded over time and new dentine replaced it, leading to a complete, natural repair. Collagen sponges are commercially available and clinically approved, and this (and the fact that one of the small molecules used included Tideglusib, which has been used in clinical trials to treat neurological disorders including Alzheimer’s disease) presents a real opportunity to fast-track the treatment for use in dental clinics.

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First rights guide for new home buyers

King’s has partnered with The HomeOwners Alliance, Britain’s only consumer group for homeowners, to publish the first consumer rights guide for new home buyers. The new-build sector is fraught with issues: from complicated contracts and unfair leasehold agreements, to poor quality work and restrictive covenants, and many buyers do not know what their rights are. The 28-page guide, Buying a new home: your rights explained, is for the first buyers of an off-plan new home from a developer. It clearly explains the process of buying a new home; the rights of buyers; how to complain when things go wrong; how to resolve disputes with developers, and how to make a claim through the warranty. Philip Britton from the Centre for Construction Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law at King’s, said: ‘New homebuyers often find out that they have less protection than they thought. Buying a new home is a legal minefield, and it can be difficult for homebuyers to know where to turn’.

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Sleeping for longer leads to a healthier diet

Sleeping for longer each night is a simple lifestyle intervention that could help reduce the intake of sugary foods and lead to a generally healthier diet, according to a study led by Haya Al Khatib of King’s Department of Nutritional Sciences. Sleep is a modifiable risk factor for various conditions including obesity and cardio-metabolic disease, with some figures suggesting that more than a third of adults in the UK are not getting enough sleep. The randomised controlled trial looked at the feasibility of increasing sleep hours in adults who typically slept for less than the recommended adult minimum of seven hours. Twenty-one of the 42 participants undertook a 45-minute sleep consultation which aimed to extend their time in bed by up to 1.5 hours per night, with the other participants receiving no advice. Alongside this, the researchers undertook a pilot investigation which looked at the impact of increasing sleep hours on nutrient intake. They found that extending sleep patterns resulted in a 10-gram reduction in the reported intake of the ‘free’ sugars that are added to foods by manufacturers or in cooking at home, as well as sugars in honey, syrups and fruit juice, compared to baseline levels. The researchers also noticed trends for reduced intake of total carbohydrates reported by the sleep extension group. Principal investigator Dr Wendy Hall observed: ‘This simple change in lifestyle may really help people to consume healthier diets.’

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New software fishes out fake online profiles

People who use fake profiles online could be more easily identified, thanks to a new tool developed by computer scientists from King’s. They have trained computer models to spot social media users who fake information about themselves – known as catfishes. The study was carried out in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh, Lancaster University and Queen Mary University of London. Scientists from King’s Department of Informatics built computer models designed to detect fake profiles on an adult content website of the type heavily targeted by catfishes in order to befriend other users and gain more profile views. The researchers built their models based on information gleaned from about 5,000 verified public profiles on the site. These profiles were used to train the models to estimate the gender and age of a user with high accuracy, using their style of writing in comments and network activity. This enabled the models to accurately estimate the age and gender of users with unverified accounts, and spot misinformation. All details were anonymised to protect users’ privacy. The study found that almost 40 per cent of the site’s users lied about their age, and that one in four lied about their gender, with women more likely to deceive than men. It is hoped that the development will lead to useful tools to flag dishonest users and keep social networks of all kinds safe.

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King’s nursing ranks first in UK

Nursing at King’s has been ranked first in the UK and third in the world in the 2017 QS World University Rankings. The QS rankings, which have been published since 2011, highlight the world’s top universities across 46 popular subject areas, and this is only the second year that nursing has been included in the subject list. Institutions are assessed on academic reputation, citations of publications and employer reputation, to give an overall score. In March 2017 King’s Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery scored 92.8 per cent overall, with 100 per cent for academic reputation and 93.4 per cent for citations per paper. This is the second time that King’s contribution to nursing education, research and service has been recognised by being ranked by QS as the top faculty in the UK. The Faculty’s work helps to strengthen the nursing and midwifery professions and improve their cumulative impact on healthcare globally. In summer 2017 the Faculty was renamed the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care: reflecting the addition of King’s Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation to the Faculty. The realignment will strengthen some of the natural synergies that exist between the Faculty and Institute, and realise some innovative interdisciplinary opportunities. 

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Avatar therapy may help schizophrenia

An experimental therapy involving a face-to-face discussion between a person with schizophrenia and an avatar representing their auditory hallucination may help reduce symptoms when provided alongside usual treatment, according to a study led by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King’s. The randomised controlled trial compared the avatar therapy with a form of supportive counselling (adapted specifically for the study). It found that avatar therapy was more effective at reducing hallucinations at a 12-week follow-up. Some 60-70 per cent of people who have schizophrenia experience auditory hallucinations that are typically insulting and threatening. For most people, drug treatments reduce these symptoms, but approximately one in four people continue to experience voices. This study involved 150 patients who had had schizophrenia for approximately 20 years and heard three or four voices on average. Patients worked with the therapist to create a computerised simulation (avatar) of the voice they most wanted to influence, and then spoke face-to-face with the avatar: practising standing up to it, correcting any misconceptions it had about them, and taking control of the conversation. The avatar came to recognise the patient’s strengths and good qualities, and the patient’s greater control and power in the relationship. The £1.3 million trial was funded by Wellcome’s Innovations team. Further research to investigate the treatment’s effectiveness in other healthcare settings is needed before the treatment could become widely available.

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Islamic State’s finances

Islamic State’s income has more than halved since 2014, according to a study by the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation & Political Violence (ICSR) at King’s and Ernst and Young. The team conducted in-depth interviews with officials and experts and reviewed dozens of public statements, internal IS documents, parliamentary testimonies and reports from think tanks, the government and the media, in order to understand the group’s financial situation. Most recent evidence suggests that IS’s total income from taxes and extortion, oil, kidnapping, antiquities, looting and confiscations has decreased from up to $2 billion in 2014 to less than $800 million in 2016, and there is no evidence that the group has been successful in creating new sources of revenue.  John Holland-McCowan, PhD candidate in the Department of War Studies at King’s and Research Fellow at ICSR, led the research. ‘We have reason to believe that re-capturing territory from Islamic State is having a dramatic impact on its financial situation. However, the group and its predecessor, Al-Qaeda in Iraq, have demonstrated an ability to operate under much tighter financial constraints. These figures do not mean that they will be unable to carry out terrorist attacks in the future.’Professor Peter Neumann, Director of ICSR, said: ‘It’s very difficult to accurately quantify Islamic State’s financial situation, but terrorist operations are often cheap and funded on an ad hoc basis’. The ICSR is an independent and non-partisan research centre based in the Department of War Studies at King’s.

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SENIOR OFFICERS OF KING’S at April 2018.

Chairman of CouncilThe Rt Hon the Lord Geidt GCB GCVO OBE QSO FKC

President & PrincipalProfessor Edward Byrne AC MBBS MD DSc MBA FRACP FRCP FRCPE

FAAN FTSE FAHMS (hon)

Provosts/Senior Vice PresidentsHealth: Professor Sir Robert Lechler KBE PhD FRCP FRCPath PMedSci FKC

(and Executive Director of King’s Health Partners)Arts & Sciences: Professor Evelyn Welch MBE BA PhD FRHS FRSA FKC

Senior Vice PresidentsQuality, Strategy & Innovation: Chris Mottershead BSc MSc

Operations: Dr Ian Tebbett BSc PhD CEng FICE MIStructE

Vice President (Finance)Stephen Large FCCA ACMA

Vice Presidents & Vice-PrincipalsEducation: Professor Nicola Phillips PhD FAcSS

International: Professor ’Funmi Olonisakin PhD BSc

London: Deborah Bull CBE

Research: Professor Reza Razavi MBBS MD FRCP FRCPCH FRCR

Service: Professor Jonathan Grant BSc (Econ) PhD

College SecretaryIrene Birrell BA

Dean of the CollegeThe Revd Canon Professor Richard Burridge MA PhD FKC

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CAMPUSES & FACULTIES King’s has nine faculties located on four Thames-side campuses in the heart of London and at Denmark Hill, South London. The location of each faculty office is indicated with a star* below.For further details see kcl.ac.uk/study/campus

Strand Campus A The Dickson Poon School of Law (Somerset House East Wing*)Faculty of Arts & Humanities (Virginia Woolf Building*)Faculty of Natural & Mathematical Sciences*Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy (North East Wing, Bush House*)King’s Business School (Bush House*)

The Maughan Library (Chancery Lane) B

Guy’s Campus C Dental Institute*Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine*

Waterloo Campus D Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care (James Clerk Maxwell Building* and Franklin-Wilkins Building)

St Thomas’ Campus E

Dental Institute Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine

Denmark Hill Campus F Dental Institute Faculty of Life Sciences & MedicineInstitute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (De Crespigny Park)*

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Denmark Hill Campus lies 2.3 miles due south of the Guy’s Campus.

King’s Defence Studies Department provides academic support to the UK Joint Services Command and Staff College (JSCSC) in Shrivenham, Wiltshire, and to the London-based Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS).

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