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King's Social Science & Public Policy
@KingsSSPP
Aug 17
As heatwaves continue, climate adaptation becomes ever more urgent. @kclgeography researchers studied the 2024 London Cool Spaces scheme and concluded there is more need to address the root causes of overheating, over 'reactive resilience'. Read more:
Escaping the heat: urban heat resilience and public cool spaces
From link.springer.com
King's Social Science & Public Policy
@KingsSSPP
Aug 7
Britain’s local newspapers are at risk of transforming into "zombie" titles that lack original, community-focused reporting and fail to perform their key democratic functions. Read more:
Newspapers at risk of becoming 'zombie' titles as local content disappears
From kcl.ac.uk
King's Social Science & Public Policy
@KingsSSPP
Jul 6
We've heard lots about England football fans travelling to Mexico City for the team's epic World Cup win early this morning. But what about the Mexico fans supporting their team from the UK? Professor Cathy McIlwaine, Professor of Development Geography at @kclgeography
Mexico vs. England World Cup: London expats find community despite loss
From nbcnews.com
King's Social Science & Public Policy
@KingsSSPP
Jun 25
Join the @ALC_KCL conference on 7 July. Keynote by Her Excellency Fatou Bensouda, High Commissioner of The Gambia to the UK and former Chief Prosecutor of the ICC. Register:
Reimagining Leadership in an Era of Epistemic Plurality and Shifting World Orders
From kcl.ac.uk
King's Social Science & Public Policy
@KingsSSPP
Dec 10, 2025
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.
King's College London
@KingsCollegeLon
Dec 9, 2025
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-aca…