Comment, Issue 207, December 2014

Comment For staff, students & friends

Issue 207 | December 2014

A vision for King’s

Welcoming Professor Ed Byrne to King’s College London, our new President & Principal PAGE 5

Fighting Ebola in Sierra Leone

King’s Health Partnership leads the response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa PAGE 3

King’s Maths School launches

New maths school opened by Nicky Morgan MP, Secretary of State for Education PAGE 4

History of FWB

The Franklin-Wilkins Building served as Britain’s largest military hospital during WWI PAGE 11

Celebrating excellence Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, winner of Lifetime Achievement Award, King’s Awards 2014

The King’s Awards celebrate the outstanding achievements of staff and alumni. More than 240 nominations were submitted, almost twice as many as last year. The winners were selected by the Judging Panel, chaired by the new President & Principal of King’s College London, Professor Ed Byrne.

Three awards were introduced to showcase the broad range of talent that exists across the university. Excellence in Customer Service was one of the new awards and recognised those who consistently exceeded customer expectations.

Professor Evelyn Welch, Vice-Principal (Arts & Sciences) and Professor Sir Robert Lechler, Vice-Principal (Health) hosted the King’s Awards ceremony, along with John Kampfner, journalist and lay member of the College Council. The newly refurbished

Great Hall at the Strand Campus provided an elegant setting for the Awards which were held on Thursday 27 November 2014.

The guests were entertained by Ailie Robertson, a harpist and alumna of King’s, and the Medical Students’ Association Musical Theatre who provided a rousing performance.

An uplifting film featuring some of the shortlisted nominees and those who had nominated individuals or teams was played at the start of the ceremony. It conveyed how important colleagues believe the Awards are in recognising some of the ‘unsung heroes’, whose contribution to the success of the university is invaluable.

One of the many highlights was a video message from Dr Oliver Johnson, Programme Director, King’s Sierra Leone Partnership for

Global Health. Dr Johnson received two awards – Most Significant Contribution to International Collaboration and the prestigious Alumnus of the Year Award – for leading a team responding to the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone since March 2014. He spoke about being ‘very humbled by these awards, which I accept very much on behalf of the rest of the team out here, many of whom are alumni and who have done some exceptional work’.

Every winner was invited to the stage and presented with a commemorative plate and certificate by Professor Welch and Professor Lechler.

Reflecting on the King’s Awards, Professor Welch said, ‘The Awards have provided a wonderful way to say thank you to colleagues whose achievements are truly valued’.

News & Features

A word from the Principal

I am now approaching the end of my first four months as President & Principal of King’s College London. I have deliberately tried to meet as many people as possible to get a flavour of the remarkable work that is being done here and to acquire a sense of what makes this university so special.

I believe King’s can consolidate its position among the top 20 universities in the world but achieving this will necessitate a strategy refresh. There is more change going on now in the university world internationally than at any time since the Second World War, and the relevant rankings of great universities are likely to change quite a bit.

Funding: the great research universities are increasingly more expensive to run at a time when productivity and income streams have flattened out. There’s a tendency throughout the West, especially in the UK, to transfer costs of higher education from the public to the private purse. That means universities must be more aware than ever before of the fee paying student as a consumer as well as being a member of the university community.

The information revolution is also bringing us challenges in terms of delivery. Students of today are children of the IT world and they do not expect to be served up blackboard and chalk level education, dressed up with PowerPoints. They require a version of the Stanford inverted classroom where the very best of the new is aligned with the best of the old or they will be less attractive to students.

Temporal endurance is another issue. When I studied medicine many years ago, a medical degree was expected to keep you credible for a lifetime of professional service. But now,

“I am”delighted to have joined

the King’s community and I look forward to leading this great university towards a successful future universities must plan their structure and offerings in an age where lifelong learning is necessary for professional credibility.

Demography and international geo-politics mean we are moving from a time of European and North American dominance to a truly global world where the rise of other areas, notably Asia, is increasingly dominating the economic future. Today two thirds of the world’s middle class people, including university students from that background, live in Europe and North America but that will invert in 10 years, with two thirds of middle class people living in Asia, the majority of them in China. They will contribute to a huge body of mobile students from Asia who will spend periods of study in the West. A great international university will need to be aligned with that international focus. But let me be clear, this does not mean that King’s will pay any less attention to our domestic students who are, and will remain, the fabric of this university.

King’s must now plan in order to meet these challenges. I am delighted to have joined the King’s community and I look forward to leading this great university towards a successful future.

Ed Byrne, President & Principal

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NEWS IN BRIEF

Tuning into the future As the countdown begins to the opening of ‘Science Gallery London’ on the Guy’s Campus, Frequencies – Tune into Life saw musicians and artists work with King’s staff and students and the local community to explore the rhythms of our lives – from the movement of cells in our blood stream to fertilisation and birth. The use of these cycles to create unique sounds, installations and performance pieces staged across King’s and beyond. Designed to get you thinking about how the body works, each piece has been created through collaborations with local young people, King’s students and researchers, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital staff and patients, and traders from Borough Market.

Multimedia performance collaboration on sleep patterns

Renaming of Schools and Heads of Schools In September, many Schools became faculties, and former heads of Schools are now referred to as ‘Executive Deans’. Originally there were a system of departments and faculties; however the deans who headed the faculties didn’t have a management role and all 48 deans reported directly to the Principal. Although the system was unwieldy and in need of change, rules of the University of London constrained King’s from setting up any new faculties.

In September 1989, Schools were introduced to King’s, with heads of Schools having a management role towards the heads of departments who reported to them. 25 years on, with the exception of the Dental Institute and The Dickson Poon School of Law, all Schools have been changed to faculties.

Brazil comes to King’s In August the Strand Campus was alive with the sounds of Latin America. More than 700 experts on all matters Brazilian converged on King’s for what is thought to be the largest ever conference of its kind.

The 12th biennial congress of the Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) was held for only the second time in BRASA’s 22 year history outside Brazil or the US. In 1996 the conference was held in Cambridge. It was therefore something of a coup for King’s to persuade the Executive Committee to come to London.

The conference was richly interdisciplinary, embracing cultural studies, the Portuguese language, film studies, musicology, history, comparative literature, political science, sociology, international relations and economics.

Over three days, 150 different panels discussed a wide range of subjects – everything from urban development and the Brazilian elections to sexual behaviour.

One particular feature was that students from the King’s Brazil Institute were heavily involved in the conference. Many attended the panel sessions and also worked behind the scenes on administration and conference preparation, as well as helping to guide delegates around the campus. In addition, a number of our PhD students appeared on panels devoted to politics and the environment, sitting alongside established experts in those fields.

BRASA conference at the Strand

The congress was held outside of Brazil and the US for the first time in 18 years

The conference was opened by King’s VicePrincipal (Arts & Sciences) Professor Evelyn Welch, the Brazilian Ambassador to Great Britain, His Excellency Roberto Jaguaribe, and the then BRASA President Jan French.

Dr Anthony Pereira, political scientist and the Director of the King’s Brazil Institute, was largely responsible for organising the conference and has now taken over as President of BRASA until March 2016. ‘One of my jobs will be to help organise our 13th conference at Brown University in Providence, USA and to transfer the Secretariat of BRASA from the University of Illinois to Brown,’ he said.

Dr Pereira is keen to continue the internationalisation of the organisation, by bringing scholars from many different countries into it. ‘BRASA is a unique association that promotes the interdisciplinary study of Brazil,’ he said. ‘It brings Brazilians and non-Brazilians together and unites scholars from the humanities and the social sciences.’

One particularly pleasing aspect of this year’s congress was that around 40 academics based in Europe attended the conference for the first time. Dr Pereira hopes this group will develop into a parallel European organisation devoted to the study of Brazil. ‘I would love the next conference to feature some people from countries like Russia and China,’ he said. ‘Let’s hear other voices and their take on this subject.’

Promoting excellence through race equality The university has signed up to a new UK-wide equality charter mark that aims to tackle racial inequalities in higher education.

King’s is one of 30 institutions participating in a national trial of the Equality Challenge Unit’s (ECU) race equality charter mark (REM). The REM aims to help address the continuing underrepresentation of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) staff and students in higher education.

With the support of Chris Mottershead, Vice-Principal (Innovations & Research) and University Diversity Champion, King’s has signed up to the Charter Mark to inspire a strategic approach to making cultural and

Find out more about the ECU’s race equality charter mark at ecu.ac.uk

systemic changes that will make a real difference not only for our BME staff and students but for all members of King’s community.

King’s began to lay the foundation for its race equality work prior to participation in the REM pilot through the establishment of the strategic Diversity & Inclusion Steering Group, led by Angela Dean, member of the university Council, to provide long-term and continuing leadership and support for diversity and inclusion issues across King’s. Other initiatives to support staff and students include the B-mentor mentoring scheme and the BME Student Success Project that looks at student attainment.

Profile: Professor Ed Byrne PAGE 5

King’s leading the fight against Ebola King’s Health Partnership is at the forefront of the ongoing response to the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone.

The King’s Sierra Leone Partnership (KSLP) was originally established in January 2013 to help strengthen the government’s health system through long-term partnerships with Connaught Hospital, the College of Medicine and the Ministry of Health. The King’s Health Partners team has played a vital role in responding to Ebola since the virus first reached the country in May. The team was recently awarded £1m by the Department for International Development as part of the UK Government’s response to the outbreak. The increased funding will help public health staff to continue their work, scale up aid agencies’ response and provide vital supplies such as chlorine and protective clothing for thousands of health workers in Sierra Leone.

Working closely with the Sierra Leone Government and local and international partners, KSLP has led support for the

Support our volunteer medics and nurses in Sierra Leone Support our volunteer medics and nurses in Sierra Leone The Ebola crisis in West Africa has become the largest uncontrolled outbreak of the deadly and highly contagious virus and demonstrates how important it is to have strong health systems in place.

Please donate money to help support the team’s efforts at https://www.justgiving.com/kslpebolaresponse Your help will enable the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership to reduce transmission of the disease.

establishment of an Ebola Command Centre in Freetown. The centre is managing the deployment of ambulance services and through support from the UK Government will scale up functions to include the collection of laboratory tests and distribution of results, co-ordination of burial teams, distribution of medical supplies and deliveries to isolation units. KSLP is also providing support to two further isolation centres through clinical training, supplies and technical advice. With the UK Government’s support, King’s will be able to continue deploying qualified clinicians to work on the frontline in West Africa.

Dr Oliver Johnson, Programme Director for the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership said: ‘The King’s Health Partners team has been on the ground in Sierra Leone since day one of this outbreak. We have not only been able to provide a full clinical response to Ebola at Connaught Hospital, but we have also been able to increase the local capacity to identify and treat Ebola patients, provide essential clinical training, spread best practice quickly and, by setting up a Command Centre in Freetown, manage the effective flow of patients across the city.

‘In doing so, King’s has been able to create a model which can be scaled up at pace across the country. This extra funding from the UK Government is both welcome and timely.’

King’s Health Partners’ work to help fight Ebola in Sierra Leone will continue throughout the weeks and months ahead providing advice, support and equipment to colleagues in Connaught Hospital.

An isolation unit at the Connaught Hospital

The doctor on the front line fighting one of the world’s deadliest diseases King’s alumnus in Medicine, Dr Oliver Johnson is leading a team from the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership tackling the Ebola outbreak. He arrived in Sierra Leone two years ago to help strengthen the country’s research, health and clinical services.

‘That all changed in March this year when we got the news of the new disease emerging in West Africa, of course Ebola.’ said Dr Johnson.

In March when just a few cases were first seen in Guinea, the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health summoned a task force from King’s to assist in preparing a response.

‘Since that time we have emerged from not just advising government, but helping to set up and run the main Ebola isolation unit at the Connaught Hospital with local colleagues. To date we have treated over 600 suspected cases in the capital and set up other holding units around the city to fight this disease.

‘However for me, the journey didn’t just start two years ago. The journey started many

“I am”hugely proud to do this

work here and to have been part of this extraordinary team that will continue working until this Ebola response is over years ago when I was still a medical student at King’s and had an interest in global health.

I met Mr Andy Leather, a trauma surgeon at King’s College Hospital, and together with the university, we started on a path to setting up a global health partnership at King’s to support global health training for students.

‘I am hugely proud to do this work here and to have been part of this extraordinary team that will continue working until this Ebola response is over.’

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News & Features

Arts & Humanities Festival digs into the underground Almost 4,000 people flocked to King’s for the Arts & Humanities Festival: underground, a 10 day programme of talks, workshops, exhibitions and performances of immersive theatre, music, poetry and comedy, taking in everything from the ruins of Roman London to the bunkers of the Blitz.

The Festival opened with a discussion in which historian Antony Beevor and art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon joined the English Department’s Lara Feigel to explore the history and culture of underground sheltering in the Second World War. The Festival then went on to explore the underground theme from every angle imaginable including contemporary underground cultures, economies, politics and sexualities.

Cutting-edge contemporary early music group Trio Aporia performed a unique sitespecific concert featuring baroque flute, harpsichord and strings in one of London Underground’s ‘ghost stations’ at the Aldwych.

King’s students led guided tours through the crypts and cloisters of underground medieval London and academics from the Centre for Late Antique & Medieval Studies led a marathon six hour reading of Dante’s Inferno, one of the most vivid literary evocations of the underground.

In one of the most diverse panels at the Festival; director and IT Crowd actor Richard Ayoade joined Dr Rowan Williams and King’s academics to discuss the challenges of adapting Dostoevsky for the big screen.

Director of the Festival Professor Max Saunders commented: ‘This year’s Festival was our most diverse and exciting yet. The underground theme elicited really creative responses from everybody, and let us transform some Kings spaces, and use some extraordinary venues nearby.’

Now in its sixth year, the Festival provides a vital platform for communicating the value and impact of the faculty’s research to the public, alumni, creative partners, staff, students and members of other academic institutions.

David Trendell, 1964–2014 King’s staff, students and alumni expressed their sorrow at the sudden death of David Trendell, aged 50, of a brain haemorrhage. He combined musicology with the highest standards of choir training, organ playing, record producing and teaching. He found his niche as Choral Director

David Trendell, College Organist, Director of the Chapel Choir, and a Senior Lecturer in Music at King’s

New scholarships named in honour of King’s Principal

Maths School opens

Writer and director Richard Ayoade on a panel discussing the challenges in adapting Dostoevsky 4 | Issue 207 | December 2014

and Senior Lecturer of music at King’s, where he performed with his chapel choir what he taught in his lectures. His funeral took place in King’s College Chapel at the Strand. The Dean’s Office and the Department of Music are hoping to organise a memorial service or event next year.

King’s College London Mathematics School was opened officially by Nicky Morgan MP, Secretary of State for Education, in September.

She said: ‘I am delighted that hundreds of our capital’s students now have the opportunity to attend King’s Mathematics School. It will become a centre of excellence that will play a crucial part in ensuring our country continues to be at the forefront of science and maths.’

King’s has been involved in the development of the curriculum at the school, which combines mathematics, further mathematics, physics and computing A-levels with the Extended Project Qualification that will enable students to pursue individual research and construction projects.

Nicky Morgan MP, Secretary of State for Education at the School’s launch

“I am”delighted that

hundreds of students now have the opportunity to attend King’s Mathematics School

King’s is to create 28 ‘Professor Sir Richard Trainor Scholarships’ in acknowledgement of the former Principal who recently left the university.

A gift of £1.25m to the university from an anonymous donor from Singapore will fund the 28 PhD scholarships for students working in fields that are close to Professor Trainor’s own interests and that reflect his long-standing passion for public engagement. The donation will allow King’s to support interdisciplinary research across thematic areas covering Social Science & Public Policy, Arts & Humanities and the Natural & Mathematical Sciences, with a focus on research that prioritises partnership and Professor Trainor’s commitment to service to society.

Studentships will be open to applicants who will work together on themes such as cultural heritage, leadership and global governance, as well as on distinctive scientific problems and methods and areas such as medical humanities and digital humanities. This unique approach will be a reflection of Professor Trainor’s own scholarship and nurturing of cross-boundary working at King’s. Professor Trainor said: ‘I am deeply honoured that my name will be given to these generous scholarships that will support King’s PhD students of the future. Through this gift, I will continue to have a link to King’s and to the scholarly excellence that it represents.’

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New appointments

Peter Sowerby Chair in Philosophy & Medicine

Professor Sherrilyn Roush has been appointed as Peter Sowerby Chair in Philosophy & Medicine at King’s College London.

Before joining King’s, she was full Professor of Philosophy at University of California, Berkeley, where she joined in 2006.

Professor Roush took a PhD in Philosophy from Harvard after undergraduate studies at Pennsylvania State University.

On taking up the newly endowed chair, Professor Roush will develop connections between medicine and her ground-breaking contributions in central areas of philosophy.

Professor Roush said: ‘I am honoured to have this new role entrusted to me, and excited about the discussions we will have of questions that these fields share.’

Our new President & Principal At the start of this new academic year, we were delighted to welcome Professor Ed Byrne, our new President & Principal, and asked him about his vision for King’s. that there is only one structure.

King’s needs to steer its way as a strong independent freestanding university while it maintains good relations with the other institutions in London. There must be no doubt in anyone’s mind that King’s is a strong vibrant independent university in its own right.

King’s must embrace its educational, philosophical and pedagogical principles. We need to ensure that we are delivering quality education that rivals any other institution in London and that measures up well with the educational approach offered by the American Ivy Leagues, such as Stanford and Columbia.

Our research base growth must be continued.

The areas that are doing well will have to do even better.

In addition, King’s will have to look at its What is your aspiration for King’s? portfolio and consider two gaps: to strengthen There are two levels of major universities – one considerably its business activities and engage which is credible, has its own story and is making more strongly with our neighbours in the City a major contribution in its own space, geography, of London, and to strengthen even further exact country and has some international impact. sciences and to explore advanced engineering Then there are a smaller number of really great opportunities. international institutions that stand a little ahead of the rest because they have a feel about them, What sort of leader are you? a culture that attracts the brightest and the best My leadership style is a hybrid. I believe in the in its students and staff. Harvard is clearly at that broadest consultation with staff, students and level, the top 10 universities in the US are at that other stakeholders. But when decisions are level, so are Oxford and Cambridge, while UCL made and direction set, I believe they should and Imperial are approaching that level. That is be implemented successfully in a timely way. the aspiration I have for King’s. This university I consult and listen but I’m also able to bring a has massive opportunities to rise with London degree of direction so that we do all we can to get and consolidate its position among the top 20 to where we want to be. universities in the world.

What drew you to King’s?

I greatly enjoyed my years in Australia at Monash University but had reached a point where many of the things I’d sought to achieve when I’d started had been accomplished, so I was able to think of another challenge. I’ve split my working life between Melbourne and London and they’re the only two cities in the world I know really well and because of that I know a bit about the university scene in London and I’ve seen it strengthen immeasurably as a university city. King’s, UCL and Imperial are the major, comprehensive university players and they are all advancing in enunciating their own stories. I believe I understand the King’s story and have the ability to help the university reach its full potential.

What do you think are the main challenges for King’s?

What are your first impressions of the London university scene?

King’s has done well over the last 10 years but there are four main areas that I think need focus: Work around establishing King’s as a single cohesive university needs to be completed so

In the past there has been no difference in ambition between Imperial, UCL and King’s.

Since I was last here, UCL has opened a small gap on King’s in some areas. It is not a major gap

and I don’t think it would be hard to bridge.

I think the inherent strengths of the great London universities are all essentially on the same page. London universities are closing the gap on Oxford and Cambridge. This is an exciting time for King’s – King’s has a lot of still unrealised potential.

We know that family life is important to you.

Can you tell us a bit about your family?

The eldest of my four children, and my only daughter, is an architect and has lived in London for many years. She specialises in smaller projects, housing etc. My three boys are all in Australia. The youngest is a musician and the other two are in the corporate world. I have three young grandchildren – a granddaughter in London and my other granddaughter and a grandson living in Melbourne, all of whom are toddlers.

Director of Governance & Legal Affairs Management

Alexandra (Xan) Kite has taken over from Peter Garrod as the Director of Governance & Legal Affairs Management.

Xan was previously the Assistant University Secretary at City University. Immediately prior to that, she was Director of Governance & Risk Management at City where she was a key player in governance reform. Xan has wide-ranging experience in both corporate and academic governance and compliance management, including QAA institutional audit. She has held a variety of faculty-based and corporate roles at both City and the University of Ulster and has experience of pan-University systems implementations.

What do you like to do when not at work?

I love the performing arts and music, especially opera – I go whenever I can. I also like chamber music and used to go to the Wigmore Hall regularly and will do so again. I write poetry and my third book has been published recently by Melbourne University Press, a major Australian publisher. My poetry is quite personal – it tends to cover the ebb and flow of everyday life – as well as addressing some of the bigger issues of the day. My books are available on Amazon – everything is available on Amazon! I have some spare copies so I will smuggle a copy into the library.

Who inspires you?

Inspiration is a complex thing. Nelson Mandela was probably the greatest public figure of my adult life. I’ve had a number of mentors in academic life – great Vice-Chancellors from whom I’ve learned a lot and, in everyday life, I’m inspired by the passion and commitment that many good people bring to all aspects of their life. In part this comes from my background as a medical specialist, where I made good friends with many of the people I helped look after.

Director of Students & Education

November saw the appointment of Tessa Harrison, the new Director of Students & Education. Tessa brings a wealth of experience to King’s, having worked in a number of universities. Most recently Tessa was Registrar at Southampton University where she had a wide brief similar in makeup to the Students & Education portfolio, but also including other services such as strategy and planning support.

She is a career higher education professional services manager and has been (honorary) Chair of the Association of University Administrators since 1 August.

Tessa is eager to build on the work that is already taking place to improve student life at King’s and, under her guidance, the already strong team in the Students & Education Directorate will continue to work very closely with Professor Karen O Brien, supporting her to implement our new Education Strategy.

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2014 King’s Awards in pictures

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Professor Til Wykes receives Equality of Opportunity Award PAGE 10

2014 King’s Awards recipients Most Outstanding Contribution to the Student Experience

Research Project of the Year Early Career Researcher

Dr James Bjork Senior Lecturer in Modern European History; Liberal Arts Programme Director, Faculty of Arts & Humanities

Dr Benjamin Bray Clinical Research Fellow, Primary Care & Public Health Services Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine

Daniel Robson Assessments Officer, Student Services, The Dickson Poon School of Law

Excellence in Outreach & Widening Participation

Most Outstanding Contribution to Professional Services

Dr Joanna Cunningham Faculty Resource Manager, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine

Billy Reed Widening Participation Special Projects Officer & Enhanced Support Dentistry, Programme Officer, Widening Participation & Dental Institute Most Outstanding Contribution to Public Engagement

Archives & Special Collections Team Library Services

Most Innovative Teacher

Dr Alice Collier Teaching Fellow, Chemistry, Faculty of Natural & Mathematical Sciences

Media Personality of the Year

Dr Sally Marlow Post-Doctoral Researcher, Addictions, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience

Excellence in Customer Service

Tim Gleeson Fabric Technician, Student Residences, Estates & Facilities College Supervisory Excellence Award

Most Outstanding Collaboration

Angela Parry & the Key Account Managers Director of Clinical Education and the Clinical Account Managers, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery

Dr Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei Reader in Communications and Signal Processing, Alumnus of the Year Department of Informatics, Dr Oliver Johnson Faculty of Natural & Mathematical Sciences Programme Director, King’s Sierra Leone Partnership, King’s Centre for Global Health, Sustainability Award Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine Allison Hunter Technical Manager, Faculty of Life Sciences Helen Hudson Award & Medicine Roland Doven David Martinelli Diversity in the Workplace

Dr Elizabeth Black Lecturer in Computer Science, Department of Informatics, Faculty of Natural & Mathematical Sciences Most Significant Contribution to International Collaboration

Dr Oliver Johnson Programme Director, King’s Sierra Leone Partnership, King’s Centre for Global Health, Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine Research Project of the Year

Professor Louise Arseneault Professor of Developmental Psychology, Medical Research Council Centre for Social Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience

Excellence in Innovation & Impact

Professor Jonathan Corcoran Director, Neuroscience Drug Discovery Unit, Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience Michael Hill-King Director of Partnerships & Consultancy, Research Management & Innovation Directorate Principal’s Award

Dr Trudi Darby Director of Administration Lifetime Achievement Award

Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman Professor of War Studies, Department of War Studies, Social Science & Public Policy

Professor Anatoly Zayats Head of the Experimental Biophysics and Nanotechnology Group, Department of Physics, Faculty of Natural & Mathematical Sciences

Clockwise from top left: Alumnus Ailie Robertson; Kate O’Brien of the Archives and Specials Collection Team, winners of Most Outstanding Contribution to Public Engagement; Dr Trudi Darby winner of the Principal’s Award with Professor Sir Robert Lechler & Professor Evelyn Welch; Roland Doven, winner of the Helen Hudson award with The Rev. John Paul & Laura Yaffee; guests at the award ceremony; Dr Alice Collier winner of Most Innovative Teacher with Professor Sir Robert Lechler & Professor Evelyn Welch, all the 2014 King’s Awards winners; Medical Students Association Musical Theatre performing a piece from West Side Story

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Celebrating success

British Academy honours for King’s academics

Professor Caron receives Distinguished Alumnus Medal Professor David D Caron, Executive Dean of The Dickson Poon School of Law, has been honoured with a Distinguished Alumnus Medal from the Coast Guard Academy Alumni Association.

The Distinguished Alumnus Award is the association’s top award and ‘honours those alumni who have distinguished themselves and have brought exceptionally great honour to the Academy through their outstanding accomplishments and achievements in either military or civilian life; and who serve as outstanding examples of the type of character, courage, leadership, and well-rounded people the Academy seeks to attract.’

Boost to next generation of bioscientists

King’s is part of a consortium that has secured £15m to train the next generation of bioscientists.

30 PhD studentships will be available annually for the next five years in the areas of agriculture and food security, industrial biotechnology and bioenergy, health and other frontier biosciences following a £15m grant from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.

Funding will boost King’s research partnerships across the London-based institutions who will work together to train the students. Many of the students will be co-supervised by scientists from two or more of the partner institutions, including UCL, Queen Mary University of London and Birkbeck College.

Professor Edith Hall has been awarded the Erasmus Medal of the European Academy, the premier honour awarded by the Academia Europaea to those scholars who, in the view of the Academy Council, have maintained the highest level of international scholarship throughout their career and whose works represent a significant contribution to European culture and scientific achievement.

Professor Hall is the first female recipient of the prize, and it is also the first time that it has been awarded to an academic in the field of literature. On winning the prize, Professor Hall said: ‘I have been completely taken aback and deeply honoured to be chosen to receive this exceptional honour. It is particularly pleasing

Professor Jill Maben, OBE

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Francesca Happé, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Director of the MRC Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry (SGDP) Centre at the IoPPN

Commenting on his election he said: ‘I’m both surprised and delighted to have been elected as a fellow of the British Academy. The defence of Britain’s universities has never been more urgently required. I look forward to contributing to that battle.’

Also amongst this year’s Fellows is Francesca Happé, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Director of the Medical Research Council Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at the IoPPN at King’s. Professor Happé’s research focuses on Autism Spectrum Disorders, and studies the neuro-cognitive basis of typical and atypical social cognition. She is also actively engaged in studies of abilities and assets in people with autism, and their relation to detail-focused perceptual and cognitive style.

As well as cognitive methods, her research involves functional imaging, study of acquired brain lesions, family studies of the broader phenotype and, most recently, behaviour genetic methods. She is currently President of the International Society for Autism Research.

The British Academy, which counts the likes of Karl Popper and CS Lewis among its roll call of past Fellows, aims to recognise, inspire and support high achievement in the humanities and social sciences, and to promote their role and value both in the UK and internationally.

Edith Hall wins the Erasmus Medal

King’s to train next generation of bioscientists

Professor Jill Maben recently received an OBE for services to nursing at an investiture in Buckingham Palace. She undertook nurse training at Addenbrooke’s hospital, Cambridge, gaining an SRN qualification. She was subsequently awarded a BA in History

by University College London, an MSc in Nursing by King’s and a PhD by the University of Southampton. Following a post doctoral fellowship at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Professor Maben joined the National Nursing Research Unit as Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director in April 2007. She was appointed Director in January 2011 and was awarded her personal chair in September 2011.

Professor Maben was recently highlighted as one of the top 100 most influential people in health, according to the Health Service Journal, and was on their inaugural list of ‘Most Inspirational Women in Healthcare 2013’.

Professor Maben is passionate about creating positive practice environments for NHS staff and supporting nurses in the work they do caring for patients.

Two King’s academics have been elected to the British Academy Fellowship in recognition of their distinction in the humanities and social sciences.

Professor Paul Gilroy, Department of English, and Professor Francesca Happé, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) have joined more than 900 scholars as Fellows of the British Academy, the UK’s expert body for humanities & social sciences.

Each year, up to 42 UK-based academics who have achieved acclaim in publication and research activity are elected by their peers to the Fellowship. The rigorous electoral process sees only one or two distinguished scholars elected in most disciplines, despite there being several hundred academics active in each field.

Professor Paul Gilroy’s areas of scholarly interest encompass postcolonial studies, the literature & cultural politics of European decolonisation, African American intellectual history, literature & philosophy and the formation and reproduction of national identity.

Professor Gilroy, who joined the university in 2012, is currently working on projects surrounding the writing of Alain Locke, the cultural significance of aerial bombardment and the autobiographical writing generated by colonial wars.

“” Professor Maben receiving her OBE at Buckingham Palace

We’re enormously proud of Professor Hall – her scholarship is a source of great inspiration to students, scholars and the wider public to be have been nominated by the Literature and Theatre section, proving the continuing importance of the ancient Greeks and Romans in our contemporary culture.’

Russell Goulbourne, Head of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, congratulated Professor Hall: ‘We’re enormously proud of Professor Hall’s remarkable achievement; her scholarship is a source of great inspiration to students, scholars and the wider public, and it is very gratifying for the university as a whole to see that recognised in this award.’

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Aaron and Jojo (mid-1960s) Beryl Bainbridge

Beryl Bainbridge exhibition brings in record numbers Art & Life, the Cultural Institute’s Beryl Bainbridge exhibition, brought nearly 9,000 people into the Inigo Rooms this autumn.

Curated by Dr Susie Christensen from the Department of English, the exhibition used the famous novelist’s lesser known visual art as a starting point for a journey through her creative life.

Former President of Portugal, His Excellency Jorge Fernando Branco de Sampaio, and Nobel Prizewinner and King’s alumnus Professor Michael Levitt were among distinguished recipients of honorary doctorates of King’s College London. Held in the Chapel at King’s Strand Campus, Professor Ed Byrne AC conferred honorary doctorates of King’s on six recipients who have made outstanding contributions to their field, representing a broad range of international distinction. The recipients were His Excellency Jorge Fernando Branco de Sampaio; Professor Sir Christopher Bayly FBA FRSL; Dr Navi Pillay; Dr Paul B Rothman; Professor Michael Levitt FRS; and Professor Timothy Mitchison FRS.

Peerage for Professor Wolf

CBE for Professor Lievesley Denise Lievesley, Professor of Statistics and Executive Dean of Social Science & Public Policy (SSPP), has received a CBE for her services to Social Science.

A statistician by background, Professor Lievesley is a Past President of both the Royal Statistical Society and the International Statistical Institute. She has just completed a five year term as chair of the European Statistical Advisory Committee. She joined King’s in 2008, having worked in Addis Ababa as a Special Advisor to the UN’s Economic Commission for Africa.

During her tenure at King’s, SSPP has grown significantly both in student numbers and in staff. Professor Lievesley has overseen the creation of the King’s Policy Institute and two new departments – the Department of Political Economy and the Department of Social Science, Health & Medicine.

Professor Lievesley has overseen the creation of the King’s Policy Institute, the Department of Political Economy and the Department of Social Science, Health & Medicine

Professor Alison Wolf has been made a Cross Bench Peer by The Queen. Individuals for life peerages are nominated personally by the Prime Minister, directly to Her Majesty and the number of appointments covered under this arrangement is a maximum of 10 in any one Parliament. Baroness Wolf is the Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management at King’s. She is an expert on vocational education and training and on the relationship between education, gender and the labour market, and has a particular interest in training and skills policy, universities and the medical workforce.

Professor Wolf is highly involved in policy debate, both in this country and more widely.

She has been a specialist adviser to the House of Commons select committee on education and skills; writes widely for the national press and is a presenter for Analysis on BBC Radio 4.

In March 2011 she completed the Wolf Review of Vocational Education for the Secretary of State for Education.

Professor Wolf has been an adviser to, among others, the OECD, the Royal College of Surgeons, the Ministries of Education of New Zealand, France and South Africa, the European Commission, the International Accounting Education Standards Board and the Bar Council. She was educated at the universities of Oxford (MA, MPhil) and Neuchatel; began her career in the United States working as a policy analyst for the federal government and spent many years at the Institute of Education, University of London, where she is a visiting professor. Professor Wolf was awarded the CBE for services to education in the Queen’s 2012 birthday honours.

Alison Wolf is highly involved in policy debate, both in this country and more widely

In March 2011 she completed the Wolf Review of Vocational Education for the Secretary of State for Education

President & Principal made honorary citizen of China province The President & Principal Professor Ed Byrne has been made an honorary citizen of Jiangsu Province, China, for his collaborative work with the university there. Professor Byrne was given the title at a ceremony in September in recognition of the relationship building between Monash University, Australia, which he headed before joining King’s this year, and Southeast University, Jiangsu.

He was key in establishing innovative programmes including in information technology, international business, biomedicine, environmental science, transportation, engineering and design at Monash’s Suzhou Campus with a Joint Graduate School and a Joint Research Institute with masters and PhD courses. It was Australia’s first approved campus in China.

Yi Hong, Professor and President of Southeast University (SEU) said: ‘Your great support for the collaboration between Monash University and Southeast University, not only in Suzhou but also in many other areas, has greatly contributed to the development of SEU and Jiangsu Province. Our joint effort is a symbol of your dedication to our two universities.

I sincerely hope that by carrying on our legacy of the past we can continue our co-operation in the future. Southeast University is more than pleased to establish collaboration with King’s College London in areas of mutual strength.’

Jiangsu Province is one of the largest and most developed in China with an 80 million population. The Suzhou Campus is situated on the Suzhou Industrial Park, one of the largest innovation and industry hubs in China with more than 100 Fortune 500 companies and 15 international universities and research institutes.

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Celebrating success

Knighthood for Richard Sorabji Professor Sir Richard Sorabji, CBE, was knighted for his services to Philosophical Scholarship in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Professor Sorabji is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at King’s and is a Fellow of both the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He spent 30 years at King’s from 1970 to 2000 and was Professor of Ancient Philosophy from 1981. Former Principal, Professor Sir Rick Trainor, said: ‘Richard Sorabji’s knighthood appropriately recognises his massive and very influential contribution to philosophical scholarship.’

Sorabji spent 30 years at King’s from 1970– 2000

King’s nurses honoured at awards More than 1,100 nursing professionals gathered at the Grosvenor House Hotel in October, to hear which initiatives had most inspired the nursing community over the last year. They were also keen to see who would walk away with a Nursing Times Award.

Nurses from Guy’s and St Thomas’ who developed a ‘passport’ for asthma patients and a telephone assessment clinic for patients with suspected bowel cancer were winners at the prestigious awards ceremony. These national awards ‘showcase the superb innovations that are shaping and improving nurse-led care in the NHS and independent healthcare providers’.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ nurses were also shortlisted in three other individual categories – Clinical Research Nursing, Enhancing Patient Dignity, and Infection Prevention – and they were alsos shortlisted twice for the Team of the Year award.

Clinical nurse specialist Karen Newell and colleagues won the Respiratory Nursing category for developing a special passport that helps asthma patients seek medical help should they have an attack. The passport provides clinical staff with the appropriate information to deal with a patient.

Colorectal consultant nurse Harriet Watson won the Cancer Nursing category for launching a telephone assessment clinic for patients with suspected bowel cancer. The clinic achieves early diagnosis of bowel cancer, improving the chance of survival and quality of life.

Isabella Liu, a current student in Arts & Cultural Management, was awarded first place as a student group finalist at the ENJOIA’T Contemporary Jewellery Award in Barcelona in October. ENJOIA’T is one of the most important prize awards for contemporary jewellery-making in South Europe, rewarding outstanding work in the field of jewellery-making from both professionals and students.

Professor Til Wykes receives Equality of Opportunity Award

Roderick Beaton wins the Runciman Award 2014 Professor Roderick Beaton of King’s Centre for Hellenic Studies has won the Runciman Award 2014 with his book Byron’s War: Romantic Rebellion, Greek Revolution. The Chairman of the panel of judges, Dr Angeliki Lymberopoulou, congratulated the author by saying ‘In this book Beaton presents an iconic figure of the nineteeth-century Greek War of Independence, a Grecophile who has often been assigned saintly status in Greek school books for his role in the Greek revolution. For people like me, familiar with Lord Byron’s radiant status within my culture, reading the book was an eye-opener.’

The Runciman Award, named in honour of the late Sir Steven Runciman, is awarded to a book about Greece or some aspect of the Hellenic scene. The aim of the award, first presented in 1986, is to stimulate interest in Greek history and culture from the earliest times to the present; to reward and encourage good and accessible writing and to promote wider knowledge and understanding of Greece’s contribution to civilisation and values. Books published in English anywhere in the world are eligible for the Award. This year more than 40 books were submitted for the £9,000 prize.

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Professor Beaton’s award winning book, Byron’s War: Romantic Rebellion, Greek Revolution

Professor Til Wykes, Vice-Dean of Psychology & Systems Sciences and Professor of Clinical Psychology & Rehabilitation at King’s Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), has been awarded the British Psychological Society (BPS)’s Award for Promoting Equality of Opportunity.

The British Psychological Society is the representative body for psychology and

The BPS Ethics Committee selected Professor Wykes for the award in recognition of her work in championing the active role of mental health service users in research

psychologists in the UK. It is responsible for the development, promotion and application of psychology for the public good. The award recognises a psychologist who has made a significant contribution to challenging social inequalities in the UK in relation to gender, race, ethnic origin, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, disability or age.

The BPS Ethics Committee selected Professor Wykes for this award in recognition of her work in championing the active role of mental health service users in research.

Throughout Professor Wykes’ career she has sought to involve mental health service users as active members of research – not just as research participants or consumers. In 2001, Professor Wykes established the Service User Research Enterprise (SURE) at King’s. SURE undertakes research to test the effectiveness of services and treatments from the perspective of people with mental health problems and their carers. It aims to involve service users in a collaborative way in the whole research process: from design to data collection, through to data analysis and dissemination of results.

As well as establishing SURE, she sought to increase the representation of service users on the board of, and to change the focus of the published research in, the Journal of Mental Health while she was editor of the journal. These changes were echoed in the journal’s author guidance which encouraged service users as contributing authors.

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Media watch

Flashback

How to eat cakes and stay slim: Mary Berry’s sound advice

British jihadists: How Britain became the Yemen of the West

Despite the Great British Bake Off not being known for its dietary advice, experts have praised Mary Berry’s approach to staying slim.

Professor Tom Sanders, Diabetes & Nutritional Sciences, was quoted by the Times saying: ‘She cooks these cakes with everything we think is awful – sugar, saturated fat and cream – but she said “I only eat a little bit of it”, and I think that is the key to it.’

Experts from the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation have been quoted widely on the advance of Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. Following the beheading of American journalist James Foley, Shiraz Maher, Professor Peter Neumann, Alexander Hitchens and Joe Carter were interviewed by national and international media including the Daily Telegraph, BBC Radio 4, Guardian, Bloomberg News, Folha de São Paulo (Brazil), Economic Times (India) and CNN. Mr Maher and Professor Neumann co-authored an article for the Independent on British fighters returning home, writing: ‘There must be a strong punitive approach, involving arrest and prosecution.’

Why Romans had teeth to smile about

We are staying together: So what does it mean to be British now?

Professor Vernon Bogdanor, Institute of Contemporary British History, reflected on the consequences of the Scottish referendum. He told the Sunday Telegraph: ‘This referendum has probably reawakened the slumbering beast of English nationalism.’ Professor Bogdanor was also interviewed by Independent on Sunday, BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 4, and has written pieces for the Times and Guardian.

A study by King’s has revealed that 21stcentury Britons are more likely to harbour gum disease than the Romans, despite our access to modern dentistry. Among the 300 Roman Briton skulls studied, between five per cent and 10 per cent had periodontitis, a common form of gum disease, compared with about 15 per cent to 30 per cent today. Professor Francis Hughes was quoted by national media including the Times, Telegraph, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, BBC News, Press Association, BBC Radio 4 Today and BBC Radio 5 Live.

Detail from King George’s Hospital, Stamford Street, SE : the largest ward (71 beds) by J Hodgson Lobley, 1918. © IWM (Art.IWM ART 3821). The shape of the beams is still recognisable in many parts of the Franklin-Wilkins Building.

Franklin-Wilkins Building: a look back into its past

Lives could be saved with e-cigarettes, say experts

Researchers have said that more than 6,000 early deaths could be prevented in the UK for every million smokers that switch to them. Professor Ann McNeill, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, told BBC Breakfast: ‘What we do know is that e-cigarettes are much less harmful than cigarette smoking. Cigarette smoking is so dangerous that the single best thing that a smoker can do is to stop smoking as quickly as possible.

Met Office spends £100m on new supercomputer

The Met Office is spending almost £100m on a new supercomputer which should make their weather forecasts some of the most accurate in the world. Professor Mike Hulme, Geography, was interviewed on the potential of the new piece of equipment on BBC News Channel and said: ‘It is a lot of money, but the belief is that the improvement in weather forecasts would justify such expenditure.’

We must not whitewash the First World War

The intelligence test for your four-year-old?

It’s child’s play

Research has suggested that a four-yearold’s ability to draw a picture of a child can predict intelligence 10 years later. Dr Rosalind Arden, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, was quoted by the Times saying: ‘The draw-a-child test was devised in the 1920s to assess children’s intelligence, so the fact that the test correlated with intelligence at age four was expected. What surprised us was that it correlated with intelligence a decade later.’

The story was also reported in the Daily Mail, Independent, Daily Mirror, BBC Brasil, Times of India, Economic Times, Huffington Post, BBC World Service, BBC Radio 5 Live, UOL (Brazil), and Sky News.

Dr Santanu Das, Reader in English Literature, was quoted by the Guardian on how the prevalent Eurocentric view of the First World War ignores the four million men from Africa and Asia who fought on the side of Europe and the US during the conflict. Dr Das said: ‘The recent global turn in First World War studies and commemorative events is partly propelled

by Europe’s changing image of itself: we live in multicultural societies.’

One of London’s largest university buildings and completely refurbished in 2000, the Franklin-Wilkins Building also served as Britain’s largest military hospital during WWI, reveals Dr Christine Kenyon Jones The King George Military V Hospital was an emergency Red Cross facility created in what is now the Franklin-Wilkins Building of King’s at Waterloo. Over 70,000 military personnel were treated there between 1915 and 1919, including many plastic surgery cases.

Built as Cornwall House between 1912 and 1915 for His Majesty’s Stationery Office (HMSO), to house Government official publications, the building was ideal for conversion to a hospital because of its revolutionary fireproof iron and concrete construction, its 10 large elevators, its central heating system and its loading platforms of the right height and position to receive stretchers from ambulances.

It was also only a stone’s throw from Waterloo station, which served the south coast. There were tunnels between the station and the hospital which enabled badly wounded men to be conveyed to the Hospital out of sight of the public.

At its busiest, the Hospital accommodated some 1,900 patients, and around 4,000 staff, including 149 clinicians, and was said to be the largest hospital in Britain. It provided the best – often pioneering – medical care, and excellent modern facilities, and the death rate was relatively low, with loss of only about 1.5 per cent of the patients.

There were 63 wards; operating theatres for septic and aseptic cases; a ‘magnificent’ x-ray department in the basement; a chapel; huge kitchens; a barracks for 200 orderlies and even a ‘cinematograph’. Nurses and officers were

accommodated in what is now the Waterloo Bridge Wing. On the roof was a one-and-a-half acre garden, and revolving summerhouses which could be turned to catch the sun.

There were many gifts and visits from the King and Queen, and performing artists such as Henry Irving, Ivor Novello and Clara Butt gave readings and concerts.

After the hospital closed in 1919 the building reverted to HMSO use. But there are rumours that some outpost of the secret services may have been based there, and that ‘The Man Who Never Was’ – the exhumed corpse that was used to mislead the Germans over the invasion of Sicily – began his journey to the sea from a fridge in Cornwall House. The Office of the Government Chemist also had a floor there for some time.

King’s acquired the building in the late 1980s, and the ‘Cornwall House Annex’ – now Waterloo Bridge Wing – was converted for use by the School of Education and the Department of Nursing Studies, while other administrative offices moved into the main part of the building soon afterwards. In the late 1990s the main building was totally refurbished, re-opening in September 1999 with state-of-the art facilities to house staff and students who mainly came from the university’s former sites in Kensington and Chelsea.

It was renamed the Franklin-Wilkins Building after two of the King’s scientists who played a major part in the discovery of the structure of DNA, and it is thought to be the largest university building in London.

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Books

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Cyber Policy in China

Global Mental Health Trials

Dr Greg Austin, Department of War Studies

Professor Graham Thornicroft, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience

‘A comprehensive examination of China’s evolving approach to the increasingly important cyber world. Austin focuses on Chinese cyber policies and views in three critical areas: domestic politics, economics, and national security.

He concludes that while China is well positioned to become a major advanced information society, it will fail to reap the benefits of such a development if it remains locked in its current ‘ethical dead end’.

This is an essential read for anyone interested in the impact of China’s rise on a key global issue.’

Wiley

‘Mental health is a dynamic field of global health; a core aspect of the story which has led to its emergence has been the conduct of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) evaluating innovative delivery systems of packages of care for mental disorders in low-resource settings.

This book serves as a valuable resource for practitioners in mental health as well as researchers in the areas of psycho-social treatments in mental health, mental health services research, and programme and systems evaluation.’

Oxford University Press

Binding, Transport and Storage of Metal Ions in Biological Cells

Harold Garfinkel. The Creation and Development of Ethnomethodology

Wolfgang Maret PhD, Department of Nutrition & Dietetics

Dr Dirk Vom Lehn, Department of Management

‘The chemistry of metals is associated with many health matters, from its role in diseases such as eurodegeneration, cancer and diabetes and the toxicological effects of non-essential metal ions such as cadmium and arsenic, to its uses in therapeutic and diagnostic applications. This book focuses on the molecular aspects of the ingress, transport, regulation and egress of both essential and nonessential metal ions, emphasising that chemistry controls the crucial nutrient and toxicological properties.’

Gareth Books

‘This book is a biography of Harold Garfinkel, a key figure in 20th-century social science.

The book looks at Harold Garfinkel’s development of how he used everyday conversation to construct his view of the world since the 1940s. This introduction to Garfinkel explores how he developed under the influence of Talcott Parsons and Alfred Schutz and looks at its important influence on recent developments, particularly the sociology of science and technology, gender and organisation studies, as well as computer sciences.’

Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press

Saving the City: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 Professor Richard Roberts, Institute of Contemporary British History In London, the world’s foremost financial centre, the week before the outbreak of the First World War saw the breakdown of the markets, culminating with the closure for the first time ever of the London Stock Exchange on Friday 31 July. Outside the Bank of England a long anxious queue waited to change bank notes for gold sovereigns. Bankers believed that a run on the banks was underway, threatening the collapse of the banking system – all with the nation on the eve of war.

This book tells the extraordinary, and largely unknown, story of this acute financial crisis that surged over London and around the globe. Drawing on diaries, letters, and memoirs of participants and a wide range of press coverage, as well as government and bank archives, it presents a lively and colourful account of a remarkable episode in financial and social history, outlining the

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This was the first true global financial crisis, and proved a landmark in the management of financial crises

From the Bench, to the Bedside, to Track and Field: the context of enhancement and its ethical relevance

Dr Silvia Camporesi, Department of Social Science, Health & Medicine ‘This book represents a unique contribution to the debate on enhancement technologies as it spans from the bench of molecular biology where the technologies are being developed, to the bedside of a clinical trial where they are used for selective reproduction or for firstin-human gene therapy studies, to the track & field where they are being applied to enhance human athletic performance.’

University of California Medical Humanities Press

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ABC of Domestic and Sexual Violence

Magna Carta Uncovered

Professor Susan Bewley, Division of Women’s Health

Rt Honourable Lord Judge, The Dickson Poon School of Law and Anthony Arlidge QC

‘ABC of Domestic and Sexual Violence is a practical guide for all health care professionals who are looking after abused individuals (whether knowingly or not) and who wish to learn more in order to help their patients. It employs a positive and hands-on approach, emphasising simple history taking skills and clinical ‘tips’ and pitfalls to help demystify what is often considered a sensitive or difficult subject area.’

Wiley

‘2015 marks the 800th anniversary of the grant at Runnymede of Magna Carta. The story of how Magna Carta came into being, how it has been interpreted since, and its impact on individual rights and constitutional developments has more twists and turns than any work of historical fiction.

The authors bring their wide legal experience and forensic skills to uncover the original meaning of the liberties enshrined in Magna Carta.’

Hart Publishing, Oxford

Advanced Nutrition and Dietetics in Gastroenterology

Editor: Dr Miranda Lomer, Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s College London Series Editor: Professor Kevin Whelan, Diabetes & Nutritional Sciences Division ‘The first book in a series providing a comprehensive and critical review of the key literature for health professionals involved in the management or research of patients with gastrointestinal disorders.

It provides a cutting edge review of evidence-based research relating to the basic and applied aspects of diet and nutrition in gastrointestinal health and extensive focus on diet in the causation and treatment of GI disease.’

Wiley

drama of the collapse and the measures taken to contain it. This crucial and compelling ‘missing piece’ in the world’s financial development was the first true global financial crisis, and proved a landmark in the management of financial crises.

Saving the City: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 was written by leading financial historian, Richard Roberts, using extensive contemporary records and material. It is a compelling account of the little known aspect of the crisis leading to the First World War. The book compares the first major global financial crisis with current events and has won the 2014 Spear’s Award. The Spear’s Book Awards celebrates the very best writing talent and British books of the year in Wealth Management, Business & Culture.

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