Nick Wood
King’s has four Thames-side campuses within a single square mile in the heart of London, together with a major presence at Denmark Hill, South London
King’s has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries, and some 6,800 staff
King’s College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and one of England’s oldest. Located in the heart of London, it has an outstanding reputation for world-class research and teaching and is rated one of the world’s 20 most international and outwardlooking universities (Times Higher 2016). It was sixth nationally in the ‘power’ ranking of the 2014 UK Research Excellence Framework (REF), and is among the top seven UK universities for research earnings (£193 million in 2014–15), with an overall annual income of more than £684 million. 1
KING’S IN BRIEF
Founded in 1829, King’s is recognised today as a world-leading university, dedicated to the advancement of knowledge, learning and understanding in the service of society. It is the hub of a global network of strong academic connections and collaboration, with prestigious international partnerships within and across disciplines – scientific and medical, social and creative. King’s was established by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829 and has grown substantially in the last three decades through 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). King’s has a particularly high reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and in social sciences including international affairs. It is one of the most successful higher education institutions in attracting funding from the National Institute for Health Research, with four Medical Research Council Centres. King’s became one of the two founding colleges of the University of London in 1836. It has enjoyed financial and academic autonomy since 1994, and since 2008 has awarded its own degrees.
Nick Wood
The Maughan Library, Chancery Lane, Strand Campus
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Dedicated to the advancement of knowledge, learning and understanding in the service of society 3
KING’S FUTURES & OUR VISION TO 2029
John Wildgoose
Guy’s Campus
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Over the past 10 years King’s has become one of the world’s leading universities for both education and research. Looking ahead at a world that depends on being better connected, King’s already has the advantage of academic disciplines that connect across different cultures, subjects, institutions and geographies, and a location at the centre of London, a truly international city which gives us close connections to knowledge and influence that enrich university life in practical and inspiring ways. King’s Futures is helping us to build on these strengths and continue to grow in scale and scope while maintaining the highest quality of education and research. We are growing our Business School with a distinctive vision: capitalising on greater links both with other faculties of King’s and with the business world. We are deepening our teaching and research expertise in cutting-edge science and technology for the 21st century. King’s Online is bringing a King’s education to greater numbers of the best students worldwide through distance education. We are refining our focus on research and innovation across all our disciplines and reaching further across the globe to attract the best academics, students and educational partners. This focus on King’s Futures strategic initiatives, combined with our underlying institutional goals, provides the backbone for a new strategic vision that will take the university through to 2029: the bicentenary of King’s foundation. Throughout 2016 we are refining and developing this vision: defining King’s role in helping to understand and overcome some of the world’s great challenges. 5
BUSH HOUSE & THE STRAND
King’s uses its location to build and consolidate partnerships with key cultural, political, professional and business communities in the capital 6
Nick Wood
Opening from late 2016, the iconic Bush House buildings (formerly the home of the BBC World Service) will provide modern and purpose-designed environments for our growing community of students and staff, reflecting King’s standing as a world-class university. Combined with planned developments across the Strand Campus, this will lead to a unified and dynamic academic environment in the heart of London. With state-of-the-art formal and informal spaces where collaboration, learning and research are supported by inspiring surroundings, we aim to foster communities and draw in the outside world. The new environment will stimulate academic endeavour, encourage collaboration and engage the public with the work of the university. It will provide King’s with the kind of quality facilities that it will need for generations to come.
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King’s alumnus Professor Peter Higgs jointly received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013 for the discovery of the mechanism of the Higgs boson
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Atlas experiment © 2008 CERN. Claudia Marcelloni
A TRADITION OF EXCELLENCE
King’s 200 years of heritage have helped to create today’s world-leading university, and great names from King’s are continuing to change the world. King’s famous 19th century innovators include Sir Charles Lyell, founder of modern geology; Sir Charles Wheatstone, pioneer of wireless 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. In the 20th and 21st centuries King’s has played a major role in advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and the development of radio, television and mobile phones. 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. Among current notable alumni are Nobel Peace laureate Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu; Dr Katherine Grainger CBE, Olympic gold medallist; Dr Oliver Johnston OBE, Programme Director of the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership; Harriet Green OBE, Veuve Clicquot Businesswoman of the year 2014; Robin Knight, co-founder and Director of IN-PART; Cosima Gretton, doctor, digital health consultant and entrepreneur; Chris Sheldrick, founder and CEO of what3words; satirist Rory Bremner, and many members of the House of Commons, House of Lords and of the Judiciary. 9
King’s outstanding tradition of producing creative writers numbers Romantic poet John Keats (once a medical student at Guy’s), WS Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, Sir Arthur C Clarke, Derek Jarman, Susan Hill, Michael Morpurgo and Hanif Kureishi. Nobel laureates
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Dr Katherine Grainger CBE, the Olympic gold-medal winning rower, took her PhD in Law at King’s.
Nightingale photograph: King's College London Archives
Florence Nightingale founded the world’s first professional school of nursing at St Thomas’ Hospital.
Julian Anderson
Twelve Nobel Prizes are associated with King’s and its constituent institutions, including those awarded in 2013 to Professor Michael Levitt, for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems, and to Professor Peter Higgs for the discovery of the Higgs boson. Other King’s Nobel laureates are writer Mario Vargas Llosa; Professor Sir James Black, inventor of beta blockers and anti-ulcer drugs, and Professor Maurice Wilkins who, with Dr Rosalind Franklin and other King’s colleagues, played a major part in the discovery of the structure of DNA.
KING’S HEALTH PARTNERS
In partnership with the leading NHS Foundation Trusts of Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital and the South London and Maudsley, King’s College London is part of King’s Health Partners, Europe’s largest Academic Health Sciences Centre, whose purpose is to translate cuttingedge research into excellent patient care through world-class education and training: see www.kingshealthpartners.org. King’s is also a founder member of the Francis Crick Institute, a biomedical discovery institute bringing together six of the UK’s most successful scientific and academic organisations. 11
KING’S FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN
The university’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise.Philanthropic support has enabled significant advances over several years, including funding new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; establishing the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; building a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital which will give patients more opportunity to take part in the latest clinical trials; allowing unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments to patients affected by conditions such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; creating the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and providing timely support to the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in their crucial work to curb the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. Thanks to the continued support of our community of donors, alumni and friends, King’s can continue to realise work that has global significance and impacts on countless lives. For more information about the campaign please visit: www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers
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Jim Winslet
Philanthropic support has enabled significant advances
The newly opened Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute
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King’s is a world-leading institution with a truly global perspective. Some 10,000 international students from some 150 countries make up King’s vibrant student community with 1,470 academic and research staff from outside the UK, representing 40 per cent of the total. More than 49,000 eminent international alumni spread across 174 countries, including the US, Germany, France, China, Hong Kong SAR, Singapore, Canada and Malaysia, form an influential and supportive network of King’s mentors and ambassadors. King’s engages with the places, ideas and people that shape the world. Our global institutes, including the Brazil Institute, Lau China Institute, India Institute, Institute for Middle Eastern Studies, African Leadership Centre and International Development Institute, promote understanding of rapidly-changing parts of the globe through their research and teaching. The Centre for Global Health works with local partners to address pressing international issues including cancer, palliative care, mental health and women’s health, and is helping developing countries improve their healthcare systems. In 2015, King’s Sierra Leone Partnership won numerous international awards for its pioneering work building capacity and tackling Ebola in West Africa. With more than 350 partnerships and innovative alliances with world-class institutions, King’s researchers collaborate on projects that have a tangible, positive impact on the world. King’s has key partnerships with organisations in numerous regions including the USA, China, Australia, Mexico, Singapore and countries throughout Europe. 14
Simon de Trey-White
A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
King’s Professional & Executive Development delivers professional training to international governments, influential companies and future leaders, working with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Roche and Chinese Health Trusts among others. Offices in Brazil, China, India and the USA complete King’s global network, building relationships with local research, commercial, alumni and student communities. King’s empowers students to become global citizens. In 2015, King’s gave some 1,400 of its students the opportunity to go abroad as part of their degree, and it currently offers joint PhD programmes in more than 20 academic departments. King’s London summer programmes attract young people from over 70 countries wanting to expand their knowledge at a prestigious university, while programmes in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore have welcomed over 2,000 students seeking a different insight into healthcare, international relations, management and more. 15
Senior officers of King’s
Professor Edward Byrne AC, President & Principal
at January 2016
Chairman of Council
The Duke of Wellington MA OBE DL* President & Principal
Professor Edward Byrne AC MBBS MD DSc MBA FRACP FRCP FRCPE FAAN FTSE FAHMS (hon)
Vice-Principals
Health: Professor Sir Robert Lechler KBE PhD FRCP FRCPath PMedSci FKC (and Executive Director of King’s Health Partners) Research and Innovation: Mr Chris Mottershead BSc MSc International: Dr Joanna Newman MBE BA MA PhD FRSA Education: Professor Karen O’Brien MA DPhil FRSA Arts and Sciences: Professor Evelyn Welch MBE BA PhD FRHS FRSA
Assistant Principals
Culture and Engagement: Miss Deborah Bull CBE Strategy: Professor Jonathan Grant PhD Academic Performance: Professor Shitij Kapur MBBS PhD PMedSci Research and Innovation: Professor Reza Razavi MBBS MD FRCP FRCPCH FRCR
Head of Administration & College Secretary
Mr Ian Creagh BA Dip Ed MA FKC Dean of the College David Tett
The Revd Canon Professor Richard Burridge MA PhD FKC
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*Chairman from 1 August 2016: Sir Christopher Geidt KCB KCVO OBE 17
Student numbers By faculty and level of study Faculty
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al
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%
Arts & Humanities Strand Campus
3,792
1,072
525
5,389
20%
Dental Institute Guy’s, Strand, Denmark Hill, Waterloo, St Thomas’
754
415
112
1,281
5%
English Language Centre Strand Campus
37
0
0
37
0%
King’s Learning Institute
0
291
4
295
1%
The Dickson Poon School of Law Strand Campus
937
927
56
1,920
7%
Life Sciences & Medicine Guy’s, St Thomas’, Denmark Hill, Waterloo
4,390
1,065
604
6,059
22%
Natural & Mathematical Sciences Strand Campus
1,843
353
252
2,448
9%
Nursing & Midwifery Waterloo Campus
1,980
637
57
2,674
10%
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience Denmark Hill Campus
202
794
438
1,434
5%
Social Science & Public Policy 2,675 Waterloo, Strand
2,235
602
5,512
20%
Incoming Study Abroad Students* Strand, Waterloo
55
0
580
2%
525
Total postgraduates Grand total
18
10,494 17,135
7,844
2,650
27,629
Incoming Study Abroad Students
ar
e es
100%
Arts & Humanities
Social Science & Public Policy
Dental Institute
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
King’s Learning Institute The Dickson Poon School of Law
Nursing & Midwifery Natural & Mathematical Sciences
Life Sciences & Medicine
* The full-year enrolment for Incoming Study Abroad Students in 2015–16 is 930
Student numbers by gender Female
Male
Gender
UG
PGT
PGR
Total
%
Female
10,782
4,925
1,424
17,131
62%
Male
6,347
2,912
1,223
10,482
38%
Undisclosed
6
7
3
16
0%
Grand total
17,135
7,844
2,650
27,629
100%
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Student numbers by age at start of programme 2015–16
Students’ country of domicile 2015–16 King’s has a strong international community including students from some 150 countries worldwide.
+ 50 49
– 40 31–39
21–29
Age
–20
Other international
European union
UK
Age
UG
PGT
PGR
Total
%
20 and under
12,878
62
0
12,940
47%
21–29
3,372
5,314
1,620
10,306
37%
Domicile
UG
PGT
PGR
Total
%
30–39
519
1,592
725
2,836
10%
United Kingdom
11,703
4,524
1,513
17,740
64%
40–49
253
599
194
1,046
4%
European Union
2,302
1,107
484
3,893
14%
50 and over
80
277
111
468
2%
Other international
3,120
2,201
653
5,974
22%
Undisclosed
33
0
0
33
0%
Undisclosed
10
12
0
22
0%
Grand total
17,135
7,844
2,650
27,629
100%
Grand total
17,135
7,844
2,650
27,629
100%
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Members of staff
Finances
On January 1st 2016 Excluding senior students, dormant, honorary and occasional staff.
Consolidated income & expenditure account For the year ended 31 July 2015.
Faculty
Arts & Humanities
Academic & Research Staff
Other Staff
Number of Employees
360
315
675
Dental Institute
288
90
378
The Dickson Poon School of Law
84
64
148
Life Sciences & Medicine
1252
619
1871
Income
£000
Funding body grants
112,665
Tuition fees and education contracts
236,183
Research grants and contracts
210,782
Other operating income
119,425
Endowment and investment income
5,170
Total income
684,225
Expenditure Natural & Mathematical Sciences
218
102
320
Nursing & Midwifery
122
68
190
Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
843
270
1113
Social Science & Public Policy
415
193
608
Staff costs
380,816
Other operating expenses
217,837
Depreciation
28,942
Interest payable
12,854
Total expenditure
640,449
Surplus on ordinary activities
43,776
Taxation
4,181
Surplus on ordinary activities after taxation
39,595 17,573 57,168
Professional Services
33
1443
1476
Surplus on property transactions
Grand total
3615
3164
6779
Surplus after depreciation of assets at cost and tax
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AT THE HEART OF LONDON
King’s has four Thames-side campuses within a single square mile in the heart of London, together with a major presence at Denmark Hill in South London in the form of the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN), and biomedical research and teaching at King’s College Hospital. King’s uses its location to build and consolidate partnerships with key cultural, political, professional and business communities in the capital. The Cultural Institute at King’s connects the university with practitioners, producers, policy makers and participants across arts and culture, in London and beyond, creating space where conventions are challenged and original perspectives emerge. King’s central London location and its wide network of connections attract many eminent visitors and speakers. Visitors in 2015 included HRH The Duke of Cambridge; HRH The Princess Royal; the Director-General of the BBC, Lord Hall of Birkenhead; broadcasters Sir David Attenborough and Bear Grylls; former Prime Minister Tony Blair; writer Hanif Kureishi; artist Maggi Hambling; actress Nicole Kidman; former NBA basketball star and conservationist Yao Ming; the Ambassador of Brazil to the UK, Roberto Jaguaribe; the UK’s Chief Medical Officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies; the Dean of St Paul’s, the Very Revd Dr David Ison; Director-General of the CBI, John Cridland; Nobel Prizewinner Professor Roger Tsien, and business leaders including James Caan, founder and CEO of Hamilton Bradshaw; Kevin Roberts, Executive Chairman of Saatchi & Saatchi; Andrew Mackenzie, CEO of BHP Billiton; Debbie Moore OBE, founder of Pineapple Dance Studios, and Brent Hoberman, co-founder of Lastminute.com. 24
Main postal address King’s College London Strand, London WC2R 2LS +44 (0)20 7836 5454 www.kcl.ac.uk Strand Campus Faculties of Arts & Humanities, Natural & Mathematical Sciences, Social Science & Public Policy and The Dickson Poon School of Law Strand, London WC2R 2LS The Maughan Library Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1LR Faculties of Arts & Humanities and Social Science & Public Policy Virginia Woolf Building, 22 Kingsway, London WC2B 6LE Waterloo Campus President & Principal’s Office, Professional Services, and Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery King’s College London, James Clerk Maxwell Building, 57 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8WA Faculties of Life Sciences & Medicine,
Nursing & Midwifery and Social Science & Public Policy (Department of Education & Professional Studies) King’s College London, Franklin-Wilkins Building, Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH Denmark Hill Campus Dental Institute King’s College London, Bessemer Road, London SE5 9RW Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine King’s College London, Weston Education Centre, 10 Cutcombe Road, London SE5 9RJ Guy’s Campus Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine King’s College London, First floor, Hodgkin Building, Guy’s Campus, London SE1 1UL Dental Institute King’s College London,
Central Office, Floor 18, Guy’s Tower, Guy’s Hospital, London SE1 9RT King’s Health Partners Ground Floor, Counting House, Guy’s Hospital, London SE1 9RT St Thomas’ Campus Dental Institute and Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine King’s College London, St Thomas’ Campus, Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7EH Defence Studies Department King’s College London, Joint Services Command and Staff College, Faringdon Road, Shrivenham, Swindon, Wilts SN6 8TS King’s College London Students’ Union Macadam Building, Surrey Street, London WC2R 2NS
For other King’s addresses see www.kcl.ac.uk
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Strand Campus The Maughan Library Guy’s Campus Waterloo Campus St Thomas’ Campus Denmark Hill Campus C B
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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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Denmark Hill Campus lies 2.3 miles due south of the Guy’s Campus E
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