School of Education, Communication and Society at King's

King's-funded multilingual education project pilots in The Gambia | King's College London Dr Clyde Ancarno’s multilingual education initiative, co-developed with Gambian educators and shaped by teacher practice in the classrooms, was received positively by stakeholders in The Gambia.

Dr Clyde Ancarno's multilingual teaching toolkit, which won the 2024 SSPP Impact Award, was recently delivered to trainee teachers in The Gambia. 🔤📚

The toolkit bridges the gap between children's native languages used at home and The Gambia's English-only schooling system.

🔗 bit.ly/41XPvTH

Georgetown University and King’s College London Virtual Symposium Series (Series 1) We warmly invite you to join the inaugural session of the Georgetown University and King’s College London Virtual Symposium Series, jointly led by Dr. Qiwei Britt He (Georgetown University, US) and Dr...

💡 🗣️ Join the Georgetown University and King's College London virtual symposium series starting this Friday!

Advancing Process Data Analysis in Large-Scale Assessments
📅 12 September, 15:00 BST
📍 Online

Register now ⬇️
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🎊 Dr Sharon Gewirtz, Professor of Education, has been appointed on the Education sub-panel for the next Research Excellence Framework (REF).

💼 Recent work by Dr Gewirtz includes her research on the @youngliveskcl.bsky.social project.

Congratulations to Dr Gewirtz on her appointment!

📢 Join Antonia Dawes for a book talk about her new release, England's military heartland, which explores life on the Salisbury Plain and of the communities next to it.

🗓️ 24 September, 7:00pm
📍Housmans Bookshop, Caledonian Road

🎟️ Get your tickets now: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/book-...

Sign up now for our first Faculty alumni pub quiz of the year! 🏆

Alumni teams from @kingsbschool.bsky.social @kcllaw.bsky.social and SSPP will compete against each other at The Vault on Wednesday 3 September. 🤔

🔗 Book your free ticket now: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/busin...

You can now watch the 2025 ECS Annual Lecture on the ECS website.

Last month we invited Prof Emily Shuckburgh of Cambridge Zero to talk on how educators can equip young people with the skills and vigour to take on socioecological challenges.

Watch now ➡️ bit.ly/4mn40sl

Summer school promotes physics amongst young girls Twenty-six students attended a three-day girls optics summer school at King’s College London in July, inspiring the next generation of female physicists.

🔬 Twenty-six students attended a three-day girls optics summer school at King’s College London in July, inspiring the next generation of female physicists.

Read more here ➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/inspiri...

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Graduating at the Royal Festival Hall? Your Alumni Team is looking forward to welcoming all new King’s graduates into our global alumni community of 220,000+ people.

Read more on the free benefits we offer to all our alumni: www.kcl.ac.uk/alumni/forever-kings-edge

#ForeverKings

Don't fear as we can confirm that the 'It's Just Research' Podcast will be back for another season! Stay tuned to find out more.

It's Just Research Podcast, Season 2, Finale: The Thief and the Cash… Dr Panos Theodoropoulos comments on precarity, migration and the politics of labour.

📣 In the season finale of the 'It's Just Research' Podcast, our hosts have an animated discussion with Dr Panos Theodoropoulos and his research into the socialisation of precarity.

Read more and listen to the episode here: www.kcl.ac.uk/its-just-res...

King’s College London has been ranked 31st in the QS World University Rankings 2026.

ECS is proud to have contributed to this growth. King’s is ranked 22nd in the world in Education and Training, 31st in Sociology and Management and 32nd in Social Policy and Administration.

It's Just Research, Season 2 Ep 6: Defending the spirit of youth work In this episode, hosts Sara and Pippa interview Dr Tania de St Croix and Louise Doherty about their research on measuring the impact of youth work.

📢 NEW PODCAST EPISODE 📢

We talk to Dr Tania de St Croix and Louise Doherty about their collaborative research project that sought to address the impact of rising evaluation of youth work and how policy threatens the spirit of youth work.

www.kcl.ac.uk/its-just-res...

2025 ECS Annual Lecture: The science, politics and technologies underpinning the climate crisis by Prof Emily Shuckburgh Save the date for this year's ECS annual lecture which will be delivered by Prof Emily Shuckburgh OBE, Director of Cambridge Zero.

📢 2 WEEKS TO GO!

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

Register now 👇

www.kcl.ac.uk/events/2025-...

Read more about the book and how to purchase here: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

@industrialworker.bsky.social @mmbuob.bsky.social @intrrgum.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social @anilsghost.bsky.social

At the launch we discussed the socialisation of precarity, the 'good worker = good migrant' paradox, and tackled questions such as how we might socialise solidarity.

What was already a topical and essential event was evermore necessary provided the context of the papers.

The launch of The Precarious Migrant Worker coincided with the release of the UK government's white papers on immigration.

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

🧵⬇️

POSTPONED 📣

We've pushed this event to the 11th of June, still at 1pm!

Dr Francesca Meloni wins SLSA Book Prize 2025 Dr Francesa Meloni, Senior Lecturer in Social Justice at the School of Education, Communication and Society, has won the Hart-SLSA Book Prize for Early Career Academics 2025 for her book Ways of Belon...

Dr Francesca Meloni (@francescameloni.bsky.social) has won the Hart-SLSA award for Early Career Academics 2025 for her book Ways of Belonging: Undocumented Youth in the Shadow of Illegality. 🎉

Read more about the award and the book here ➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/dr-fran...

“You laugh at it as a joke, but it’s not funny:” Young People’s Experiences of Colourist Banter This paper explores how young people in the UK use jokes and banter to perpetuate colourism, particularly targeting those with dark and very dark skin.

TOMORROW: “You laugh at it as a joke, but it’s not funny:” Young People’s Experiences of Colourist Banter

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

📆 14 May, 13:00
📍WBW 3/8

www.kcl.ac.uk/events/you-l...

Book launch: The Precarious Migrant Worker, Polity (Glasgow and London) In the desert of neoliberal precarity, how do we struggle? We invite you to the book launches for The Precarious Migrant Worker: The Socialization of Precarity, taking place in Glasgow (9th of May 202...

London, 12th May – don’t miss @ptheodoropoulos.bsky.social’s book launch @kingsecs.bsky.social
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Including Bridget Anderson @mmbuob.bsky.social and Yasmin Gunaratnam @anilsghost.bsky.social @intrrgum.bsky.social

Book launch: "The Precarious Migrant Worker" by Panos Theodoropoulos This new book explores the ways precarity is lived and contested in Glasgow's warehouses, factories and kitchens.

Just days to go until we host the launch of The Precarious Migrant Worker by Panos Theodoropoulos and this is your last chance to register!

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

Register here: bit.ly/43h1TiF

@mmbuob.bsky.social @industrialworker.bsky.social @politybooks.bsky.social

2025 ECS Annual Lecture: The science, politics and technologies underpinning the climate crisis by Prof Emily Shuckburgh Save the date for this year's ECS annual lecture which will be delivered by Prof Emily Shuckburgh OBE, Director of Cambridge Zero.

📢🌍💚 ANNOUNCEMENT 💚🌍📢

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

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

Registrations are now open: bit.ly/3GXIhY3

The making of The Precarious Migrant Worker: an interview with Panos… In the lead up to the publication of his new book, we speak to Panos Theodoropoulos about writing The Precarious Migrant Worker, his mission for the book and his hopes for the book launch.

"This is the insidiousness of capitalism: it imprisons us precisely by relying on our desires to feel free."

Check out our exclusive interview with Panos Theodoropoulos in the lead up to the release of his new book.

www.kcl.ac.uk/the-making-o...

Dr Billy Holzberg wins British Sociological Association's prize for best sole-authored sociology book The Philip Abrams Memorial Prize is awarded for the best sole-authored book in the subject of sociology.

Dr Billy Holzberg's latest book on borders and affect was awarded as the winner of the British Sociological Association's Philip Abrams Memorial Prize for the best sole-authored book in sociology this year!

Read more about the book and this prestigious win ➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/dr-bill...

UNICA EduLAB x King's College London Joint Conference 2025 During this two day conference, we will explore how models of Higher Education travel internationally in terms of governance, funding, knowledge production.

Next month we will be hosting a joint conference with UNICA's EduLAB on 19-20 May at King's.

The conference is titled 'How models of Higher Education travel internationally: governance, funding and knowledge production'.

Find out more and sign up now ➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/unica...

📣 NEW PODCAST EPISODE 📣

How do we deconstruct military identity in the UK psyche? 💭🪖

This is the question that Dr Antonia Dawes interrogates in her research. Listen to the latest episode of the 'It's Just Research' podcast.

➡️ bit.ly/4jPoHLT

📢 This #EarthDay we are pleased to announce that the next ECS Annual Lecture will be delivered by Prof Emily Shuckburgh OBE, Director of
@cambridgezero.bsky.social

🗓️ Save the date for 1 July, 2:30pm

More details to come! 🌎🎓

People and microphones- recording a podcast

Tania and Louise smiling

Young people won't let youth work disappear!

Thanks It's Just Research podcast @kingsecs.bsky.social for inviting me and Louise Doherty to discuss our recent article "Embers, and Fragments: Social Haunting in Youth Work, Impact Measurement and Policy Networks"

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tomorrow's Proudly King's "Lunch 'n' Learn" session will be delivered by ECS Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow Pippa Sterk!

Join online from 12pm. 🌈🎓

📣📣Calling all international students: the application deadline for overseas applicants has been extended to 23 May!