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CommentThe College newsletter Issue no 192 | June 2010 World’s first Institute of Palliative Care

JULIAN ANDERSON

Professor Irene Higginson OBE, Director of the Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, talks to patient Irene Mead.

THE WORLD’S FIRST PURPOSE-BUILT the research and improvement care is given to the dying. It enhancing quality of life for the Institute of Palliative Care at of services into end of life care, will bring together, for the first patient, and on supporting the the Denmark Hill Campus at wherever patients are cared for. time in one building, clinicians, family and those close to them. King’s was opened by The King’s and Cicely Saunders educators and researchers in Palliative care seeks to support Princess Royal, Chancellor of International have combined palliative care, together with and value the whole person, the University of London, on 5 forces to create a world-class facilities for patients and carers. paying careful attention to May. It is the only organisation research and care Institute which Palliative care focuses in the world solely dedicated to will improve the way in which on relieving symptoms and continued on page 2 News

World’s first Institute of Palliative Care

JULIAN ANDERSON Fact file

The building: • was designed by architects Loates-Taylor Shannon and has already won a BREEEM award for its environmental features. • comprises 1,800 sqm of floor space on three floors plus a roof garden. • will house around 100 researchers, academics and clinicians, rising to over 200 with students, patients and carers. • features innovative art works and installations by artists Caroline McCarthy and Tanya Kovats, commissioned by the Contemporary Art Society.

The Princess Royal and Dr Claudia Bausewein, Department of Palliative Care, talk to patient Christine Burchill and her carer Graham Martin. continued from page 1 billion people within 10 years of years ago. Cicely is recognised opening. Our aim is to improve the world over as the founder of physical, emotional, social and the way that dying people are the modern hospice movement. spiritual needs. Its purpose is to cared for and make a decent Our challenge is to ensure that affirm life and to regard dying quality of life attainable, even at we fulfil Cicely’s mission which as a normal process, neither to the end of life.’ in her words is “to ensure that hasten death nor prolong life. The Institute will facilitate patients and families feel they closer co-operation between matter, even at the end of life”.’ academics and clinicians in The cost of the building, £10 Enhance palliative palliative care and related million, has been raised mainly care worldwide and disciplines from a wide range of from philanthropic sources local, national and international through the efforts of King’s and influence the lives of organisations, ensuring academic Cicely Saunders International. one billion people developments in research and Donors include the Wolfson education directly translate to Foundation, the Garfield Weston The Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative clinical care quickly to benefit Foundation and the Dinwoodie Care at the King's Denmark Hill Campus. Irene Higginson, Director of patients and families. It will also (1968) Settlement, who each the Cicely Saunders Institute, provide opportunities to train gave £1 million. Macmillan King’s College Hospital are Professor of Palliative Care healthcare professionals from Cancer Support has given part of King’s Health Partners. and internationally renowned the UK and overseas, thereby £1 million for an information King’s Health Partners Academic expert in the field, explains the increasing the skill base and and support centre within the Health Sciences Centre is a global vision behind the Institute: ‘We disseminating knowledge. building for patients, carers and collaboration between one of will promote collaboration and The Institute embraces the professionals. The Department of the world’s leading research-led integration of research, teaching, objectives and philosophy of Heath has also given £1 million. universities and three of London’s and clinical activities on a scale palliative and hospice care. It Working within the Cicely NHS Foundation Trusts. never before achieved. This has been named in honour of Saunders Institute is the well- Also at the opening a report, will include user involvement to Dame Cicely Saunders. John established multidisciplinary Spiritual care recommendations promote evidence-based practice, McGrath, Chairman of the Board clinical palliative care team at for people from Black and minority and research and teaching driven of Trustees at Cicely Saunders King’s College Hospital NHS ethic groups receiving palliative by the needs of patients, families International, spoke at the Foundation Trust. The team is care in the UK, which includes a and clinical concerns. opening of the Institute, saying: now based within the Institute, forward by Archbishop Tutu, was ‘We will enhance palliative care ‘Today, we are moving a step facilitating improved integration launched. These recommendations worldwide and seek to influence forward in the historic journey with the academic department. aim to fill a crucial gap in current the lives of an estimated one that Dame Cicely started over 60 King’s College London and policy guidance.

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Tutu meets King’s students BRIAN RUSSELL ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU, inactivity’. Instead she followed Nobel Peace Laureate, Fellow what she considered to be her and alumnus, made an address divine calling to be a nurse and to a congregation of 2,000 pioneered their training. nurses, midwives, students and Archbishop Tutu went on to healthcare professionals at a praise the work of nurses calling memorial service at Westminster their work ‘utterly indispensible’. Abbey on 12 May to celebrate Students from the Florence the life and work of Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Nightingale in the centennial year Midwifery, featured heavily in the of her death. service, which was attended by Florence Nightingale opened Professor Anne Marie Rafferty, The Nightingale Training Head of School, and opened School, from which the Florence with a piece composed by John Nightingale School of Nursing & Browne, the School’s composer Midwifery is directly descended, in residence. Nursing students on 9 July 1860 at St Thomas’ met Archbishop Tutu for tea prior Hospital. Archbishop Tutu said: to the service and participated King’s Nursing & Midwifery students meet Archbishop Tutu for tea prior to the service. ‘As a King’s man, I am thrilled in the Procession of the Lamp, and proud that the School she a symbolic part of the service also wore prototype uniforms 21st century nurse and midwife. opened at St Thomas’s Hospital where a replica of the lamp designed as part of a collaboration The chosen designs, by LCF is now part of my alma mater as used by Florence Nightingale with London College of Fashion student Pandora Howard- the Florence Nightingale School in the Crimean War is carried (LCF). The project gave second- Griffin, were then made up as of Nursing & Midwifery.’ by a scholar of the Nightingale year students from the BA a small professionally produced In his address Archbishop Foundation and passed between Fashion Design and Development collection just for the service. Tutu spoke of how Florence nurses to represent the passing of degree at LCF a brief to develop See page 17 for a Focus on the Nightingale ‘bucked the knowledge from nurse to nurse. new design proposals fit for the Florence Nightingale School of system that expected a life of Students from the School challenges and demands of the Nursing & Midwifery.

Principal’s column GREG FUNNELL GREG

Dear colleagues dispute, but there is much distinguished and long-standing professionals and spoke of how Since I last wrote, the country common ground between the friends of the College have met Florence Nightingale ‘bucked has elected a new Government, unions and management with staff and students recently. the system’. As ever, he referred and it remains to be seen when, and I am hopeful that we will be It was a great privilege for in glowing terms to his time how deeply and in which able to face the challenges Professor Irene Higginson and studying at King’s. directions it will cut public of the years ahead in a spirit I to give HRH The Princess Finally, on a very sad note, sector spending. We await with of co-operation. Royal, Chancellor of the along with many colleagues interest the impact of our new We have now completed University of London, a guided and students, I attended the Government and the plans consultation on the plans of tour of the Cicely Saunders memorial service for Haris of David Willetts, the new most of the Schools of the Institute of Palliative Care Ahmed, a medical student Minister of State for Universities College, most recently that which the Chancellor officially whose life was tragically cut and Science. of the School of Arts & opened on 5 May at a ceremony short in a road accident near We are already making tough Humanities. I am very pleased at which the Chairman also Guy’s. He was, by all accounts, decisions in order to protect and that it has successfully made the spoke. A week later, I attended a an exceptional young man enhance the College in the face necessary 10 per cent savings memorial service at Westminster whose sense of decency, service of cutbacks already announced, over two years while avoiding Abbey to celebrate the life and and hard work exemplified the so, along with other Vice- compulsory redundancies. The work of Florence Nightingale in very best virtues that we aspire Chancellors and Principals, I School will continue to be one the centennial year of her death. to as a College. He will be much will be arguing the case for of the most distinguished and Our most eminent alumnus, missed by his fellow students protecting the financial viability largest centres for the humanities Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and teachers. of British universities. in the UK, with over 200 addressed a congregation of As you know we have academic staff. [See page 5.] 2,000 nurses, midwives, Rick Trainor experienced an industrial On another note, two students and healthcare Principal

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Major Leverhulme History grant

BY SPECIAL PERMISSION OF THE CITY OF BAYEUX THE LEVERHULME TRUST HAS AWARDED a large research project grant to King’s, to be led by Dr Stephen Baxter, Reader in Medieval History. The grant is for over £250,000. Dr Chris Lewis, one of the world’s leading authorities on 11th-century England, will be joining the team as will a new post-doctoral research fellow.

‘Domesday Book is the most complete survey of any medieval landed society’

The project will be implemented and published online by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities. The project, Profile of a Doomed Elite: The Structure of English Landed Society in 1066, Detail from the Bayeux Tapestry – 11th century. will use innovative methods for interpreting Domesday Book never been done before, since the blocked: the way pre-Conquest the evidence to be assembled, to survey the whole of English evidence has existed for landholders are recorded creates mapped, and compared landed society on the eve of more than 900 years. Domesday major difficulties in identifying with other sources much the Norman Conquest in 1066, Book is the most complete and distinguishing individuals more efficiently. identifying landowners at all survey of any medieval landed of the same name; gathering, PASE will provide a levels of society from the king society, and provides a unique comparing, and mapping the prosopography – a list of and earls down to the parish opportunity to reconstruct the evidence by hand has been everything known – for every gentry and some prosperous distribution of landed wealth in prohibitively time-consuming; person recorded throughout peasants. 11th-century England. It has and evidence about landholders the entire Anglo-Saxon period Dr Baxter comments: ‘It may been intensively studied, but in other sources (such as from the sixth century to the seem astonishing that this has until now progress has been chronicles and charters) has eleventh. It has been based not been systematically pulled at King’s and the University together.’ of Cambridge, and has been funded by the Arts and Contemporary History Humanities Research Council ‘The prospect of a over eight years in two phases. King’s and the Institute of Director of the IHR, says of the major breakthrough in The second phase, due for Historical Research (IHR) are move: ‘For the last decade the publication in summer 2010, pleased to announce that from CCBH, supported by the IHR, our knowledge of the will extend PASE’s coverage 1 August 2010 staff currently has really put contemporary Norman Conquest’ of the 11th century, and will working in the Centre for history on the map, and I am make a comprehensive database Contemporary British History delighted that its future will be of Domesday landholders (CCBH) at the IHR will secured by this move.’ Recent research on two fronts linked to mapping facilities transfer to King’s. They will Professor Keith Hoggart, has transformed this situation. freely available online. join a cross-school unit in Vice-Principal (Arts Publications by Dr Baxter, Dr Baxter concludes: ‘The contemporary history within & Sciences) at King’s, Dr Lewis, and others have research project will build on King’s Arts and Sciences commented: ‘I am pleased to shown that Domesday Book and refine PASE’s coverage Schools. welcome these distinguished can be used to make many of the late Anglo-Saxon nobility Special arrangements are historians of the IHR to more secure identifications on the eve of its demise. It being made for the transfer and King’s and am confident that of landowners than had ever opens up the prospect of a major ongoing supervision and tuition their work will considerably been thought possible; and the breakthrough in our knowledge of current CCBH students. strengthen historical imminent publication of ‘The of the Norman Conquest, one Professor Miles Taylor, scholarship at the College.’ Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon of the defining moments in England’ (PASE) will allow English and European history.’

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Academic and financial sustainability

CONSULTATION ON THE PLANS OF MOST be made through means other and will be in a period of (replacing the School of Physical of the Schools and Professional than compulsory redundancies. consultation until at least Sciences & Engineering) is due Services of the College, to make Feedback via Heads of 31 August. Discussions have to be launched on 1 August 2010 savings of 10 per cent over the Departments or the Head of been held with NHS Trusts, as approved by College Council next two years, has now been School is welcomed. King’s College London and Academic Board in June completed. Here is an update on Similarly, the School of Law Students’ Union and student last year. In the Division of each School’s status. achieved its 10 per cent savings representatives. It is hoped Engineering the majority of target by taking advantage of a that the necessary 10 per cent staff have so far been re-deployed several positions falling vacant savings can be found without to the Departments of Informatics An update on each and therefore, did not need to compulsory redundancies. and Physics. Discussions are School’s status consult on a formal Plan. The new School of Natural & ongoing with the remaining Consultation with staff in the Mathematical Sciences members of staff. School of Arts & Humanities Consultation Plans for the concluded at the end of April. Schools of Nursing & Midwifery, Following discussions with staff Biomedical & Health Sciences, and students, the School has Impact of Citation Policy the Dental Institute and the managed to generate significant Institute of Psychiatry have savings without compulsory Following the introduction College London affiliation – either been completed or are redundancies and the savings of the College’s Citation this fell by 50 per cent (from nearing completion. The Plans generated allow the School Policy in 2007 there has been 1,111 in 2005 to 435 in 2009). are published online on the to continue to invest in areas a steady increase in overall To take a look at the Restructuring & Financial of outstanding academic citations being attributed Citation Policy, which was planning web pages: https://www. excellence and potential. to King’s College London revised by the Principal’s kcl.ac.uk/about/structure/admin/ The outcome document is (50 per cent increase) between Central Team in February pertra/internal/sustain/ available for download on the 2005 and 2009 (3,218 in 2005 this year to take account In early May the School School web pages. to 4,954 in 2009). of the existence of King’s of Social Science & Public The School of Medicine There has also been a Health Partners, visit the Policy circulated its plans to circulated its proposals to staff reduction in the number of Policy Zone on the College staff. The School is confident and answered questions at a citations not using the King’s website. that the necessary savings can School meeting on 2 June

Restricted Consent Scenario simulation spin-off

The Centre for Biomedicine SIMULSTRAT, A PIONEER IN SCENARIO United Services Institute, the beneficial partnerships between & Society (CBAS), School simulations for public and private methodology has been refined business and research teams from of Social Science & Public sector organisations, commonly for commercial use over the past across the College. It is pleasing Policy, hosted an Ethics & known as wargaming, has been three years. to see that the excellence in Policy workshop on Restricted acquired by the business advisory The business models problems, research and innovation within Consent with 20 participants firm Deloitte. explores solutions and helps the School of Social Sciences & including key policymaking, Simulstrat was spun out of the develop strategies, resilience Public Policy has been recognised regulatory, clinical and College from a rich history of and training. A wargame or through the acquisition of research stakeholders. research that straddles the social simulation simulates future Simulstrat by Deloitte and we The workshop was part sciences and humanities. factors – such as political, look forward to working with of a Wellcome Trust funded economic, social technological, the company going forward.’ study exploring the ethical legal and regulatory – that Simulstrat will be integrated frameworks drawn on by staff ‘Recognising the will impact a business and its into the Resilience and Testing in UK assisted conception excellence in research operating environment. This team, part of Deloitte’s units and stem cell laboratories forces participants to interact Information & Technology Risk in relation to embryo donation and innovation’ with external factors (represented (I&T Risk) practice. The firm’s for human embryonic stem by experts) and enables them I&T Risk practice consists of cell research purposes. The Built on the expertise of to test the robustness of their more than 500 professionals multidisciplinary research academics in the War Studies assumptions and see the who help organisations deal with team includes Professor Clare Group, including Sir Lawrence consequences of their decisions complex risk and control issues. Williams, Dr Kathryn Ehrich; Freedman, Professor of War in a ‘safe’ environment. Deloitte’s resilience and Professor Rosamund Scott; Studies and Vice-Principal Alison Campbell, Managing testing team, already a market and Professor Peter Braude. (Strategy & Development), Director of King’s Business, leader with over 40 specialist Visit the CBAS website for and Professor Michael Clarke, commented: ‘King’s prides itself consultants, helps organisations details. formerly of King’s and on the quality of its research prepare for and respond to now Director of the Royal collaborations, forming mutually high-consequence events.

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Centre for Hellenic Studies

IN MARCH KING’S ANNOUNCED of several departments, but has Professor, Professor Roderick plans to enhance its Centre for not had its own dedicated staff Beaton, returns from a three- Hellenic Studies by significantly or registered students. Under the year Leverhulme Fellowship broadening the scope of its new arrangements, the Centre for to become Director on 1 activities to include for the first Hellenic Studies will incorporate September 2012. time teaching as well as research. the Department of Byzantine In September 2011 the & Modern Greek Studies, Centre for Hellenic Studies will including its staff. Students will launch its first new programme, ‘A bold and principled be registered in the Centre and the MA in Greek Tradition. way of reaffirming its it will be able to run its own This programme will allow teaching programmes. students to study the Greek- historic responsibility The Koraes Professor of speaking world from the for a specialist subject- Modern Greek and Byzantine second millennium BC to the History, Language and Literature present day and will draw on area’ will be employed wholly in the the exceptionally rich library Centre; other staff will normally resources held by King’s. The Centre will be focused hold joint appointments, in the into the Centre for Hellenic Professor Roderick Beaton, on the Koraes Chair of Modern Centre and in other departments Studies on 1 September 2010. Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, with interests in the study of Thereafter the Centre will Greek & Byzantine History, Language and Literature Greek history and culture, as assume the responsibilities of the Language & Literature, said: (inaugurated in 1919), and three members of staff already Department for teaching and ‘King’s has come up with a bold will bring together academics, do. In this way existing examples research, combined with a rich and principled way of reaffirming students, alumni and friends from of co-operation in a variety series of lectures, seminars and its historic responsibility for a a growing number of disciplines of disciplines will become publications across the full range specialist subject-area in which to study all aspects of the history formalised, making it possible of Hellenic studies. the College has long excelled, and culture of the Greek-speaking for many more students than The first, interim, Director now that the UK government, world over four millennia. The at present to take courses in of the new Centre for Hellenic sadly, no longer provides College’s plans build on its long Byzantine and modern Greek Studies will be Professor David central support for ‘minority’ history of teaching and research studies and to increase the Ricks, Professor of Modern subjects. The re-launched in these areas and are designed to range of PhD subjects offered. Greek and Comparative Centre for Hellenic Studies ensure that options in the study The Centre will continue to Literature and currently Head gives us a sustainable structure of the Hellenic world are widely work closely with the College’s of the Department of Byzantine within which we can deliver available to students in the School Department of Classics, through & Modern Greek Studies. He teaching and research of the of Arts & Humanities, and across which the College will also for the will oversee the transition of highest quality, and build on the College generally. The new first time run a six-week intensive activities from the Department our reputation as a ‘flagship’ arrangements will come into summer course in Ancient Greek to the Centre, and be succeeded institution in the fields of modern place on 1 September 2010. from 5 July-13 August 2010 as on 1 January 2011 by Professor Greek studies, Byzantine King’s has operated a Centre part of its Summer School. Charlotte Roueché, Professor studies and, through close for Hellenic Studies since 1989. The Department of Byzantine of Late Antique & Byzantine collaboration with our colleagues As a research centre it has until & Modern Greek Studies Studies. She will direct the in Classics, Hellenic Studies now co-ordinated the activities will thus be incorporated Centre until the present Koraes in the widest sense.’ Drug Control Centre ‘world first’

THE DRUG CONTROL CENTRE, PART player Terry Newton has enhancing substances will get Director of the Drug Control of the Department of Forensic accepted a two-year sanction for caught. Centre, said: ‘This is an exciting Science & Drug Monitoring the presence of hGH in a blood major breakthrough that has based in the Franklin- sample that was collected during been the result of many years of Wilkins Building, has made out-of-competition target testing A major breakthrough careful research with WADA. a major breakthrough in the in November. in the international The detection of substances international fight against Advancements in technology that are virtually identical to our doping in sport by detecting the to detect and analyse the fight against doping natural hormones has always first ever use of human growth presence of prohibited represented a challenge. This hormone (hGH) by an athlete. substances, together with UK The Drug Control Centre shows how science has closed This substance has previously Anti-Doping’s increased power and UK Anti-Doping have an important gap and further gone undetected because it in intelligence and results worked closely with the World enhances our ability to deter the leaves the system fairly quickly management, have significantly Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) cheating athlete to ensure the after administration. increased the likelihood that throughout the sample-analysis integrity of sport and promote Wakefield Trinity Wildcats athletes who use performance- process. Professor David Cowan, healthy competition.’

6 | Comment | June 2010 | www.kcl.ac.uk Profile Professor Alan Read GREG FUNNELL Alan Read is Professor of Theatre in the Department of English, School of Arts & Humanities.

Tell us about your career Performance Philosophy, how theatre does Early aspirations to become a human rights its own ‘thinking’, with some of the brightest lawyer were mercifully interrupted by a tutor students one could hope for. I have a group of at Merton College Oxford who pointed out PhD students working on a variety of subjects to me that playing the drunken judge Azdak, from ‘the unstageable’ to the ‘abandoned in Bertolt Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk practices’ of fire ritual in Greece, and I work Circle, was not a pre-requisite for the bar, nor alongside my two performance colleagues necessarily the only qualification I would Dr Lara Shalson and Dr Kelina Gotman to require to pursue a legal career. develop the potential of performance across I did learn from Brecht that “The valley the English curriculum, from first year should go to the waterers that it yield fruit” through Masters to PhD. and went to the Pacific Northwest in the In collaboration with the Centre for e USA to undertake a PhD at the University Research I have led on the conception and of Washington exploring everyday, quotidian development of the Anatomy Theatre & philosophies of equality and political Museum which was opened on the Strand in traditions of performance. October 2009, and am in the process with My first paid work was with the Council King’s Business of creating the Performance Fact file of Europe and Dartington College of Arts Foundation to make the most of the demand bringing together theatre practitioners from for performance techniques and technologies Book on my bedside table five continents who had committed at least and their operation to foster equality of Jun’Ichiro Tanizaki’s brief masterpiece, a decade to working through performance opportunity in the arts. One of our first In Praise of Shadows, for twilight reading, and activism with a single community. This collaborations was the successful Bridging and Giorgio Agamben’s briefer What Is An experience of sustained cultural commitment the Gaps EPSRC proposal led by Dr Mark Apparatus? for getting off to sleep. encouraged me to take on the direction Miodownik which over the next three years of a neighborhood theatre in the rapidly will create a ‘diagonal science’ of materials Favourite holiday destination developing and politically embattled area of between King’s disciplinary interests Arles, with family, for the photographic Docklands in South East London through the Rencontres, Avignon, among theatre 1980s. My partner, the artist Beryl Robinson, Current research and projects friends, for the festival, and the Camargue took up the opportunity to work and paint in With my colleagues (and with support from for the light and the waves. a beach-side industrial complex in Barcelona the research grants office) we have been in the early 1990s and we spent four years successful in securing an AHRC Creative Proudest work moment there, during which time I wrote my first Fellowship with the artist and theatre Not pride, but pleasure: whenever the book Theatre & Everyday Life in the Catalan maker Gregg Whelan who will work with valley goes to the waterer (and it yields theatre library in Gaudi’s Palau Guell on the us from 2010 until 2015. Gregg is founder fruit). Nou de la Ramblas. and director of the company Lone Twin On return to the UK, I became Director of whose work is internationally shown and Talks at the Institute of Contemporary Arts respected, he will be a great asset to the impresario, Inigo Jones, who for 30 years in in London during the mid 1990s, a period of School of Arts & Humanities and the King’s the 1600s operated as ‘Surveyor to the King’s intense theoretical and artistic expansiveness. corridor of campuses as his project involves Works’ on the site that is now occupied by Working there with Homi Bhabha, Jacques an examination of the social, celebratory Somerset House and King’s Strand Campus. Derrida, bell hooks, Zaha Hadid, Patti and bio-medical implications of the extreme, The project has been conceived to encourage (and Mark E) Smith, and nightly, feisty, durational performance of ‘ultra running’. a creative and intellectually viable expansion intellectually demanding audiences, I The project provides us with a critical of the arts in partnership with our Somerset developed an appetite for public engagement, engagement with a defining feature of homo House Trust neighbours and to create an ‘off radical inclusion and argument that has sapiens’ early survival and will parallel Lone west end campus’ for performance research remained with me since. Twin’s work as recipients of one of the and practice among, what I call, King’s national awards to create a showpiece event cultural partners. Describe your current role for the Olympic Cultural Festival. More immediately I am contracted to I am currently Professor of Theatre in the I have recently been granted a Leverhulme complete the third book in a trilogy of works Department of English, a vibrant community Major Research Fellowship to pursue a on those ‘valley waterers’, following Theatre of researchers, innovative teachers and research project entitled: Engineering & Everyday Life and Theatre, Intimacy & administrative supporters whose compelling Spectacle: Inigo Jones’ Past and Present Engagement I am writing on those who range of interests and expertise attracted me Performance at Somerset House. As it appear to have no potential in world drama to King’s in the first place. Since 2006 I have suggests the work from 2010 to 2013 will but around whom everything turns: The been teaching undergraduate courses such as explore the political performance legacy Theatre & Its Poor: Performance, Politics and Theatre Capital, how London ‘performs’, and of England’s first great architect and stage the Powerless.

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Top students bipolar disorder risk

SCIENTISTS FROM THE INSTITUTE in science subjects. A-grades strong emotional responses, and 1997. Comparisons were of Psychiatry and colleagues in Swedish and Music had which may help their talent in drawn between the Swedish from the Karolinska Institutet particularly strong associations, art, music and literature. Third, hospital discharge register to in Stockholm, have published supporting the literature which people with hypomania often test associations between the first scientific evidence in the consistently finds associations have extraordinary stamina students’ academic achievement British Journal of Psychiatry that between linguistic and musical and can keep concentrating and admission to hospital with exceptional intellectual ability is creativity and bipolar disorder.’ for long periods of time. These a diagnosis of bipolar disorder associated with bipolar disorder. Several possible explanations types of cognitive style may between the ages of 17 and 31. Lead researcher Dr James for the link were put forward; help students perform better in A total of 713,876 individuals MacCabe, Senior Lecturer people in a state of hypomania creative school subjects – but were included in the study. at the Institute of Psychiatry, (a mild period of mania or also predispose them to bipolar They found that students with said: ‘We found that achieving elevated mood) can often be disorder in later life. excellent school performance an A-grade is associated with witty and inventive, and able to The researchers used results were almost four times as likely increased risk for bipolar link ideas in innovative ways; taken from Sweden’s annual to develop bipolar disorder as disorder, particularly in people with bipolar disorder compulsory exams taken by adults, compared to those with humanities and to a lesser extent often experience unusually 15-16 year olds between 1988 average grades. ‘Sexism in the media increasing’

PROFESSOR ROSALIND GILL FROM THE particular areas of concern about seriously calls into question the Centre for Culture, Media & the representation of women in much-proclaimed equality of Creative Industries warns that the media: the troubling role the women in society.’ there is a resurgence of sexism in media play in reporting sexual Professor Gill also criticises the the media, and a need to build violence; the increasingly narrow growing sexualisation of culture, a culture that is open about sex and sexualized roles in which and in particular the tendency and sexuality, whilst being critical women appear in the media; and to ‘wrap old-fashioned sexually of the way in which sexualised the resurgence of sexism in a post- objectifying images of women representations are being used ‘political correctness’ climate in in a new and feisty veneer of and reinforced. which any objection is dubbed post-feminist empowerment and ’humourless whingeing’. choice’. In relation to sexual violence, She explains: ‘Images of ‘A dangerous attitude Professor Gill draws on a well women which would 15 or 20 towards women’ established body of research Professor Rosalind Gill years ago have been regarded as that looked at ‘rape myths’ and sexist, have been recycled and how these are perpetuated by to a ‘blame culture’ in which promoted as if they were adverts In a keynote address to the the media, as well as on her significant numbers of people for women’s empowerment. Council of Europe in Strasbourg own analyses of newspaper believe that women are partly Young women are being sent as part of an event to celebrate coverage of recent rape cases. responsible if they are sexually the clear message that sexual International Women’s Day, She said: ‘Inaccurate and sexist attacked. This is a dangerous attractiveness is more important Professor Gill highlighted three media reporting is contributing attitude towards women that than anything else about them.’ Women solicitors’ work-life balance examined

THE RESULTS OF ONE OF THE LARGEST and Employment Relations, firms pay lip service to work-life women solicitors enjoy their jobs surveys of women solicitors Department of Management, policies and to flexible working and are highly committed to their in England and Wales were examined the attitudes of women and are not fully committed to work and to the legal profession published in March. 800 female solicitors to their careers and their implementation. If law firms in general. Forty two per cent solicitors, including partners, work-life balance and their wish to avoid higher levels of of women solicitors in private associates and assistants, from the utilisation of flexible work burnout and dissatisfaction they practice law firms indicated that large City Law firms to smaller arrangements. Professor Walsh need to look carefully at the issue advancement to partnership was regional and High Street practices says: ‘The career development of women’s career progression, their main measure of career participated in the survey by and work-life balance of women particularly at senior associate success. Despite these career King’s and The Association of solicitors are issues of major and associate level, and to address aspirations, there is evidence Women Solicitors. concern for the future of the women’s concerns about work- of some dissatisfaction among The survey conducted legal profession. Unfortunately life balance and flexible working women solicitors regarding by Janet Walsh, Professor of there is a perception among at all levels of the profession.’ their work arrangements and Human Resource Management some women solicitors that law The findings indicate that promotion prospects.

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Prostate cancer linked to blood clots

SCIENTISTS AT KING’S HAVE between prostate cancer and found that men with prostate thromboembolic disease. cancer are at increased risk of However, previous research thromboembolism (formation has suggested an increased of blood clots), particularly likelihood of developing those receiving hormone thromboembolic disease therapy. The article, published after endocrine therapy, an in The Lancet Oncology, is the first increasingly common treatment to show in detail an association in men with prostate cancer. between prostate cancer and To provide more evidence, thromboembolism and should Mieke Van Hemelrijck, a PhD lead to increased surveillance in student from the Division of men with prostate cancer. Cancer Studies, and international colleagues assessed the risk of thromboembolic disease Men with prostate (deep vein thrombosis [DVT], cancer were pulmonary embolism, and arterial X-ray of blood vessel with blood. embolism) in Swedish men with significantly more likely prostate cancer receiving different significantly more likely pulmonary embolism. This risk to develop thrombo- types of treatment compared to develop thromboembolic was especially high for younger with Swedish men in the general disease than men without prostate men and men with advanced embolic disease population. The investigators cancer. All three treatment groups disease. Subset analyses showed used data from PCBaSe Sweden, were at increased risk of DVT a smaller increased risk of venous It is well established that based on the National Prostate and pulmonary embolism, but thromboembolism in patients cancer increases the risk of Cancer Register of Sweden. not arterial embolism. treated with anti-androgens thromboembolism, although the Between 1997 and Additionally, men receiving compared with other types of underlying mechanisms involved 2007, 30,642 men received endocrine therapy had endocrine treatment. are not fully understood. Indeed, endocrine therapy, 26,432 the highest risk of venous The authors suggest that this patients with cancer are about curative treatment, and 19,526 thromboembolism. Patients increased risk of thromboembolic four times more likely to develop surveillance. A total of 1,881 undergoing endocrine therapy disease is likely to be the result a thrombosis (blood clot) than thromboembolic events were were two-and-a-half times more of the cancer itself and/or the healthy individuals. reported and analysed. likely to have a DVT than the treatments and factors taken into Little is known about Overall, findings showed that general population, and nearly account during the process of the specific association men with prostate cancer were twice as likely to experience a selecting these treatments. Proof that airports are air polluters

SCIENTISTS IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL increase breathing difficulties in Research Group (ERG) have people with existing sensibilities, undertaken research into cardiac conditions or in older the effects of the closure of people. Under the impact of UK airspace on air quality sunlight they can transform surrounding major airports after into the even more damaging the Icelandic volcano eruption, pollutant ozone. NOx and NO2 following a number of enquiries are particularly associated with from the public. jet aircraft, as they are produced by the high-temperature mix of aviation with fuel. Nitrogen pollutants fell The analysis was undertaken virtually to zero by Dr Ben Barratt and Dr Gary closure, 15 to 17 April 2010. the scientists to demonstrate Fuller of the Environmental This period was chosen due to that the airports have a clear Research Group. ‘We have In response the ERG analysed the stable weather conditions measurable effect on nitrogen always been fairly confident that the concentrations of NOx with light north easterly winds, concentrations and that this effect there was this ‘airport effect’ but (the generic term for oxides of allowing a cross-sectional disappeared entirely during the we have never been able to show nitrogen combined) and NO2 analysis upwind and downwind period of closure, with levels of it,’ said Dr Barratt. ‘The closure (nitrogen dioxide) surrounding of the airports. This period of both pollutants falling virtually gave us the opportunity to look Gatwick and Heathrow airports unprecedented closure during to zero. at it, and there is a very strong during the first three days of good weather conditions allowed Such nitrogen pollutants can indication that it is the case.’

www.kcl.ac.uk | June 2010 | Comment | 9 Feature Graduating in style Graduation ceremonies are an important part of College life, and an ever-more- popular way for students to celebrate the end of their studies. Comment heard more about them from the Graduation Team: part of the Student Registration Office within Academic Services.

PHIL SAYER URING 2010 SOME 4,800 KING’S students will graduate at 13 College D ceremonies: four in January at the Barbican Centre, and nine in June and July. The summer ceremonies include three at Southwark Cathedral, for Medical and Dental graduates, on 30 June and 2 July, and six at the Barbican between 19 and 21 July for all other students.

The procession ‘Eligible students are invited to book their place at a ceremony about three months in advance,’ explains Natalie Hoskins, Senior Administrator in the Graduation Team. Each ceremony lasts about one and a half hours, and – as well as the presentation of graduands – includes a procession, speeches by the Chairman (or his nominee – usually another member of the College Council) and by the Principal (or his nominee, usually one of the Vice-Principals), and a response from the Students’ Union. Others who are present include the Vice-Principals, the relevant heads of Schools, a member of the Chaplaincy team, senior College officers, the Chairman of the King’s College London Students graduating last summer. Association, and members of academic staff from the relevant School(s). Graduates can have their photographs of fabric embroidered with Reggie the lion, ‘We welcome any academic staff members taken by the official photographers, can buy attached to their left shoulder. who would like to join the procession,’ the official graduation DVD and College Some students are lucky enough to find a Natalie says. ‘Staff receive an email invitation merchandise, and can visit the Alumni team celebrity at their ceremony: in 2008 Dame each October and April.’ The ceremonies who are present at all ceremonies. Vivienne Westwood attended to receive her also include the presentation of the Jelf honorary fellowship, ‘with very high stunning Medallists (one from each School) and of the New King’s gowns bright red shoes,’ Natalie recalls. Rory College’s Teaching Award winners, and (at This summer will be the first time that the Bremner also came to receive his fellowship, most ceremonies) the presentation of one or majority of undergraduate students will and the Sultan of Brunei and members of more new fellows or honorary fellows of the be wearing the new King’s gowns, which the Saudi Royal family have attended to see College. were introduced in 2008 to accompany their relations graduate, as well as the former As each student crosses the stage they the introduction of the College’s degree- Prime Minister of New Zealand and Helena receive a letter of congratulation from the awarding powers. The gowns were designed Bonham Carter. ‘Ceremonies are always Principal and Chairman. ‘Degree certificates by Vivienne Westwood and produced by Ede happy events,’ Natalie says. ‘In the last round are not handed out at the ceremonies because & Ravenscroft, and are traditional in their a very excited student gave me a hug, and of the tight turn-around between the School design but more flowing than the usual gown. even the Chairman and Principal received a boards of examiners and the ceremonies,’ The hoods are attached to the gowns by hug as another student crossed the stage! It’s Natalie points out. ‘Instead, certificates are gold buttons, with a Reggie the lion design, always a pleasure for us to see all the happy posted out by the Examinations Office to all on each shoulder. There are four different students and their smiling families.’ graduates about three months after the date of styles of gown: for first degree level, master’s, Academic staff can book their place in the their award.’ research degrees and specialist doctors. First procession at the graduation ceremonies. Each ceremony is followed by a drinks degree and master’s gowns have a different The deadline for bookings is 17.00 on 10 reception open to all graduates and their binding colour for each School. Students June. Visit www.kcl.ac.uk/about/structure/ guests. There’s a live jazz band at the who have completed the AKC are entitled to admin/acservices/grad/graduation-ceremonies/ Barbican and a string quartet at Southwark. wear an ‘epitoge’ – a short tie-shaped piece internal/

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Santander Chairman visits College

GREG FUNNELL SANTANDER’S CHAIRMAN, EMILIO scholarships, and research awards, Botín, was guest of honour at a makes a positive difference to reception at King’s on 28 April, King’s and benefits students. held to highlight the successful Through their unique Universities partnership between the biggest Programme, Santander are bank in the UK and one of the distinguished by their unwavering leading universities in the UK. dedication to education. We look forward to continuing our work together.’ ‘Distinguished by their Santander’s support enabled unwavering dedication the College to recruit Dr Maite Conde, a highly-qualified to education’ researcher who has held many prestigious teaching positions, The original partnership most recently at Columbia agreement between Santander University, to the Fellowship Universities Global Division and within the Brazil Institute. King’s was signed in October Mr Botín meets King’s Santander scholars and award winners. Students have benefited 2008 and it provided for four greatly too. Hugo Castillo, postgraduate scholarships for This initiative will fund 300 This partnership with King’s originally from Peru, recently Iberamerican or Iberian students scholarships for Spanish, Brazilian has enabled a range of activities jointed the Number Theory to come to King’s; five or more and British university students in and research partnerships which, Research Group to study for awards for existing King’s Santander network countries. it is hoped, will lead to advances his PhD. His mathematical students and staff to research Speaking at his first visit in health, culture and social interests focus on arithmetical or study overseas; and for a to King’s, global head, Mr research. cryptography. Fellowship for research within the Botín, accompanied by senior The Principal, Professor Rick Lord Douro, Chairman of King’s Brazil Institute. members of Santander, talked Trainor, said: ‘We are delighted College Council, who introduced King’s will also benefit from of the importance of the bank’s to be celebrating our partnership and concluded the proceedings ‘Formula Santander’, an initiative collaboration with King’s, and with Santander and honoured at the reception, said how launched by Mr Botín together the global network of universities that their Chairman, Mr Botín, fortunate King’s was to be with F1 drivers Fernando that they support worldwide, who is an exceptional supporter working with one of the world’s Alonso, Lewis Hamilton and emphasising the need to of higher education and research, most successful banks and to Jenson Button during Bahrain’s combine quality education and visited King’s. Santander’s benefit from their enlightened Grand Prix in March 2009. knowledge transfer. support of postgraduate approach to higher education. Award-winning playwright at King’s

THE CENTRE FOR LIFE-WRITING and his childhood home. Research recently hosted a Dr Lara Feigel, Lecturer in screening and discussion with English, who organised the event, the award-winning playwright said: ‘This was a very exciting Michael Frayn and filmmaker evening, and I’m pleased that Dennis Marks. students in the humanities had The two came together to a chance to meet such a major rescreen Three Streets in the contemporary writer and to Country, a subjective history of question him about his work.’ the London suburbs written by This event was the third in Frayn and directed by Marks, the Centre for Life-Writing which has not been available Research’s extremely successful to the public since it was first ‘Dissecting the Self’ series. The inaugural English PEN student group, based at King’s, performed Another Sky. broadcast in 1979. This event was also part of the The screening of this lyrical English Department’s ongoing support from the English Museum. The performance was tour of Ewell, the district of collaboration with English PEN, Subject Centre. This group is directed by Abbie Bergstrom south-west London in which a registered charity working to currently campaigning on behalf (third-year English Literature) Frayn himself grew up, was promote literature and human of imprisoned writers in Sri and Susie Christensen (MA in followed by a discussion in rights. Lanka, and on 30 March staged English Literature: 1850-the which Marks questioned Frayn King’s is now the home of the a performance of Another Sky, present). The cast comprised six about his changing attitude first student PEN centre in the a play comprised of pieces by English students, and one Law towards both his childhood country, set up with financial writers in prison, in the Anatomy student.

www.kcl.ac.uk | June 2010 | Comment | 11 News

US Ambassador gives annual Oration

GREG FUNNELL LOUIS B SUSMAN, THE UNITED STATES and global challenges such as Ambassador to the United the economic crisis. Kingdom, delivered the College’s He emphasised that working Commemoration Oration on for change can be frustrating but 17 March, at the Great Hall, that nothing can be changed Strand Campus. unless you face the issues. He The speech Policies & Priorities spoke directly to the King’s of the Obama Administration students in the audience and said: focused on US President Barack ‘You are the change, you are Obama’s first 14 months in office. the future and the hope.’ He reflected on the election of the He also encouraged King’s first African-American President alumni and staff to continue as ‘having electrified the world’. to inspire current students and It was viewed as a new era and to use their experience and the start of a long journey towards vision to face the problems of positive change, he said. the 21st century. His speech focused on the The Ambassador was United States’ approach to welcomed to King’s by the the key foreign policy issues of Chairman of Council, Lord Douro, HE Louis B. Susman, and the Principal, Professor Rick Chairman of Council, Lord Afghanistan and Pakistan; the Trainor. Douro, and the Principal, Middle East conflict and Iran. He Professor Rick Trainor. Ryan outlined the US strategy in these proliferation in Iran. outlined the importance of Wain, President of King’s areas, and discussed Operation He explained that foreign listening, learning and building College London Students’ Moshtarak in Afganistan; Vice policy was complex, extensive relationships. Union, gave the vote of thanks. President Biden’s visit to Israel and far reaching and to achieve The Ambassador also discussed A video of the and the US commitments in the foreign policy goals you need the special relationship between Commemoration Oration is region; and the options available the duality of diplomacy and the US and the UK and how it available on iKing’s: in diffusing the threat of nuclear strength. The Ambassador has lasted through peace, war www.kcl.ac.uk/ikings/ ...and US Drugs Czar visits

THE PRINCIPAL, PROFESSOR RICK esteemed colleague whose work strategy was designed to focus Trainor, recently welcomed has impacted far and wide. He on gaps in current provision Professor A Thomas McLellan, has a particular ability to bring with the emphasis on prevention Deputy Director and Chief people together to promote as opposed to the majority Scientist, White House Office of dialogue.’ of effort being placed on those National Drug Control Policy, to Professor McLellan described requiring intensive treatment. the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP). the rationale and scientific Professor McLellan pledged Professor McLellan’s underpinnings behind the that treatment and prevention lecture Prevention, Treatment demand reduction components would be placed in the heart and Science in the Obama of President Obama’s national of healthcare and the heart of Administration’s National Drug drug control strategy. The new the community. Control Policy, was received by a packed audience of leading research, policy, treatment and Professor A Thomas McLellan recovery professionals, including Duel Day celebrated Professor Dame Sally C Davies, accompanied on his visit to the Director General of Research UK by his Senior Policy Advisor Alumni around the world is a symbol of King’s and Development and Chief Dr Keith Humphreys, who also came together to celebrate commitment to diversity, Scientific Adviser, Department holds an Honorary Professorship this year’s Duel Day on and an opportunity to of Health; Professor John Strang, in the addictions at the IoP. 26 March. Duel Day celebrate all the College has Head of Addictions, IoP; Professor Trainor said: ‘It is commemorates the day achieved. Highlights this year Professor Shitij Kapur, Dean and an honour to welcome such a when the Duke of Wellington included: the first Duel Day Head of School, IoP and Stuart manifestly distinguished and fought with pistols to defend Party in Athens; duel meals Bell, Chief Executive, South influential researcher, teacher and his honour and support for in Singapore and London; London and Maudsley NHS clinician to King’s.’ the founding of King’s in and drinks in Sydney, London Foundation Trust. Professor Strang continued: 1829. Today, the celebration and Paris. Professor McLellan was ‘Professor McLellan is an

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Cheltenham Jazz Festival

CULTURAL AND POLITICAL HISTORIAN should be viewed as an important fantastic Dr Harvey G Cohen from the figure in American history, not sources, Centre for Culture, Media & just American music. including Creative Industries, spoke at this The event also featured a lively Duke year’s 2010 Cheltenham Jazz discussion between Dr Cohen, Ellington’s Festival. King’s is partnering author of the soon to be released papers and all four Cheltenham Festivals book Duke Ellington’s America scrapbooks, this year. (University of Chicago Press, and interviews At an event at the Playhouse June 2010), and Alyn Shipton, with his players and other Theatre on 2 May Dr Cohen an award-winning author and jazzmen, a treasure trove that explored the life and career of broadcaster, who is the jazz critic future scholars will mine for Duke Ellington through rare for The Times, and the presenter/ decades.’ excerpts of Ellington interviews producer of Jazz Library for BBC The Jazz Festival supports Dr Harvey G Cohen (right) with award-winning and concerts from 1943-72. Radio 3. author and broadcaster Alyn Shipton at the the very best of British and Few artists in any medium have Lewis Erenberg, author of Cheltenham Jazz Festival. international contemporary enjoyed the lasting international Swingin’ the Dream: Big Band jazz and this year welcomed impact of Duke Ellington and Dr Jazz and the Rebirth of American America as: ‘An excellent piece Jamie Cullum as its first ever Cohen discussed why Ellington Culture, refers to Duke Ellington’s of cultural history, grounded in Guest Director. New Air Quality iPhone application launches

THE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH says: ‘With this update we 12,000 users, of these, 9,437 Group, within the School of wanted to add more features to users have actively subscribed Biomedical & Health Sciences, the application but keep it easy to to receive real-time alerts for has launched a new application use. We’re really delighted with moderate pollution events on the for the Apple iPhone which the user response and the uptake network. ‘As far as we know, this displays the latest air pollution of the app, thousands of people represents the largest installed levels recorded at over 100 are now more informed about the base of active subscribers of any monitoring sites in the London capital’s air quality.’ air quality service in the UK,’ Air Quality Network across the The application condenses adds Andrew. capital. Notifications, which are a first for the whole of the London Air The application is the latest in The London Air iPhone app helping users keep up to date with Quality Network into a few easy a series of developments by the 2.0, which has been featured as London’s air quality in real time. to navigate screens making use Environmental Research Group a top application in the iTunes The application’s designer of the iPhone’s intuitive user aimed at helping keep Londoners app store, displays new features Andrew Grieve from the interface. To date the application more informed and up to date such as Maps, My Sites and Push Environmental Research Group has been downloaded by nearly with the capital’s air quality.

Innovative partnership for pain research

King’s has partnered with understanding of pain that we will be doing with underlying chronic and Pfizer to create an open mechanisms and pathways. Pfizer in the area of pain and neuropathic pain, conditions innovation laboratory for This new partnership and receptor trafficking is closely that affect many people. We pain research. As part of the the integration of the scientific aligned with the research are very excited about the ‘open partnership, a small team of teams will potentially lead to interests of the Wolfson Centre innovation’ project, and we Pfizer scientists will be synergies in research strategies for Age-Related Diseases,’ says are confident that synergistic based at the Wolfson Centre that deliver new ideas and Professor Pat Doherty, Director benefits will have the potential for Age-Related Diseases innovations for healthcare and of the Wolfson Centre for Age- to accrue for both partners over to conduct research in pain patient welfare. Related Diseases at King’s. the coming years.’ biology. The initiative allows ‘The Pfizer colleagues ‘This is a great opportunity The Pfizer scientists will the College to pursue its will have joint academic for Pfizer and King’s to be part of a larger team commitment to translational appointments within King’s, collaborate on early science at the College including research with partners of and will work closely together focused on investigating key academics such as Professors excellence and enables Pfizer to with our established teams mechanisms associated with Steve McMahon and Stuart embed its scientists in a vibrant, in a truly collaborative effort chronic pain,’ says Gillian Bevan. The team is charged academic research community. aimed at understanding the Burgess, Pain Research Chief with developing a greater ‘The basic academic work fundamental mechanisms Scientific Officer, Pfizer.

www.kcl.ac.uk | June 2010 | Comment | 13 King’s people

AWARDS groundbreaking in its field. and fraud in particular. ‘The KHP branding is very Professor Timothy Macklem, powerful and we are delighted it Head of the School of Law, says: Queen’s won such a prestigious award,’ ‘Jeremy Horder is a scholar of said Chris Coe, Director of quite unusual brilliance who has Anniversary Prize Communications at King’s. managed to combine powerful BRITISH CEREMONIAL ARTS LIMITED The Transform Awards were and provocative research with established by Communicate large contributions to the public magazine, the UK’s leading policy of this country. He is magazine for corporate also a wonderful teacher and communications and stakeholder an inspirational member of the relations. academic community. We are absolutely delighted to have him APPOINTMENTS join us.’

Professor Angus Forbes Criminal Law Chair AXA Fellowship European Nurses in Diabetes Professor Graham Thornicroft and the King’s has recently been (FEND) Chair in Clinical Principal with HRH The Queen and Prince successful in attracting funding Diabetes Nursing. Philip. from the AXA Research Fund to The position is a collaboration Earlier this year HRH The support a Post-Doctoral Fellow. between FEND, King’s and Queen presented the 2009 The insurance company says the Diabetes Centre at King’s Queen’s Anniversary Prizes for that their research fund aims to College Hospital (KCH). Higher and Further Education encourage ‘the emergence of the Key priorities for Professor to the Vice Chancellors and world’s scientific leaders from the Forbes’ will be to generate and Principals of the 21 winning very beginning of their career’. disseminate high quality state of institutions at a ceremony at Professor Vaughan Robinson, the art clinical knowledge and Buckingham Palace. Director of the Graduate School practice to improve and extend The Vice-Chancellors and which co-ordinated the bid, said: the contribution of nursing to Principals received the medals ‘Only 30 of these are awarded diabetes care across Europe. from HRH The Queen, with Professor Jeremy Horder each year across Europe so it is Professor Forbes said: ‘I am The Duke of Edinburgh a tribute to the excellence of the excited by the opportunity presenting the award certificates The School of Law has appointed candidates we put forward that afforded by this post which will to academics representing the Professor Jeremy Horder to we have been successful in this help enhance the contribution award-winning work. the Edmund-Davies Chair in open competition.’ of nurses to the care of the many Professor Graham Thornicroft, Criminal Law. Professor Horder Dr Frank Foley was the successful millions of people with diabetes who heads up the Health Service is currently Law Commissioner candidate for King’s and he across Europe.’ and Population Research Group for England and Wales. He will recently took up his post in the The Chair has been funded at the Institute of Psychiatry, join the College in September. Department of War Studies. for three years, with a view to was among those honoured. The Professor Horder’s two main extending for a further two. Health Service and Population works are his books Provocation Research Group was recognised and Responsibility (1992), for its commitment to enabling and Excusing Crime (2004). KHP Executive the recovery and improving In addition to many scholarly the quality of life of people articles, he was responsible for, King’s Health Partners Academic with mental health problems amongst other reports, the Law Health Sciences Centre has throughout the world. Commission Reports, Murder, announced the final appointment Manslaughter and Infanticide to its Executive. (2006), and Reforming Bribery Frances O’Callaghan, currently KHP award (2009), that led to legislative Divisional Director for reform of the law, respectively Managed Networks at Guy’s The King’s Health Partners in the Coroners and Justice and St Thomas’ NHS brand, developed by designers Act 2009 and in the Bribery Foundation Trust, has been Fishburn Hedges, was recently Act 2010. appointed as Director of awarded Gold for best public Professor Horder is currently Performance and Delivery, sector rebrand in the Transform working on a new book, Dr Frank Foley to work alongside the other Awards 2010. Homicide and the Politics of Law members of the Executive The King’s Health Partners Reform, due to be completed in – Professor Robert Lechler, name and visual identity – a 2011. He will be taking overall FEND Chair Executive Director; Professor rainbow representation of responsibility for the teaching John Moxham, Director of genetics and the multi-cultural of criminal law at King’s, and Professor Angus Forbes from the Clinical Strategy; Professor Anne people of London – supported hopes to work with colleagues Florence Nightingale School of Greenough, Director of Education by the phrase ‘Pioneering on the development of teaching Nursing & Midwifery has been & Training, and Professor Frank better health for all’ – is truly the law governing corruption appointed as the Federation of Walsh, Director of Research.

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Clerk Maxwell Chair of Theoretical Physics STAFF NEWS

COURTESY OF CERN Professor John Ellis FRS Marathon success has been appointed as Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics from September 2010. His appointment is part of a major strategic investment in the new School of Natural & Mathematical Sciences, and in particular the strengthening and development of Physics. Professor Ellis, who has been a Visiting Professor to the Department of Physics since 2005, will take on Kate Moore the role of Head of the Theoretical Particle Physics Around 37,000 runners took part and Cosmology Group. He in this year’s London Marathon joins King’s from CERN, on 25 April. Congratulations to the European Laboratory for staff and students who took part Particle Physics, where he has in the 26.2 mile race. held a number of major roles. Professor Guy Tear, from the Professor Ellis’ research MRC Centre for Developmental interests lie in the theoretical Professor John Ellis FRS Neurobiology, ran in aid of physics of elementary Spinal Research, a charity raising particles, ranging from physics accelerators, including generally regarded as the funds for research aiming to standard model physics to the present Large Hadron world’s leading theorist of overcome the paralysis caused by string theory. He has made Collider. Professor Ellis was the 19th century, who was spinal injury. Some of this spinal fundamental contributions ranked as the second most- Professor of Natural Philosophy research is carried out at King’s to the advancement of our cited theoretical physicist of at King’s from 1860 to 1865. by Professor McMahon, Dr Liz understanding of the standard all time by the SPIRES High- Chris Mottershead, Vice- Bradbury and others. Professor model of particle physics and Energy Physics Literature Principal (Research & Tear completed the course in 4 pioneering contributions to the Database database in 2004. He Innovation), said: ‘Professor hours 23 minutes and has raised theory and phenomenology of has been awarded the Maxwell Ellis is a truly prestigious £2,200 to date. the unifications of forces. He is Medal and the Paul Dirac Prize appointment for King’s. He After witnessing the impact of one of the pioneers of research by the Institute of Physics and will be critical to our strategy Fight for Sight funded research, at the interface between is an Elected Fellow of the of further raising the profile Public Relations Officer Kate particle physics and cosmology, Royal Society of London since nationally and internationally Moore, was inspired to run her a particular focus for research in 1985 and of the Institute of of King’s research in the field first marathon to raise money for the Department of Physics. Physics since 1991. of Physics, and strengthening eye research. Kate was astounded Much of Professor Ellis’ The Chair to which Professor a Department which has by public interest in a new laser research has also concerned Ellis has been appointed spawned four Nobel Prize treatment developed by Professor the prospects for future particle honours James Clerk Maxwell, winners.’ John Marshall to prevent the onset of age-related macular degeneration. Kate finished in Metabolism, Nutrition, Obesity, Diana Hamilton-Fairley, Marie four hours 56 minutes and has CAG Leaders Vision & related Surgeries McDonald and Professor Lucilla raised £1,200 for Fight for Sight. Clinical Academic Group. Poston have been appointed joint James Denselow, a PhD student King’s Health Partners has Professor Tak Lee and Dr Richard Leaders of the Women’s Clinical in the Department of Geography, announced further appointments Beale have been appointed Academic Group. completed the course in 3 hours for Clinical Academic Group joint Leaders of the Allergy, CAGs underpin King’s 57 minutes. James says: ‘Looking Leaders of the Academic Health Respiratory, Critical Care and Health Partners’ ambition to back and beyond the actual pain Sciences Centre. CAGs are Anaesthetics Clinical Academic provide high quality, innovative of the run, I was amazed by the structures which will bring Group. services and to create sustainable efforts of this 37,000 strong army clinical services, research, and Professor Nairn Wilson has been improvements in patient of good that had decided to raise education activities together appointed Leader of the Dental outcomes, service efficiency and money for such a huge variety within a series of single Clinical Academic Group. alignment between clinical and and range of causes.’ James has managerial units. Professor Reza Razavi has academic endeavour. raised over £10,000 for Medical Dr Stephen Thomas has been been appointed as Leader of Further appointments to Aid for Palestinians which appointed to join Professor the Imaging and Biomedical Clinical Academic Group Leader works for the health and dignity Stephanie Amiel as joint Leader of Engineering Clinical Academic positions will be made over the of Palestinians living under the Diabetes, Endocrinology and Group. coming months. occupation and as refugees.

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SIR JAMES BLACK OM (1924-2010)

NOBEL LAUREATE SIR JAMES BLACK OM died on Monday 22 March aged 85. Sir James Black OM was Emeritus Professor of Analytical Pharmacology at King’s College London. He received the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1988 for the development of two major families of drugs: firstly, beta- blockers, used for the treatment of coronary heart disease, high blood pressure and heart failure, and secondly the anti-ulcer histamine receptor blocking drugs, including the best-selling Tagamet. He was born in 1924 and brought up in Fife, graduating from the University of St Andrews. After lecturing at the universities of St Andrews, Three King’s Nobel Laureates photographed together at the College: Archbishop Desmond Tutu with Professors Maurice Wilkins and James Black. Malaya and Glasgow, he worked in industry for ICI and Smith, cells use messenger molecules to the Nobel Foundation Sir James basic scientists from the College Kline and French, and was communicate with each other, commented: ‘In intellectual to focus on translational research Professor of Pharmacology at so called ‘Rational Design of terms the last five years at King’s to provide novel therapeutic University College London. Drugs’. He was very keen for have been the most productive approaches for a range of From 1978 he was Director of pharmacologists to work closely in my life. Surrounded by disorders such as heart failure, Therapeutic Research for the with chemists and in the James talented researchers and PhD sickle cell disease and Wellcome Research Laboratories Black Foundation he deliberately students, I feel I have found my b thalassaemia, stroke, until he came to King’s in 1984. designed ‘back to back’ niche at last.’ Parkinson’s and Batten’s Disease Sir James is credited pharmacology and chemistry In 2000 he was given the and psychiatric disorders with introducing analytical laboratories. This is a feature that UK’s highest honour, the including schizophrenia. pharmacology as a new way of King’s retains, as there is strong Order of Merit. ‘Sir James took an active role thinking to the process of drug liaison between the medicinal In January 2007 HRH The in the life of the College until development. Whereas the chemists and pharmacologists. Princess Royal, Chancellor of the recent months. He will be greatly starting point for creating new He was Chairman of the James University of London, opened the missed at King’s and well pharmaceutical therapies had Black Foundation, founded in Sir James Black Centre at King’s beyond as an immensely warm generally been to chemically 1988, a not-for-profit group of Denmark Hill Campus. human presence as well as a modify natural products and test scientists engaged in new drug The James Black Centre is a great scientist, colleague and the result, his approach was based research. unique, state-of-the-art facility. teacher,’ said the Principal, on an understanding of how In 1988 when interviewed by It brings together clinicians and Professor Rick Trainor.

PROFESSOR ARNOLD of research which had suffered the 100 most cited authors for Arnold Beckett’s eminence during the Second World War. the period 1965-78. Out of these in the field was reflected by his BECKETT OBE (1921-2010) Among other subjects, he studies developed an interest in appointment as president of was keenly interested in the drug metabolism and analysis, the Royal Pharmaceutical PROFESSOR ARNOLD BECKETT OBE chemistry and pharmacology which led to his becoming a Society of Great Britain in pharmaceutical chemist and of analgesia and in 1954 pioneer of drug testing in sport. 1981-2 and many other honours. expert on doping in sport died published one of the early ideas He was a member of the He served as Head of the on 25 January aged 89. of the nature of the morphine medical commission of Department of Pharmacy from Arnold Beckett joined the receptor. This paved the way the International Olympic 1959-79 and was appointed Department of Pharmacy, for later more general work on Committee for 25 years and OBE in 1983. Chelsea College, University of receptor and drug interactions founding Director of the Drug A memorial service will be London in 1951 after having and was a major contribution to Control Centre which operates held in the Chapel on 25 June studied at Birkbeck College drug design and development from the Franklin-Wilkins at 16.00. More details can be and The School of Pharmacy, in academia and throughout the Building and will be a major obtained from the Department of University of London. He industry. This work was largely player in the 2012 London Pharmacy (email selina.lovell@ immediately initiated a revival responsible for his being among Olympic Games. kcl.ac.uk).

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The Florence Nightingale School of Nursing & Midwifery

BRIAN RUSSELL HIS YEAR THE FLORENCE Nightingale School of Nursing & T Midwifery celebrates its 150th anniversary. The School is now led by Professor Anne Marie Rafferty, supported by a senior leadership team comprising Professor Ian Norman, Associate Dean (Staff Development); Professor Alison While, Associate Dean (Education & External Affairs) and Barbara Dahill, Director of Administration & Business Development. The School is based in the James Clerk Maxwell Building, Waterloo Campus, with some activities in the Franklin-Wilkins Building. The School has 200 staff and nearly 3,000 students, and is spread across seven departments: Primary & Intermediate Care; Midwifery, Women & Child Health; Acute Adult Nursing; Mental Health Care; Specialist Care; Health Policy & Management, and Learning Technology. Students with a scholar from the Florence Nightingale Foundation at an anniversary event at Westminster Abbey. The School is also home to the National Nursing Research Unit (NNRU), whose Nightingale College of Health combined Nursing and Midwifery in England which Director is Professor Peter Griffiths. The with the King’s College Hospital School of delivered its report on 2 March 2010. NNRU is a multidisciplinary national centre Nursing at Normanby College and formed Professor Rafferty commented: ‘We for nursing research in England, and the the Nightingale Institute. have a unique and distinguished tradition only Department of Health-funded unit By 1996 all staff and new students of the of excellence in education and research of its kind in England undertaking high Nightingale Institute were fully integrated upon which we are building to produce quality empirical research and reviews to at King’s College London, and in 1998 the Nightingales nurses and midwives inform policy and practice relevant to the the Nightingale Institute combined with of the future. We are proud to design nursing workforce. The School’s three main the Department of Nursing Studies at and deliver innovative programmes for research themes focus on workforce, long- King’s College London, becoming the students in collaboration with our NHS term conditions, and women’s health and Florence Nightingale Division of Nursing & partners to benefit the patients of today reproduction. Midwifery. In 1999 the School was renamed and tomorrow.’ the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing History & Midwifery of King’s College London. On 4 November 1854 Florence Nightingale and 38 nurses departed for the Scutari Events Upcoming anniversary events Crimean War hospital in Turkey. The public’s A commemorative 150th anniversary 9 July 150th anniversary. The School enthusiasm for her work there led to the microsite has been launched by the School to will host a commemorative evening event. creation in 1855 of a fund which Nightingale highlight its history and founder; the students, 8 August The Nightingale Choir will decided to use to establish a nursing training alumni and research activities, and the series perform at St Thomas’ Chapel as part school. By June 1856 the fund had raised of events the School is participating in over of the ‘Sunday Worship’ programme on £44,039 (equivalent to over £2 million today). the coming months: see www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/ BBC Radio 4. In 1858-9, Nightingale chose St Thomas’ nursing/anniversary/ [See page 3 for details of September ‘The Thinking Nurse’ Hospital as the location for her school, with a recent event at Westminster Abbey where exhibition at the Maughan Library, and the first nurses starting on 9 July 1860. Archbishop Desmond Tutu gave an address.] two events at the Wellcome Trust: The School has seen many mergers in its 17 September ‘Handle with care’ will be a history. In 1991 it was amalgamated with The nurses and midwives of tomorrow celebration of nursing and midwifery and the Olive Haydon School of Midwifery The School is heavily involved with policy of the School’s anniversary. and the Thomas Guy & Lewisham School and research that helps shape the nursing and 18 September ‘Navigating Nightingale of Nursing, creating the Nightingale and midwifery profession. Symposium’ will draw together academics Guy’s College of Nursing & Midwifery, Professor Anne Marie Rafferty was a from across the College to examine the and within a year the name changed to the member of then Prime Minister Gordon contribution of Florence Nightingale. Nightingale College of Health. In 1993 the Brown’s Commission on the Future of

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Spanish Ambassador speaks at King’s

DOMINIC TURNER HE SR CARLES CASAJUNA, & Spanish American Studies. Ambassador of Spain, recently Spain currently holds the gave a speech on ‘A New Presidency of the Council of the Design for Europe’ at the Strand European Union for the fourth Campus. time. The main priority for the presidency is the implementation of the Lisbon Treaty which The Lisbon Treaty is a entered into force on 1 December. key priority The Ambassador spoke about the four broad priorities for the presidency: economic recovery The Ambassador was while promoting a model of introduced to the audience sustainable growth; promoting of staff and students by Lord Europe as a global actor and Douro, Chairman of College the eradication of poverty in Council. The lecture and the the world; bringing European lively question and answer session citizenship a step further, with which followed were chaired particular consideration of gender by Professor Robert Archer, equality and the implementation Department of Spanish of the Lisbon Treaty. Professor Robert Archer (right) with HE Sr Carles Casajuna, Ambassador of Spain. Project to reduce HIV transmission

KING’S IS THE CO-ORDINATING release device so as to prevent ‘This programme represents a King’s will ensure the rapid institution for a new project infection with HIV at vaginal or very significant contribution exchange of information, involving 31 partner organisations rectal surfaces. from the European Commission products and laboratory across Europe as well as in No microbicide has yet been to develop new microbicides. personnel that will be needed to South Africa, the USA and approved for use although It brings together many of the ensure the success of the project. Ukraine, aimed at developing a number are being tested. leading European researchers in King’s will also be involved in anti-HIV products to reduce the Combining two or more the field together with colleagues testing the efficacy of potential transmission of HIV by sexual microbicides in a single product from outside Europe.’ microbicides using relatively fast- intercourse. may be much more effective Microbicide development throughput molecular assays. The Combined highly active than using a single microbicide requires a multidisciplinary Microbicides represent a anti-retroviral microbiocides and, importantly, may reduce approach. The project involves potential tool which could (CHAARM) project, co-funded the likelihood of HIV becoming researchers with diverse stop HIV transmission through with a contribution of €12 million resistant to the product. skills including structural sexual contact. As yet, there from the European Commission, Charles Kelly, Professor of biologists, chemists, virologists is no effective microbicide aims to develop microbicide Oral Immunology in the Dental and clinicians as well as on the market. Nevertheless, products that could be applied in Institute, who will be leading representatives of patient groups. the potential impact of a good the form of a gel, cream or a slow- the project at King’s, comments: As co-ordinating institution microbicide is immense. Master’s scholarships for Palestine

KING’S HAS SIGNED UP TO A NEW Under the HESPAL scheme, expenses for the students so that in the UK. This initiative scheme to enable Palestinian King’s will waive the tuition fees the students will receive a full complements King’s wide range university faculty to study for for one master’s student per year scholarship for their study in the of existing funding opportunities a 12-month master’s degree in over the next four years. UK. The scheme will be open to for international postgraduate the UK. The HESPAL (Higher faculty from all ten universities students and our commitment Education Scholarships for in Palestine, including those in to academic collaborations Palestine) initiative aims to ‘...talented Palestinian Gaza. in various part of the Middle help create the next generation scholars can broaden The Principal, Professor Rick East, such as the Britain- of senior academics who can Trainor, said: ‘I am delighted that Israel Research and Academic maintain international quality their knowledge’ King’s is part of this scheme to Exchange Partnership (BIRAX).’ standards at Palestinian give talented Palestinian scholars BIRAX is a bilateral scheme universities and develop renewed, It is anticipated that other the opportunity to broaden which was launched by the sustainable links between sources of the scheme will cover their knowledge and enhance British and Israeli Prime Palestinian and UK universities. pre-departure costs and living their skills through studying Ministers in 2008.

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Chair for Visiting Professor from India JACK LATIMER KING’S HAS SIGNED AN AGREEMENT with the Indian Council for Moot winners Cultural Relations (ICCR) on the establishment of the first ICCR- Law students won the 17th funded Visiting Professorship Willem C. Vis International at a UK university. Under this Commercial Arbitration agreement, King’s will host a Moot held in Vienna, Visiting Professor from India for Austria in April, marking a semester during each academic only the second time that year. The new agreement is a a UK university has won component of the development of the competition. an India Institute at King’s. The team, composed of The agreement was signed LLM students Shingirirai by the Principal, Professor Rick Chaza, Scheherazade Trainor, on behalf of King’s, and Dubash, Bhavna Gokaldas, by Virendra Gupta, the Director Heloise Robinson, and General of ICCR, at King’s. Ben Waidhofer, and third- The potential field for the year LLB student Oliver Visiting Professor will be broad, Coddington, secured their covering disciplines within the place in mooting history humanities, social sciences and when they won against the law. In association with the Chair, University of Ottawa in a there will also be a public ‘ICCR The Principal and Virendra Gupta, the Director General of ICCR, shaking hands after signing nail-biting final round. Lecture’ held every semester. an agreement on the funding of a Visiting Professorship for Indian scholars. The Willem C. Vis Moot Professor Keith Hoggart, Vice- is the biggest and most Principal for Arts & Sciences and for the Visiting Professors to foster As part of the development of prestigious international External Relations, described good research relationships with the Indian Institute, the College commercial law moot court the visiting professorship King’s academics. This should has been increasingly involved competition in the world. as ‘an important step in the further strengthen links between in initiatives and programmes Team member Oliver development of the India the College and India’. with India for example King’s has Coddington commented: Institute, which not only provides The agreement initially covers developed a strategic partnership ‘It was an enjoyable an opportunity for King’s a four-year term, beginning on with Jawaharlal Nehru University experience, made all the students to learn from prestigious 1 September 2010, with the first in New Delhi. Also, last summer more enjoyable by finding academics from India, but also appointment expected to be made King’s co-organised the Study out we had won.’ offers a sufficient period of time in the academic year 2010-11. India Programme. Emergency planning and disaster relief

A 20-STRONG DELEGATION OF and other agencies deal with visit was timely in the light of in humanitarian relief. Mr Chinese experts in disaster relief disaster situations. These events in Haiti. He said that the Li Jisuo, Director-General, visited King’s Humanitarian disaster situations could range seminar produced clear insights Beijing Disaster Relief Donation Futures Programme (HFP) in from natural hazards such as into innovative types of research Affairs Administration Centre, the War Studies Department earthquakes and floods to on mitigating the worst effects of commented on the insights earlier this term to learn about human threats such as terrorism disasters which some of the most gained from the day: ‘We have the UK approach to managing or a nuclear processing plant vulnerable people of the world learned from working with humanitarian crises. failure. could be facing in the future. the Humanitarian Futures ‘The delegation was ‘By meeting face-to-face and Programme that although the particularly interested in how we exchanging different perspectives systems in the UK and China are ‘We have a common in the UK deal with monitoring, on hazards and how to deal with very different and the societies target which is to warning, management and relief them, experts from opposite sides are very different, we have a of disaster situations and the HFP of the world can find a common common target which is to save save lives’ devised a programme to ensure language and begin a dialogue lives. This is common to all the maximum exchange of ideas to protect future generations countries in the world. The Chinese visitors from between our Chinese colleagues of Chinese, British and other ‘Dr Kent and the HFP have Beijing’s Disaster and Social and leading UK specialists in national groups, who will most shown us lots of scenarios which Relief Division were invited emergency preparation,’ said Dr certainly experience new threats will help us in the Beijing Centre to a discussion seminar Randolph Kent, Director of in the future,’ said Dr Kent. to plan for the future. Working which explored how the UK the HFP. The Chinese visitors worked together has given us lots of government, local government Dr Kent said the exchange in panel groups with experts structure and help.’

www.kcl.ac.uk | June 2010 | Comment | 19 Flashback Back to the future Integrating psychiatry, neurology and neurosciences at Denmark Hill.

HE ADVENT OF KING’S HEALTH Partners brings the Institute of T Psychiatry, and the NHS foundation trusts of the South London & Maudsley and King’s College Hospital together into partnership, with the goal of developing their international reputation and leadership in neurosciences and mental health. Denmark Hill has a complex history of alternating collaboration and passive coexistence in these matters – a history that has valuable lessons for the present. When King’s College Hospital (KCH) transferred to Denmark Hill from Portugal Street in July 1913, its medical school had no department of academic psychiatry, though a number of its consultant physicians took an Frederick Mott in his laboratory at the Maudsley in 1916 when he was researching the nature of shell shock. interest in psychological questions, notably William Aldren Turner, physician in charge of ‘had signs of hyperthyroidism’, and patients severed; this time because Maudsley staff neurology. In 1914, partly for this reason, the were given pituitary and thyroid extract to had transferred to hospitals in the suburbs hospital was given a key role in researching treat their symptoms. opened to treat psychiatric casualties from air- the clinical puzzle presented by shell shock. raids. When they returned in 1945, Professor Early in 1915, a Neurological Section was Armistice Aubrey Lewis was at last able to achieve opened at KCH (by now under War Office When the Armistice was signed in 1918, Mapother’s aim of creating an Institute of control and designated the fourth London the link, born in war, between KCH, the Psychiatry (IoP). Established in 1948, it General Hospital). Its role was to assess and King’s College School of Medicine & provided postgraduate teaching and research offer preliminary treatment for psychological Dentistry (KCSMD) and the Maudsley, opportunities but without a dedicated casualties invalided from France. In October, was left to languish. After a brief period as a building. Not until 1967 did that follow, the shell-shock division expanded into the Ministry of Pensions hospital, the Maudsley largely funded by the Board of Governors of newly-constructed Maudsley Hospital under opened to Londoners in February 1923. the Joint Hospital (Bethlem & Maudsley). the direction of Major Frederick Mott. Although it included a postgraduate medical The fledgling Institute was significantly school, Edward Mapother, the medical smaller than KCH Medical School, which Shell shock superintendent and London University’s had its own academic department of The Neurological Section received financial first professor of psychiatry, steadfastly psychiatry and access to some of the brightest support from the Medical Research resisted any suggestion that he or his staff medical students. Furthermore, the IoP Committee (MRC), which in 1915 paid should provide lectures on psychiatry for the admitted patients from anywhere in London, the full-time salary of Dr Cicely May Peake undergraduate curriculum at KCSMD. This whereas King’s had a defined catchment who conducted research into the personal perhaps reflected his known fear of public area. As a result, contact between the two histories of soldiers with shell shock. Dr Peake speaking, but also his belief that the specialty institutions was limited. discovered from a survey of admissions that should only be taught to graduates. In 1975 however, to reflect formal ‘a large majority of the cases of so-called However Alan Gregg, medical director of undergraduate links, Bob Crawley was shell shock … occurred in individuals who the Rockefeller Foundation, argued that the appointed professor of psychological either had a nervous temperament or were quality of psychiatrists could be raised only medicine at the IoP and KCSMD; a post the subjects of an acquired or inherited if talented medical students were enthused at he held until 1989, and in 1997 everything neuropathy’. an early stage in their training. Reluctantly, it changed again (without a war) when the In the following year, research by Dr seems, Mapother was persuaded of the case, IoP and King’s College merged, followed by Edith Green suggested that hypotension and sought funding from the Rockefeller to set partnership with the NHS Trusts, through was correlated with many of the symptoms up an Institute of Psychiatry. In 1932, having King’s Health Partners, in 2008. Denmark of shell shock, in particular nightmares, negotiated the lease of a 35-bed ward Hill Campus now hosts the leading experts fatigue, irritability and depression. Equally, (‘Pantia Ralli’, now called ‘Cotton’) from in psychiatry and neurosciences – and by a return to normal blood pressure was found KCH, he began to teach medical students one measure (papers and citations) – this ‘in nearly every case … [to be] accompanied in a clinical setting. is the most distinguished concentration by a change in the character of the dreams, anywhere outside the United States. What the terror element being less marked’. Mott World War II remains to be seen is what the next decade estimated that 10 per cent of servicemen During the Second World War, formal links of formal partnership will add to this. admitted to the Maudsley with shell shock between KCH and the Maudsley were again Professor Edgar Jones and Professor Shitij Kapur

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ART AT KING’S Alumni Weekend

STAFF ARE INVITED TO ATTEND THE Sally Morgan, Professor Ghosts & Phantoms seventh annual Alumni Weekend Simon Wessely from the this June. Institute of Psychiatry and Alumni Weekend sees a range Professor Peter Parker and of academic lectures, tours and Professor Arnie Purushotham ELAINE MCLAREN social events taking place from from the Integrated Cancer Friday 11 to Sunday 13 June. Centre. There will also be an Highlights of the weekend opportunity to take a historic include visits to some exclusive tour around the Guy’s Campus London tourist attractions and the Strand and Somerset including Big Ben, the Houses House with King’s archivist of Parliament and Lambeth Geoff Browell. Palace. There will also be some Please visit www.alumni.kcl. exciting panel discussions which ac.uk/alumniweekend for more will focus on areas of research information on all the events in Cancer, Neuroscience and taking place. There are a limited Mental Health, and International number of free staff places, so Peace and Security. Panel please contact the Alumni Chairs include alumna Baroness Office to book. Profile 2010

THE NEW (2010) EDITION OF PROFILE College) in a smart and handy (www.kcl.ac.uk/media/publications/ pocket-size form. Copies of profile.html) is now available. Profileare available at reception This small but stylish brochure desks and also in bulk from the gives useful information about Public Relations Department. the College (including statistics, Please email Sam Hutton a campus map, history and ([email protected]) stating a succinct description of the how many copies you require. Medieval Latin play Designer Elaine McLaren was ‘surreal’, and the ‘ordinary’ JULIE MUMBY commissioned by Guy’s and St became ‘extraordinary’, creating STUDENTS FROM THE HISTORY Thomas’ Charity to undertake an art from the mundane. Department’s Latin for art project for King’s Division of Things are not always what Graduates module performed Imaging Sciences, based on the they seem. These images are no the anonymous Ludus de Division’s work in multidisciplinary longer the familiar objects seen by Nativitate in the Chapel at the medical imaging. The artwork can staff every day, but have become Strand Campus. be found in the Rayne Institute in intriguing, mysterious and quirky. This 12th-century piece St Thomas’ Hospital. Professor Phil Blower, Professor was the fifth Medieval Latin The aim of the project was to of Imaging Chemistry, said: Play sponsored by the History use art to make the environment ‘Working with Elaine on this has Department, and it was the feel visually stimulating, and to been a lot of fun, and it has been largest production yet, with unite departments and specialties. fascinating to see the artist’s 30 students involved. Head of Through talking to staff about perspective – so different to ours Department, Dr Paul Readman, their work, Elaine learned about – on our work and workplace. said: ‘I’ve always found the Latin ‘ghost images’ and ‘phantom Also it has certainly made our Play a thoroughly enjoyable objects’. She photographed items corridors into a more stimulating event, and this year’s was no and equipment around the labs environment and created quirky exception. The professionalism directed by Marie-Eve Bertrand, and offices, and her theme grew conversation pieces.’ and commitment of all involved assisted by Diāna Vucāne, both organically by looking obliquely If you know of an unusual or was very impressive, and the on the English Department’s at their shapes, patterns and striking piece of art in a King’s whole production was a strong MA in Text & Performance. textures. building please get in touch. Email demonstration of the vitality of Musical accompaniment was The resulting images were then [email protected] medieval history here at King’s’. provided by two final-year Music digitally collaged, manipulated with details of the piece and a The play was produced by students, Kiann Chow, violinist, and coloured until ‘real’ became photograph if at all possible. Dr Jacqueline Glomski and and Helen Lewis, soprano from Professor Anne Duggan; and was the College Choir.

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New recording from Chapel Choir THE CHAPEL CHOIR HAS JUST Rogier in Naples as well as two The Sealed Angel in the released a recording of music works found in the archives at El Philharmonic Hall together with by the 16th-century composer Escorial and Segovia Cathedral, the St Petersburg Philharmonic Philippe Rogier on the prestigious all newly edited by the Choir’s Choir. This is a work that the independent British label director David Trendell, who Choir recorded two years ago in Hyperion. Rogier was a Flemish is also a Lecturer in the Music a joint recording with the Choir composer who worked at the Department. of Gonville and Caius College, court of Philip II in Spain. Last September the Choir Cambridge for the Delphian The recording includes one of the made a highly successful tour label. In St Petersburg, they will most remarkable mass settings of the East Coast of the USA, also be giving a concert of English of the late 16th century, the funded by the Annual Fund. music from the 16th century Missa Ego sum qui sum, published They have been invited to give to the present day. In early the Shchedrin can be obtained posthumously along with his two concerts this June in St August, the Choir will give four from the Chaplaincy for £12 each other masses in 1598. It also Petersburg, where they will be concerts in France. Copies of the (please write a cheque to King’s includes motets published by performing Rodion Shchedrin’s recording of the Rogier and/or College London). King’s on the silver screen

MOST OF YOU WILL BE WELL AWARE OF is compiling the ultimate King’s Somerset House’s long tradition movie database of campus of appearing in famous films. But cameos – and the list continues did you know that many of our to grow. other campuses have also played a For example, you can spot the starring role on the silver screen? James Clerk Maxwell Building In the latest edition of In at the Waterloo Campus in the Touch, alumni are being quizzed 2009 Sherlock Holmes picture, on films which feature the and the East Wing features in College’s campuses. As a taster, the forthcoming Burke and Hare, are you able to identify the starring Simon Pegg and Andy 1987 Cold War spy film that Serkis. You can enjoy Ricky brought Michael Caine to the Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s King’s Building Council Room, latest offering,Cemetery Junction, where he was subsequently in the knowledge that King’s dressed down by Julian Glover Greenwood Theatre was used [pictured]? If you know the as a sound stage, while looking Which 1987 Cold War spy film broughtMichael Caine to the Council Room on the Strand Campus? answer, make sure to check forward there are strong whispers out the spring issue of In Touch that Captain Jack Sparrow If in your time at King’s Visit www.alumni.kcl.ac.uk/ (available on receptions) for the himself is East Wing-bound, for you recall any memories of kingsonfilm for a current list of full King’s on Location quiz. the forthcoming Pirates of the productions using our campuses films and details of how to put In the meantime, the College Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. on location, please get in touch. your suggestions forward. Images from inside the heart

A VIDEO SHOWING RESEARCH BY DR the BHF’s web pages. compromised in disease. Pauline Bennett and Amanda The video by Dr Bennett’s Dr Bennett heads up a research Wilson from King’s was a runner- team features high resolution group which aims to understand up in a British Heart Foundation electron microscope images the function and organisation (BHF) competition entitled and shows how the junctions of the membrane-associated Reflections of Research. between heart muscle cells are cytoskeleton in cardiomyocytes Scientists, funded by the BHF, organised (right). and to define the structural and from across the UK submitted Special junctions in the protein changes which lead to still images and videos which membrane allow the muscle heart disease. represented their field of research. cells to communicate with Amanda Wilson was, until The images show the variety of each other with chemical, recently, a member of this group pioneering work that is helping electrical and mechanical signals. which is within the Randall unearth new ways to tackle heart This communication is vital Division of Cell & Molecular High resolution electron microscope images and circulatory disease. The for co-ordinating the beating Biophysics, School of Biomedical which show how the junctions between heart winning entries can be viewed on of the heart and is often & Health Sciences. muscle cells are organised in healthy tissue.

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Lion’s Den winners celebrate DAVID TETT TEN KING’S STAFF AND STUDENTS benefited from a total of £10,000 prize money and seed funding after demonstrating a high level of commercial awareness and entrepreneurial spirit at the finals of the King’s College London Graduate Business Plan Competition.

‘The spirit of enterprise is thriving at King’s’

The competition recognises staff and student entrepreneurs who have successfully participated in a six-month business training programme and received alumni mentoring to develop a business idea and business plan and go on to make a successful pitch to a panel of real investors. Lion’s Den winners, from left: Shuzhi Zhou, PhD Neuroscience; Luke Blaxhill, PhD History & Digital Humanities; Jeroen Bergmann, The winner of the Lion’s Den Post-Doctoral Researcher, Applied Biomedical Research; Filipe Lopes, PhD Forensic Science & Drug Monitoring; Joana Lobo Pereira Vicente, PhD Forensic Science & Drug Monitoring; Liliya Smialkova, MSc Environment & Development; Mathilde Gauvain, MA Medieval History; Idea Prize of £2,000 was an Massimo Barcellona, PhD Applied Biomedical Research; Adebusuyi Adeyemi, MSc Medicine Science & Society; and Jason Mellad, interdisciplinary team of masters Post-Doctoral Researcher, Cardiology. students made up of Adebusuyi Adeyemi, MSc Medicine, London Graduate School and Researcher, both from Applied & Drug Monitoring won the Science & Society, Mathilde development money totalling Biomedical Research, together ‘Best Pitch’ trophy for making a Gauvain, MA Medieval History £6,000 for GradFunding which with Jason Mellad, Post Doctoral fantastic pitch about Iluminus, and Liliya Smialkova MSc provides products and services Researcher, Cardiology Division, their business idea to develop a Environment & Development. such as ‘The Alternative Guide to set up B-stable and developed new beauty product. Good Food aims to provide top Postgraduate Funding’ that help the B-Walker, a novel innovative Dr Alison Campbell, who quality local and seasonal food to students gain funding. hands-free walking aid. B-stable heads King’s Business, said: ‘We London schools. Inspired by their own was awarded £2,000 in seed are delighted to see the spirit of Luke Blaxhill, PhD History & experience as clinical researchers funding. enterprise thriving at King’s. It’s Digital Humanities and Shuzhi and physiotherapists Massimo Filipe Lopes and Joana Lobo great to help to seed ideas for new Zhou, PhD Neuroscience, Barcellona, PhD Candidate, and Pereira Vicente, both PhD business ventures and to be able won the King’s College Jeroen Bergmann, Post Doctoral candidates in Forensic Science to support relevant training.’

Hundreds flock to East Wing Arts & Humanities concert

IN MARCH NEARLY 500 ALUMNI, ‘For many years we have On 21 March, 200 musicians Humanities, its world-leading current and former staff and gazed across to the East Wing, from across King’s came Music Department and the friends of the College were and it was quite something for together for the second King’s Annual Fund, the given an opportunity to view alumni to see the view back Arts & Humanities Alumni Verdi Requiem Project was a the interior of the East Wing to King’s,’ said Development Concert, a performance of collaborative effort involving of Somerset House. Demand Director Gemma Peters. ‘It Verdi’s choral masterpiece, the members of all nine Schools. ultimately proved so high that was wonderful to welcome so Requiem in one of London’s Performers included extra tours of the Wing were many alumni, staff and friends most prestigious concert undergraduates, organised, with 25 tours for and I think the exhibitions and venues, Cadogan Hall. The postgraduates, staff and 200 people throughout the day. presentations left the guests proceeds will benefit the new alumni, from dentists to Talks covered the proposed inspired by the College’s vision King’s Integrated Cancer philosophers and from arts and cultural space on the for the building.’ Centre, which is working engineers to political scientists ground floor, the environmental Staff can tour the East Wing at the forefront of cancer making the gap between sustainability of the building, the at Alumni Weekend (11-13 care in London. Supported amateur and professional history of Somerset House and June). Visit www.kcl.ac.uk/ by the School of Arts & performance disappear. plans for the Law School. somersethouse/

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Pollution and stroke survival Building our nervous system

DURING DEVELOPMENT, NERVE CELLS Dr Hindges comments: ‘We have to connect correctly to knew before that this family of other cells in the brain in order to RNA molecules, which regulates build a fully functional network. about one third of all human How they find their targets so genes, is involved in a variety of accurately is a central question in processes, but their role in how neuroscience today. connections are formed in the A new study led by Dr nervous system is completely Robert Hindges, from the MRC novel.’ Centre for Developmental The study showed that the Neurobiology, has uncovered a absence of these microRNAs in role for small RNA molecules, certain classes of nerve cells lead microRNAs, in the regulation to a complete failure in forming of this process. The findings big axon tracts that connect published in the journal PLoS the left and right sides of the ONE may lead to further brain. ‘A next step will now be understanding of neurological a detailed structural assessment SCIENTISTS AT KING’S, IN and used widely in London to diseases, such as Alzheimer’s of these brains through MRI collaboration with researchers evaluate air pollution mitigation and also neurodevelopmental scanning, in collaboration with at Sheffield University, have strategies. Evaluation of the disorders such as Autism or the Institute of Psychiatry,’ says conducted a study which shows model was undertaken using the Schizophrenia. Rita Pinter, study co-author. that survival following a first comprehensive measurements stroke is likely to be shorter for of the London Air Quality patients living in areas with high Network, also operated by ERG. outdoor air pollution. The article Using patient data collected Britain’s musical memory published in Stroke is the first to by the South London Stroke KING’S SOUND ARCHIVE show such an association. Register, variations in survival KING’S HAS OPENED UP BRITAIN’S The study involved Professor patterns were adjusted for a wide musical memory by making Charles Wolfe and Nigel range of factors including age, almost 5,000 historic recordings Smeeton from the Division of gender, social class, ethnicity, available online. Dating from Health and Social Care Research, smoking, pre-existing medical 1902-54, they include Sir Arthur and Dr Sean Beevers from the conditions and type of stroke. Conan Doyle talking reluctantly Environmental Research Group These findings indicate that high about Sherlock Holmes before (ERG) and received support from levels of atmospheric pollution act warming to his favourite topic, the Department of Health. as an additional risk factor for an spiritualism; sound effects of The model data was supplied early death. Significantly, areas trench warfare; and the first-ever Side 3 of the first recording of Warlock’sThe by ERG using a modelling system of highest pollution were close to recordings of hundreds of well- Curlew, 24 March 1931. developed within the group, major roads. known pieces of classical music. The project pays special lectures on music, royal and attention to British musicians recruiting speeches, and the who have been all but forgotten. sounds of everyday life. Helping victims of domestic violence Much recorded until the mid- The sound files may be 1920s, they were dropped after streamed or downloaded, with The NHS must provide to violence against women and EMI absorbed the Columbia comprehensive details of each improved healthcare for women children – the role of the NHS and HMV labels in 1931 and cut track displayed on your personal and children who are victims which lead to the creation of a local artists from their catalogues media player, and there is a of violence, according to an new cross-government group to promote international names. powerful search facility designed independent taskforce (the set up to tackle the issue. Now it’s possible, for the first by the Centre for Computing in Taskforce on the Health Aspects This report sets out a series time in three-quarters of a the Humanities. of Violence Against Women and of recommendations for the century, to hear just how good The project was funded by Children) involving researchers NHS to better support victims British musicians were before the the Arts & Humanities Research and clinicians from King’s of violence. It stresses that Second World War. Council through its Centre Health Partners. increased awareness, training There is also a special focus on for the History and Analysis Researchers from the and education is necessary for special classical repertoires: some of Recorded Music and by Institute of Psychiatry, King’s NHS staff to be able to apply well-known, such as chamber the Joint Infrastructure and and a Consultant Obstetrician the same rigorous, systematic music and Schubert’s songs, Systems Committee through from Guy’s and St Thomas’ approach to this issue, as has others less so, such as pioneering its ‘Musicians of Britain and NHS Foundation Trust, were been applied to other areas of performances of early music Ireland’ project. All recordings members of this taskforce which NHS work, such as diabetes from Byrd to Boccherini. And come from King’s unique archive produced the report Responding and stroke. charting social and political of 150,000 early recordings on change is the spoken word: 78rpm discs.

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Voting gap HE funding Hellenic Studies Hung parliaments

Professor Alison Wolf, The Principal, Professor Rick Professor Roderick Beaton, Robert Blackburn, Professor Department of Management, Trainor, was interviewed on Department of Byzantine & of Constitutional Law, was presented BBC Radio 4’s Radio 4’s The Report about the Modern Greek Studies, was interviewed by GMTV Analysis programme on the cuts in public funding facing interviewed on the Hellenic and BBC Radio 4’s Today gender gap in voting, she was universities. King’s UCU Broadcasting Corporation’s programme about the interviewed on BBC Radio representative and students ‘ERT World’ about the constitutional and political 4’s Today programme and also contributed. The future reform of King’s Centre for issues surrounding hung Channel 4’s Dispatches – Kids of the Chair of Palaeography Hellenic Studies. He was also parliaments. Don’t Count and also wrote was discussed on BBC 2’s interviewed by Kathimerini, articles for The Independent Newsnight and Radio 4’s To Vima and New Greek and The Sunday Times. Today programme. Debate Television. Cries of the Passion about the College’s Academic and Financial Sustainability Ben Quash, Professor of Child migrants programme also appeared in Schizophrenia Christianity & the Arts, Times Higher Education and Department of Theology & Dr Frank Bongiorno, Menzies The Guardian. Professor Shitij Kapur, Dean of Religious Studies, wrote and Centre for Australian Studies, the Institute of Psychiatry, is presented Radio 4’s Good appeared on the BBC News part of the largest academic- Friday Liturgy ‘Cries of the Channel and BBC Radio Stop & search industry collaboration for Passion’. It was recorded in Wales on the launch of a drug discovery in depression a series of locations around new database comprising a Ben Bowling, Professor of and schizophrenia. The London, including inside large collection of criminal Criminology & Criminal launch was published around Miroslaw Balka’s ‘How It and convict records. He Justice, School of Law, was the world, including leading Is’ in the Tate Modern, at was interviewed on BBC interviewed about his research pharmaceutical journal, Scrip. the Emirates Stadium and in Radio Wales and the BBC into stop and search powers on Great Ormond Street. World Service on the UK ITV1’s London Tonight and Government’s apology to Sunrise London. Book keeping children sent to Australia and Quality of care elsewhere. He was also quoted Dominic Rathbone, Professor of in articles about Australia’s Bipolar parallels Ancient History, Department Dr Jill Maben, senior research relationship with Britain if the of Classics, took part in the fellow and deputy director Conservatives win the election Dr James MacCabe, Institute of Radio 4 series A Brief History of the National Nursing in Sky News and The Age. Psychiatry, released findings of Double Entry Book Keeping. Research Unit, examined the which drew strong parallels The series investigated how evidence for a link between between high academic accountants shaped the nursing staff’s well-being and Nuclear policy performance and bipolar modern world. the quality of patient care in disorder. This topic transpired the Nursing Standard. Professor Wyn Q Bowen, in publications ranging from Department of War Studies, The Sun to the New Scientist. 30-minute op wrote an article for Today Children ‘stunted’ Online (Singapore), and Stephanie Amiel, Professor was interviewed on BBC2’s Antenatal advice of Diabetic Medicine in Professor Peter Emery, Newsnight, the BBC World the Department of Gene Head of Nutrition & Service and on BBC Radio Mary Sheridan, midwifery & Cell Diabetic Medicine, Dietetics, commented in an Five Live’s 5 Live Drive and lecturer and NIHR Clinical commented in the Daily article for BBC News Online The Weekend News on US research training fellow with Mail on the long-term benefits discussing the effect of nuclear policy and also Iran. the School of Nursing & of Islet Transplantation war on children’s health, Midwifery, offered new mums for patients with Type 1 including issues such as advice about what they can Diabetes. poor nutrition which leads Byzantine exhibition expect from their antenatal to stunted growth. classes in Practical Parenting. Dr Dionysios Stathakopoulos, IQ and genetics Department of Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies, Cultural icon The New Scientist published was interviewed by the results found by Professor WDR (West German State Dr Ruth Adams, Cultural & Robert Plomin, Institute of Radio) on the occasion of the Creative Industries, spoke on Psychiatry. The results of See www.kcl.ac.uk/media/ Byzantine exhibition at the BBC Radio Wales about the Professor Plomin’s twin studies press-cuttings for the latest Art and Exhibition Hall of the death of Malcolm McLaren, found that genetics contribute media coverage. Email Federal Republic of Germany ‘inventor’ of punk and founder more to our IQ levels as we [email protected] if you have in Bonn. of the Sex Pistols. grow older. featured in the media.

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Student accommodation In remembrance Student of the Year IT WAS WITH GREAT SADNESS THAT LEO IJEBOR, A SECOND-YEAR students and staff in the School BSc Computer Science with of Medicine were informed of Management student, has won the death of Muhammad Haris the IT and Computer Science Ahmed (1989-2010). Undergraduate of the Year award, Harris was killed on the organised by TARGETjobs. morning of 9 March, following co.uk, one of the UK’s leading a collision between his bicycle graduate recruitment websites. and a lorry at the junction of Leo collected the award Snowsfields and Weston Street from Michael Portillo, host of near the Guy’s Campus. the event, and Rob Farace, the He was a popular fourth- National Resourcing Manager year medical student who was from the NHS. taking an intercalated psychology Leo said: ‘I have a lot of things degree this year, having taken to be grateful to King’s for, but by Phase 3 last year. far the greatest is the amount of More than 300 people support and world-class teaching attended Haris’s funeral. His life that it provides in an environment was celebrated at a Memorial that will maximise learning Service at the House of Lords potential. A great number of the in April where he was awarded reasons why I won the award a posthumous BSc in Medical are attributable to what I have Sciences from the College. learned studying at King’s.’

KCLSU election

An artist’s impression of the Champion Hill redevelopment.

King’s, working with University power installation, low energy Partnerships Programme, was fittings, and heat recovery recently granted planning systems will cut energy permission for a major scheme consumption levels and help that will deliver modern and to reduce CO2 emissions by sustainable accommodation for up to 77 per cent per student. its students. Rainwater recycling and Much of the existing a sustainable urban drainage accommodation at the system linked to a series of Champion Hill site in swales and an ornamental Southwark, South London, pond will reduce surface water will be demolished to make run off 20 fold and, combined way for 740 new or refurbished with some 30 extra trees that eco-friendly rooms. The will be planted and additional magnificent Victorian ‘Platanes’ green spaces, will increase building on site will be retained opportunities for wildlife. In and refurbished. addition, construction materials This new accommodation will be chosen on the basis of will reduce energy consumption their sustainability. From left: Emilie Tapping, Natasha Wynarczyk, Ryan Wain and Kia Alam. and ensure substantial CO2 The Grade II Listed ‘Platanes’ savings. The scheme, which building on the site will be received unanimous consent sympathetically restored and In March after 2,642 votes Kia Alam (VP Student from the Council’s Planning upgraded but left substantially were cast the King’s College Activities & Facilities) and Committee, will deliver unchanged and King’s has London Students’ Union Natasha Wynarczyk (VP significant improvements to the worked closely with local election closed and the Student Media & Engagement). environmental performance groups, Southwark Council, following students were The new team will take of the site, as well as an increase and independent architectural announced as Sabbatical up office on 1 August. Oliver in green amenity space. advisers to make sure that Officers: Ryan Wain Adebayo and Andrew Feneley Photovoltaic panels on the the scheme complements its (President), Emilie Tapping were elected as Student roofs, a combined heat and surroundings. (VP Academic Affairs), Trustees.

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The Land Question in Pauper Capital, London and Video in Qualitative Body Dysmorphic Disorder: Britain, 1750-1950 the Poor Law, 1790-1870 Research: Analysing Social A Treatment Manual Interaction in Everyday Life

Edited by Dr Paul Readman, Dr David Green, Department of Professor Christian Heath, Dr Jon Dr David Veale, Institute of Department of History, and Matthew Geography Hindmarsh, Professor Paul Luff, Psychiatry, and Fugen Neziroglu Cragoe Department of Management

The ‘Land Question’ occupied a Few measures, if any, can claim Video provides unprecedented Being dissatisfied with one’s central place in modern British to have had a greater impact on opportunities for research in the appearance is normal, but Body history for nearly two centuries. British society than the poor law. social sciences. It offers new Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) is From parliamentary enclosure As a comprehensive system and highly distinctive ways of something different. Someone in the mid-18th century to the of relieving those in need, it collecting data and building with BDD is preoccupied with fierce Labour party debate provided relief for a significant records of human culture and their appearance, is excessively concerning land policy after proportion of the population enables new forms of analysis, self-conscious and experiences World War II, the fate of the land but influenced the behaviour presentation and publication. marked distress as a result. held the power to galvanize the of a much larger group that It is increasingly used in As a group, individuals with attention of the nation. lived at or near the margins of research in a range of disciplines BDD have high rates of suicide, Liberals, radicals and poverty. It touched the lives of including sociology, social psychiatric hospitalisation and socialists attacked the evils of countless numbers of individuals anthropology, linguistics, unemployment. They are often ‘landlordism’, proposing measures not only as paupers but also as psychology, management, housebound or socially isolated ranging from allotment bills to ratepayers, guardians, officials education, and communications and have great difficulties with nationalisation. Conversely, and magistrates. and is fast becoming a significant relationships. political conservatives mounted This system underwent strand of qualitative methods and Body Dysmorphic Disorder various campaigns in defence significant change in the 19th ethnography in social sciences. is the first academic book to of the landed aristocracy and century with the shift from This book provides an provide both an overview of landed property in general, the old to the new poor law. introduction on how to use video current knowledge of BDD resisting the schemes of reformers The extent to which changes for qualitative research and in and a treatment protocol using while likewise sponsoring in policy anticipated new particular, how to undertake cognitive behaviour therapy or legislation to further their own legislation is a key question and fine-grained studies of social medication. cause. The ensuing debate over is here examined in the context interaction in everyday settings. Owing to lack of research the land question became a of London. Rapid population It addresses the problems that and clinical experience, BDD fixture of British politics between growth and turnover, the lack of arise in undertaking video-based is often misdiagnosed and 1750 and 1950. personal knowledge between rich ethnographic studies, considers treated inappropriately. Patients Featuring a distinguished line- and poor, and the close proximity the ethical and practical issues frequently present with other up of expert contributors, The of numerous autonomous that arise in data collection, and symptoms and do not reveal Land Question in Britain offers poor law authorities created a explores the ways in which we their main problem unless the first synoptic and pan-British distinctly metropolitan context can subject video recordings asked. Alternatively if they are treatment of the land question in for the provision of relief. of conduct and interaction to diagnosed, they are often treated this period. Critically engaging Pauper Capital provides the detailed scrutiny and analysis. inappropriately. with recent research, the essays first detailed study of the poor It draws on a number of key Clinicians find patients with in this collection offer a range of law in London during the examples of video-based research BDD difficult to help and fresh social, cultural, political and period leading up to and after undertaken by the authors this book tries to teach ways economic perspectives on the the implementation of the Poor including studies of the control of engaging patients in an land question as it played out in Law Amendment Act of 1834. It rooms on London Underground, alternative understanding of the England, Scotland, Wales and draws on a wide range of primary medical consultations and problem and steer them away Ireland. and secondary sources. surgical operations. from cosmetic procedures. Palgrave Macmillan Ashgate London: Sage Wiley-Blackwell

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Three favourite... places near Guy’s Campus As recommended by Clair McInally, Senior Communications Officer, King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre

John Keats statue, Counting House Colonnade If you have walked through the Counting House Colonnade to New Hunt’s House you might have noticed the petite body of John Keats peeking out from his stone alcove. Values, Ethics & Health Care Consuming Space: Placing Youth Prolonged: Old Age This unobtrusive statue sitting Consumption in Perspective Postponed quietly within the square of Dr Peter Duncan, Department of manicured grass is the first Education & Professional Studies Edited by Dr Michael Goodman Professor Robert Weale, Institute of thing I see every morning and Professor Michael Redclift, Gerontology before I start work, and he Department of Geography, and makes me smile. He is perfect David Goodman company at lunch while you read a book or enjoy a coffee. Why is thinking about values An examination of the What exactly is human ageing? and ethics a crucial component relationship between space, Can it be slowed down? These Taz Cafe, Borough High Street of health care training and place and consumption offers questions have puzzled scientists Taz is a small, unpretentious practice? How can we go about important insights into some and laymen alike for generations, cafe that serves really good engaging in such thinking? of the most powerful forces and continue to do so today. wholesome Turkish food Values, Ethics & Health Care constructing contemporary The author addresses these at reasonable prices. Small responds to these essential societies. Space and place are thought-provoking issues by stools and tables are available questions. It examines key made and remade through challenging pre-conceived if you arrive at the right time; ethical frameworks and debates consumption. Yet how do notions of age-perception, otherwise takeaway is always within the field of health cultures of consumption age-acceptance and inter-age an option. I usually order the care, locating them firmly in discover space, and how do they relations. Pertinent matters meze – offering a selection of their social and occupational construct place? of age-related communication different tastes all on one plate. contexts. Guiding readers Consuming Space addresses are dealt with, and the reader through a range of dilemmas these questions by exploring the is treated to a grand tour of the Cobbled streets of London Bridge and difficulties encountered in implications of conceptualising latest theories of ageing, age- The best thing about London health care practice with case consumption as a spatial, related biological changes and Bridge for me is the cobbled studies and real-life examples, increasingly global, yet intensely age-related diseases, such as streets. I love walking from this text illustrates how to apply localised activity. Alzheimer’s Disease. Here, London Bridge tube down to knowledge to professional This work develops integrative the author’s expertise in age- The Golden Hinde and along practice and decision-making. approaches that articulate related eye diseases comes into the Thames. I half expect the It offers a critical and reflective the processes involved in the its own. characters of a Dickens novel understanding of health care production and consumption Professor Weale’s work not to walk by. The cobbled streets ethics and values and presents of space and place. The result only underlines important create an atmosphere that is so an interprofessional approach is a varied, engaging, and genetic and avoidable risk factors unique to this part of London. and relates theory to ‘everyday’ innovative study of consumption but gives ample consideration to I feel like the past and the ethics. It also includes helpful and its role in structuring possible consequences stemming present are converging under features such as ‘thinking contemporary capitalist political from different early lifestyles. my feet with every step. about’ points and links to economies which enriches our Readers will re-consider their further reading. This is essential understanding of the diverse ideas of what it means to age, and Email your three favourite reading for undergraduates spatial and locational patterns gain a better understanding of things related to a Campus to: and postgraduates as well as and relations of consumption in what can and cannot slow down internalcommunications@ practitioners in the field. modern society. the process of ageing. kcl.ac.uk SAGE Publications Ltd Ashgate Imperial College Press, 2010

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