Culture at King’s 2013-14 IN REVIEW

INTRODUCTION A look back

In 1852 John Henry Newman set out his thoughts on the role brought together academics, students, of a university, championing a well-rounded education that artists and local communities and gave us a taste of the potential for teaches students ‘to think and to reason and to compare and this new facility to create collisions to discriminate and to analyse’. A university’s primary purpose, between science and art that will he wrote, was to give students ‘the clear, calm, accurate vision enhance the King’s experience for researchers and students while and comprehension of all things’ that supports good judgment: connecting the university more ‘prophetic from its knowledge of history’ and with ‘supernatural effectively with its locality. charity from its freedom from littleness and prejudice’. I’m very grateful to those people and organisations that have supported and enabled all this work – in Newman’s midwifery experienced through the particular, Wellcome Trust, Guy’s & sentiments came music of Sawchestra. St Thomas’ Charity, Legacy Trust to mind as I read At the same time, we’ve continued UK and LUMA Foundation – and an introductory to connect the university’s academics to the many colleagues across the message this with cultural organisations and artists, university and the cultural sector summer from our ensuring that knowledge generated whose engagement has made it new Principal, within King’s has real impact in possible. I’d also like to thank my Professor Ed the sector, where it can stimulate teams for the ongoing dedication Byrne. In his new approaches to contemporary and hard work that have enabled the note, the Principal sets out the role challenges and opportunities. I’m successes featured in this report. of the university in assisting ‘the particularly proud that we have played The following pages set out what development of analytical skills, a leadership role in addressing the was achieved over the course of the willingness to engage in debate, sector’s increasing demand for access last year for student and academic tolerance of ambiguity and lateral to evidence, through the development communities, for King’s and for arts thinking in our graduates’ and of CultureCase (www.culturecase.org). and culture. In collaborations that describes a responsibility to produce Designed specifically with the end extend across the university and out ‘educated citizens who are not only user in mind, this web-based resource into the sector, we’re setting out a new proficient – if not leaders – in their collates academic-standard research vision for how universities can work professions, but able to take part in a and puts it in the hands of the cultural in partnership with artists and cultural measured and informed debate about sector, where it can inform decision- organisations to inspire students, the great issues of our time’. The world making and help to build a compelling enrich academic research, drive may be very different, but 160 years case for investment. innovation, widen participation and after Newman, our responsibility to The benefits of these collaborations engage a broader public – in cultural provide our students with the fully flow in both directions. Cultural London and beyond. rounded education that underpins partnerships offer academics across civil society remains unchanged. King’s new ways to approach their Throughout my second year at work and Professor Ben Quash’s King’s, it’s been heartening to see description of one of our creative hubs, the powerful role that culture can play the Cultural Institute, as ‘completing in creating the environment where an electrical circuit and channeling this kind of education can take place. academic energy to new places’, Through cultural partnerships we’ve vividly encapsulates the unique role we offered students an unparalleled range play in brokering collaborations that Deborah Bull of opportunities to develop new ideas, unlock ideas and provoke alternative Director, Cultural Partnerships, to think imaginatively, to discover perspectives on research. King’s College London new skills, to challenge conventions As our second year drew to a close and to apply their learning in new I was very pleased to see our first environments: from sector internships, series of pre-opening programming through behind-the-scenes access to take place in and around the site LEFT: Robot from Welcome to Happy the development process for Privacy on Guy’s Campus that will become Redoubt by Juneau Projects. Image at London’s Donmar Warehouse, to Science Gallery London. Frequencies by Jana Chiellino

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Culture at King’s

Through Culture at King’s, we aim to connect the finest minds 2016 – offers an innovative space across higher education and cultural practice, finding new where science and art collide. Part of the Global Science Gallery Network, ways to enhance the academic and student experience while, Science Gallery London will bring at the same time, adding value and delivering benefits across together researchers, students, local arts and culture. communities and artists in new ways to stimulate fresh thinking and drive innovation. Our activity is realised in a number The Cultural Institute connects the Partnership is fundamental to of ways, including: university with practitioners, producers, everything we do: we work in • A programme of Cultural Enquiries, policy makers and participants across partnership with students and which provide academic insights arts and culture, creating space where academics across our eight Faculties and recommendations on major conventions are challenged and original and the Global Institutes, and with issues, from the legacy of the perspectives emerge. Through its an ever-increasing number and range Cultural Olympiad to access to programmes and activities, the Cultural of artists and cultural organisations the arts for young people. Institute aims to put academic research across the sector. • The creation of tools like CultureCase, to work in the cultural sector, enhance Through cultural partnerships, which makes academic research the student experience, inspire new we have: accessible to those people who can approaches to teaching, research • Enriched the university experience use it most effectively in their work. and learning and increase public of nearly 1,800 students, providing • Two cultural hubs: the Cultural engagement with the work of King’s. employment, internships and events Institute and Science Gallery Science Gallery London – set and exhibitions, opening up access London. to open on Guy’s Campus in early to the best minds in arts and culture

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LEFT: Museum of Water, installation by Amy Sharrocks, commissioned and produced by ArtsAdmin and Somerset House Trust, in partnership with the Cultural Institute and LIFT. Image by Jana Chiellino RIGHT: Post-apocalyptic market stalls from Welcome to Happy Redoubt. Image by Jana Chiellino

as part of their learning. These genuine impact beyond our walls. the university has much to offer the collaborations have also allowed • Attracted almost 30,000 visitors to cultural sector, but also much to gain. our cultural partners to engage with our exhibitions and events, with The World Economic Forum Global the next generation of producers, a further 65,000 listening to our Agenda Council has recognised the practitioners and participants, podcasts, engaging a broader public potential for art to ‘exert a powerful benefiting from their original with the work of the university and influence on societal development’ and thinking and new ideas. providing our academics with a live for artists to ‘challenge commonly held • Supported over 160 academics audience on which to test out ideas. perspectives with innovative thinking, from 45 departments across raise awareness about social issues, King’s, giving them opportunities break down barriers to cross-cultural to collaborate with artists and The close links between the Cultural understanding and global dialogue and cultural organisations to transcend Institute and our department have inspire creative ideas’. disciplinary boundaries and put proved both productive and very exciting. In line with its mission to work their research to work in the These links are extremely valuable to us in service of society, King’s College cultural sector. as individuals and as a department, and London has set itself an ambitious • Connected King’s with nearly 400 I hope they continue to grow. challenge: to identify solutions to cultural organisations, artists and Professor Josephine McDonagh some of the world’s biggest questions. creatives – from the Crafts Council to Former Head, Department of English With its capacity to bridge divides, the BBC, China Culture Connect to challenge the status quo and provoke the Mental Health Foundation, the Building on the university’s new thinking, Culture at King’s has Donmar Warehouse to Resonance long history of collaboration and an increasingly important role to play FM – creating spaces for innovation interdisciplinarity, the second year in helping the university deliver on and ensuring that King’s research has of Culture at King’s has shown that this ambition.

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Enhancing the student experience

In its recent strategy for the creative industries, Create UK, the Southbank Centre and V&A, Creative Industries Council identified the importance of increasing giving them unique opportunities and insights into the organisations opportunities for young people that ‘bridge the gap between and how they work. 131 students study and the world of work’ and of an education system that took part in this year’s Challenge, ‘includes a commitment to creativity’. proposing how the four organisations might work together to ‘share’ audiences. The winning ideas Our partnerships with the cultural Opening doors sector do just that. They provide According to Sir Nicholas Serota, students, who are at the heart of Director of Tate, ‘today’s interns are Working with the Science Gallery London everything we do at King’s, with tomorrow’s arts sector workforce… team was an excellent experience, both original learning opportunities internships are a valuable learning allowing me to develop skills in a diverse and real-world work experience, and development opportunity for and challenging environment. I am building critical – and universal – those aspiring to a career in the arts honoured to have been able to work attributes for today’s increasingly sector’. Perhaps the most distinctive on such an important development for competitive job market such as internship programme we created King’s, particularly on a project focused creativity, flexibility and imagination. this year was the second King’s on combining sciences and art, and This helps sustain the university’s Cultural Challenge, a chance for engaging young people. position in the top three universities four students to win a paid internship Claire Jordan for graduate employability. with the Royal Opera House, RSC, BSc Nutrition student

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for theatre audiences to uncover LEFT: Lauren Holden, one of the winners the extent to which Big Brother is of King’s Cultural Challenge 2014. Image watching them, used by over 7,000 by David Tett people so far. TOP RIGHT: Promotional image for Digital Double app created in collaboration with Headlong This was an excellent opportunity for me BOTTOM RIGHT: Student at King’s Cultural Challenge 2014. Image by David Tett to put into creative practice my academic research on the issues of surveillance, technology and the politics of identity. I also now use the Digital Double app in my postgraduate teaching courses to demonstrate key points surrounding the debates on surveillance mechanisms. Dr Btihaj Ajana Academic lead on 1984 collaboration and lecturer in CMCI/Digital Humanities

Working with us This year, Culture at King’s has engaged with nearly 1,800 students, welcoming over 1,600 to our activities and providing nearly 180 with employment through our public events programme. 16 internships within our team and with our cultural partners have offered first- hand experience of working in the cultural sector, while the pre-opening programming for Science Gallery London is already providing new opportunities for student employment and skills acquisition. This year we took part in the university’s first Undergraduate Research Fellowship scheme, which aimed to offer students the opportunity to work on and experience a research included a ‘disloyalty app’, which project alongside academics from rewards patrons of one venue with The process of taking part in the Faculties and Institutes across exclusive offers for ‘checking in’ Challenge alone was invaluable – with King’s. Megan Beech (English), at events held by the others. The the chance to test my ideas with Ruby Guyatt (Theology) and Claire app was subsequently featured in professionals from the four institutions Jordan (Nutrition) undertook research Arts Professional. involved. I feel exceptionally privileged projects that will help shape our to have been given such an amazing future activity. Claire is continuing Going behind the scenes opportunity, which may even result in to contribute to the Science Gallery This year we were able to provide putting my proposal into practice!’ London team. students with unrivalled opportunities Lauren Holden for hands-on experience and behind- BMus Music student and winner of King’s the-scenes access. Examples include: Cultural Challenge 2014 Working at the Cultural Institute opened • 10 students participating in my eyes to the work of photographers, workshops with the Donmar • Students and academics working writers, artists I hadn’t been exposed to Warehouse creative team and with theatre company Headlong as before and the public events introduced Anthony Lilley, AHRC Council it transformed Orwell’s 1984 me to some incredibly interesting people member and CEO of Magic for the stage. The collaboration, – including artists whose galleries I have Lantern Productions (and a led by Dr Btihaj Ajana, lecturer visited since. Sector Associate for the Cultural in CMCI/Digital Humanities, Sophie Lally Institute), which helped shape the resulted in the production of the PhD student, English development of Privacy. Digital Double: a free-to-use app

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Stimulating new approaches to research

In the 21st century, universities have a distinctive role to play in We have amplified the university’s their communities, generating new knowledge that contributes to focus on interdisciplinary research and innovation by creating connections the economy and to quality of life. King’s College London, with its between arts and culture and a wide position at the heart of the world’s most vibrant capital city, offers range of academics from across King’s. its academics unrivalled access to cultural London and beyond, helping to ensure that their research is genuinely rooted in need My engagement with the Cultural Institute and delivers real impact outside the university’s walls. resulted in a paradigm shift in the way I view robots as embedded functional beings in society. Our programmes have worked Promoting interdisciplinarity Dr Thrishantha Nanayakkara in various ways to stimulate new As outlined in Nesta’s Creating Senior Lecturer, Department of Informatics approaches this year and Science value across boundaries report, Gallery London will add to this as it ‘Interdisciplinary innovation… reflects Our Ideas Labs and Open Space provides more and more platforms for a growing understanding about the events bring together a diverse range live action research and for academics nature of the knowledge economy – of academics and arts professionals to collaborate with artists and the wider the ideas needed to solve a problem around a core theme as a starting public. The fresh perspectives these are often in a different place from the point for knowledge exchange and collaborations afford our academics problem itself, making interdisciplinary new collaborations. This year, 26 add real value to their research. innovation an essential tool’. academics and 19 cultural sector

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Department of English, used the Aaron and Jojo, by Beryl Bainbridge Inviting a wide range of academics from paintings of the well-known novelist as human geography to neuroscience into a starting point for a journey through the unknown ambit of contemporary Bainbridge’s creative life. The project dance produced surprising insights will shape her ongoing work and for both of us as we together explored attracted nearly 8,500 visitors. the common obsessions with and For Midsummer Water Day, interrogations of the human body. academics from the departments Shobana Jeyasingh of Geography and English, led Artistic Director, Shobana Jeyasingh Dance by Professor Frances Cleaver, Professor Clare Lees and Professor Pairing academics with artists Alan Read, developed a water-themed We have enabled academics to programme of talks and events inspired enhance their work by partnering by Amy Sharrocks’ Museum of Water, with artists, encouraging them to bringing nearly 1,000 people to King’s engage a new public through cultural on one day. collaborations and to make their research porous to public interaction. Accessing the best minds As Professor John Womersley, As well as a host of cultural partners Champion for Public Engagement at and supporters – we regularly attract Research Councils UK, says, ‘public high-profile speakers, from Arts engagement in research is vital. It Council England chair Sir Peter enriches the research process and Bazalgette to Lord Bragg – this year ensures the results of our work reach saw the appointment of four respected out beyond the usual environments of Sector Associates to advise, extend academia, business and government’. and support our collaborations: Jenny Waldman, Director of the First World War Centenary Cultural Programme; Curating the Bainbridge exhibition has Hilary Carty, Independent Consultant changed the way I think about academic at Co-Creatives Consulting; Anthony research and how it can be presented Lilley, AHRC Council member and to a wider public. At an early stage in my CEO of Magic Lantern Productions; career this has been transformational. and curator, broadcaster and cultural Dr Susie Christensen historian Dr Gus Casely-Hayford. Curator of Art & Life: The Paintings of Beryl Bainbridge, post doc (Department of English) Like completing an electrical circuit, Frequencies – Tune into Life was the the link that the Cultural Institute has partners were brought together to first pre-opening activity from Science established between research academics discuss themes of Arts & the Global Gallery London. Designed to inspire at King’s and our Sector Associates – and Arts & Digital, with projects now people to think about how their body with their huge range of connections and in development for the coming year. works, the project partnered eight insights into the creative and cultural The partnerships we brokered musicians and artists with academics – domains – has channeled academic between academics and three from a student midwife to a consultant energy to new places. independent producers – Shobana haematologist – to explore the rhythms Professor Ben Quash Jeyasingh Dance, Fuel and Headlong of our lives and to use these cycles Department of Theology & Religious Studies – resulted in events ranging from to create unique performance pieces films to performance, all developed staged across King’s and beyond. Our Associates have helped us through cross-disciplinary research Rwanda in Photographs: Death explore potential collaborations, that prompted the academics to Then, Life Now saw Dr Zoe Norridge, raised the profile of our work in think differently about their work. Lecturer in English and Comparative the sector, provided fresh insights Collaborating with a choreographer Literature, work with Autograph ABP and perspectives to empower our encouraged one of our robotics director Mark Sealy to curate the first academics and orchestrated successful professors to take his research in a international group show of work by events open to King’s and the sector, new direction, while a professor of professional Rwandan photographers, including a discussion between culture and creative industries will which brought nearly 5,000 people Anthony Lilley and Professor now perform in the theatre piece into King’s. Andrew Prescott, former Head of the supported by the project in which In Art & Life: The Paintings of Beryl Department of Digital Humanities, she participated. Bainbridge, Dr Susie Christensen, on the implications of big data.

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Addressing sector challenges & opportunities

Over the last year, two significant investigations – a Warwick evidence-based decision-making and Commission and the Arts & Humanities Research Council’s help build the case for investment. Created in response to a growing Cultural Value Project – have stimulated a renewed interest in demand for access to evidence, it has articulating the various ways in which arts and culture add value. already attracted well over 4,000 users. Debate continues about the parity of funding structures, with concerns voiced about an increasing middle class domination The work King’s is doing to bridge the of the arts and the relationship between London and the regions. divide between academic research and arts and cultural making is precious and particularly timely, given that the arts need Alongside these challenges are of academics to inject rigour and to make their case more persuasively than untapped opportunities and generate fresh perspectives. ever, and to work ever more effectively unanswered questions: the potential with ever fewer means to do so. for cultural venues to capitalise on new Putting research to work David Lan technology, for example, or the role In April 2014 we launched Artistic Director, Young Vic and Chair, What Next? of criticism in a society where social CultureCase, a free-to-use web resource media has made citizen-critics of us all. putting academic research in the hands Examining the big questions Over the last year we have offered of the cultural sector. CultureCase gives This year we launched our second the sector a neutral space to address practitioners access to lay summaries Cultural Enquiry, due to report in some of these issues, and a network of academic research, to support early 2015, investigating the ways

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the case for the creation of a consortium to maximise the value With great insight the Cultural Institute of major sporting and national matched us with Dr Nick Wilson in what events, which we are beginning to could have been an awkward blind date establish. To support this we have but now feels like a lifelong relationship. commissioned with Nielsen a public David Micklem tracking study, the first systematic Co-founder, 53 Million Artists barometer of attitudes to culture in the UK, and will host our first • My First Inclusive Ballet, major symposium in January 2015 a partnership between the in partnership with Deloitte and the Department of Education & British Council. Professional Studies at King’s and English National Ballet School, which tackles the question of how The Major Events Consortium from to make ballet more accessible to Culture at King’s promises to bring children with learning difficulties together all the key people in this space and disabilities. The resulting to ensure we build on current best resources have been used at 52 practice and create new ways to really performances across the UK, make this work. reaching audiences of over 30,000. Martin Green • Autopoiesis, a digital project led Chief Executive, Hull City of Culture 2017 by Dr Btihaj Ajana (Department of Culture, Media & Creative Science Gallery London will Industries/Digital Humanities) provide a further space to explore big, that aims to explore in what way contemporary challenges, through digital technology and online the collision of art and science in the space can provide people with a public realm. platform for artistic self-expression in the United Arab Emirates by Re-thinking the status quo encouraging them to submit art In the last year the Cultural Institute work. A pilot website has already has brokered multiple partnerships attracted nearly 1,000 users. Development performance of Early Days between the sector and academics • Criticism Now, a partnership with (of a Better Nation) at Battersea Arts that have enabled a fresh approach the Department of English, Royal Centre. Image by Ryoko Uyama to the way audiences participate Opera House, Young Vic and in culture. At the heart of each Mahogany Opera Group, which emerging project is a key research seeks to interrogate the nature of question. Projects include: cultural criticism in the present day • 53 Million Artists, a partnership and explore the potential for a more Children and young people flourish between artists David Micklem considered forum for interrogating through participation in the arts. and Jo Hunter, and Dr Nick culture in partnership with the Through this Cultural Enquiry into access Wilson (Department of Culture, cultural sector. to the arts for young people I hope Media & Creative Industries) • Early Days (of a Better Nation), that a comprehensive and deliverable which aims to make an artist of which saw experts in political strategy can be developed to release everyone in England. It seeks to economy from King’s work with the great untapped reservoir of creative discover whether ‘doing’ art can be interactive theatre makers Coney potential in this and the next generations beneficial for everyone and whether to create an immersive theatre of children and young people. positive action can transform performance which challenges Marcus Davey society’s take-up of art practice. audiences to rebuild a country Chief Executive and Artistic Director torn apart by civil war and aims at the Roundhouse to address the role of academic What I value most from my involvement expertise in the development of in which successive governments in 53 Million Artists is being given participatory theatre. have sought to provide young people permission by its co-founders… to be an with access to the arts. artist; my approach to doing research We have also built on the has changed as a result. recommendations made in our Dr Nick Wilson first Cultural Enquiry,Beyond Department of Culture, Media & Performance. The Enquiry made Creative Industries

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Engaging a wider public with King’s

Working in partnership with our academic and student A group of key players – from communities and the sector, we are producing events and Jarman’s producer James Mackay to the BFI, ICA and publisher Thames exhibitions that attract thousands of people into King’s and are & Hudson – came together at King’s helping to put the university firmly on London’s cultural map – to devise a programme and develop a from an immersive exhibition on the work of Derek Jarman shared web resource as a focal point for Jarman-related activities that would to photographs depicting everyday life 20 years after the bring his work to a wider public. genocide in Rwanda. Jarman2014 saw over 50 events and exhibitions take place across the country. The Cultural Institute’s own Public engagement is not an end a key element of research takes place in itself. It enriches the work of our when they share their work. academics and, as former minister As curator of the Derek Jarman: for universities and science David Developing a consortium Pandemonium exhibition, I really valued Willetts describes it, ‘increases the We worked with Professor Mark the input and support from the Cultural impact research has on our society Turner (Department of English) Institute in helping to celebrate this and economy’. Engagement is as to bring unexpected collaborators important creative thinker’s life and work. vital to the experiment in art as it is together to mark the 20th anniversary Professor Mark Turner in science, and for artists – for whom of the death of film maker and King’s Department of English, curator of Derek the public arena is their laboratory – alumnus Derek Jarman. Jarman: Pandemonium

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Engaging a diverse audience using music as an entry point into the Our regularly changing programme worlds of neuroscience and midwifery. of exhibitions, talks, workshops and screenings means we were able to Making art & science collide attract an audience numbering nearly King’s has a long history of using its 30,000 this year. We have hosted 26 expertise to deliver solutions to some of cinema screenings of theatre, opera the world’s big questions. We believe and ballet direct from the West End, arts and culture have a distinctive providing opportunities for over 2,600 role to play in offering a different people to engage with productions that lens through which contemporary might otherwise be inaccessible. challenges can be explored. The Cultural Institute has partnered with the Crafts Council to match I really enjoyed the NT Live screening… makers with medical and scientific Thank you for making the play more researchers to stimulate learning and accessible, I would have missed innovation through a focus on the it otherwise. body, materials and processes. This has Attendee of NT Live screening seen the first ever artists in residence in the King’s Dissecting Room and Our programmes aim to create promises to bring fresh perspectives a permeable interface for the to both academics and makers. university, increasing engagement with communities around King’s and encouraging and widening The dissecting room is by no means participation. This year at the Strand an impersonal or soulless place: at Campus over 18,000 people attended the core of its purpose is the gift by our public exhibitions in the Inigo an individual of their material remains. Rooms and 1,000 came to King’s This generosity seals the continuity of for our Midsummer Water Day. a pattern of education that dates back to the Enlightenment. Far from a quirky paradox, notions of mending and repair I got to work with young people who seem part and parcel of this intimate were naturally interested in music and and unusual territory. Artist’s impression of Science Gallery get them excited about science. This is Dr Richard Wingate London by LTS Architects & Designers just the start of the kind of opportunities MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology that Science Gallery London will offer. on Crafts Council partnership Rachel Williams BSc Neuroscience student, Frequencies collaborator Science Gallery London will offer a immersive exhibition, Derek Jarman: focal point for this collision between art Pandemonium and its related events On Guy’s Campus, Science Gallery and science. Planned to open in 2016, it programme, curated by Professor London will be particularly focused on will bring together researchers, students, Turner, attracted over 6,000 people. providing opportunities for 15–25 local communities and artists in new year olds to engage with the university, and innovative ways to stimulate fresh supporting our ambitions to widen thinking and engage younger audiences The music was transformative. The participation and encouraging in arts, science and the work of King’s exhibition as a whole breathtaking, engagement with STEM subjects, through its changing programme of cathartic. in line with government strategy. exhibitions and experiences. Visitor to Derek Jarman: Pandemonium In its policy for engaging the public with science and engineering, the As we approach the 400th Department for Business, Innovation The experience of working with such anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, and Skills identifies that: ‘For our diverse collaborators represented a we are working with the London prosperity to continue, the government fresh challenge for Sawchestra, as we Shakespeare Centre at King’s and believes we need high levels of skills in had never interfaced in that manner. a consortium of leading cultural, science, technology, engineering and The end result evolved into a unique creative and educational organisations maths (STEM), and citizens that value piece... that communicated well on an to celebrate his legacy through a them.’ Frequencies, our first pre-opening artistic and acoustic level and was very similarly connected series of public activity, has already begun to bring in well received. performances, exhibitions and creative young people from the local area with Tim Pilcher and Sue Bradley activities in the capital and beyond. little appetite for ‘traditional’ science, Sawchestra, Frequencies collaborator

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None of the achievements of this year would have been possible without the ongoing hard work and dedication of our Directors, Head of Administration, associates and wider team.

Directors

Katherine Bond Director, Cultural Institute What has excited me over the last year is seeing the research Since joining King’s in 2007, Katherine and expertise of our academics and students influencing the work has been developing the university’s of the cultural sector. ‘Knowledge-based practice’ is increasingly relationship with the arts and cultural referred to across the sector and is supported by new resources sectors. In 2011 she played a key role like CultureCase; student workshops, such as those that informed in the creation of the Cultural Institute, the production of Privacy at the Donmar Warehouse; and the with a focus on putting the university’s dissemination of findings from our first tranche of innovation academic research and expertise to projects, all of which involve the collaboration of academics work in the sector. and arts professionals from a wide range of disciplines.

Alison Duthie Director, Cultural Institute What struck me most about the programme this year was the Alison joined King’s in August 2012 to quality of the public exhibitions that our students and academics develop and implement a programming were able to create. From the vision of a post digital world strategy that brings together developed with Juneau Projects through to Beryl Bainbridge’s academics, cultural partners and the paintings curated by Susie Christiansen, each academic-turned- public, enriching academic research curator brought a fresh perspective and was able to use their and artistic practice through creative research and academic insights to create a completely new and collaboration in the public arena. engaging experience for the visitor, at the same time prompting them to take their research into new, uncharted territory.

Dr Daniel Glaser Director, Science Gallery London In the last year our vision for Science Gallery London has Daniel joined King’s in May 2013. remained steadfast – what’s shifted immeasurably is that we no He leads on the development of this longer need to explain it in words. Through Frequencies we have major new space for innovation and exciting new content created and recorded by young people public engagement through culture and working alongside artists, academics and King’s students – a developing projects and partnerships collision of science and art that will provoke and inspire and, that explore the creative interface critically over the next year, help us demonstrate what Science between science, health and the arts. Gallery London is all about and how it will deliver for King’s.

Ruth Hogarth Head of Administration We want to thank everyone who has worked for Ruth joined King’s in September Culture at King’s in the last year: 2012. She has overall responsibility Rebecca Ball, Sophie Branscombe, Yvonne Castle, for the strategic business planning, Sophie Cornell, James Crawford, Leanne Hammacott, management and operational Dr Dorian Hayes, Tim Henbrey, Kaye Mahoney, effectiveness of Culture at King’s. Maria Ryan and Stella Toonen She brings substantial experience from previous roles in higher education, the Dr Susie Christensen, Dr James Doeser, Dr Georgina BBC and theatre production. Guy, Fran Hegyi, Vicky McGuire, Pigalle Tavakkoli and Will Warrener

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Cultural Institute Sector Associates Science Gallery London We have identified four influential leaders from the cultural sector who act advisory network as a sounding board to King’s academics and the Cultural Institute, providing invaluable perspectives: We have set up a diverse network to help support and inform Hilary Carty Anthony Lilley the development of Science Independent Consultant, AHRC Council member Gallery London. This includes Co-creative Consulting and CEO of Magic Lantern representatives from Wellcome Productions Trust, Guy’s & St Thomas’ charity, the Unicorn Theatre, the Dr Gus Casely-Hayford Jenny Waldman Roundhouse, Guy’s & St Thomas’ Curator, broadcaster Director of the First World NHS Foundation Trust, student and cultural historian War Centenary Cultural nurses and director of the Royal Programme Docks Mike Luddy.

Cultural Institute Academic Associates Over 2013–14 we worked closely with four academic associates in connecting King’s research with the cultural sector:

Professor Professor Ben Quash More than ever before, intelligence, Sheila Anderson Theology & Religious analysis, evaluation and reflection Centre for e-Research Studies are needed to inform future strategic consideration of how [cultural institutions] might better Professor Professor Mark Turner deliver in a landscape of shrinking Catherine Boyle English resource, and academic institutions Spanish, Portuguese & are well placed to support this. Latin American Studies Dr Gus Casely-Hayford Curator, broadcaster and cultural historian

Cultural Institute Knowledge Exchange Associates We have established a network of early career researchers with a remit to build networks, promote knowledge exchange and share opportunities across across King’s. The KEAs are working with the following Faculties /Institutes:

Dr Ruth Craggs Dr Tanya Graham Richard Mason Faculty of Social Science Florence Nightingale Faculty Global Institutes & Public Policy of Nursing & Midwifery

Nneka Ene Dr Anna Kolliakou Saoirse O’Toole Faculty of Natural & Institute of Psychiatry, Dental Institute Mathematical Sciences Psychology & Neuroscience

Charlotte Fereday Dr Victoria MacBean Paula Serafini Faculty of Arts & Humanities Faculty of Life Sciences Faculty of Arts & Humanities and The Dickson Poon & Medicine and The Dickson Poon School of Law School of Law

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Academics

Dental Institute Dr Janet Floyd Spanish, Portuguese & Latin Institute of Psychiatry, Dr Sunjukta Deb Professor Paul Gilroy American Studies Psychology & Neuroscience Professor Lucy Di Silvio Dr Kélina Gotman Professor Catherine Boyle MRC Centre for Developmental Dr Ian Thompson Dr Georgina Guy Sophie Stevens Neurobiology Professor Ananya Kabir Theology & Religious Studies Dr Darren Williams The Dickson Poon School Professor Clare Lees Professor Edward Adams Dr Richard Wingate of Law Professor Josephine Professor Paul Joyce Neuroscience Dr Nicola Palmer McDonagh Professor Ben Quash Professor Peter Giese Professor Gordon McMullan Dr Aaron Rosen Old Age Psychiatry Faculty of Arts & Humanities Dr Madison Moore Professor Markus Vinzent Dr Natalie Marchant Professor Russell Goulbourne Dr Francesca Negro Psychological Medicine Centre for Hellenic Studies Dr Zoe Norridge Faculty of Life Sciences Dr Anna Kolliakou Professor Roddy Beaton Professor Andrew O’Hagan & Medicine Psychology Classics Thomas Overton Analytical & Environmental Dr Amy Hardy Dr Hugh Bowden Dr Ruth Padel Sciences Dr Charles Heriot-Maitland Professor Michael Trapp Dr Patricia Palmer Professor Frank Kelly Iain Perdue Culture, Media & Creative Professor Alan Read Dr Esme Purdie Industries (CMCI) Professor Jane Roberts Biochemistry Faculty of Natural & Dr Btihaj Ajana (& DDH) Professor Max Saunders Dr Stephen Jones Mathematical Sciences Toby Bennett Dr Theron Schmidt Professor Roger Morris Biomedical Engineering Michal Ben-David Dr Lara Shalson Cancer Studies Dr Kris de Meyer Dr Red Chidgey Professor Anna Snaith Dr Jakub Nedbal Informatics Dr Harvey Cohen Professor Mark Turner Cicely Saunders Institute Professor Kaspar Althoefer Nicole Ferdinand Professor Patrick Wright Dr Fliss Murtagh Professor Mischa Dohler Dr Paolo Gerbaudo European & International Diabetes & Nutrition Sciences Dr Matthew Howard Dr Hye-Kyung Lee Studies Dr Anne Mullen Dr Thrishantha Nanayakkara Professor Anna Reading Professor Alex Callinicos Dr Gerda Pot Mathematics Dr Christina Scharff Professor Christoph Meyer Imaging Sciences & Barbara Bravi Dr Laura Speers Film Studies Biomedical Engineering Physics Dr Paul Sweetman Professor Chris Berry Harriet Cullen Professor Anatoly Zayats Dr Fidele Vlavo Professor Sarah Cooper Professor Tony Gee Comparative Literature Dr Victor Fan Ross Morgan Faculty of Social Science Professor Javed Majeed French Dr Veena Supramaniam & Public Policy Digital Humanities (DDH) Dr Emily Butterworth Dr Hilary Toulmin Education & Professional Professor Sheila Anderson Professor Patrick ffrench Physiotherapy Studies Drew Baker German Dr Marousa Pavlou Dr Chris Abbott Dr Anna Bentkowska-Kafel Professor Erica Carter Dr John Cable Dr Tobias Blanke Dr Ricarda Vidal Florence Nightingale Faculty Laurie Smith John Bradley History of Nursing & Midwifery Dr Anwar Tlili Dr Stuart Dunn Professor Julia Crick Dr Anne Jones Geography Richard Gartner Dr Lucy Delap Dr Patricia Grocott Professor Tony Allan Dr Alastair Gill Dr Bronwen Everill Dr Elsa Montgomery Dr Johan Andersson Dr Mark Hedges Dr Toby Green (& SPLAS) Richard Bater Professor Timothy Jordan Dr Adam Sutcliffe Global Institutes Dr Andrew Brooks (& CMCI) Liberal Arts King’s India Institute Dr Michael Chadwick Dr Faith Lawrence Dr Jim Bjork Dr Jahnavi Phalkey Professor Frances Cleaver Professor Andrew Prescott Music International Development Professor Nick Clifford Michael Takeo Magruder Professor Daniel Institute Dr Ruth Craggs Simon Tanner Leech-Wilkinson Dr Lisa Kingstone Dr Robert Francis Paul Vetch Dr Frederick Moehn Lau China Institute Professor David Green English Philosophy Dr Ralph Parfect Professor Mike Hulme Dr Anna Bernard Professor Maria Rosa Dr Alex Loftus Dr Susie Christensen Antognazza Dr Nathaniel Matthews Dr Joshua Davies Dr Raphael Woolf Dr Naho Mirumachi Dr Elina Djebbari Dr Mark Mulligan

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Students

Dr Daanish Mustafa This year we employed nearly 180 students at our exhibitions and events and supported the Nuttavikhom following 16 interns directly or through opportunities with our student partners: Phanthuwongpakdee Dr Jonathan Reades • Claire Jordan, Nutrition: Science Gallery • Megan Beech, English: Cultural Institute, Institute of Contemporary London, Undergraduate Research Fellow Undergraduate Research Fellow British History Dr Michael Kandiah • Fred Lintern, English: Coney, Early Days • Naomi Downham, English: Cultural Institute of Middle (of a Better Nation) Institute, administration & events assistant Eastern Studies Professor Michael Kerr • Dr Georgina Guy, English: Cultural • Pip Swallow, English: Cultural Institute, Management Institute, Tate and Science Museum project Cultural Space programme Sumanta Barua Dr Ling Zhang • Isabel Feeney, English: RSC, King’s • Ruby Guyatt, Theology: Cultural Institute, Political Economy Cultural Challenge Undergraduate Research Fellow Dr Ami Abou-Bakr Dr Rod Dacombe • Kirsty McCarroll, Law: Cultural Institute, • Stella Toonen, Culture, Media & Dr Robin Douglass Anatomy Museum event support Creative Industries: audit of cultural Maria Sharmila de Sousa partnerships at King’s Dr Adam Tebble • Kristoffer Milling, Culture, Media & War Studies Creative Industries: Cultural Institute, • Dr Susie Christensen, English: Cultural Dr Leonie Ansems de Vries Cultural Space Programme Institute, innovation projects Dr Michael Goodman Professor Mervyn Frost • Laura Frater, English: Cultural Institute, • Talissa Makdessi, Culture, Media & Professor Vivienne Jabri Anatomy Museum event support Creative Industries: Southbank Centre, King’s Cultural Challenge Other institutions • Lauren Holden, Music: Royal Opera Anglia Ruskin University House, King’s Cultural Challenge • Viktoria Vona, Geography: Cultural Dr Ilaria Pappalepore Institute, Cultural Space Programme Bournemouth University Dr Mary Beth Gouthro Dr Nigel Williams Cardiff Metropolitan University Paul Barrett Northwestern University Jeffrey Masten Queen Mary University of London Dr Huw Marsh University of Calgary Professor James Ellis University of Exeter Professor Pascale Aebischer University of Leeds Professor Tim Benton University of Nottingham Professor Celeste Marie Bernier University of Oxford Dr Noel Lobley Professor Stanley Ulijaszek University of South Wales How to work with us Professor Diana Wallace We are always interested in hearing from potential partners – academics, students, University of Sydney Kate Lilley artists or people working in the cultural sector. Visit www.kcl.ac.uk/culture or Wake Forest University email [email protected] to join our mailing list or find out more. Professor Gillian Overing

Annual Review 2013-14 17 PEOPLE & PARTNERS People & Partners

Cultural Organisations

53 Million Artists Design Museum London Theatre Consortium Serious Action Aid DfID Lyric Shakespeare Bulletin AHRC Difference Exchange Mahogany Opera Group Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Anxiety Festival Donmar Warehouse Majority World Sign2Learn Art-Links Dublin City Council Maquerade 2000 SOAS Arts Admin Ebony Steel Band Trust Marsh’s Library Somerset House Trust Arts Council England EdComs Masqueface Southbank Centre Arts Media People Elizabeth Lynch & Co Mental Health Foundation St Mary’s Abbey Arvon Elsevier Merge Festival St Michael & All Angels Association of British English National Ballet MOSTYN Steel Orchestra Calypsonians English National Ballet School Mother Nature Science Studio Octopi ATLAS Arts European Tourism Muzik Lil Muzik Survivors Fund Autograph ABP Futures Institute National Archives Tate Britain Barbican Facefront Inclusive Theatre National Campaign for the Arts Tate Modern Battersea Arts Centre fanSHEN National Carnival Commission Tate National and BBC Festivals and Events of Trinidad and Tobago International Initiatives Belgrade Theatre International National Gallery Thames Baths Projects Ben Uri Gallery Fuel National Museum Directors’ Thames Discovery Birmingham Hippodrome FurtherField Council Thames Tideway Tunnel Bishopsgate Institute Gate Theatre National Museum of Health Thames Water Book Trust Genesis Carnival Company & Medicine Chicago Thames21 Borough Market Glasgow Life National Museum of Ireland The Albany Boster Group Glasgow School of Art National Portrait Gallery Theatre Royal York British Association Glyndebourne Opera National Theatre The Culture Capital Exchange of Sound Systems Great British Carnival Next Level + The Hub British Association Greenbelt Out of Joint Theatre The Local TV of Steel Bands Guildhall School of Music Pantrinbago The London Street Gallery British Council & Drama PARS Foundation The Photographer’s Gallery British Film Institute Headlong Penned in the Margins The Place British Library Here Today, Here Tomorrow Pitt Rivers Museum The Poetry Society British Museum Heritage Arts Company Plan International Africa The Theatres Trust Caribbean Carnival Horniman Museum Platform Three Faiths Forum Extravaganza Ikon Gallery PoisonUK Tipping Point Caribbean Music Association Independent Theatre Council PrintME 3D Totally Radio Carnival Village Trust Ingenious Proteus Theatre UK Arts & Health Case for Optimism Iniva Rambert Research Network Centre for Contemporary Arts Institute of Civil Engineers Redress UK Centre for Carnival Art Centre for Sustainable Farming It’s Nice to Make Resonance FM UK Music CHART IWM Rose Bruford College Unicorn Theatre Chester Beatty Library JANET network Rosetta Life University of Aberdeen Chilean Embassy Jane Withers Ltd Royal African Society University of Bahia in Brazil China Culture Connect Julie’s Bicycle Royal Holloway (Literature University of Exeter (Centre Clore Leadership Programme JW3 & Visual Cultures Research for Early Modern Studies) Coach with the Hat King Mob Seminar Series) UP Projects Co-Creatives Lambeth City Learning Centre Royal Irish Academy Urban Arts Academy Comic Relief Leverhulme Trust Royal Opera House V&A Coney LIFT Royal Shakespeare Verbal Arts Centre Cornerhouse Light Surgeons Company Visit England Crafts Council Little Joe RSA White Cube Creative Ecology London Arts in Health Forum Sadler’s Wells Widgit Creative Exchange Hub London College of Fashion Sara Selwood Associates Wild Margins Creativeworks London London Fusion Save the Children World Stages Cultural Learning Alliance London Notting Hill Carnival Sawchestra Young Vic Dance UK Enterprises Trust Schools for Justice DANTE network London Review of Books Science Museum DCMS London School of Samba Serendipity

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Creatives

African Diaspora Artists Emma Balkind Interconnectedness of Water Karina Thompson in the 21st Century Peter Bennet Zoe Benbow Tamsin van Essen Larry Achiampong Susan Brind Susannah Bolton Barbara Asante Colette Bryce Nancy Campbell Phenomenal People Phoebe Boswell Ceara Conway Carys Davies Lucy-Anne Holmes Kimathi Donkor Thomas Joshua Cooper Laura Didymus Melanie Pappenheim Nicola Frimpong Caroline Dear Hilary Jennings Cedar Lewisohn Christy Ducker Caroline Jones Rwanda in Photographs: Trevor Mathison Dave Duggan Tim Knowles Death Then, Life Now Harold Offeh Alistair Elliot Lisa Lapidge Carol Allen-Storey Tom Price Linda France Rebecca Leach Susi Arnott Morgan Quaintance Cynthia Fuller Esme Lucas Pritish Behuria Gary Stewart Tracy Hanna Katherine May David Booth Nicola Thomas Bill Herbert Richard Osborne Joseph Cabon Barbara Walker Richard Higlett Maria Quiroga Phil Clark Beth Lewis Tereza Stehlikova Rene Claudel Mugenzi Art & Life: The Paintings Pippa Little Subathra Subramaniam Matt Daw of Beryl Bainbridge Francis McKee Kitty Tessler Kyri Evangelou Sarah Dunant Michail Mersinis Albert Gasake Geoff Dyer Sean O’Brien Museum of Water Vincent Gasana Katharine Harris Hardeep Pandhal Andres Ayerbe Kate Haines Frieda Hughes Edwin Pickstone Richard Bater Crispin Hughes Psiche Hughes Jessica Ramm Sir Peter Bazalgette Claire Jenkins Maggie Humm Johnny Rodger Jo Bell Billy Kahora Brendan King Tom Schofield Siddhartha Bose Alice Urusaro Karekez Michael Regan Erica Scourti Rob Casey Martin Kharumwa Charlie Russell Kate Sweeney JR Carpenter Paul Lowe Roma Tearne Augustus Veinoglou Tom Chivers Jenny Matthews Jane Thomas Nathalie Cohen John Mbanda Louisa Young De/Coding the Apocalypse Caitlin Davies Karen McQuaid Alfredo Cramerotti Christopher Heighes Ery Nzaramba Anatomical Theatres Erik Fleming Justin Hopper David Parry of Mixed Reality Michael Takeo Magruder Alan Lenander Laura Elizabeth Pohl Justin Deschamps Dr Natasha O’Hear Camille Leproust Kiru Ruhorahoza Alex Eisenberg Lucy Neal Juergen Schurr Sam Hertz Derek Jarman: Pandemonium Ali Orbaum Mark Sealy Christa Holka Neil Bartlett Alice Oswald Mussa Uwitonze Mark Jeffery Keith Collins Ruth Padel Sophie Wright Christopher Knowlton Andy Kimpton-Nye Holly Pester Johanna Linsley James Mackay Chris Romer-Lee Tender Buttons Judd Morrissey Iain Sinclair Kate Seif Aletta Collins Kira O’Reilly Simon Watney Amy Sharrocks Kate Coyne Blake Russell Claire Trevien Peter Morris Kevin Stanton Frequencies – Tune into Life Jack Underwood Tal Rosner Mischa Twitchin Bishi Jonathan Watkins Mieko Shimiz Fiona Wright Andrew Consoli Shay D Parallel Practices: Innovation This May Hurt a Bit Climate Change Peter Gregson in Craft & Health Carole Hayman Opera workshops Nick Jones Les Bicknell Brad Cohen Neil Kaczor Clare Goddard Three Faiths Forum Jonathan Dove Marc Langsman Jo Lawrence Advisory Group Penny Woolcock Jimmy Logic Naomi McIntosh Jacqueline Nicholls Kasia Molga Jemma Millen Colm Cille’s Spiral Stewart Pemberton Celia Pym Welcome to Happy Redoubt Gillian Allnutt Scanner Stacie Sheeran Phil Duckworth Peter Armstrong Tim Stevens Victoria Shennan Ben Sadler

Annual Review 2013-14 19 THE HEADLINES The headlines

Research Fortnight, 9 July 2014

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“These revelations are very troubling and the police must fully investigate this matter as they are doing with Wonga.” Labour MP John Mann reacts to the news that the Student Loans Company has been trying The art of to nudge debtors into repayment by sending warning letters from a fake law firm called Smith Lawson. The Daily Mail, 1/7/14. science-ification “I do think this whole incident will cause a lot of rethinking.” Susan Fiske, professor of psychology and public affairs at Princeton University in The AHRC is changing the nature of arts research the United States, edited the controversial study that Facebook carried out on thou- sands of users without their consent, and now thinks it’s time to look at how academ- The Arts and Humanities Research Council has set itself an ambitious ics work with technology companies. Wall target: to make the “Arts” in its name as respected as the “Humanities”. Street Journal, 30/6/14. Council member Deborah Bull, director of cultural partnerships at King’s “Using Wi-Fi? Thank CSIRO for that.” College London, is to explore how this might be done (see News, page 4), A slogan used by employees from Australia’s with chief executive Rick Rylance having acknowledged an imbalance in top science agency, who are protesting how the council treats traditional and more practice-based research. against budget cuts and job losses, reminds the government why their work is important. Ideas being floated include forging stronger links between arts and aca- SBS News, 26/6/14. demic institutions, using emerging technologies to study arts practice, - defining what ‘excellence’ means in the arts, using different models of peer “The fact that it was even a concern or that it might have happened is unacceptable.” review and using the ultimate arbiter of funding success: better metrics. The director of the Centers for Disease The council is, in effect, paving the way for the arts to join the humani Control and Prevention in the United States, ties, which are already closer to science. This ‘science-ification’ of arts Thomas Frieden, commissions an urgent investigation into how up to 75 members of and humanities research is documented vividly in A New History of the staff may have been exposed to live anthrax. Humanities by Rens Bod, director of the centre for digital humanities at Chicago Tribune, 27/6/14. the University of Amsterdam. “You know, coffee is very important for Arts and humanities research funders have long recognised that sur- Italian people. We are really hard to please vival (let alone progress) in the fields they fund requires the conventions about it!” and mores of science to be adopted. Applying for large grants, working in Antonio Pilello, a spokesman for the engineering company Argotec, promises that teams, liaising with research offices and subjecting work to peer review a lot of thought has gone into designing an are all part of the toolkit for the humanities, as much as for the sciences. espresso machine for the International Space Now, it is likely that the same will be true for practice-based arts research. Station. The Guardian, 27/6/14. The creation of the AHRC alongside a group of science research funders “We hit some people, but that’s just nearly a decade ago was a step in this direction. And it has reaped bruises.” benefits. Being a member of the science club has meant that arts and Jaap de Maat, a student of information expe- rience design, has built a motorised filing humanities researchers have avoided the harsher cuts experienced by cabinet that follows people around the Royal. grantees of other public bodies such as the various UK arts councils. College of Art to remind them that they leave Of course, there are downsides. Over time, for example, it is likely that data everywhere they go. Wired, 27/6/14 there will be a stronger emphasis on work that can be measured and repli- decade cated: work that involves data and exhibits a pattern of some kind. There will probably be less room in the university system for lone researchers. That is an unavoidable outcome of science-ification. There is, in all of this, an interesting link to recent history. “The Royal Opera House It is well known that CP Snow, in his 1959 Two Cultures lecture, drew doesn’t ask sponsors to pay attention to the level of scientific illiteracy in the corridors of power. for the porters.” Less well known is that Snow, a novelist, was a Whitehall insider and an administrator of publicly funded scientific institutions. What irked him Diana Garnham, chief executive of the Association of Medical Research was how the majority of his humanities-trained civil-service colleagues Charities, opposes the introduction of frequenting the clubs of Pall Mall would happily acknowledge how little full economic costs. they knew about science. 7 July 2004 The UK government, parliament and civil service are slowly changing Research Fortnight, from a science-free zone. But the AHRC seems to be tackling this aspect of the Two Cultures problem in a different way: not only through better networking and public engagement, but by attempting to change the very nature of research in the arts and humanities.

20 Culture at King’s THE HEADLINES

Annual Review 2013-14 21 THE HEADLINES The numbers 100,000 18,000 166 131 We have engaged We have held four We have hosted 166 events 131 students took part audiences of nearly exhibitions, attracting in our King’s Cultural 100,000 with our work over 18,000 people 16 Challenge We have secured internships 160 1,800 for 16 students 4,000 We have worked with We have engaged with Our new web resource, 160 academics from nearly 1,800 students CultureCase, has 45 departments across attracted over 4,000 all Faculties 2,600 unique users Over 2,600 people came 1,000 to our cinema screenings Over 1,000 people 388 came to King’s for 180 We have partnered with our Midsummer We have provided 388 cultural organisations Water Day 65,000 employment for and creatives Over 65,000 people listened to nearly 180 students our While You Wait podcasts

Over the last year Culture at King’s has shown just how powerful collaborations with the cultural sector can be, for both researchers and cultural practitioners. The team’s work has created unique opportunities for students to be involved in a variety of ways: from PhDs in residence gaining first-hand experience of the sector, to research opportunities tackling the sector’s big issues as part of their Cultural Enquiries. The establishment of a network of Knowledge Exchange Associates to facilitate engagement across King’s has not only broadened the range of disciplines involved in this innovative work but provides early career researchers with important professional development opportunities. I am really grateful to the Culture team for ensuring we have such effective collaborations. Professor Evelyn Welch Vice-Principal (Arts & Sciences)

This year I was delighted to work with Deborah and her team as they continued to create exciting opportunities for King’s students. King’s Cultural Challenge showcased the talent and energy of students and was designed so as many students as possible could benefit from taking part. I was particularly pleased that Culture at King’s also gave three students the chance to become partners in research projects looking at different interfaces between the arts and the wider community as part of the new, university-wide Undergraduate Research Fellowships Scheme I launched this year, with generous funding from our alumni. The scheme provides students with funding and a unique opportunity to carry out a summer research project alongside staff from King’s. The research carried out by these three students in particular will help shape future activity, and demonstrates that King’s students are highly valued partners in our cultural engagement activities. Professor Karen O’Brien Vice-Principal (Education)

22 Culture at King’s A LOOK FORWARD

acting-out: the institution denied, part of the Anxiety Arts Festival London 2014 curated by the Mental Health Foundation

A look forward

Over the coming year, we plan to build on the success of our projects to develop game-changing existing internship, learning and employment opportunities. approaches to financing, presenting and reaching new audiences for live music. We will work with students to identify new ways in which culture Our programme of Cultural and the university’s cultural partners can enrich and add value Enquiries continues, with a major to their experience, helping them to develop the skills, networks international symposium on Culture and Major Events in the new year and capabilities that will enhance not just their learning at King’s and the findings from our Enquiry but their careers beyond. into access to the arts for young people reporting in January. As partnership becomes ever more crucial to the We will also and science on Guy’s Campus, will achievement of our ambitions at be building on continue its pre-opening activity by King’s – and more generally across our partnerships exploring the rich menu of research arts and culture – it is appropriate with areas of at King’s into nutrition, food and all that our third Cultural Enquiry, in the university things related. collaboration with the BBC, is focusing that might not The 2014-15 academic year will on partnership and the role it plays in traditionally have see some of our work of the last two enabling publicly funded organisations engaged with years come to fruition. In particular, to achieve their strategic objectives. arts and culture: September saw the launch of the I look forward to working with our network of Knowledge Exchange university’s new MA in Arts & colleagues and friends across Associates in each of the Faculties Cultural Management, with its unique King’s and the cultural and higher will play a vital role in helping us to Experience module delivered entirely education sectors over the coming identify where cultural partnerships outside the classroom in the homes year on these and our many other can enhance research and generate of eight of the university’s cultural collaborative ventures. You can new approaches. Parallel Practices, in partners. PhD student Joseph Attard find out more and follow our collaboration with the Crafts Council, has begun his research on the Royal progress at www.kcl.ac.uk/culture is seeing the first artists in residence Opera House’s live broadcasts, in or @CultureatKings in the university’s Dissecting Room, a Collaborative Doctoral Award while the Cultural Institute will work brokered by the Cultural Institute. with the Dental Institute and the Eight early career researchers are Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology working with cultural partners and Neouroscience on War Requiem on projects ranging from Random & Aftermath, an installation in the Walks – an app that explains complex Inigo Rooms on the Strand Campus mathematics – to a music video featuring recent work by British artist exploring new therapeutic approaches Maggi Hambling. Science Gallery to psychotic experiences. And our Deborah Bull London, which provides a focal partnership with the hub, Joining the Director, Cultural Partnerships, point for collaborations between art Dots, will report in May 2015 on four King’s College London

Annual Review 2013-14 23 Glass moulds for nasal reconstruction developed in collaboration with the Royal Free Hospital, by Matt Durran. Photo: Sophie Mutevelian, courtesy of the Crafts Council

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