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Culture at King’s Overture / the first year Contents Foreword

n March 2012 I joined King’s College London None of it would have been possible without the as Director, Cultural Partnerships, to build on the support of colleagues across King’s, and particular 3 Foreword I College’s longstanding connections across arts thanks go to the Principal, Professor Sir Rick and culture, extending and enriching its collaborations Trainor; Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman; 4 Culture at King’s: Introduction with the sector of which I had been a part for some Principal’s Central Team; KCLSU; academics Cultural Institute at King’s: thirty years. and students who contributed to shaping Culture 6 Collaborative Teaching, Research & Learning at King’s through their enthusiastic participation; Over the following months, in consultation with and those individuals and organisations who have 8 Cultural Enquiry colleagues at King’s and across the sector, we shaped supported our work. We were very grateful to an ambitious vision: to develop, through cultural Legacy Trust UK, who supported the Cultural 10 Innovation partnerships, new ways to enhance the student and Institute’s first Cultural Enquiry, and delighted to academic experience and, at the same time, add value be awarded £3m by Wellcome Trust and £4m from 12 Presenting Practice and deliver benefits across arts and culture. Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity towards a £12m 14 Projects capital target to develop Science Gallery at King’s. The following pages capture some of what was 15 Internships achieved in the first year: in projects ranging from Finally, my thanks are due to my teams at both the site-specific performance to digital prototypes, we Cultural Institute at King’s and Science Gallery 16 Collaborators: academic worked in partnership with over 150 academics, at King’s. Their drive, ambition, commitment and 17 Collaborators: cultural organisations & creatives 220 students and more than 200 artists and cultural sheer hard work underpinned and enabled the organisations, brokered 15 internships in the sector achievements in the pages that follow. 19 Who we are and engaged with audiences of over 47,000. It was quite an overture: the curtain is now up. I’m very grateful to the many artists, producers and cultural organisations that have embraced the opportunities of collaboration, proving that partnerships between arts and culture and higher education have the potential to be genuinely symbiotic. The cultural sector needs access to academic research to develop robust Deborah Bull evidence about the value of culture and to inspire new Director, Cultural Partnerships approaches to its key challenges and opportunities. At the same time, arts and culture play a significant role Cover image: Photo51: From DNA to the Brain. How Do Chemicals Feel © Marcus Lyon/AstraZeneca. ‘In all visual representations in enhancing the academic environment, providing of information preconceived structures and languages control perceptions. In the world of the science laboratory these parameters manifest original learning opportunities, promoting impact, themselves not only to define but also limit the vocabulary of colour, symbol and form. Built from multiple layers, How do chemicals feel engaging a diverse public, widening participation endeavours to provoke a viewpoint at odds with conventional practice and in turn asks questions about which questions we ask.’ and driving innovation throughout the College.

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Culture at King’s

Science Gallery at King’s is scheduled to open on Introduction the Guy’s Campus in early 2016. Part of the Global ver almost 200 years, King’s has established Science Gallery Network, it will engage over 250,000 its place at the heart of world thinking. In 15 to 25 year olds each year with research, provide O2011, it set out a new ambition: to pioneer skills development opportunities for students, connect through cultural partnerships, connecting the finest with local communities and enhance the environment and most curious minds across academia and arts for hospital patients, visitors and staff. Further detail and culture. will be available on our webpage as plans develop.

None of this can be achieved in isolation. Partnership Cultural Institute at King’s, established in September is fundamental to our vision for Culture at King’s: 2012, connects the College with practitioners, within, across and beyond King’s, locally, nationally producers, policy makers and participants across and internationally. Partnerships add value to the arts and culture, creating space where conventions College’s teaching, research and learning and support are challenged and original perspectives emerge. the cultural sector in making its case and addressing Its activity is organised around four strategic aims: its challenges and opportunities. Collaborative Teaching, Research & Learning; Cultural Enquiry; Innovation; and Presenting Practice. Pages Engaging with the experiment is central to the 6 to 13 summarise the Institute’s programmes and proposition, as important in art as it is in science. If achievements in its first year. innovations are to benefit society, engaging the public from the outset is crucial. For artists, the public arena King’s has a long history of using its expertise to is their laboratory: in public presentation, a key deliver solutions to some of the world’s big questions. element of research takes place. Culture at King’s offers a different lens through which these questions can be explored, combining academic There are currently two cultural hubs established rigour and research with the power of art and artists or in planning: Cultural Institute at King’s and to subvert habitual response, to experiment with Science Gallery at King’s. Each forms the centre of intuitive knowledge and to see the world not as it is, a programme of activity that radiates out across the but as it could be. College’s Schools and campuses. John Maynard Keynes, in his essay on Isaac Newton, noted that ‘proofs, for what they are worth, are dressed up afterwards – they are not the instrument of discovery’. Through Culture at King’s, we aim to make space for creativity, imagination, risk-taking and intuition to play their vital role in the discovery of new knowledge.

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Collaborative Teaching, Research & Learning

he cultural sector, with its wealth of experience, expertise and creative practice, offers rich potential Tfor research, teaching and learning partnerships. wanted to say how welcomed I feel during my internship Highlights of our first year include negotiating the I at the Royal Opera House. Everyone I’ve met has been so involvement of 12 cultural organisations to support the Collaborative Teaching, Research & Learning aims to ensure friendly and helpful, and so generous in the opportunities successful establishment of the London Arts & Humanities that the most innovative and exciting organisations and they’ve offered me - no sorting paperclips here... I’ve learnt Partnership; brokering a partnership between the Department artists are matched with King’s, creating new and distinctive things I couldn’t even comprehend before I started here, of Digital Humanities, Royal Opera House and POP and its opportunities for academics, students and the cultural and done things I wouldn’t have imagined myself capable of. successful bid to the Digital R&D Fund; and King’s Cultural sector. We support the development and management I am so grateful to the Cultural Institute for this wonderful Challenge, which invited students to win an internship of this portfolio by brokering, negotiating and facilitating opportunity; I still have to pinch myself every time I walk in a cultural organisation by proposing solutions to real collaborations between our cultural partners and the through the door to prove I’m not dreaming! The first three world challenges. College’s Schools, departments, academics and students. months have been unimaginably brilliant and I’m looking forward to seeing what happens next... Through Collaborative Teaching, Research & Learning, Mimi Doulton, we worked with: t’s our intern’s last day today, though she returns in Music undergraduate, King’s Cultural Challenge winner 16 Academics IFebruary to deliver the work she’s planned. I wanted to 80 Students take a moment to thank you all for the hard work putting 42 Partners these placements together and for the pretty unique and brokered: opportunity that it offered. She’s been a joy to have as e are committed to furthering excellence in public 3 Collaborative Doctoral Award bids part of our team and a real credit to King’s. We’re very Wengagement, working with the cultural and creative 15 Internships. sad to see her go. industries, strengthening our provision of language learning,

Geraldine Collinge, Royal Shakespeare Company advancing knowledge of the digital humanities, and supporting Host organisation for King’s Cultural Challenge winner student research initiatives of the highest calibre. The Cultural he Institute collaborated with the College’s Department Institute played a key role in developing the bid to the Arts Tof Culture, Media & Creative Industries to develop Collaborative Teaching, Research & Learning offers: and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and will be vital ‘The Experience’ module, part of an innovative new Specialist advice to academics and support in in supporting delivery of our commitments. MA programme in Arts & Cultural Management, brokering developing partnerships with artists and cultural Professor Clare A Lees, teaching partnerships with the sector to deliver an organisations, and the chance to enhance teaching Director of London Arts & Humanities Partnership unparalleled exposure to cultural management in practice. programmes through sector expertise. Award of over £18 million to train 400 postgraduate students www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/cmci/study/pgt/maacm/ Direct experience of the cultural sector to students, index.aspx through an unrivalled range of internships and learning with experts across arts and culture. Opportunities for the cultural sector to reflect on and & strengthen organisational policy and practice through analytical rigour and research, and to share their expertise in new learning environments.

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Cultural Enquiry

n the current socio-economic environment, there is a pressing need to articulate the purpose and Ivalue of arts and culture in the 21st century – to his Enquiry fulfils the College’s ambition to engage orking for Cultural Institute at King’s was move beyond anecdote towards compelling evidence Tmore fully with the cultural sector, bringing new Wa unique experience. It was more akin of the role culture can play in tackling individual and thinking to an important agenda and presenting a valuable to working commercially, but with the rigour, social concerns. opportunity for King’s academics to collaborate with depth and accountability of academia. Working other researchers and practitioners on an emerging at the Institute proves that academic research Cultural Enquiry provides access to academic and and significant area of research. I am delighted that can be conducted in dialogue with more analytical rigour and a neutral space in which different the Institute has made such a decisive impact with commercial models (and time-scales), voices can come together to address shared questions, this first Cultural Enquiry. if the hard work is put in and the research opportunities and concerns. Through Cultural Enquiry, Professor Evelyn Welch, goes to plan. we aim to identify solutions that will deliver value to Vice-Principal, Arts & Sciences Dr Iyabo Osho, researcher, recruited through the cultural sector as a whole as well as mechanisms to King’s Careers & Employability debate and disseminate findings.

Our first Cultural Enquiry explored the e are delighted to be supporting this new Cultural role that the UK’s arts and culture sector WEnquiry, which is the first of its kind and will lead might play in adding value to sporting and the way in ensuring that the UK culture sector and national events in the future. Beyond Performance: communities across the country can play an increased a Cultural Enquiry into major events and role in the planning and delivery of future major culture, published in November 2013, made national events. recommendations on how expertise developed over Dugald Mackie, Chair of Legacy Trust UK seven years of planning and delivering what was widely regarded as the most successful Cultural Olympiad of modern times could most effectively Cultural Enquiry offers: be harnessed and made available as a resource Opportunities for academics to take a cross-sector, for the nation. The report can be accessed on our 360-degree approach to addressing sectoral challenges webpage www.kcl.ac.uk/culture and opportunities. The chance for students to work directly with key am excited about the work that King’s is doing, having this Our first Cultural Enquiry engaged with: influencers across arts and culture. Iintegrated approach of sports and culture at major events. 75 Contributors to the report Access to the space, time, academic research and It’s a piece of work that I will be following very closely. 2000 UK adults surveyed. analytical rigour that will allow the cultural sector to The Rt Hon Maria Miller MP, 62 per cent of people would like to see culture act collaboratively, identifying solutions that can add Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport in evidence to the programmed as a part of major events. value widely across arts and culture. House of Lords’ Select Committee on Olympic and Paralympic Legacy.

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Innovation

ultural organisations and academic communities have much to gain from working Innovation offers: Ctogether: new knowledge generated through New ways for academics to collaborate across am extremely grateful to have been given the opportunity research drives innovation across the cultural sector, disciplines and with a range of organisations, to I to deliver Carnival Futures: Notting Hill Carnival 2020. while arts and culture stimulate new approaches to test new ideas, to enhance research and teaching The Cultural Institute at King’s introduced me to new problem solving and research. and to increase the impact of their work. collaborators and funding opportunities and fine-tuned Opportunities for students to develop creative my proposal by including digital elements, which brought The Institute’s Innovation programme creates and thinking and new skills by working alongside my research to a broad audience. In its first two weeks facilitates opportunities for academics to exchange ideas professionals in academia, arts and culture. online the project’s video was viewed over 600 times. with cultural organisations, developing collaborations Dedicated time, space and expertise to incubate I am continuing my work on Notting Hill Carnival in a new that ensure academic research realises its full potential ideas, supporting the cultural sector in project, FestiM, which was made possible by the skills impact and delivers benefits to arts and culture. developing new responses to key challenges and experience I developed working as an investigator and opportunities. funded by the Cultural Institute. Innovation is currently organised around four themes: Nicole Ferdinand, CMCI PhD student Arts & Digital, Arts in a Global World, Curation & During our first year, Innovation collaborations Programming for the 21st century and Engagement included a series of new approaches to public & Diversity. Working closely with a network of interaction with museums and galleries that he Cultural Institute has pioneered new approaches academics and sector associates, we bring together generated five prototypes, including a ‘haptic Tto Knowledge Exchange through Ideas Labs and cultural professionals with King’s academics in Ideas glove’ allowing visitors to virtually ‘touch’ objects; Open Spaces that bring together academics and arts Labs around each of these themes, creating spaces in a new methodology for translating ideas and organisations around specific themes and challenges. which challenges can be identified, ideas explored in concepts across different art forms, in Translation In our first year, more than 50 academics from 20 depth and prototypes developed. The outcomes are games; a ‘spiral’ of contemporary commissions Departments across King’s engaged with 50 arts shared throughout the College and widely across the for Derry-Londonderry City of Culture 2013 organisations in conversations brokered by the Institute. cultural sector, disseminating learning and promoting reinterpreting the 6th century legacy of monastic The Cultural Institute continues to work with project academic impact. learning, in Colm Cille’s spiral; and four different teams to develop emerging prototypes, encouraging potential ‘futures’ for Notting Hill Carnival. their uptake across the sector.

riticism Now provided an important opportunity to Through more than 20 Innovation projects, & Cengage at length and in depth with often overlooked we worked with over: have been pleased to discover shared areas of interest questions about how and why we think and write about 125 Academics I and expertise in an emerging field that is relevant to culture. I appreciate the rare and welcome chance to be 35 Departments both organisations, which I hope will bear fruit in involved in such an extensive and thoughtful examination 115 Partners the future. of an area outside my usual academic focus. 100 Students. Mark Flashman, BBC collaborator, Aesthetic archive Frank Polatch, English undergraduate

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Presenting Practice

hanges in the technological, social and economic environment are causing arts practice Cto evolve as artists respond creatively to Collaborations during our first year included In electing just three projects from the activity supported by identify opportunities within the challenges. Emerging the Beginning Was the End, a major site-responsive Sthe Cultural Institute this year marks the diversity and depth art forms blur the lines between artist and audience, while piece of promenade theatre with Somerset House of the programming which is now enlivening the College. Juneau developing technologies offer new models of expression, and dreamthinkspeak; Joy of Influence, which saw Projects, a marvellous collaboration between artists, academics communication, engagement and dissemination. six celebrated novelists discuss an alternative art and the public touches an ironic nerve in a University, where form close to their heart; Photo 51: from DNA to the the usefulness of knowledge to our collective survival should never Presenting Practice provides a framework through which Brain, which showcased artists’ responses to the be presumed. Plant Science, by Forster & Heighes in collaboration academics, students, artists and producers can explore 60th anniversary of the discovery of the structure with the Performance Foundation, was an archaeological treat. It these opportunities, enhancing and enriching research of DNA; Digital Doubles, a collaboration with is rare enough to see the work of the modernist great Gertrude and practice through creative collaboration in the public Headlong exploring the relationship between Orwell’s Stein, but to see Tender Buttons choreographed by Aletta Collins in arena. The programme recognises that public engagement 1984 and surveillance in contemporary Britain; collaboration with a team of creatives and Dr Anna Snaith from the is integral to both academic research and artistic practice: and choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh’s ongoing English Department was superb. The Anatomy Museum was used in a vital tool in the cycle of iteration, response and collaboration with six very different academic the way it was always intended, to deliver a multimedia, immersive reiteration that advances learning and drives innovation. disciplines, from robotics to geography. environment of literary and performance wonder. Professor Alan Read, Department of English

hoto 51 was hugely successful, and the input and orking collaboratively on the John Berger exhibition Psupport of the Cultural Institute team was vital in Wbrought huge benefits to both our organisations, ne of the most tantalising aspects is being allowed to wander every area of the project. It’s great to have a professional and we look forward to future joint projects. Oat will along the dimly-lit maze of rooms, corridors and in-house producing team. Dr Kristian Jensen, British Library stairwells that link King’s with the elegance of Somerset House… Dr Richard Wingate, It is impossible not to admire such vision and large-scale ambition; MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology Presenting Practice included: our theatrical ecology thrives on such innovators. 48 Performances Evening Standard, 6 February 2013 10 Cinema screenings In the Beginning Was the End brought an audience of 20,000 into King’s Presenting Practice offers: 7 Podcasts New ways for academics to collaborate across 6 Exhibitions disciplines, to develop research through practice 6 In Conversations. orking with Headlong as part of the Cultural Institute’s and to connect with wider and more diverse publics. We engaged with more than: Wintern programme was an absolutely invaluable Opportunities for students to engage with practising 50 Academics experience for developing my future career – to experience artists and gain real world production experience. 20 Departments first-hand the risk taking and innovative collaboration between Routes for the cultural sector to develop practice 40 Partners the Cultural Institute and the practitioners, with such central through access to research, and a platform to explore 75 Students academic input, was really exciting. new approaches to creative production and audiences of 47,000. Erin Capistrano, English MA student and audience engagement.

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Created in partnership with academics, Projects 2012-13 cultural organisations and artists. Internship programme

Cultural Enquiry Presenting Practice Exhibitions and related events AHRC Cultural Engagement Fund Beyond Performance: a Cultural Performances Sebastião Salgado Dr Georgina Guy (English postdoctoral) Enquiry into major events and In the Beginning Was the End John Berger: Art and Tate/Science Museum culture Property Now Dr Althea Legal-Miller (English postdoctoral) Cinema screenings - Redrawing the maps Three Faiths Forum Innovation NT Live - Dear John letters Dr Sarah Lewis (English postdoctoral) Projects - The Last of the Haussmans - Collaborations Shakespeare400 Artist as citizen and - The Magistrate - Life drawing Dr Daniel Mutibwa (Communications postdoctoral) intermediary - People Photo 51: From DNA Mapping Communities Shakespeare400 - This House to the Brain Aesthetic archive - The Audience - Symmetry C2 King’s Cultural Challenge Carnival futures - Macbeth - Family open day Emily Browne (CMCI MA student) Colm Cille’s spiral Glyndebourne Integrating Knowledge Southbank Centre Developing cultural consumers - Ariadne auf Naxos Objects of Fantasy Mimi Doulton (Music undergraduate) online - Hippolyte et Arice - Artist talk Royal Opera House Mobility to immersion - Don Pasquale Plant Science Kate McEnery (English PhD student) Science in India ROH cinema - Plant thinking Royal Shakespeare Company Translation games - Alice’s Adventures in Stella Toonen (CMCI MA student) (Re)creating culture Wonderland In Conversations V&A The Joy of Influence Ideas Labs Podcasts - Kazuo Ishiguro on film Knowledge Producers programme Arts & Digital While You Wait - Lavinia Greenlaw on Will Warrener (CMCI MA graduate) coordinator Engagement & Diversity - Waiting… now television Erin Capistrano (English MA student) Headlong Curation & Programming - Waiting… in a queue - John Lanchester on video Chris Wilkinson (CMCI MA student) Fuel for the 21st century - Waiting… for the late games Miguel Romero - Sarah Hall on painting Creativeworks London PhD in Residence scheme Seminars and roundtables - Waiting… with Rachel and Peter - Alan Warner on pop Rebecca Enderby (Geography PhD student) Coney Community engagement - Waiting… to be born - Colm Tóibín on opera Sam Holmes (DEPS PhD student) FanSHEN Urban dialogues - Waiting… in a hairdressers Curation & Programming - Waiting… to come home Knowledge Producers What Next? for the 21st century - Fuel Nicky Chambers (CMCI MA student) TippingPoint - Shobana Jeyasingh Dance coordinator Post-1945 collecting policy - Headlong Cultural Institute Christopher To (War Studies MA student) Details of artists, creatives and collaborators can be found on our webpage at www.kcl.ac.uk/culture events assistant

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Our projects have engaged with a wide range of academics, Collaborators cultural organisations and creatives.

Academics Departments Global Institutes Dr Chris Abbott Professor James Gow Professor David Phillips Addictions Brazil Institute European Tourism Futures Punchdrunk Meryl Doney Dr Ruth Adams Professor Jeremy Green Chloe Preece Biochemistry India Institute Institute Raqs Media Collective Christine Donnier-Valentin Dr Btihaj Ajana Dr Samuel Greene Professor Andrew Prescott Byzantine & Modern Greek Institute of North American Face Front Inclusive Theatre Rosetta Life Zena Edwards Professor Tony Allan Dr Georgina Guy Professor Ben Quash Studies Studies Farnham Maltings Rosie Kay Dance Company Tim Etchells Professor Kaspar Althoefer Professor Ian Henry Dr Bernadette Quinn Classics Lau China Institute fanSHEN Roundhouse Chris Fittock Dr Maria Alvarez Professor Paul Heritage Anuradha Ranasinghe Culture, Media & Creative Russia Institute Fuel Royal Court Theatre Ewan Forster Professor Sheila Anderson Sam Holmes Professor Alan Read Industries Furtherfield Royal Opera House Pujan Ghandi Dr Johan Andersson Professor Louise Howard Professor Anna Reading Comparative Literature Cultural organisations Gasworks Royal Shakespeare Company Lewis Gibson Professor Louise Archer Professor Simon Howell Elisa Reynolds Craniofacial Development & Apples and Snakes Glasgow Life Royal Society of Literature Adrian Gordon Sumanta Barua Professor Brian Hurwitz Professor Max Saunders Orthodontics Arden Collection Glyndebourne RSA Orlando Gough Sarah Beake Dr Angela Impey Dr Ben Schofield Diabetes & Nutritional Sciences Artichoke Goethe Institute, Kigali Sadler’s Wells Lavinia Greenlaw Professor Chris Berry Professor Vivienne Jabri Richard Schofield Research Division Association of British Calypsonians Guggenheim, Abu Dhabi Sage Gateshead Sarah Hall Professor Debra Bick Professor Ananya Jahanara Kabir Dr Christina Scharff Digital Humanities Art and Christianity Enquiry Guildhall School of Music and Science Gallery Dublin Gill Hedley Dr Tobias Blanke Dr Stephen Jones Dr Theron Schmidt Modern Language Centre Arts Council England Drama Science Museum Dougald Hine Dominique Borel Anna Jordanous Paula Serafini Education & Professional Studies Barbican The Hat Factory Serendipity Christopher Heighes Professor Catherine Boyle Professor Frank Kelly Dr Lara Shalson English Battersea Arts Centre Headlong Shakespeare’s Globe Caroline Horton Professor Raymond Boyle Sunghee Kim Professor Michael Silk European & International Studies BBC Heritage Arts Company Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Kazuo Ishiguro Dr Martin Brady Anna Kolliakou Dr Catherine Smale Film Studies Ben Uri Gallery Horniman Museum Shristi School, Bangalore Shelley James Professor Bill Brewer Jelizaveta Konstantinova Dr Thomas Smith French BFI Imperial War Museum Somerset House Trust Stefan Kaegi Dr Tom Brown Dr Gretchen Larsen Dr Anna Snaith Geography Birmingham Museum and Art Indian National Trust for Art and Southbank Centre Shaheer Kasmani Dr Clare Buckley Dr Alan Latham Professor Brian Sutton German Gallery Cultural Heritage Sphinx Theatre Company Katja Knecht Dr Emily Butterworth Dr Hye-Kyung Lee Dr Paul Sweetman History body>data>space Invisible Dust Spitalfields Music Scott Ramsey Kyle Professor Alex Callinicos Dr Dan Leech Wilkinson Professor Guy Tear Infectious Diseases Braunarts Ishyo Arts Centre, Kigali Spread the Word John Lanchester Professor Erica Carter Professor Clare Lees Professor Michael Trapp Informatics British Association of Sound Julie’s Bicycle Take the Space Brian Lobel Professor Ellis Cashmore Dr Althea Legal-Miller Professor Mark Turner King’s Learning Institute Systems Juneau Projects Tamasha Theatre Company Marcus Lyon Professor Frances Cleaver Dr Sarah Lewis Dr Julie Vallortigara Management British Association of Steel Bands Kinetica Tate Britain Rachel Mars Professor Nick Clifford Min Li Dr Mattia Veronese Mathematics British Library Kuumba Youth Music Tate Modern Alistair MacDonald Dr Ruth Craggs Alvin Lim Paul Vetch Menzies Centre for Australian British Museum Lambeth Palace Library Theatre Royal Stratford East Victoria Melody Dr Hannah Crawforth Dr Lisa Kingstone Dr Ricarda Vidal Studies Caper Legacy Trust UK The Hub Jo Melville Dr Roberta Comunian Professor Michael Luck Dr Dirk Vom Lehn MRC Centre for Developmental Camden People’s Theatre Lichfield Cathedral The Visual Collective Jean Mohr Dr Bridget Conor Michael Takeo Magruder Viktoria Vona Neurobiology Caribbean Enterprise Network UK London Bubble Theatre Company Three Faiths Forum (3FF) Dave Price Dr Sarah Cooper Professor Bruce Malamud Professor Evelyn Welch MRC-HPA Centre for Cardboard Citizens London Review of Books TippingPoint Nikki Pugh Dr Rod Dacombe Dr Johanna Malt Professor Sir Simon Wessely Environment and Health Carnival Arts and Masquerade Louvre Abu Dhabi Tricycle Theatre Michael Regan Dr Lea Ann Dailey Richard Mason Dr Catherine Wheatley Music Foundation London Fusion Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Matt Rowe Dr Santanu Das Dr Bridget McConnell Dr Heather Wiebe Pharmacology & Therapeutics Carnival Village London Philharmonic Orchestra Music and Dance Aura Satz Dr Juliet Davis Professor Josephine McDonagh Dr Jennifer Wild Pharmacy Central St Martins London Symphony Orchestra UP Projects Joana Seguro Dr Chiara de Franco Dr David McGillivray Dr Darren Williams Philosophy The Children’s Museum Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow UK Centre for Carnival Arts Rajni Shah Sharmila de Sousa Professor Gordon McMullan Dr Nick Wilson Physics China Culture Connect School of Art V&A Tristan Sharps Professor Emma Dillon Dr Áine McMurtry Dr Richard Wingate Physiology City of London Festival Man & Eve Gallery Verbal Arts Centre Fleeta Chew Siegel Professor Justin Dillon Professor Gayle McPherson Dr Hope Wolf Political Economy Clod Ensemble Metro-Boulot-Dodo Wayne McGregor | Random Alex Spryropoulos Dr Sarah Dustagheer Dr Milena Michalski Professor Patrick Wright Primary Care & Public Coney Modus Operandi Dance Carla Steinberg Rebecca Enderby Dr James Millington Health Sciences Crafts Council Museum of London Wellcome Collection Dilip Sur Charlotte Fereday Dr Frederick Moehn Schools Spanish, Portuguese & CREATE The National Archives What Next? Arthur Swindels Nicole Ferdinand Dr Silvia Montes-Garcia Arts & Humanities Latin American Studies Creative Scotland National Council of Science White Cube Dan Tagg Dr Lola Frost Dr Ian Mudway Biomedical Sciences Theology & Religious Studies Creativeworks London Museums, India Young Vic David Taylor Professor Mervyn Frost Dr Daniel Mutibwa Dental Institute War Studies The Culture Capital Exchange National Gallery Colm Tóibín Dr Beatriz Garcia Dr Thrish Nanayakkara Dickson Poon School Wolfson Centre for Age Related Culture Northern Ireland National Maritime Museum Creatives Simon Fisher Turner Billy Gazard Dr Zoe Norridge of Law Diseases DCMS National Museum of Qatar Alby James Jenny Walwin Professor Alexandra Professor Andrew O’Hagan Florence Nightingale De La Warr Pavillion National Theatre Colleen Becker Alan Warner Georgakopoulou-Nunes Dr Iyabo Osho School of Nursing Public Engagement Derry-Londonderry City of Natural History Museum Malika Booker Ben Vickers Dr Paulo Gerbaudo Tom Overton & Midwifery Department Culture Nehru Memorial Museum and Mayuri Boonham Sylvia Xuhua Professor Rosalind Gill Dr Ralph Parfect Institute of Psychiatry Christopher Coe Design Museum Library, New Delhi Anna Cady Rayhan Yaziri Professor Paul Gilroy Iain Perdue Medicine Difference Exchange November Ventures Lottie Child Wai Yin Kwok Maggie Gold Professor Anthony Pereira Natural & Mathematical Archives & Information dreamthinkspeak The Photographers’ Gallery John Christie Cui Yin Mok Dr Sacha Golob Dr Sanja Perovic Sciences Management Elio Studio Partner, Garbers & James Paul Clark Wang Yuyang Dr Mike Goodman Dr Barry Peters Social Science & Public Patricia Methven English National Ballet School Architects Aletta Collins Dr Kelina Gotman Dr Jahnavi Phalkey Policy Entelechy Arts Positive Steps Henry Cooke

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Culture at King’s

his has been an outstanding first year for Culture at Cultural Partnerships TKing’s. The Cultural Institute has made a major impact Deborah Bull, Director within the College, bringing people from different parts Ruth Hogarth, Head of Administration of the institution together in a number of important and innovative cultural endeavours. The Institute has also Cultural Institute at King’s had great success in strengthening and developing new Katherine Bond, Director of Innovation relationships with external institutions. The prospective Alison Duthie, Director of Programming Science Gallery at King’s combines enhanced internal

cohesion with innovative external links. Altogether Photo Phil Sayer Science Gallery at King’s much has been achieved and there is great momentum. Dr Daniel Glaser, Director Professor Sir Rick Trainor, Principal Academic Associates Professor Sheila Anderson, Digital Humanities Professor Catherine Boyle, Spanish, Portuguese eveloping close links with cultural partners has been & Latin American Studies Da key part of the College’s strategy for some time. It Professor Ben Quash, Theology & Religious Studies is extremely gratifying to see how much progress has been Professor Mark Turner, English made in intensifying existing partnerships and developing Dr Hope Wolf, English new ones over the past year.

Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, Sector Associates Vice-Principal, Strategy and Development Hilary Carty Gus Casely-Hayford Photo Michael Wynne Anthony Lilley Jenny Waldman

Knowledge Exchange Associates Dr Ruth Craggs, Geography Charlotte Fereday, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies Anna Kolliakou, Institute of Psychiatry With grateful thanks to the teams that have delivered Richard Mason, French this work during 2012-13 Paula Serafini, Culture, Media & Creative Industries Kaye Barham, Yvonne Castle, Sophie Cornell, James Crawford, Dr Dorian Hayes, Fran Hegyi, Tim Henbrey, For contact details visit Emma Houston, Dr Sarah Lewis, Emma Paterson, www.kcl.ac.uk/culture Will Warrener, Adam Werlinger.

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