Five-Year Ambition 2016-21 CONTENTS

Health Faculties’ Five-Year Ambition 2016-21 CONTENTS

Our ambition 3

Priority themes 4

Students and education 6

Research, impact and innovation 8

Partnerships 10

Our people and ways of working 12

Realising our ambition 15 Health Faculties’ Five-Year Ambition 2016-21

Our ambition

We will deliver impact locally, nationally and globally I am delighted to present This document is focused on four complementary King’s Health Faculties’ five-year themes that are critical to our success: students through discovery, innovation and education that ambition for 2016 to 2021. It and education; research, impact and innovation; ultimately leads to tangible improvements in patient builds on our distinguished and partnerships; and our people and ways of working. expanding reputation as one of care, population health and societal wellbeing. Europe’s leading centres of health- By the four Health Faculties working together related education and research. and building on current momentum, we are positioned to make a truly outstanding By 2021, King’s College London will be unequivocally Situated across four campuses in central London contribution to world health. In the next five – three of which are co-located with our major years, our students will enjoy increasingly positioned among the top ten global universities in NHS partners – our education portfolio includes enriched university experiences, our research biomedicine and health. programmes designed for pre- and post-registration will deliver vital impact on the major health healthcare professionals, basic scientists and challenges of our time and our staff will be clinicians. rightly recognised and sought out as global academic leaders. Our research embraces the entire ‘bench to bedside to population’ continuum, with interdisciplinary I am grateful to all those who have contributed groups engaging in fundamental scientific discovery to the development of this work to summarise and experimental medicine through to clinical trials our priorities for the next five years, including the and health improvement sciences. many staff and students whose perspectives have been incorporated. I look forward to celebrating Designed to complement and enhance individual the achievements of our people as we work Faculty plans, as well as the university’s emerging together to realise our ambition. strategic vision, our five-year collective ambition aims to identify where and how we can best coordinate our efforts across the health spectrum Professor Sir Robert Lechler at King’s. Vice-Principal (Health), King’s College London Health Faculties’ Five-Year Ambition 2016-21

Working together to make an outstanding contribution to world health

The world’s most pressing challenges commonly have a health dimension: eradicating disease, reducing child mortality rates and protecting our environment. Remarkable progress has been made in medicine and bioscience but we must accelerate efforts to drive better understanding and improved health for millions who continue to suffer across the world.

Exceptional people are needed to generate, translate and share the valuable knowledge that will transform lives across the world through advances in physical and mental healthcare. PRIORITY THEMES Health Faculties’ Five-Year Ambition 2016-21

Colleagues from King’s Health Faculties past and present have helped to shape today’s global biomedical landscape, through pioneering PRIORITY THEMES contributions to education, research and clinical care. THE HEALTH FACULTIES AT KING'S COLLEGE LONDON: 1 Students and education Now we are building on our inspiring heritage coupled with the collective Our students will enjoy a challenging, innovative energy arising from outstanding REF 2014 results and the university’s and enriching university experience that reflects ambitious growth agenda. By leveraging our combined strengths, we our unique world-leading blend of research- strive to make a real difference to people’s lives in London, the UK and enhanced, interdisciplinary and interprofessional the world. DENTAL INSTITUTE expertise. Our graduates will be equipped with the attributes and skills they need for a fulfilling career By working with external partners, our capacity to make an impact is and to make a positive impact on society. strengthened even further. We will continue to build on our collaborations, with NHS healthcare organisations, academia and business: King’s Health FACULTY OF LIFE 2 Research, impact and innovation Partners, the Francis Crick Institute and MedCity. SCIENCES & MEDICINE We will have a global impact on biomedicine through a broad portfolio that spans the health While King’s is undoubtedly poised for continued success, we are mindful continuum. We will enhance existing strengths, that the higher education landscape is changing at pace: technology is develop new interdisciplinary programmes and transforming the way we work, our complex funding landscape is volatile consolidate our discovery science portfolio. Our and there is considerable and ever-increasing global competition for FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE research will be underpinned by a distinctive ‘line students, academics and research investment. FACULTY OF NURSING of sight’ from bench to bedside to population. & MIDWIFERY The higher education sector is more competitive than ever before. By 3 Partnerships having focused priorities and proactively shaping our ways of working, We will strengthen our partnerships with leading, we can respond with agility to new opportunities and challenges. like-minded organisations across the globe, engaging in activities driven by a common purpose There has never been a more rewarding time to be part of King’s globally INSTITUTE OF that materially enrich our academic impact, student connected community of inspirational educators, researchers, clinicians PSYCHIATRY, PSYCHOLOGY experience and societal contributions. and students. By harnessing our collective potential, we are exceptionally & NEUROSCIENCE well-placed to make an enduring contribution to the world’s knowledge, 4 Our people and ways of working health and wellbeing. We will cultivate a highly talented, engaged and inclusive community, in which staff and students are supported and motivated to excel. Our people will enjoy working across disciplines, functions and activities to deliver our ambitions. Health Faculties’ Five-Year Ambition 2016-21 Students and education

Our students will enjoy a challenging, innovative and enriching university experience that reflects our unique world- leading blend of research-enhanced, interdisciplinary and interprofessional expertise. Our graduates will be equipped with the attributes and skills they need for a fulfilling career and to make a positive impact on society. STUDENTS AND EDUCATION Health Faculties’ Five-Year Ambition 2016-21

King’s College London is one of the leading centres for biomedical science and clinical WE WILL... education in Europe. take a holistic view of our students’ university prepare our graduates to work in partnership Our Health Faculties collectively educate over experience, ensuring they extract maximum with others through fostering a collaborative 7,300 undergraduate, 2,800 postgraduate value from being part of a forward-looking, environment which transcends departmental, taught and 1,200 postgraduate research multi-faculty London university with a disciplinary, faculty and professional boundaries students. We offer over 180 programmes RESEARCH- longstanding and proud heritage of health- and encourages an interprofessional approach. of study, ranging from 3-year BSc degrees in ENHANCED related education and research. the biomedical sciences through NHS-funded ensure our graduates are equipped to enter a clinical programmes to postgraduate degrees attract exceptional students, whatever their globalised and entrepreneurial workforce by in clinical and bioscience specialties. background, who share our values and maximising the opportunities for students to ambitions. enhance their personal university experience Our programmes are designed to attract and employability through excellent education, the very best students. They enjoy a unique foster a culture of engagement and inclusivity in enriched with co-curricular activities. research-enhanced learning experience with which staff and students enjoy a shared sense of unrivalled opportunities supported by our ownership and take pride in the success of our strong partnerships with NHS Trusts, industry university, its education and our people. and healthcare organisations. recognise and reward excellence in teaching, INTERDISCIPLINARY celebrating innovative university educators who inspire students and influence colleagues.

deliver programmes that are research-enriched, responsive to change and delivered in line with best educational practice.

INTERPROFESSIONAL EDUCATION Health Faculties’ Five-Year Ambition 2016-21 Research, impact and innovation

We will have a global impact on biomedicine through a broad portfolio that spans the health continuum. We will enhance existing strengths, develop new interdisciplinary programmes and consolidate our discovery science portfolio. Our research will be underpinned by a distinctive ‘line of sight’ from bench to bedside to population. RESEARCH, IMPACT AND INNOVATION Health Faculties’ Five-Year Ambition 2016-21

King’s Health Faculties have a distinctive and thriving research portfolio. A standout WE WILL... REF 2014 performance across both clinical and biological aspects of medicine, nursing, enhance our world-class research eminence enhance our cross-university interdisciplinary dentistry, biomedical engineering and steady by investing throughout the research research programmes, particularly those at the income growth from research gained within DRIVING pipeline from fundamental science, through interface of health, science, technology, the an increasingly competitive environment, RESEARCH FROM experimental medicine, to health services humanities and social sciences: have consolidated our international reputation BENCH... research. Our research will be informed by • Quantitative Biomedicine & Clinical for excellence. clinical challenges, rapidly translated, and lead Informatics to innovative models of healthcare delivery for • Global Health Our interdisciplinary and integrated approach the benefit of patient and population health. • Environment & Public Health is based on strong fundamental science and • Psychology & Sociology. innovation that enable rapid translation into invest in and consolidate our areas of distinctive new therapies and improvements in care. strength, in: extract maximum benefit through our key Our strengths in experimental medicine and • Cardiovascular Science partnerships: King’s Health Partners, the clinical translation and our increasing focus • Genetics & Genomics Francis Crick Institute and MedCity. on population science are underpinned by our • Imaging & Biomedical Engineering integration with three of the UK’s leading NHS • Immunology, including Transplantation concentrate our resources on excellent research Trusts through King’s Health Partners. • Psychiatry & Neuroscience. that responds to global challenges in health, by TO BEDSIDE... maximising opportunities to rapidly translate Our opportunities, however, are matched by grow our research portfolio to complement our work into patient and public benefit, and the scale of the health challenges faced by our clinical strengths and leverage King’s linking with relevant funders, industry leaders societies across the world. We will continue to Health Partners to deliver world-class patient and policy makers. make major advances across diverse fields of care in: research to tackle these challenges – whether • Cancer offer the best possible environment to enable around clinical, environmental, public or global • Dentistry & Oral Health world-class research, including: support for health – in recognition of our duty to provide a • Haematology innovation, translation and commercialisation; compelling and transformational contribution. • Liver, Obesity, Diabetes & Metabolism guidance on public engagement; and • Early Development & Child Health investment in new platform technologies, TO POPULATION • Population Health & Implementation Science. estates and facilities. Health Faculties’ Five-Year Ambition 2016-21 Partnerships

We will strengthen our partnerships with leading, like-minded organisations across the globe, engaging in activities driven by a common purpose that materially enrich our academic impact, student experience and societal contributions. PARTNERSHIPS Health Faculties’ Five-Year Ambition 2016-21

Our central London location enables exceptional opportunities to work alongside partners who complement our research WE WILL... base, enrich our education and training portfolio, accelerate our pathways from innovation to implementation, and enhance develop value added partnerships that are harness our MedCity membership to increase our societal impact. characterised by a common purpose, respect, engagement with industry and contribute to commitment and trust. London’s position as a globally-competitive Our principal partnership is with three NHS Trusts with whom location for investment. we are jointly accredited as one of only six Academic Health through King’s Health Partners, build on Science Centres (AHSC) in the UK; King’s Health Partners opportunities to enable faster translation and develop a small number of high quality incorporates King’s College London, and Guy’s and St Thomas’, adoption of research innovation into clinical strategic partnerships with healthcare King’s College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS practice, develop a healthcare workforce organisations, academia and industry, drawing Foundation Trusts. Together our mission is to bring together which works across traditional boundaries, on complementary expertise to pursue world-class research, education and clinical practice for the and improve patient care. We will embrace the opportunities in areas including: research benefit of patients. creation of KHP Institutes as a vehicle to deliver (devices, diagnostics and therapeutics) and and embed our research from bench to bedside education (student internships, distance The Francis Crick Institute, in which King’s is a founding member, to population, and drive discovery research-led learning and research placements). offers us unprecedented opportunities to strengthen our transformation within clinical settings. collaborative and interdisciplinary research endeavours, develop a Global Health strategy driven by placing the UK at the forefront of global biomedical discoveries maximise opportunities arising from the King’s unique combination of interdisciplinary and innovations that make a real difference to global health. Francis Crick Institute, from providing strengths, in-country relationships and access to bespoke research technologies, joint experience of cross-sector delivery models. King’s is also one of the three London academic members postgraduate research and clinical training of MedCity, which aims to promote and grow world-leading through to offering innovative interdisciplinary increase staff and student participation in life sciences across the ‘golden triangle’ in England’s greater research collaborations. our key partnerships, ensuring that the full south east. range of opportunities and benefits are clearly communicated and supported. We also enjoy a number of local and international partnerships, including academic collaborations with the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Johns Hopkins University and the Peking University Health Science Centre.

IMPROVING HEALTH LOCALLY... NATIONALLY... AND INTERNATIONALLY Health Faculties’ Five-Year Ambition 2016-21 Our people and ways of working

We will cultivate a highly talented, engaged and inclusive community, in which staff and students are supported and motivated to excel. Our people will enjoy working across disciplines, functions and activities to deliver our ambition. OUR PEOPLE AND WAYS OF WORKING Health Faculties’ Five-Year Ambition 2016-21

To achieve the ambitious growth articulated in this five-year strategy, we need to galvanise WE WILL... around a united sense of purpose and support our students and staff to excel within the context build on existing momentum and motivation promote meaningful, productive and creative of our ambitions. ENHANCED within the university to transform the way we collaboration, with a focus on embedding COMMUNICATION work and to make King’s Health Faculties a diversity and inclusion, to benefit from solutions This process requires purposeful dialogue rewarding and exciting environment in which offered by colleagues with a range of expertise and communication with our community to work and study. and perspectives. of students, staff, alumni and partners, so that every person understands and feels create a sustainable culture of high ambition provide the best working environment and empowered to play their role in achieving and standards, in which excellence in teaching, resources to enable world-class education our shared ambition. OPENNESS AND research, impact and professional services is and research. fostered, celebrated and rewarded. Our aim is to embed mechanisms that underpin TRANSPARENCY an environment where excellence is rewarded nurture staff talent, by offering outstanding and innovation is supported. development opportunities at all levels, with a focus on training, mentoring and coaching Starting with our leadership, we will encourage, early career academics, emerging managers empower and challenge all members of our ENTERPRISE and future leaders who are confident in community to work in ways that we want to see championing change. We will offer clarity in others: enhanced communication, openness of staff performance expectations throughout and transparency, enterprise, collaboration the employee life cycle. and inclusivity. develop the quality and timeliness of our World-class staff who have the capability, communication channels, listen and respond motivation and resilience to excel in a continually COLLABORATION to feedback, share good practice and learnings, changing environment are critical to our empower people to be involved in decision- success. Excellent development opportunities, making, and reinforce the value of innovation. clear career structures and a greater emphasis on the qualities of leadership, innovation and accountability are therefore crucial elements of our strategy. INCLUSIVITY

REALISING OUR AMBITION Health Faculties’ Five-Year Ambition 2016-21

Realising our ambition

As this initial version of the Health Faculties’ Five-Year Ambition for 2016 to 2021 is published, work is continuing apace on the creation of King’s College London’s strategic vision. Due to be published in early 2017, this overarching piece of work will set out the university’s characteristics and aspirations as we approach our landmark 200th year in 2029. 8TH TOP 3 TOP 10 Within the Health Faculties, our priority themes and approaches will in the world in the UK in the world continue to develop alongside the university vision. Our ambition is CLINICAL, CLINICAL MEDICINE; DENTISTRY; NURSING; intended to be a ‘living’ piece of work, one that informs our choices and planning but also enables a swift response to changes arising from our PRE-CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHIATRY & PHARMACY & complex environment. & HEALTH NEUROSCIENCE; SUBJECTS PHARMACOLOGY ALLIED TO MEDICINE Alongside this document, we have developed several internally-focused Times Higher Education World QS World University enabling papers that identify in greater detail the activities and measures University Subject Rankings 2015 REF Power Rankings 2014 Subject Rankings 2016 of success proposed in each of our four priority themes. As we make progress in these areas, we will review and learn from our experiences.

There is an unmistakeable sense of mounting energy and confidence across King’s. We have been buoyed by the demonstrable influence and impact of our recent work, reflected in part by rising global rankings based on our teaching, research, reputation and impact. Our ambition now seeks to consolidate the critical role of King’s Health Faculties in continuing to make transformative and sustained contributions to society. DENTAL INSTITUTE FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE FACULTY OF NURSING & MIDWIFERY www.kcl.ac.uk/dentistry www.kcl.ac.uk/nursing

FACULTY OF LIFE SCIENCES & MEDICINE INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY, PSYCHOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE www.kcl.ac.uk/lsm www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn

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