How do you give a wild whale a health check-up? 🐋 Researchers have used drones to sample whale breath (or 'blow') to check for dangerous pathogens in whale populations in the Arctic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn8u...

NEW funded PhD opportunity in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. Help tackle infectious diseases driven by climate change, and support the communities impacted through working with non-profit group Sangwari. Full details here 👉 liss-dtp.ac.uk/project/myst...

Read the full story about research by Prof Andreas Baas and the Department of Geography on plastic pollution following the recent bio-bead spill at Camber Sands. 🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🆕 New Blog Post 🔗https://kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/understanding-alien-plant-invasions 🪴 Alien plant invasions are accelerating worldwide, posing serious threats to biodiversity and costing billions in management. This latest blog post explores how these unfolds across landscapes.

⏳Final few tickets ⏳👇 Don't miss out on our FREE book talk this Wednesday 🔗 kcl.ac.uk/events/book-... Silicon Empires: The fight for the future of AI with author Nick Srnicek.

Will the Mayfield Review create pathways to work for disabled people? Catherine Hale explains why flexible working must sit at the centre of the employer-led approach to supporting people to stay in work. www.kcl.ac.uk/will-the-may... @catherinehale.bsky.social @kings-sga.bsky.social

New podcast episode from WORLD: We got this Invisible Water 🥤🍎 How much water is really in our food? 🎧 listen here👇🔗https://kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/invisible-water-ed3

🚀 Join us for the FREE book talk: “Silicon Empires: the fight for the future of AI” with @nsrnicek.bsky.social launching his latest book! 🗓 Date: 10th December, 5pm 📍 Location: Bush House, King's College London 🔗 tickets: techdevelopment03.eventbrite.co.uk @politybooks.bsky.social

New Blog Post🆕 From pandemics to probiotics, the history of microbial research goes beyond Louis Pasteur and the lab. Explore the history of it and how it can shape future research 🦠🔬 open.substack.com/pub/kingsglo...

BOOK YOUR FREE TICKETS 👇 🔗 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/book-... Since the rise of generative AI, hype has obscured the deeper question: who really controls this transformative technology? Join us to hear from Nick Srnicek on his new book, which explores this important topic…

New Blog Post🆕 The question “Who owns chickens?” is not trivial. 🐔 It opens a window into the machinery of global agribusiness, revealing how a handful of firms shape what we eat, how it’s produced, and who pays the price. kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/who-owns-c...

Call for abstracts, Seed Panel Innovating Methods to Find (G)local Solutions for Global Challenges Conv. by Laura Camfield (@kings-sga.bsky.social) & @keetieroelen.bsky.social (@oucsgd.bsky.social) 📍 @iobua.bsky.social www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...

BOOK YOUR FREE TICKETS 👇 Join us for a roundtable to reflect on three decades of feminist thinking on gender, development, and macroeconomic policy. 🔗 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/envis...

✅ Check our latest newsletter, right here or in your inbox! ✅ The latest news, publications picks, calls, vacancies and opinion from us and our member community 📕 Special feature: @scnat.ch Guide for Global Research Partnerships mailchi.mp/eadi/nl2nove...

Nyra is here: Climate action, from the ground up. Join us in supporting farmers on the frontline of climate change. Learn more 👉 nyra.community @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @nyra.community

ONE WEEK TO GO 👇 Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine. Hear from the authors: Prof. Adam Hanieh, Dr Robert Knox, Dr Rafeef Ziadah ⏰26 Nov | 17:00–18:30 🔗 kcl.ac.uk/events/resis... @versobooks.bsky.social

We're hiring a Senior Centre Manager! The role will involve working as part of the Centre’s senior leadership team, overseeing a wide range of business and research operations to ensure effective management of all day-to-day operations. Find out more and apply here: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130606-...

"Governments, parliaments, and non-state actors — who support what until recently was a broad global consensus on sustainable development need to find ways to counter the destructive influence of the Trump administration on established forums such as the G7 and G20" www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2398

"Like Banquo’s Ghost at Macbeth’s feast, the $100 billion climate finance pledge haunts every COP." New insightful blog post from Prof. @sarahbracking.bsky.social looking at this history of climate financing at COP. 🔗https://kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/cop30-banquos-ghost-at-belem

TWO DAYS TO GO 📢 Have you got your ticket yet? 📚 Disrupted Development in The Congo 📅 19 Nov | 🕔 17:00–18:30 | 📍 Strand Campus 🎟️ lnkd.in/ge5WKCSk Hear from author Ben Radley, alongside Dr Christian Otchia and Dr Ingrid Kvangraven. @oxfordunipress.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social

Your COP30 questions, answered. 🌍 What makes this climate summit in Belém, Brazil so important for the Brazil and global action? 🎥 Dr. Andreza de Souza Santos, Director of King's Brazil Institute shares her perspective. Full Video 🔗 youtu.be/XaIsIP3En6w

What does it mean to participate in a community with severe mental illness? We're hosting a seminar on 19 November with Hanna Kienzler, who will share insights into community inclusion and participation of people with severe mental illness in Palestine. Register here: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/lesso...

FREE book talk and live music performance 📚 🎵 Join us for an evening of live experimental electronic music and a book talk exploring England’s vanishing landscapes... 🎟️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/liste... 🎧Sample Mix: www.mixcloud.com/gypjh2000/li...

🆕 New Blog Post 🔗 kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/cop-30-why... 🌍 COP30 kicks off this week in Brazil, and King’s is there. We’ve been granted observer status by the UNFCCC Secretariat. But why is King’s attending COP? What role do academics play in global climate negotiations?

Annual Lecture: The Paradox of Home by Les Back (11.12.25) Home is a knife-edge word. Competing forces balance on its edge that either control or open the terms of belonging. It is why home is paradoxical tinyurl.com/3493r8e6

Have you got your tickets? 🎟️ Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law ⏰ 18:00 to 20:00 | 📅 13 Nov | 📍 King's College London 🔗 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/court...

Why are homes in England shrinking? 🏘️🔎 new blog post explains all...

South Asian activists & academics discuss cyber safety, data protection, gendered violence online & the human cost of AI content moderation. 📅 14 Nov | 4-5:40pm GMT | Online 🔗 buff.ly/3hw4JrJ @taranginisriraman.bsky.social @kings-sga.bsky.social

What happens when mining industrialisation in Africa is led by transnational corporations? Ben Radley discusses the challenges this has brought to the Congo. 🗓️ 19 Nov | ⏰ 17:00–18:30 | 📍 Strand Campus 🔗https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/book-talk-on-disrupted-development-in-the-congo-with-ben-radley

🚨 Just another day of terror in Rio? David Kenyon unpacks the politics, violence, and broken security logic behind Operation Containment. #Brazil #RioDeJaneiro #PublicSecurity #Politics #KingsGlobalAffairs pic.x.com/W9PODLou3X kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/another-da...

💔📜 Between 1806–1975, nearly 1,000 Australians, mostly women, took heartbreak to court. Join Alecia Simmonds at King's College London as she explores how love & law collided in breach of promise cases. 🗓️ 13 Nov | 🕕 18:00 - 20:00 🎟️ Tickets: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/court...

🎙️ Mariz Tadros @ids.ac.uk & Laura Camfield @kings-sga.bsky.social discuss decolonising knowledge, including experiences in contexts where they are indigenous or non-indigenous scholars, and alternatives to the current development knowledge ecosystem 🎧 Listen here: buff.ly/cPwJPY2

📢 Book Talk": The Long Heat, Climate Politics When It’s Too Late Join Andreas Malm & Wim Carton for a vital discussion on climate politics in the age of overshoot. 📅 Nov 6 | 🕕 6-8PM GMT 📍KCL, Strand Campus, London 🎟️ Free tickets: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/publi...

What does it mean to speak of joyful passions in an era of reactionary politics? 'in conversation' w/ leading feminist & reproductive justice scholars on messy, magical, political feminist activism in Latin America. 10th Nov, 1830-1930 GMT: www.outsavvy.com/event/31065/... @kings-sga.bsky.social

In our latest blog post, Laura Camfield (@kings-sga.bsky.social) argues that social science fiction can be more than "an opportunity to cultivate empathy, but also as a robust methodological tool for development research." www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2387

Call for abstracts: Seed Panel: Contemporary Structural Transformation: Constraints and Possibilities Conv. by Pritish Behuria (@globaldevinst.bsky.social) and @andypsumner.bsky.social (@kings-sga.bsky.social) 📍 @iobua.bsky.social www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...

Call for abstacts, Seed Panel: "Trump and the Global Disruption of Development Policy" Conv. by @andypsumner.bsky.social (@kings-sga.bsky.social & @stephanklingebiel.bsky.social (@idos-research.bsky.social) www.eadi.org/eadi-events/...

Spain’s solar boom looks like a green success story, but what’s behind the panels? ☀️ Research from @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social & @uocuniversitat.bsky.social shows decarbonisation is deeply tied to land, finance & global supply chains. 🌍 🔗 kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/spains-sol...

In post-pandemic Brazil, more young people are choosing military careers, not just for economic stability, but as a reflection of conservative values and shifting identities. 🔍 New research from King's Brazil Institute shows 🔗 Read more: kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/why-are-yo...

Join us for a #BHM event hosted by the African Leadership Centre. 📢 Bea Gassmann de Sousa will delve into Nigerian Modern art & its challenge to Eurocentric modernity. 📍 King's College London ⏰ 21 Oct | 17:30–19:00 🎟️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/niger...

BOOK TALK Souls in the Kalyug: The Politics and Cosmologies of Migrant Workers in Contemporary India Professor Dr. Shankar Ramaswami 🗓️Wed 15 October 16 – 17.30 📍Bush House SE 1.05 kcl.ac.uk/events/inter...

The Trump era has upended global development: USAID dismantled, peacekeeping defunded, health programmes suspended. Prof. Andy Sumner explores what this means for aid & multilateralism. 👉 Blog: eu1.hubs.ly/H0nFNT00 #GlobalDevelopment #InternationalAid #KingsCollegeLondon

On World Homeless Day: New book from King’s College London exposes the debt trap catching single mothers and children in England. 100,000 households, 125,000 children in temporary accommodation. Calls for urgent action on housing, welfare & childcare. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/new-boo...

We are launching a new Undergraduate Network for IR and Foreign Policy with British Foreign Policy Group 🎉 For undergrads across the UK interested in IR, diplomacy, and foreign policy 🌟 Join our first meeting to find out more about the network 👉 https://ow.ly/4nNu50X8uR7

Spheres of Knowledge is written for curious readers who want to understand the forces shaping our world. It’s not an academic journal – it’s a space where complex global issues are unpacked in clear, straightforward language. kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com

New Article. The World Bank withdrew from dams in the 1990s but the technology returned over the last 20 years. This begs the question: does the World Bank approach dams differently today? Did past protests and policy reforms have a longer-lasting effect? theconversation.com/dams-for-dev... 1/

What has happened to inequality between and within countries over the last decade? Convergence, divergence, flatlining or plateau asks Andy Sumner from @kings-sga.bsky.social on the @eadi.bsky.social blog. All Kings International Development news, here: www.devstud.org.uk/2025/09/12/k...

📚 The Political Economy of Digital Monopolies 🗓️ 10 Oct | 🕔 5–6:30PM BST 📍 King’s College London 🎟️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/technology... How do Big Tech monopolies really work, and what are they selling? Join authors Paško Bilić & Toni Prug for a deep dive into platform capitalism.

Listen to our Prof Naho Mirumachi on BBC World Service programme The Inquiry, as to why an 80-year-old water treaty between Mexico and the US is in jeopardy... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

🏠 In Dakar, gardiens live in and protect homes under construction, often for the cities diaspora building from abroad. They’re vital to the city’s rhythm, yet invisible in policy. 🔍 Fraser Curry explores this hidden infrastructure in our latest blog 👉 kingsglobalaffairs.substack.com/p/living-in-...