King's College London

The symposium will be organized at the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London, United Kingdom, on October 20-21, 2026. This event will provide a global forum for path-breaking health economics research critical to public policy, private and public governance, and market and non-government mechanisms that create the conditions for healthcare competition and innovation.

Students whose performance at school declines relative to their peers are at a higher risk of contact with the criminal justice system, a new study by King’s College London has found. The study, one of the largest of its kind and published today in the Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, looked at 4.3 million pupils in England born between 1990 and 1997.

The one-day conference marked the second instalment of the Emerging Voices Series, following its launch at Arizona State University in March, with a third convening planned later this year at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). As Professor Wyn Bowen, Head of the School of Security Studies, noted in his opening remarks, the series is designed to bring together senior expertise and emerging talent, creating dialogue between experienced leaders and the next generation of strategic thinkers.

The first study to directly attribute Antarctic glacier retreat to climate change shows Pine Island Glacier was pushed significantly further by human driven warming. Human-driven climate change significantly intensified the retreat of one the most important glaciers in the Antarctica during the twentieth century. The Pine Island Glacier, which drains a large part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet into the Amundsen Sea, is one of the single biggest contributors to global sea level rise.

Researchers at King's College London have played an important role in motivating the development of a new prototype quantum sensor which, when scaled, will enable scientists to solve major challenges in fundamental physics. Polarisation of blue laser light being adjusted before cooling atoms to near absolute zero.

Markers of a new mechanism for cell death, called karyoptosis, have been found in brains of patients with Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Left: nuclei in cells that do not show signs of the karyoptosis cell death mechanism. Right: nuclei that show signs of karyoptosis. The nuclei on the right appear shrivelled, a key feature of karyoptosis.

Working from home could improve family wellbeing, gender equality, fertility, and staff retention, but only if fathers can use it without stigma or career penalties, finds new research from King’s College London. The researchers analysed data from the Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes UK (SWAA-UK), Understanding Society and the Labour Force Survey.

Plants that become invasive may owe their success to an advantage shaped long before they arrive, according to new research led by King’s College London. Think of Japanese knotweed in the UK or kudzu in the United States - plants that seem almost unstoppable once established. New research suggests their success may not just be about where they arrive, but the evolutionary environments they come from.

The AI model, developed by a research team led by a computer scientist at King’s College London, improved Lewis Hamilton’s finishing position for the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team in simulations of the 2023 Bahrain Grand Prix. The scientists believe the AI could provide F1 strategists with additional information to inform their decision-making during races – where quick decision making based on data can improve performance on track.

The inquiry is the largest of its kind in NHS history. Experts from across King's health faculties have commented on the Ockenden report into maternity services in Nottingham. The inquiry found that there were a variety of intersecting factors leading to serious failures in maternity care dating back to "at least 2010". Leadership failed to take action to prevent more harm and deaths. "The Nottingham NHS Trust review led by Donna Ockenden is extremely distressing.