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King's College London
King's College London is one of the top 10 UK universities in the world (QS World University Rankings, 2018/19) and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 31,000 students (including more than 12,800 postgraduates) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 8,500 staff.
King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF), eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3 and 4).
Since our foundation, King’s students and staff have dedicated themselves in the service of society. King’s will continue to focus on world-leading education, research and service, and will have an increasingly proactive role to play in a more interconnected, complex world. Visit our website to find out more about Vision 2029, King’s strategic vision for the next 12 years to 2029, which will be the 200th anniversary of the founding of the university.
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- How are technology and the online world affecting our relationships? What are the benefits of dating in the digital age, and what do we need to be cautious of?
- What are the upsides of using technology to find and build connections?
- What are some of the privacy concerns that need to be considered when using apps and technology that collect our data?
The digital world has had a profound impact on how we date, find love and build connections. Although technology and the online world tends to get a bad rap when it comes to building healthy relationships, in this podcast Dr Kate Devlin discusses how technology has shaped our experiences of love, sex and intimacy for the better. She discusses that whilst dating apps are altering our expectations of relationships, they are also helping us to finding like-minded people and form communities.
What would you pay to save a loved one who had been kidnapped? What is the price of a life?
Millions of people work, live, and travel in high-risk countries; very few are kidnapped and, of those that are, almost all come home safely - how can this be? Dr Anja Shortland, Reader in Political Economy at King's College London, discusses her new book Kidnap: Inside the Ransom Business.
Dr Gary Fuller is an air pollution scientist at King’s College London. this podcast explores his new book, The Invisible Killer: The Rising Global Threat of Air Pollution and How We Can Fight Back, which is out now.
In this podcast, Dr Russell Foster, in the Department of European and International Studies at King’s College London, explores ‘Public Atheism’, and how the “collective belief of no belief” attempts to eradicate religion from society, with some arguing that this causes as much violence and fear as extremists.
In an age of political turbulence, terror and extremism; fear and blame are terms regularly used to describe feeling within society.
Religion has been blamed for a number of violent incidences in recent years, but how much can a collective group of people who worship a particular faith be blamed over the extreme views of an individual?