King's College London Alumni

New research from King's College London has found that the uneven unfolding of a post-independence law designed to free Indian women has inadvertently created the conditions in which their killing could go publicly unmourned.

🔗 Learn more: https://shorturl.at/TQptl
🦁

Good news for all alumni! Your 2026 Summer of Sport isn’t over quite yet!

King’s College London Alumni Association is holding its annual Sports Festival on Saturday 5 September at Honor Oak Park Sports Ground.

Participation sports include:
⚽ Football
🏑 Hockey
🥍 Lacrosse
🏐 Netball
🏉 Touch rugby

If playing isn’t your thing, come along and cheer on the teams, and connect with students and fellow alumni.

🔗 Book your FREE ticket: https://shorturl.at/nwzed
🦁

Academics from King’s College London are leading a breakthrough study on a promising treatment for a deadly type of brain cancer.

Glioblastoma is one of the most aggressive forms of brain cancer, with few effective treatment options. Unlike a single tumour that can be removed through surgery, it spreads through the brain in microscopic strands, which makes it difficult to treat.

The study shows the pioneering therapy, CAR-T cell treatment, has shown promising results in preclinical models of glioblastoma. The treatment eliminated detectable tumours and led to long-term disease-free survival, offering new hope for patients with this devastating disease.

🔗 Read more: https://shorturl.at/66Maz
🦁

‘We need to keep working and be curious if we are to make mental health care more equitable.’

King’s alum Dr Billy Boland (Clinical & Public Health Aspects of Addiction, 2006) has gone from postgraduate student to Chief Medical Officer at South West London & St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.

In the new issue of InTouch, he reflects on how a challenging dissertation and the lessons he learned at King’s helped shape a career dedicated to reducing inequalities in mental health care and improving outcomes for patients.

🔗 Read more: https://shorturl.at/UQ0PK
🦁

‘We need to rebuild society from the ground up.’

Through his company, the New Citizen Project, King’s alum and former Team GB Athlete Jon Alexander (MA Global Ethics & Human Values, 2014) is helping organisations see people as participants and not just consumers.

He tells us how his work is helping shape democracy and empowering communities to make change happen together.

🔗 Read more: https://direc.to/oHV9
🦁

‘Connecting the next three billion users to the internet was a fundamental problem – and I’m proud to have been part of the solution.’

King’s alum Dr Arjuna Sathiaseelan (MSc Computing & Internet Systems, 2001; PhD Networking, 2005) is a world-leading academic and start-up founder whose work has sparked major advances in internet use across the world.

A Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge, Arjuna is also on a mission to bring accessible and sustainable AI to lower-income countries, and help advance an affordable, inclusive and sustainable space economy.

🔗 Learn more: https://shorturl.at/p5Z9L
🦁

🥇 It was 14 years ago today that Dame Katherine Grainger (PhD Law, 2013) – a four-time Olympic silver medalist, a six-time World Champion and a King’s alum – won gold at the 2012 London Olympics.

In 2025, the legendary UK rower became the first female Chair of the British Olympic Association. In June, Katherine was also welcomed into the House of Lords as Baroness Grainger.
🦁

The National Windrush Monument at Waterloo Station is a five-minute walk from our Waterloo campus. The bronze sculpture commemorates the British African-Caribbean immigrants who came to the UK on the Empire Windrush ship in 1948.

Fast-forward to 2026 and law students volunteering at King’s Legal Clinic are providing free advice to those from the Windrush generation fighting for justice.

This follows a UK government policy that wrongly detained, deported and denied legal rights to the Windrush generation and other Commonwealth citizens and their children.

🔗 Read more about our award-winning Clinic and its work: https://direc.to/oHVc
🦁

Last month, we were delighted to welcome several King's alumni back to campus.

The group, featuring Dr George Muirhead (History, 1976), were celebrating 50 years since they graduated from our Department of History.
🦁

New research at our Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care shows fetal growth restriction can have lasting effects beyond birth.

By tracking children from pregnancy to age six, the study shows that fetal growth restriction affects far more than birth size.

It can influence how babies use energy, respond to pain, and develop neurologically, while also affecting growth after birth.

These impacts can accumulate over time, contributing to disadvantages that persist into early childhood.

🔗 Read more: https://shorturl.at/6fJRw

🦁