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Subscribe to the Policy Institute mailing list for invites to future events This June marks a decade since the people of the UK cast their votes in the EU referendum. From the referendum to the result to the reset and now to talk of rejoin, UK in a Changing Europe, the Policy Institute at King’s College London and Ipsos have meticulously followed Brexit, what the public make of it, and its impact...

Subscribe to the Policy Institute mailing list for invites to future events Internationally renowned techno-sociologist and New York Times columnist Dr Zeynep Tufekci, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, will deliver the 2026 Fulbright Distinguished Lecture, Are We Having the Wrong Nightmares about AI? The event is hosted in collaboration with the Ful...

Subscribe to the Policy Institute mailing list for invites to future events In an age flooded with misinformation and contested truths, the role of evidence couldn’t be more important in showing what actually works. But how did we come to use evidence, and why are some people rejecting it today? This event will discuss the ‘evidence revolution’ - the global movement that promotes the idea that sci...

Subscribe to the Policy Institute mailing list for invites to future events In 2024, two billion people went to the polls, with populist movements making significant gains across many Western democracies. From the return of President Donald Trump in the United States, to the surge of Marine Le Pen in France, to the electoral breakthroughs of Reform UK, established political systems are now facing...

Subscribe to the Policy Institute mailing list for invites to future events   Higher education in Europe is at a crossroads. Across the continent, and not just in the UK, long-established university systems are being reshaped by widening participation, demographic change and intensifying global competition. Institutions that were once small, elite and nationally focused must now navigate complex f...

Subscribe to the Policy Institute mailing list for invites to future events Policy Idol is an annual competition open to all current students at King’s, in which participants pitch their policy ideas to an elite panel of leading figures from the worlds of politics, academia and industry.

Subscribe to the Policy Institute mailing list for invites to future events The Attlee Foundation, in partnership with The Strand Group of King’s College London host the 2026 Attlee Foundation Lecture, was delivered by Sir John Major on Wednesday 18 March 2026.

Subscribe to the Policy Institute mailing list for invites to future events   Could giving people cash directly, with few or no strings attached, be a better way to tackle poverty? Cash transfers are increasingly debated as a simpler and more efficient approach – one that restores dignity and agency to recipients while supporting better life outcomes. But how effective are they in practice, and wh...

Subscribe to the Policy Institute mailing list for invites to future events   Child homelessness in the UK has reached crisis point. The latest official figures reveal a record 172,420 homeless children in England are now living in temporary accommodation – more than the entire population of Oxford. Many are growing up in unsafe, unstable environments, cut off from their schools, GPs, and communit...

Subscribe to the Policy Institute mailing list for invites to future events   The UK has seemed relatively immune to the full-blown culture wars that we’ve seen in the US: our data from the World Values Survey and a series of joint studies with Ipsos suggested that, despite the political and media rhetoric, we still quite liked each other and saw through efforts to divide us.   But has that shifte...