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Leanne Hammacott

@leannehammacott.bsky.social
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Head of Programming, Culture kcl.ac.uk/cultural King’s College London 🌱 Part of bodydataspace.net collective 🙇‍♀️ Project board member 'The Jewel in the Strand' stmarylestrand.com 💫

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War Studies @warstudieskcl.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
🎨 The Guardian (@theguardian.com) cartoonist Ella Baron’s exhibition reveals the unseen toll of the #UkraineWar through intimate drawings and testimonies—capturing trauma, memory & hope.🖊️ “There’s nothing left to draw of an amputated limb but memories.” — Ella Baron 🔗Register: bit.ly/4g99jJJ
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Ella Baron @ellabaron.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
My exhibition ‘Battles of the Mind’, explores trauma & imagination through drawings I made in Ukraine in collaboration with Médecins Sans Frontières & The Guardian. Join me for the launch at King's College London Bush House this Thursday 18th September by registering here 🖤 tinyurl.com/dvhfnfc9
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Digital Futures Institute @ King's College London @kings-dfi.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🗣️ Is AI a tool for enhancing creativity or does it pose a threat to authentic human expression? Join us and @aiatkings.bsky.social for the discussion featuring @drkatedevlin.bsky.social, @clemicollett.bsky.social, Genevieve Liveley and Sarah Perry. 🗓️ 21 May 2025 ⏰ 19:30-20:45 🎟️ Register ⤵️
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The Digital Futures of Literature
Join us to explore the future of AI and literature.
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KCL Natural, Mathematical and Engineering Sciences @kingsnmes.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Gaming, media and digital arts professionals - join our Arts & Creativity Hub at the Informatics Industry Showcase 2025 to explore how AI is transforming creativity! 🎮🎨 📅 11 June ⏰ 14.00 - 17.00 📍Bush House, WC2B 4BG Register ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/informatic...
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Leanne Hammacott @leannehammacott.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Fascinating insights tonight for opening of the King’s Festival of Artificial Intelligence @aiatkings.bsky.social and brilliant programme of events 👉 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/serie...
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King's Institute for Artificial Intelligence @aiatkings.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Johanna Walker, Lucy Bell, James Joshua Otto, @mtrc.bsky.social and Jennifer Ding will follow the performance of Humans in the Loop with a panel discussion. Supported by @kingsnmes.bsky.social and King's Culture. Tickets: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-l...
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Humans in the Loop
Join us for a workshop concert of a new AI musical, written by humans.
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
👏 Congratulations to Sofía Ramírez Sandoval (CMCI MA) and Lilien Ezeugwu (CMCI PhD), who have been selected as King’s Student Fellows for the Venice Fellowships Programme, supported by the British Council and @kingscmci.bsky.social. Read more about their creative projects 🔽
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King's announces its 2025 Venice Student Fellows
Sofía Ramírez Sandoval (CMCI MA) and Lilien Ezeugwu (CMCI PhD) will participate in the 2025 Venice Biennale.
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Leanne Hammacott @leannehammacott.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Love hearing expert musical input from Dr Flora Willson 🎶 🎭 @kingsmusic.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social for the epic opera Turandot @royaloperahouse.bsky.social
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Leanne Hammacott @leannehammacott.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Join a hands on workshop with artist & anthropologist Liz Hingley (SIM project) and explore some of the intricate ties between smartphones, mobility, and belonging 🔨📲🌏 The map was part of London Design Festival at #V&A last year. www.kcl.ac.uk/events/bonds... @kingsartshums.bsky.social
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Bonds Beyond Borders Workshop with Artist Liz Hingley
Join The SIM Project workshop! Hand stamp a meaningful number onto a SIM-sized plate and pin it to our world map of personal communication.
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King's College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The UK Chancellor will set out the #SpringBudget this week. Dr Daniele Girardi (@kcl-spe.bsky.social) explains how the Spring Statement works and what is expected to be announced… #KingsQs 🧵⬇
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a piggy bank with coins falling into it
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 24/03/2025
The Oxford Street consultation is still open, and I’m urging all Londoners to have their say on the proposed plans for one of the city’s most iconic locations. You have until 2 May 2025 to share your views:
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Oxford Street Transformation
This public consultation – which will run from 28 February 2025 to 02 May 2025 - is about gathering your views on the proposed establishment of a new Mayoral Development Corporation to unlock the true...
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Leanne Hammacott @leannehammacott.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The Eye Bach Choir welcomes you along to this May 18th afternoon performance in Suffolk with works by 20th & 21st century composers 🎶💛Conductor Benedict Collins Rice. Early 🐤 ticket discount available. Buffet refreshments included 🍰🍓 eyebachchoir.co.uk/forthcoming-...
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Leanne Hammacott @leannehammacott.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Imaging Peace now open on the Strand - new outdoor exhibition featuring global community peace photography projects by Dr Tiffany Fairey @warstudieskcl.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social produced by King's Culture 📸🌏 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/imaging... (c) Ro Yassin Abdumonab/ Rohingyatographer
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Imaging Peace to open on the Strand
‘Imaging Peace’ a new outdoor exhibition featuring global community peace photography projects and research by Dr Tiffany Fairey, to open on the Strand.
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Leanne Hammacott @leannehammacott.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Waymarkers to open in The Curiosity Cabinet @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social a living exhibition and intimate archive from artist & anthropologist Liz Hingley/ the SIM Project, sharing stories of mobility and belonging 📸🌏📱 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/waymark... @kingsartshums.bsky.social @kingsdh.bsky.social
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Waymarkers to open in The Curiosity Cabinet
Waymarkers, a new exhibition from artist and anthropologist Liz Hingley, to open in The Curiosity Cabinet on London’s Strand this Spring.
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Leanne Hammacott @leannehammacott.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
This time last year we were GLOWing on the Strand 💚 for International Women’s Day @kingsdigitallab.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social #digitalart #iwd #artists #outdoorart #immersive
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King's Global Institute for Women's Leadership @giwlkings.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
NEW: Men and women belonging to Gen Z are more divided than those of any other generation on key questions about feminism, gender roles and women’s rights Read our new 30-country study with @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social for #IWD2025: www.kcl.ac.uk/news/gen-z-m... 🧵⬇️
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Leanne Hammacott @leannehammacott.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
“It can feel like we are on the verge of the World War Three. And broken Britain is quite depressing, isn’t it? Before, I’d have been really worried. Now I’m just happy to go down with the ship. My job from now on is just to try and keep up the good vibe” ❤️❤️ tinyurl.com/55ac3k6z
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Anna Chancellor: ‘There’s nowhere I’ve not cried’
Two years ago, the actress’s daughter, Poppy, died of leukaemia aged 36. Here, she talks about grief, and why in a strange way loss has been the making of her
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Publishing today! 'The Strand: A biography' is the first history of one of London's most extraordinary streets, revealing how it grew in importance over millennia until everything that mattered converged on the Strand. Available now in this stunning hardback edition. #London
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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Two young ladies walking along a pavement holding the skirts up to avoid the rain The Strand near Charing Cross Station London, 1900 s Credit & Photo by Museum of London /Heritage Images/science Photo Library
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theoldbuilding @theoldbuilding.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
St Mary le Strand is a striking Baroque church in London, designed by James Gibbs and completed in 1724. It stands elegantly on a traffic island along the Strand, originally intended as one of Queen Anne’s “Fifty New Churches”. #historicarchitecture
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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
🇺🇦 On 27 February, the exhibition ‘Ukraine: Architectures of Despair and Hope’ opens at Europe House in London. Curated by Dr Gabriele Salciute Civiliene @kingsdh.bsky.social, it sheds light on the fragility of architecture and the resilience of Ukrainians. Read more ⬇️ #Ukraine
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'Despair and hope': new exhibition shows Ukraine's architecture safeguarded through technology
‘Ukraine: Architectures of Despair and Hope’ gives a glimpse of destroyed cultural and residential architecture of Ukraine since 24 February 2022.
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Leanne Hammacott @leannehammacott.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Hearing about Edible Incredible 🌱 brilliant scheme and community of growers & food mapping across #Lambeth borough and the UK 🌱 part of Vital Communities london.sciencegallery.com/vital-signs
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University of Exeter Archaeology and History Department @uoearchhist.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
A ring and its world: Anglo-Saxon Exeter and Devon, 29 March 2025, 10.30-4.15pm, RAMM and Cathedral, £25/30 A day of exploration of everything Anglo-Saxon, including a chance to see rare charters, objects and coins from the period, as well as this stunning ring! rammuseum.org.uk/whats-on/a-r...
A gold ring with intricate intertwined designs which look like creatures or people, on a reflective black surface and black background
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Leanne Hammacott @leannehammacott.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
COLLECT 2025 - the leading international art fair for contemporary craft and design 27 Feb - 02 Mar 2025 www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/col...
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Collect 2025
Presented by the Crafts Council, Collect is the leading international art fair for contemporary craft and design. The fair showcases the best work created by living artists in the world today.
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Leanne Hammacott @leannehammacott.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Self-healing roads, made from biomass waste and designed using AI, could offer a solution to the country’s £143 million pothole problem www.kcl.ac.uk/news/self-he... 🛣️ @kingsnmes.bsky.social
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Self-healing potholes pave the way for more sustainable roads
Self-healing roads, made from biomass waste and designed using AI, could offer a solution to the country’s £143 million pothole problem.
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Andrea Mann @andreamann.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
So, so chuffed that the wonderful charity Medicinema is getting BAFTA's Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema award tonight, and proud to know some of the folk who work for it. More cinemas in hospitals, please! 👏👏 #Baftas www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...
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‘It became a lifeline’: the charity bringing cinema to hospital patients
MediCinema, which custom-builds theatres in UK hospitals, will receive a Bafta for outstanding contribution to cinema. Patients who attend the screenings tell of the joy of escaping into movie magic
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Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
St Mary-le-Strand with Somerset House (which then housed the Royal Academy of Art) shown to the right nestling within a splendid terrace heading east towards Temple Bar, by Thomas Malton #London May 1781
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King's College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
As the #AIActionSummit begins today, King's College London academics from kingsnmes.bsky.social and kingsartshums.bsky.social shared their expectations for the event, and hopes for the development and use of AI in society. @aiatkings.bsky.social
I hope that the Summit will lead to concrete action and co-operation internationally on AI regulation. What people need most right now is clarity and certainty about the impact of AI on their lives.


Dr Mike Cook, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Informatics
As the creative industries embrace generative AI, the 2025 AI Action Summit is the ideal space to bring together the then, now, and next of machine learning - to reflect on the cautionary tales that have persisted around artificial intelligence; to map the innovations that are driving it forward; and to look ahead in plotting AI's next moves. 


Dr Chris Holliday, Senior Lecturer in Liberal Arts and Visual Cultures EducationRecent developments have sent a clear message: AI developers need to re-think their approach to continue to materially improve AI capabilities. Human-made data, collected and used thoughtfully, will make or break the next iteration of models. Open AI ecosytems will prevail over proprietary, opaque ones.


Professor Elena Simperl, Professor of Computer Science at King’s College London
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University of Exeter Archaeology and History Department @uoearchhist.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Upcoming lecture at RAMM! 25 February 2025 2–3pm From the Ottoman World to Exeter: The Untold Story of RAMM’s Natural History Collections - Dr Semih Celik Head to @rammuseum.bsky.social website and click on What's On - Talks and Lectures - to book your ticket (members £8, standard £10)
A page of watercolour paintings of shells/molluscs with handwritten labels and numbers underneath.
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Leanne Hammacott @leannehammacott.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
‘Worse than the 1980s’ – that’s the arts sector now. It’s not a good look for a Labour government www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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‘Worse than the 1980s’ – that’s the arts sector now. It’s not a good look for a Labour government | Charlotte Higgins
So many pre-election promises: but still a cultural malaise spreads from our schools to museums, galleries and theatres, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer Charlotte Higgins
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Leanne Hammacott @leannehammacott.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Historic book of town's witch trials to be displayed - 300 year-old book of witch trials held in Bury St Edmunds will go on display later this month www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Historic book of Suffolk witch trials to be put in museum display
The books recounts the witch trials historians believe inspired the Salem trials in the United States of America.
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King's Global Institute for Women's Leadership @giwlkings.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
"We need to completely shatter the idea that full-time work has to be 40+ hours. A 30-hour workweek would make it possible for more women to go into leadership" @heejungchung.bsky.social quoted in Forbes on outdated work norms keeping women out of leadership roles www.forbes.com/sites/pklein...
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Equitable Leadership: How To Get More Women Into The C-Suite
More women are becoming leaders but progress remains slow. It’s important to celebrate positive news but systemic barriers continue to hinder women’s advancement at work.
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Leanne Hammacott @leannehammacott.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
‘In Attendance- Paying attention in a fragile world’ exhibition at Fitzrovia Chapel with artists Etel Adnan, Emmanuel Awuni, Phyllida Barlow, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Gabriella Boyd, Miriam Cahn, Eve Sussman, Rachel Kneebone, Anj Smith, Paula Rego & Cathy Wilkes www.fitzroviachapel.org/series/in-at...
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Leanne Hammacott @leannehammacott.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Watching Monty’s British Gardens and the stunning Beth Chatto Gardens near Colchester in Essex - many happy visits and time spent here 🌱🌱🌱
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Leanne Hammacott @leannehammacott.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
SOIL: THE WORLD AT OUR FEET latest exhibition at Somerset House 🥕🪱 unearthing soil’s vital role in our planet’s future - until 13 April 2025 www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/soil
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Heejung Chung @heejungchung.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
In the midst of the whole nazi salute thing that is catching everyone's attention, let's not forget about the numerous attack on DEI, especially against the Trans Community, and the climate that has been passed by Trump yesterday. Let's NOT normalise this. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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What executive orders did Trump sign on day one?
President says his executive orders will lead to ‘complete restoration of America’. Here’s what we know so far
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Centre for Digital Culture @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
welcome to kingscat 🐱 a new @4cat.nl instance to support collaborative social media research at King's 🎊✨ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/gather-... created by @digitalmethods.net @oilab.bsky.social hosted by @kingsdh.bsky.social @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social #opensource #socialmedia
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'Gather, explore, collaborate' – new toolkit to enrich digital culture…
KingsCAT is a cross-faculty initiative coordinated by the Digital Future Institute’s Centre for Digital Culture and the Department of Digital Humanities in collaboration with e-Research and…
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/01/2025
Joan Plowright dies after long stage and screen career
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Joan Plowright dies after long stage and screen career
Actor helped shape British postwar theatre through her performances at the Royal Court, National Theatre and West End The actor Joan Plowright, who was celebrated for her long career in theatre and film, has died at the age of 95, her family have…
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The Policy Institute @policyatkings.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
EVENT: Are universities worth it? Join us, @resfoundation.bsky.social, David Willetts, Jacqui Smith & @bobbyduffy.bsky.social to discuss the controversial question of the returns from university for graduates, firms and the wider economy. ➡️ www.resolutionfoundation.org/events/are-u...
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UK for UNHCR @ukforunhcr.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
"I’m working to destigmatise the lives of refugees living in the UK." UK for UNHCR'S Vice-Chair of Trustees & Managing Director of Public Affairs at @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social Trinh Tu shares her experience of being forced to flee Vietnam. Get to know Trinh's incredible story 👉 buff.ly/40dt4Z5
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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency @unhcr.org · 15/01/2025
These are the faces of forcibly displaced people. Artist Es Devlin’s FACE to FACE: 50 Encounters with Strangers shares the stories of 50 people who fled their homes and now call London their home. Learn more: bit.ly/4fYLXog @unrefugeesuk.bsky.social
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Leanne Hammacott @leannehammacott.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
The Tales of Hoffmann review – fun, carnivalesque staging goes to the dark side www.theguardian.com/music/2024/n... ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review by Flora Willson @kingsartshums.bsky.social for @theguardian.com
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The Tales of Hoffmann review – fun, carnivalesque staging goes to the dark side
Damiano Michieletto’s production of Offenbach’s opéra fantastique is full of warped wit and devilish touches with a fine cast bringing this colourful fever-dream to life
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Leanne Hammacott @leannehammacott.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Incredible screening performance of Jaques Offenbach’s ‘Tales of Hoffmann’ #RoyalBalletandOpera world class singing & opera fantastique! 🦜
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King's Global Institute for Women's Leadership @giwlkings.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
"I believe we are at a critical juncture in gender equality" Read our new director @heejungchung.bsky.social's plans to address gender equality by reshaping work culture, better promoting inclusive feminism, and fostering greater collaboration with men ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/my-plan...
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My plans for the King's Global Institute for Women's Leadership
To address gender inequality, we need to reshape work culture, better promote inclusive feminism, and foster greater collaboration with men
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Leanne Hammacott @leannehammacott.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Good start to 2025 here on 🦋 and recent blue skies on Strand Aldwych 🩵💙
Somerset House blue skiesSt Mary le Strand blue skiesStrand AldwychKing’s College London
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