King's Policy Journal

The King's Policy Journal is a bi-annual journal published by the Policy Research Centre at King’s College London. Our student-led society empowers students from all disciplines to analyse the world critically through our publications and events. Each edition traditionally features articles from our different centres: Business & Economics; Climate, Energy & Sustainability; European Affairs; Gender Studies; Public Health; Refugee Studies; Security & Defence; Social Justice & Human Rights; and Technology & Artificial Intelligence

Past Publications:

Winter 2025 Edition 

We would also like to thank the Editors of each Policy Centre for their leadership and commitment: Jack De France (Business & Economics), Nandika Karunakaram (Climate, Energy & Sustainability), Noah Tardu (European Affairs), Beatriz Da Fonseca Pereira Ventura (Gender Studies), Elena Alexandra Bregy (Public Health), Yun Jeong Choi and Yusra Awaiz Patni (Refugee Studies), Corbin Spang and Nidhi Chauhan (Security & Defence), Daniela Denyer and Andrea Torres (Social Justice & Human Rights), and Alayna Davis (Technology & Artificial Intelligence).

Below are the individual policy centres' publications from the Winter 2025 Edition:

Policy Centre for Business and Economics

  • Editor's Note by Jack De France: Link
  • Advancing Green Finance: Policy Solutions for the UK’s Net-Zero Transition by Daniyal Malik: Link
  • Digital Finance in the Middle East: Examining the Role of Digital Currency in Stable Versus Fragile Economies by Fatima Abdulaziz: Link
  • Inheritance Tax, Land, and the Political Economy of Family Farming in the UK by Yandeh Jagne: Link
  • Regulating Crypto-related Mergers and Acquisitions: Building a Coherent Framework for Innovation, Competition and Financial Stability by Dhuwaraka Balamyuran: Link
  • Revisiting Land Value Taxation Amidst the Global Housing Crisis by Kevin Shea: Link
  • The BRICS Challenge: China’s Leverage, Internal Asymmetries, and the Future of Multipolar Finance by Kate Headland and Narayan Srivastava: Link
  • The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Global Market Policy and its Future by Caitlin Seltsikas: Link
  • The Siege of the Fed: How Political Pressure Threatens the U.S. Economy by Efe Kemal Sengor: Link

Policy Centre for Public Health

  • Addressing barriers in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus management among South Asian communities in the UK by Anjala Srisuriyakumar: Link

  • Detained for Being Different: A Critique of the Mental Health Act’s Approach to People with Autism and Learning Disabilities by Mariam Jacob: Link 

  • Effectiveness of global social distancing policy responses to COVID-19 and their effect on the well-being of populations by Weichu Tang: Link
  • Heatwaves’ impacts on cardiovascular health: A plan that fails the most vulnerable in London by Celia Carminda Lima Dos Santos: Link
  • Increasing Female Doctor Representation in Japan: A Public Health Imperative by Akane Li: Link
  • The Global Threat of Antimicrobial Resistance by Zahraa Mahmoud: Link
  • The Hidden Cost of Likes: Appearance-Driven Digital Harm and Adolescent Wellbeing by Sabine Naina Azam: Link
  • To what extent have climate-oriented policies in London and Bristol improved public health and well-being? by Eloise Turnbull: Link
  • Towards Equitable Cardiovascular Disease Prevention: A Policy Analysis Focusing on Deprivation and Ethnic Disparities in the UK by Rachel Potter: Link

Policy Centre for Security and Defence

  • A Post-Hegemonic Gulf? Reassessing U.S strategy by Mace Whaley: Link
  • AUKUS Pillar II and the Institutional Future of Indo-Pacific Security Cooperation by Isabel Hégelé: Link
  • Governing Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS): A Two-Tier Framework by Ivan Hoo: Link
  • How America Needs to Safeguard Its Nuclear Weapons from Artificial Intelligence by Christopher Gettel: Link
  • Macau’s role in the China-Lusophone platform: A Mechanism to Advance Security and Defence Interests by Ava L: Link
  • Managing Hybrid Threats: Building Europe’s Response to Russian Sabotage by Carla Coiffard: Link
  • Militarising the Final Frontier: Space Dominance and the Rise of Anti-Satellite Weapons by Magadev Adam Kuha Kumaran: Link
  • Navigating the Narco Corridor: The Pursuit of Security in Central America by Manuela Jimenez Hernandez: Link
  • Palantir Technologies and the Politics of Surveillance by Pola Janowska: Link
  • Reconciling The African Union and the Future of Somalia by Martha Heggs: Link
  • Securing The Middle East: A New Nuclear Blueprint by Hanna Sara Sunny: Link
  • Strategic Priorities and Local Conflicts: U.S. Counterterrorism Policy and Its Influence on Nepal’s Civil War by Biraj Khadka: Link

Policy Centre for Climate, Energy, and Sustainability

  • Editor’s Note by Nandika Karunakaram: Link
  • Greening the Common Agricultural Policy: A Framework for Biodiversity Governance and Sustainable Agriculture by James Dualé: Link
  • Regulatory Gatekeeping and Geopolitical Power: How Green Classifications Reshape Energy Security and Conflict Dynamics by Vedica Karnik: Link
  • The Need for a Unified Carbon Tax System by Annadonata Taccarelli: Link

Policy Centre for European Affairs

  • Civil Military Cooperation and Hybrid Resilience in the European Union: Lessons from NATO Exercises by Mabel Runyon: Link
  • Far-right Mainstreaming and Migration Governance in Europe by Z Coronel: Link
  • The Taith Program and the Politics of International Learning in Post-Brexit Wales by Kirsty Warner: Link

Policy Centre for Gender Studies

  • Gender Deception and the False Equation of Transgender Identity as a Moral Harm Resulting in Legal Injustice by Charlie Sinclair: Link
  • Rights, Reconciliation, and Reality: The Government of Canada’s Federal Pathway to Address Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls by Chloé Currie: Link
  • The Gender Data Gap in the NHS: Assessing the Women’s Health Strategy, by Millie Chohan: Link
  • Whose body, whose choice? Evaluating birth control policies and reproductive rights of women in India by Puneet Kaur Bansal: Link

Policy Centre for Refugee Studies (with KCL STAR)

  • Editors’ Note by Yun Jeong (YJ) Choi & Yusra Patni: Link
  • A Comparative Analysis of EU and UK Migration Policy: The 2024 EU Pact and Post Brexit UK Asylum Governance by Nele Ettrich: Link
  • A Racialized Rhetoric of Immigration and Asylum: A Cause or Byproduct of Right-Wing Populism? By Nadine Bhawanlall: Link
  • Addressing Malian Refugees’ Concerns in Mauritania by Alia Ziati: Link
  • Claiming Asylum in the UK: The Individuals in Limbo by Lesley Lam: Link
  • Climate-Induced Displacement and the Evolving Definition of “Refugee” a study on Haiti and Kiribati by Jessica Abhvani: Link
  • Everyday Bordering and Gendered Exclusion: What Grassroots Women’s Centres Can Teach Migration Policy in the UK by Georgia Howell: Link

  • Policy Analysis of the UK’s 2025 Refugee Family Reunion Halt and Its Implications by Z Coronel: Link

  • Surviving Colonial Systems: Bureaucratic Violence, Mental Health, and the Politics of Belonging in the UK’s Asylum Regime by Yusra Patni: Link
  • The Weaponisation of Refugees: Intelligence Gathering, Surveillance, and Violations of International Law by Francisco Antonio Pereira Marques De Almeida Santos: Link

Policy Centre for Social Justice & Human Rights

  • Editors' Note Andrea Torres and Daniela Denyer: Link
  • From Rights to Outcomes: Evaluating the Institutional Conversion under the UK Employment Rights Bill by Qinlei Wang: Link
  • How does Nationalist Rhetoric Shape Inter-State Relations and Human Rights Outcomes within ASEAN? by Sinamaline Khuong: Link
  • Humanitarian in Law, Impossible in Practice: Over-Compliance and the Iran Sanctions Regime by Evie Neppl: Link
  • Why have Transitional Justice Mechanisms Failed to Deliver Accountability in Sudan Since 2019? by Anthony Bennett: Link

Policy Centre for Technology and Artificial Intelligence

  • AI Decision-Support Systems in Warfare: Lessons from the Gaza Case Study by Emmanuelle Low: Link

  • AWS vs LAWS: A Policy Analysis of the Development and Use of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems in Combat by Claire Boettcher: Link
  • Can Machines Learn Ethics, Empathy, or Compassion? by Anoushka Tusharkumar Desai: Link
  • Influence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on E-Commerce Supply Chain Logistics by Melanie Cheung: Link
  • Limiting Artificial Intelligence in Academia and Safeguarding Integrity in the Age of Technology by Avani Kashyap: Link
  • The Shadow That AI Casts Over Democracy by Rania Singla: Link
  • UK Regulation of AI in Healthcare: A Comparative Study of UK and EU AI Governance in Healthcare Systems by Alba X. Y: Link

Summer 2025 Edition

The theme for the 2025 Summer Edition was Catalyst for Change: Innovation and Development in Public Policy, highlighting the ever-changing world and how best to address these intersecting, multifaceted issues. 

Below are the individual policy centres' publications from the Summer 2025 Edition:

Centre for European Affairs

  • Regulating the Cyber-Sphere: Impact and Challenges of the Digital Services Act by Corbin Spang Link

Centre for Security & Defence Policy

  • Rethinking Refugee Management in Southeast Asia: What ASEAN Can Do by Haniva Sekar Deanty Link

Centre for Social Justice and Human Rights

  • Rewriting the Future of Peace in Colombia: Confronting Structural Violence, Illicit Economies, and Marginalization by Daniela Denyer Link

  • Assessing the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid in Promoting Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa by Daniela Denyer Link

Centre for Public Health

  • Delay, Deny, and Defend: Reassessing the American For-Profit Healthcare System by James Lee Link

  • Bridging Gender Gaps in Women's Healthcare: The Transformative Potential and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence by Maya Brown Link

 

Winter 2024 Edition

Below are the individual policy centres' publications from the Winter 2024 Edition:

Centre for Climate, Energy & Sustainability

  • Is Biofuel Policy the KeyTowards the UK’s Sustainable Future? Impacts and Recommendations by Giorgia Grist, Alice Fu, and Frank Wilson-Pulley: Link
  • Assessing the Implications of LNG Expansion in Europe on Energy Security and Related Environmental Consequences by Liv Sinnes: Link
  • Towards Climate Resilience Analyzing Policy Gaps and Opportunities for Sustainable Infrastructure in Kerala, India - Lessons for Emerging Economies by Gopika Santhosh: Link

Centre for European Affairs 

  • The Economic Impact of EU Sanctions on Russia and Germany’s Strategic Responses by Joseph Glasby: Link
  • Rebuilding the Ties Between the EU and the UK’s Next Generations: The Case for the United Kingdom’s Rejoining of the Erasmus+ Programme under a Youth Mobility Scheme between the European Union and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland by Rumen Kanev and Sara Behar: Link
  • Connecting Europe’s Youth What we can learn from the UK and Australia’s existing youth mobility schemes by William Andrews: Link

Centre for Gender Studies

  • Empowering Communities, Transforming Traditions: Grassroots Solutions to End Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) by Maya Brown: Link

Centre for Public Health 

  • Analysing the impact of overturning Roe v. Wade on access to reproductive healthcare within the USA by Alexandra Warner: Link
  • Health Disparities Type 2 Diabetes and Hypertension Among South Asian Communities in London by Adiba Islam: Link
  • Reproductive Health Under Another Trump Presidency by James Lee: Link

Centre for Security & Defence 

  • Assessing ASEAN’s Response to Myanmar’s Junta: Challenges and Opportunities by Natalie Chang: Link
  • Djibouti Foreign Military Competition and its Sovereignty Challenges by Constance Thurel Lacouche: Link
  • Enhancing Naval Security Measures in the South China Sea Disputes by Eda Armangil: Link
  • Resolving Oil Theft in the Niger Delta: A Threat to Security or Development Issue? by Hsin-Ju Liu: Link
  • Securing the Seas, Restricting Relations: The Internal and External Costs of Indonesia’s IUU Fishing Policy by Haniva Sekar Deanty: Link

Centre for Social Justice & Human Rights 

  • Human Rights Concerns of AI in Health and Governance by Daniela Denyer, Miriam Chee, and Sakif Chowdhury: Link
  • Reviewing the SPS Policy for the Management of Transgender People in Custody by Roosevelt Melo: Link
  • The Fight Against Digital Sexual Exploitation in South Korea by Ekaterina Zakharova: Link

Economic Policy Centre 

  • Editor's Note by Niamh Goodwin: Link
  • Artificial Intelligence A New Frontier of Ethical Dilemmas by Liza Sulenko: Link
  • Wealth to Welfare: The Case for a UK Wealth Tax by James Chen: Link
  • Acknowledging the Cycle Egypt’s Economic Struggle with Stability by Layan Alhukail: Link