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: European Affairs, Gender Studies, Economic Policy, Climate, Energy & Sustainability, Public Health, Social Justice & Human Rights, and Security & Defence.

Summer 2025 Edition!

The newest edition is out now! Check it out below:

Here is a preview of the submitted papers. 

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

 

Previous Publications:

Winter 2024 Edition

Below are the individual policy centre's 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