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!
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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
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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
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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
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