King's College London is one of the top UK universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’. The university is in the top UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million. 

King's College London aims to embed equality, diversity and inclusion into everything they do. They want their policies, practices and processes to empower individuals to be able to contribute fully. As an employer and educator, King’s recognises its legal duties as well as the moral imperative to promote diversity and inclusion within the campus community and to provide a safe and healthy environment for work and study where staff, students and other members of the King’s community are treated with dignity, courtesy and respect.

The dedicated Diversity & Inclusion team not only ensures that King’s meets and upholds its legal obligations in regard to equality and anti-discrimination law, but also makes positive interventions to embed the ethos diversity and inclusion into policy, processes and everyday practice, working to eliminate barriers to participation and success.