Meet Your Peer Advisors: Emily

We’ve asked our 2022-23 Peer Advisors to say hello and share more about studying in London and abroad. Expect to hear more from them throughout the year! Hello! My name is Emily and I’m a third-year BA Social Sciences student and Global Mobility Student Peer Advisor.  I completed a semester abroad for the second semester …

Virtual Study Abroad at King’s in 2020! – Veronica Buerli

For the longest time I was imagining what my exchange semester in London would be like. Long walks along the Thames, evenings spent in pubs getting to know international students, afternoon tea at the Peggy Porschen café (cheesy – I know right). Well, it turned out to be quite the different experience for me – …

Jon Ainsworth, Global Summer Exchange 2019 – Shanghai

What do you study at King’s? MSc Emerging Economies and International Development. Where did your Global Summer Experience take place? Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. What course did you take and why? China’s Policy on Climate Change, Energy and Environment because of the unique interdisciplinary nature of the course on offer. How did receiving the …

Miami Itch Centre Visit, October 2019, Dr Maria Papanikolaou

I would like to thank King’s College London warmly for supporting me towards my visit to the Miami Itch Centre. This took place in October 2019, over a period of two weeks. This destination was chosen in the context of my current research project, the PRUMEC trial, which focuses on elucidating the cause of itch …

Broadening Horizons and My Time at the University of Sydney – Lily-Maria Baraclan-Smith

When applying for universities in Year 13, something I took into consideration was the chance I could get to spend some time during my degree abroad, as I knew at that point I was not going to take a gap year and travel, like a lot of my peers. For BA History, King’s students have …