💡What role should universities play in helping students think about *who* they want to become, not just what they want to achieve? This question sits at the heart of the new King’s Ethos Programme, launched last week at King’s College London.
🦁 Supported by the John Templeton Foundation and developed in collaboration with The University of Edinburgh, the programme brings together 20 students from across King’s faculties to explore questions of values, belonging, and human flourishing.
📙 Building on the tradition of the Associateship of King’s College (AKC), the programme combines ethical reflection with research, inviting students to become co-researchers in understanding how their own and others’ values develop.
👏 I’m looking forward to getting to know and working with our brilliant cohort of students including: Mario Cavicchioli (Artificial Intelligence), Max Gerdemann (PPE), Julia Franke (English and German Law), Jack Collinson (History), Iman Nurridhuwar (Law), Tehami Shafi (Nutrition Sciences), Setharemy Proeung (Econ and Mgmt), Gabriel Descorps (Mgmt & Modern Languages), Hasmath Montgomery (Pharmacy), Yu-Chun Lu (Global Health), Neha Narendran (Medicine).
🎓 The King’s Ethos Programme is just in its pilot phase. And the core research team — including Professor Gordon Lynch, Matti Wilks, Lianya Qiu-Bremner, and Linden Bicket at Edinburgh, and Jonathan Abernethy-Barkley and I at King’s — hope to see how courses like this, as well as Edinburgh’s brilliant for-credit module ‘Understanding Your Values’, can help transform higher ed for the better.
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