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WELCOME TO KING’S COLLEGE LONDON
ARTS & SCIENCES
We want to help you find your feet in the Arts & Sciences. This guide is an
additional reference point as you begin your work, supplementing local
inductions and helping you become familiar with King’s practices.
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Contents
Welcome to King’s College London 2
What are the Arts & Sciences? 3
Where does Arts & Sciences fit into King’s? 4
Who are the Arts & Sciences Core Team? 5
What are our guiding principles for work? 6
Diversity & Inclusion and Athena SWAN 7
Faculty Inductions 9
Development and Support at King’s 10
Benefits of Working at King’s 11
Notes 12
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Welcome to King’s Arts & Sciences
Welcome to King’s College LondonKing’s College London is formed of four Health Faculties and four Arts &
Sciences Faculties. These areas hold both academic (research and teaching)
and professional services staff. There are also professional services
directorates which work across the whole university, e.g. finance, estates
and facilities.
The President & Principal leads the senior executive team, comprised of
five Vice-Principals, one Head of Administration (soon to be Vice-President
(Operations)). This senior executive team is supplemented by four Assistant
Principals and eight Executive Deans to form the senior leadership team of
King’s.
What is King’s strategic vision? (Where is King’s heading?) King’s is in the final stages of developing a new vision to take us to 2029, the
200 anniversary of the founding of King’s. Our vision will stand on 5 pillars:
Educate to Inspire
Research to Innovate
Serve to Improve
King’s: A civic university in the heart of London
King’s for the World
Useful links:
Health Faculties page: https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/health/index.aspx
Arts & Sciences page: https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/as/aboutus/index.aspx
Professional Services Directorates:
https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/about/ps/index.aspx
Organogram of King’s structure:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/aboutkings/orgstructure/Organisational-Diagram-
for-web.pdf
King’s Strategy pages:
https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/principal/StrategicVision/index.aspx
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What are the Arts & Sciences? The Arts & Sciences covers four faculties within King’s: Arts &
Humanities, Natural & Mathematical Sciences, Social Science & Public
Policy, and The Dickson Poon School of Law. These faculties educate over
15,000 students and employ around 2,500 members of staff. We are
distributed over four King’s campuses: Strand, Waterloo, Shrivenham and
Guy’s / Britannia House.
The Arts & Sciences is the foundation stone of King’s College London,
which was developed further in the 1980s with the addition of the four
prestigious Health Schools.
Most staff within the Arts & Sciences are typically located in a Faculty,
School or Department, and will receive a local induction when they begin
work. A few areas bridge over the faculties – such as the Arts & Sciences
core team – and need their own welcome.
What do the Arts & Sciences do? In addition to developing a framework for success, accountability and
coordination across the Arts & Sciences, the core team also arrange events
which provide relaxed environments for staff to meet each other and
strengthen relationships within the Arts & Sciences community, including
the annual Winter Ceilidh.
Useful links:
Arts & Humanities: https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/index.aspx
Natural & Mathematical Sciences:
https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/NMS/index.aspx
Social Science & Public Policy: https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/index.aspx
The Dickson Poon School of Law:
https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/law/index.aspx
Arts & Sciences events:
https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/as/Events/UpcomingEvents.aspx
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Where does Arts & Sciences fit into King’s?
Arts & Sciences Leadership The Arts & Sciences Vice-Principal and Chief Operating Officer are
together responsible for overall strategic and operational leadership of the
four faculties. They have a small team that supports them on collaborative
work, specific change management projects including Diversity & Inclusion,
and raising standards consistently throughout the Arts & Sciences.
The Arts & Sciences Senior Executive Team (ASSET) meets fortnightly
to discuss issues which affect staff and students. This is comprised of
Executive Deans and Directors of Administration from each Faculty, senior
leads from finance and HR, the Chief Operating Officer, Strategic Project
Manager and the Vice-Principal for the Arts & Sciences.
Useful links:
ASSET key points and membership:
https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/as/aboutus/ascommittees.aspx
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Who are the Arts & Sciences Core Team?
Welcome to a great team committed to making King’s one of the
best universities in the world. I help by driving strategic projects and
connecting our faculties with the central teams.
Dr B McClure, Strategic Projects Manager & Assistant COO
Welcome to King’s, a university committed to Diversity &
Inclusion. D&I is fundamental to all our work. Every day our
behaviours and decisions affect staff and students, and it’s our
responsibility to ensure everyone can be included.
Helena Mattingley, Diversity & Inclusion Co-ordinator
I am very proud to lead the Arts & Sciences at King’s. We have
remarkable staff and students and together make a major
contribution to the university’s success. . I look forward to
welcoming you at one of my welcome events throughout the year.
Professor Evelyn Welch, Vice-Principal (Arts & Sciences)
Welcome to King’s and especially to Arts & Sciences. I lead on
developing our framework for success, delivering growth, new
project, management and coordination across the Arts & Sciences
faculties.
John Worne, Chief Operating Officer (Arts & Sciences)
I support Evelyn and John by making sure their diaries and the Arts & Sciences
office runs smoothly. I arrange several events each year, including
the welcome events and the annual ceilidh. I manage the TeamSeer
account for all Professional Services staff in A&S.
Janet Giles, Executive Assistant to Evelyn Welch
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What are our guiding principles for work? We all need to remember why King’s exists, and where our own work fits
into the original mission. King’s was founded for the advancement of knowledge,
learning and understanding; and to do that in service of society. King’s believes that great
universities are built on the twin pillars of education and research.
For the core team, our work contributes to the experience of staff and
students, empowering and facilitating academics and professional services
staff to be outstanding in their work. The Arts & Sciences core team do this
through their guiding principles:
Forge new paths –pioneering new ways to work together, piloting
and trialling new ideas and ways of doing things
Empowered leadership and accountability – providing genuine
support alongside metric evidenced key performance indicators
Collaboration – working with others within the university
Investing in Community – encouraging a sense of belonging and
community through bringing colleagues together
Respect – valuing individuals and equity through a culture of
transparency, championing diversity and inclusion for everyone
Ways of Working We all work in different ways. You will have colleagues who have different
work patterns, or have different hours to you. In the Arts & Sciences some
staff have arranged formal flexible working with HR, others have arranged
informal flexible working arrangements with their line manager.
Please bear in mind your colleagues’ work patterns and workload when
communicating with them. Read the Communicating Considerately
document as a prompt to remind us of our responsibility to communicate
respectfully to our colleagues.
Communicating Considerately:
https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/as/GuidanceforStaffinArtsSciences.aspx
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Diversity & Inclusion and Athena SWAN King’s is committed to Diversity & Inclusion. This means staff and students
are expected to consider the effect of their actions on their colleagues. We
all have unconscious biases, and if we know what our biases are, we are in a
better position to counter our biases. This influences how we manage our
relationships and what decisions we take.
Every level of the university is working towards improving Diversity &
Inclusion. The university, Arts & Sciences, Faculties, Schools and
Departments have their own actions to address their challenges.
Sustainability King’s has a commitment to deliver on its environmental responsibilities,
e.g. energy saving, recycling, and sustainable transport. The sustainability
team is based in Estates & Facilities and local colleagues champion
sustainability around the university.
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Useful links:
Project Implicit Bias Test: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/
King’s Diversity & Inclusion Training:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/hr/diversity/training/index.aspx
Inclusive Language:
http://www.srtrc.org/uploaded/language%20guide(1).pdf
Diversity & Inclusion in the Arts & Sciences:
https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/as/Diversity-Inclusion-Arts-Sciences/Diversityandinclusion.aspx
Athena SWAN in the Arts & Sciences:
https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/as/Diversity-Inclusion-Arts-Sciences/AthenaSWANinformationforArtsSciences.aspx
Sustainability at King’s:
https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/about/ps/estates/Sustainability/index.aspx
Sustainability Champions:
https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/about/ps/estates/Sustainability/Sustainability-
Champions/About.aspx
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Faculty inductions
New staff who are based in one of the four Faculties will have a local
induction. A brief description for each faculty is below.
Arts & Humanities run a Welcome to the Faculty event for all new staff, as well
as Education, Research and External Relations introductions. Your Head of
Department or line manager will direct you to sign up for these local
inductions.
The Dickson Poon School of Law have a Guide for New Staff and a Law
Induction event. Your line manager or senior operations officer will help you
complete your tailored induction, including a tour of the building, an
overview of facilities and introductions to colleagues, processes and systems.
Natural & Mathematical Sciences has several online pages for induction.
Each department welcomes new starters using a Faculty-wide approach,
and there are bespoke inductions for lab-based staff.
Social Science & Public Policy has small induction and networking events
hosted by the Executive Dean, plus induction in departments.
Useful links:
A&H induction and welcome pages for academic staff:
https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/staff/hr/rescheck/starters.aspx
A&H induction and welcome for Professional Services Staff:
https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/staff/hr/psstaff/inductioncpd.aspx
Law Guide for New Staff:
https://issuu.com/kcl_law/docs/guide_for_new_staff_2015_06_aug_v2
NMS induction pages:
https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/NMS/Staff/Induction/Induction.aspx SSPP Health and Safety training for new staff:
https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/HealthSafety/Health-Safety-Basics-and-
Trainig-for-New-Staff.aspx
University induction exercise:
https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/hr/welcome/start.aspx
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Development and Support at King’s
Probation
In the first few weeks of starting a new role, you should establish clear
written objectives with your line manager for your probation period and
beyond. These objectives are the foundation for probation assessment.
Professional Services and Academic probation policies are linked to below.
Performance Development Review
All employees have a formal annual review. This is typically conducted with
your line manager, or a named senior colleague. There is training for line
managers and staff to help prepare for PDR. The PDR may be the
culmination of regular informal two way conversations or an annual meeting.
Personal Development
The Organisational Development team offers advice on identifying the right
kind of development activities to meet staff’s needs. Staff can register for
training courses through Skills Forge.
Promotion
Academic staff can put themselves forward for promotion as part of the
annual promotion round. All staff can be considered for recognition pay.
Useful links:
Ensuring appropriate reasonable adjustments are in place for disabled staff
https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/staff/help/das/info/index.aspx
Probation for PS Staff:
https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/hr/info/ProbationNonAcadGuidance.pdf
Probation for Academic Staff:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/governancezone/Assets/Staff/Academic%20Staff,
%20Regulations%20relating%20to%20Probation%20(post%2027%20Nov
%202013).pdf
HR PDR pages: https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/hr/pdr/index.aspx
KEATS PDR e-training: https://login-keats.kcl.ac.uk/
Skills Forge: https://training.kcl.ac.uk/kcl/#common/main/welcome
Academic promotion: https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/hr/promotions/index.aspx
Recognition pay:
https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/hr/paybenefits/change/recpay/infographic.aspx
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Other Benefits of Working at King’s King’s offers its staff benefits such as interest free loans for season tickets,
cycle to work scheme, and a range of discounts on dental treatment,
subsidised gym membership and language courses, software and King’s
merchandise.
Useful links:
Staff benefits:
https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/hr/paybenefits/staffbenefits/index.aspx
Cycle to work scheme:
https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/hr/info/cyclescheme/index.aspx
Season ticket loan: https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/about/ps/finance/index.aspx
Childcare vouchers scheme:
https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/hr/info/ChildcareVoucherTermsConditions.pdf
Support for parents: https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/hr/info/parenting.aspx
Staff networks:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/hr/diversity/networks/index.aspx LGBT+ Network:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/hr/diversity/networks/lgbt/index.aspx NUS card for staff:
https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/hr/paybenefits/staffbenefits/financial/discounts/i
ndex.aspx
Dental treatment: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/dentistry/patient/index.aspx
Gym membership:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/campuslife/sport/healthandfitness/membership.aspx Discounted Modern Language courses:
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/mlc/evening/enrol/Fees.aspx
Arts & Sciences events:
https://internal.kcl.ac.uk/as/Events/UpcomingEvents.aspx