Better Health & Care Hub Research Showcase 2026

Join us for the Better Health & Care Hub Research Showcase 2026, a free event exploring cross-faculty health and care research from the King’s Better Health & Care Hub.

Expect presentations and poster displays from our funded researchers, plus a King’s Innovation Catalyst session and a networking lunch to support interdisciplinary collaboration.

Why attend?

• Explore innovative research shaping the future of health and care
• Build connections with researchers from across King’s faculties
• Identify new opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration
• Gain insights into unlocking commercial and social impact through King’s Innovation Catalyst

Who should attend

We welcome anyone involved in health and care research or education to attend.

Agenda

10:00 – 10:15 am: Arrival, registration and a light breakfast

10:15 – 10:30 am: Welcome and opening remarks

• Professor Glenn Robert, Co-Director of Better Health & Care Hub and Vice Dean (Research & Impact)

10:30 – 11:30 am: Short presentations from Better Health & Care Hub-funded projects spanning research and education

1. Assistive devices to support indoor and outdoor mobility for people living with advanced illness
   Professor Matthew Maddocks, Professor of Health Services Research & Rehabilitation
2. Multimedia messaging to reduce diabetes related stigma for women with gestational diabetes mellitus
   Professor Angus Forbes, Professor of Diabetes Nursing
3. SwallowSens: Co-design and feasibility of a home-based wearable system for swallowing impairment monitoring
   Nirusa Uthayasooriyan, PhD Student, School of Biomedical & Engineering Sciences
4. Developing biomarker-informed and socioeconomically contextualised artificial intelligence models to map dementia-related hospital care pathways and quantify the associated NHS costs
   Dr Wei Yang, Reader in Health Economics and Policy
5. Development of a co-designed simulated virtual placement for undergraduate pharmacy and physiotherapy students
   Behnam Jafari Salim, Digital Learning Specialist
6. Co-designing culturally humble simulation training
   Evgenia Kovryga, Education and Training Project Manager and Creative Practitioner

11:30 – 11:45 am: Tea/coffee break

11:45 – 12:30 pm: King’s Innovation Catalyst session

• An informative session on how King’s Innovation Catalyst supports researchers to develop commercial opportunities and deliver real-world impact at scale.

12:30 – 1:15 pm: Lunch, poster session and networking

• Explore the range of innovative Hub-funded research projects and connect with colleagues over lunch.

1:15 – 1:45 pm: Presentations from the Better Health & Care Hub Readers

1. Improving health outcomes in complex and marginalised populations: Opportunities for frugal innovation
   Dr Rohan Borschmann, Reader within the Better Health & Care Hub
2. Digitally transforming adult social care
   Dr Juliette Malley, Reader within the Better Health & Care Hub

1:45 – 2 pm: Closing remarks

Professor Irene Higginson OBE, Director of Better Health & Care Hub and Professor of Palliative Care & Policy

About the Better Health & Care Hub

The Better Health & Care Hub is a world-leading, interdisciplinary hub for research and education at King's College London, dedicated to transforming health and care on a global scale. It focuses on improving care and equity through three core themes:

1. Careforce: Expanding the definition of the care workforce to include people providing self-care, informal and unpaid carers and volunteers. This theme explores the roles these groups play in care delivery, the skills and support they need and how we might bridge professional and voluntary boundaries to create more integrated, skills-based approaches.

1. Frugal innovation: Supporting research into affordable, practical and scalable solutions that improve care without adding cost to the stretched systems.

1. Communities: Placing lived experience at the centre by partnering with communities in the design and delivery of care. This includes co-producing solutions, reducing inequities and measuring what really matters to people: quality of life and wellbeing.

Led by the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care, in collaboration with the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, and bolstered by strategic partnerships with NHS, social care, community, patient-led, charitable and international organisations, our hub harnesses interdisciplinary expertise.

Together, we aim to accelerate high-quality growth in research, education and impact, all focused on improving the quality, equality and value of health and care worldwide.