Professor Charlotte Clark on BBC Radio 4 podcast 'What's Up Docs?'

Professor Charlotte Clark, Environmental Epidemiologist in City St George's School of Health & Medical Sciences, has been interviewed on the high-profile BBC podcast ‘What’s-Up Docs’ with Chris and Xand van Tulleken. She explains how being exposed to transport noise over long periods of our life can have disastrous consequences for our cardiovascular systems, brains and minds.

South London Skills Summit 2025

South London Partnership are hosting the South London Skills Summit 2025: Shaping the Future Workforce through our South London Local Skills Improvement Plan (LSIP) - a key event for anyone invested in the skills agenda and the region’s economic future.

23 October, 09:00 – 14:00, Merton College, Morden

The Summit brings together employers, education providers, local authorities, and community leaders to reflect on the progress of the South London LSIP and contribute to its next phase.

Why attend?

• Explore how we’ve responded to employers’ needs and made progress on existing Local Skills Improvement Plan priorities.
• Learn more about the future skills needs in the subregion.
• Have your chance to shape the new Local Skills Improvement Plan, highlight your challenges and opportunities for future work.
• Help shape skills provision across key sectors: construction, health and care, digital, creative, hospitality and retail, and education
• Explore cross-cutting themes, including digital, inclusion, green skills, and employer engagement
• Network with fellow professionals and decision-makers from across South London

New round of Accelerators to support health and life science innovation

Innovate UK has announced five new accelerators for 2025, open throughout September, including:

Early-stage:

• Future Medicines delivered by Lyva Labs
• Managing Chronic Conditions delivered by Pioneer Group
• Hospital to Community delivered by Founders Factory

Late-stage:

• FemTech delivered by Health Innovation Network South London
• MedTech Venture Kickstarter delivered by London Institute for Healthcare Engineering (LIHE) on behalf of Health Innovation Network South London.

Each programme is designed to address pressing healthcare challenges and support high-potential UK SMEs in bringing their innovations to market.

KTP Success

City St George's have been awarded three Knowledge Transfer Partnerships in the most recent round of funding by Innovate UK.

Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) bring together forward-thinking businesses and organisations, academics, and graduates to solve complex innovation challenges which help our economy, society, and environment. Each collaboration is a three-way partnership between: a business or organisation with an innovative idea or challenge; a UK knowledge base with the expertise to deliver the innovation or solve the challenge; and a graduate who will drive the project forward to delivery.

We are partnering with: