In 2017, Principal & President Sir Ed Byrne decided to inaugurate a lecture series with the name 'King’s Lecture Series - A Theme in Three Acts.'
The idea was that, as a leading university, we can adopt and adapt the concept of the Reith Lectures to allow time to develop arguments with a unifying theme from a high profile and prestigious platform: to elucidate and to challenge, to make us think, and to debate.