King’s Food is operated in house by King’s College London. King’s Food covers 7 kitchens, and 21 retail spaces and serves over 1,000 hot meal per day.

King’s Food are UK leaders in Higher Education Catering sustainability. Since 2019 King’s Food have worked with the Department of Nutritional Sciences to develop student research projects that bring together food, health and sustainability.

As part of a King's Education for Sustainability project we are looking to expand student research opportunities across King’s. We are piloting the King’s Food Living Laboratory concept for final year MSc projects (academic year 2025/26).

‘Dining halls as living laboratories—dynamic learning environments where applied research is bridged with operational innovation, allowing experimental science to bring far more advanced results in terms of applicability in the real world, compared with traditional academic research’

Quote from: The Menus of Change University Research Collaborative (MCURC)

Introduction Event

We are hosting a King’s Food Living Laboratory student research project introduction event on 26th February 2025, from 2pm to 4pm at Bush House for academics and research module leads to find out more about developing and proposing projects to run through the King’s Food Living Laboratory.

• If you are interested in attending please complete the on-line form.

Are you interested in submitting a final year student research project to run with the King’s Food Living Laboratory?

• Open for submission from 1^st March 2025.

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For other enquiries about working with the King’s Food Living Laboratory please email us.