Marta Koch

Administrative and Social Media Officer (June 2018-Feb 2019)

Marta is a recent MSc graduate with degrees from the School of Politics & Economics, Department of European & International Studies, King’s College London and the London School of Economics and Political Science. She previously worked as Administrative Officer for two UK-India international research projects – 'Disconnected Infrastructures & Violence Against Women: Innovating Digital Technologies in Low-Income Neighborhoods to Produce Safer Indian Cities’ funded by the British Academy Global Challenges Research Fund and based at the School of Global Affairs, King’s College London, and the ‘Gendering the Smart City: A Subaltern Curation Network on Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in India’ project funded by the AHRC and based at the School of Global Affairs, King’s College London.

Other previous roles have included: Social Media and Website Assistant for the Urban Futures Research Group, Department of Geography, King’s College London, Humanitarian Mapper for the Missing Maps Project Team London, part of the OpenStreetMap international project, Exhibition and Events Assistant for the AHRC-funded ‘Art & Reconciliation: Conflict, Culture and Community’ research project led by the School of Security Studies, King’s College London, Research Assistant for the Generation Brexit European research project, London School of Economics European Institute and Department of Media and Communications, Communications Intern for the Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa think-tank, part of the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics and UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme) Urban Resilience Profiling Programme Volunteer.

She is passionate about empowering international research impact via creative and targeted communications and dissemination, and engagement with public and private stakeholders at multiple levels.