Zella King

Biography

Zella King gained her undergraduate degree from the University of Cambridge and her PhD in Organizational Psychology from Birkbeck College. From 2000 to 2014 she had an academic career in business schools teaching Human Resource Management. Her work on careers and research networks has been published in top business journals. She was awarded two ESRC grants and in 2007 a prestigious fellowship of the Advanced Institute of Management.

In 2014 she took time out of academia to co-found a training company, Personal Boardroom, which has become commercially successful.

In 2016, concerned about healthcare in ageing societies, she changed fields to focus on health data research. She has an honorary research contract at UCLH and worked with clinicians at UCLH to analyse patient outcomes in the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.

She is currently working in the Clinical Operational Resource Unit at UCL to develop machine learning models that will help bed-planners at UCLH predict which patients will be admitted from the emergency department.