Richard Harding originally read Social Anthropology and Sociology joint honors at Brunel University and the University of Amsterdam under an ERASMUS scholarship. He went on to win Home Office funding to study MSc Social Policy and Social Work Studies at the London School of Economics. Following clinical practice in care management of HIV and palliative care, he won a PhD fellowship and was awarded a PhD in Public Health at King's College London, developing and testing a short term group intervention for informal carers under palliative care. He was subsequently awarded a personal fellowship to work with the Human
Resources and Services Administration under Columbia University, working on research toward PEPFAR's palliative care program.
He is now Senior Lecturer in the Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation at King's College London School of Medicine. He teaches at MSc level on palliative care and supervises a number of PhD students. He is Editor of AIDS Care. His main research areas are non-cancer (heart failure and HIV), informal carers and palliative care in Sub-Saharan Africa.
