Rick (Richard) Trainor FKC is Professor of Social History and the current Principal of King's College London. A professor is a senior teacher and researcher, usually in a college or university. ... Social history is an area of historical study considered by some to be a social science that attempts to view historical evidence from the point of view of developing social trends. ... A principal is: The head of an institution. ... Kings College London (often abbreviated to KCL) in London is the largest college in the federal University of London, with 21,500 registered students. ...

Trainor holds degrees from Brown University (BA), Princeton University (MA) and the University of Oxford, (DPhil). He is a member of the Academy of the Social Sciences, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a member of the Athenaeum Club. He is also an Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford and Trinity College of Music. Brown University is an Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island. ... Princeton University, located in Princeton, New Jersey, is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. ... The University of Oxford, situated in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Merton College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... Trinity College of Music is one of the worlds top music conservatories, based in London, England. ...

Trainor was formerly Vice-Chancellor of the University of Greenwich and, before that, Senior Vice-Principal of the University of Glasgow. A Vice-Chancellor (commonly called the VC) of a university in the United Kingdom, other Commonwealth countries, and some universities in Hong Kong, is the de facto head of the university. ... Categories: University stubs | Universities in London ... The University of Glasgow is the largest of the three universities in Glasgow, Scotland. ...

He is married with two children.