‘Climate change and health’ is an inherently transdisciplinary research and policy area, and it is rife with silos. These siloes are a key challenge for effective action and addressing them could support delivery of substantial benefits for both health and the environment. Breaking silos is never easy, but following a…

This piece was originally published on the European Institute’s blog. Jonathan Kamkhaji, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Exeter, and Claudio Radaelli, Professor of Public Policy at UCL, argue that the surprising nature of the coronavirus crisis means governments cannot base their response on scientific evidence alone. Across Europe, governments…

Written by Sonora English, Research Assistant, UCL Institute for Global Health and project co-ordinator for the climate change and health policy roundtables. Climate change poses the greatest threat to global health of this century and requires urgent action. Contrary to popular belief, this action isn’t up to world leaders alone. …

By Zulfikar Dinar Wahidayat Putra “The Terminator” is a film that was first created in 1984 and starred Arnold Schwarzenegger as a cyborg sent back in time by a tech company from 2029. It is interesting how people represented and projected Artificial Intelligence (AI) around 40 years ago. In that…

Having succumbed to London’s gravitational ‘opportunity pull’ after living in the North of England for nine years, UCL student Alisha Chhabra (UCL European & International Social & Political Studies) reflects on the legacies of deindustrialisation. In this piece, sparked by a talk by Fiona Hill, she looks back on her…

Audrey Tan discusses how to facilitate engagement between researchers from under-represented backgrounds and policy professionals. Challenges to getting your foot in the proverbial ‘academic-policy engagement’ door As of March 2022, women represented only 35% of the Members of Parliament (MPs) in the House of Commons and 29% of the Peers…

By Audrey Tan| This article was originally published on THE Campus. There is a lot of work to do to make academic-policy engagement more inclusive in the UK — and this has been a focus of the Public Policy team at UCL. In a previous blog, we outlined suggestions for…

By Laurie Reedman Data literacy skills are increasingly vital to sectors across the economy. Unfortunately, in countries like Canada, Australia, the US and the UK, there’s currently a large skills gap. Here’s how that happened, and what can be done about it. What is data literacy and why does it…

By Helena Hollis and Corneila Evers On a bright morning in November, people interested in the intersection of AI and work began filtering into the lecture room of the British Academy. For most of us, it was the first in-person event since the pandemic changed our working practices so radically…