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…

Professor Rose Luckin is Professor of Learner Centred Design at the UCL Knowledge Lab and was the lead for the roundtable on Educating our Children. She sat down (virtually) with roundtable coordinator, Audrey Tan, to share her thoughts on the most salient points of the discussion. …

Parashkev Nachev is Professor of Neurology in the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and was the lead for the roundtable on Equity. He sat down with roundtable coordinator, Audrey Tan, to share his thoughts on the most salient points of the discussion. …

Dr Lele Rangaka is a Clinical Associate Professor in UCL’s Institute for Global Health and lead the UCL ‘AI for People and Planet’ roundtable on Emerging Epidemics. She sat down with roundtable coordinator, Audrey Tan, to share her thoughts on the most salient points of the discussion. …

Dr Jane Kinghorn is the Director of UCL’s Translational Research Office and was the lead for the roundtable on Discovering New Medicines. She sat down (virtually) with roundtable coordinator, Audrey Tan, to share her thoughts on the most salient points of the discussion. …