UCL’s Senior Management Team have agreed to release all clinical academics from their UCL responsibilities if they wish to support NHS services during the current crisis.

Nature - Five fathers describe how they and their partners combine parenting and careers.

Scientists and business welcome plan for Britain to go back into multilateral project

$50M PROGRAM HOPE The Human Organs, Physiology, and Engineering (HOPE) program is a $50 million effort that brings experts in the life sciences and engineering together from across universities,...

UCL’s research, knowledge and support for business startups provides boost ‘equal to holding Olympics every year’

Rishi Sunak and Ursula von der Leyen will meet next week to finalize science funding agreement as UK set to re-join.

UCL has launched an Academic Sanctuary Fellowship Scheme to support academics being displaced as a result of the crisis in Ukraine following the invasion by the Russian Federation.

Nature - As inflation rates soar, new data on the finances of US graduate students spark calls for action.

UCL conducts some of the best Artificial Intelligence (AI) research in the world. Our vision 'AI for people and planet' seeks to position AI as a force for good.

Northumbria soars up research excellence framework ratings of 76,000 academics used to divide up £2bn annual funding

Two of the spin-outs backed by UCL's first fund have gone public, while another was bought by Facebook in 2018

Professor Ijeoma Uchegbu will be joining Wellcome’s Board of Governors, the external experts who oversee all our work and provide support and challenge to our executive team.

UCL is today announcing plans for the university to be open and ready to teach online and in person at the start of the new academic year in September 2020.

World-renowned, interdisciplinary social scientist Professor Sasha Roseneil will become the ninth University of Sussex Vice-Chancellor in August 2022

UCL has been ranked ninth best university in the world for the second year in a row, marking UCL’s 13th year among the top 10 universities worldwide, in the 2025 QS World University Rankings.

As coronavirus spreads around the world, UCL experts are taking a prominent role in advancing public knowledge about the virus by advising world leaders, providing expert comment in the media and

We are delighted to confirm that we can now offer places to all students who meet the terms of their original offer for Medicine to start this year, rather than deferring to 2021/22.

A team of researchers from UCL and the Universities of Cambridge and Glasgow led by Professor Sarah Tabrizi, Director of UCL’s Huntington’s Disease Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology,

Nature - The second article in a series on Nature’s inaugural survey of postdocs in academia worldwide uncovers a sense of instability among the research precariat.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Tabrizi has received the 2018 Cotzias Award from the Spanish Society for Neurology.

Exclusive: University College London to develop language programme in secondary schools over three years

Sunak unconvinced that membership of Brussels’ science scheme offers value for money

A clearer picture of the country's outbreak has emerged after some 16,000 confirmed infections had to be added to the daily totals running back more than a week.

UCL remains ranked in the top 10 globally in 10 subject areas in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024, the world’s most consulted university ranking, including two first-place rankings.

npj Digital Medicine - Digital clinical trials: creating a vision for the future

Governments like the UK’s are realising the potential from selling higher education abroad

UCL has today confirmed that security, cleaning, portering and catering staff not already on equal terms will receive the equivalent of an additional seven days annual leave from December 1st, plus

Discovery Research Platforms will bring together researchers, teams and collaborators to address a range of practical, technological and methodological barriers holding up progress in many fields.

A Danish proverb, often attributed to the great physicist Niels Bohr, holds that it is “always difficult to make predictions, especially about the future”. Nowhere is this truer than for the rapidly...

A UK government body has announced further investment into assistive technology projects at UCL’s Global Disability Innovation Hub, to support millions more people with life-changing accessible

Professor Judith Breuer, Director of UCL Pathogen Genomics Unit (UCL-PGU), has today been announced as one of the leading UK scientists to be part of a major new genome sequencing consortium which

The UCL Faculties of Engineering, Mathematical & Physical Sciences and Life Sciences will lead seven new government-funded Centres for Doctoral Training and be a partner in a further two.

UCL is today announcing it is bringing forward the harmonisation of sick pay for all cleaning, security, portering and catering staff in response to the coronavirus Covid-19 crisis.

Departments told to prepare for cuts after government vows to enforce ‘fiscal discipline’

Devine et al. argue that recent changes to clinical neurology training in the UK have the potential to exacerbate an existing crisis in academic neurology,

For a university communications professional life can be frustrating; press releases ignored, academics who won’t play ball, journalists making unreasonable demands. These are familiar complaints,...