Coronavirus: Mercedes F1 to make breathing aid

Thousands of the devices, which deliver oxygen to the lungs without needing a ventilator, could be made.

UK to rejoin EU Horizon research programme

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

HOPE | Wellcome Leap: Unconventional Projects. Funded at Scale.

$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,...

Live news updates from February 27: UK and EU reach Northern Ireland deal, Russia launches air...

University College London generates £10bn a year for UK, says report

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

Britain and EU agree draft Horizon deal

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

UCL launches new Fellowships supporting academics displaced by the

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.

PhD students face cash crisis with wages that don’t cover living costs

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

AI for People and Planet

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.

Oxford and UCL tipped to win lion’s share of grants in UK research audit

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

UCL launches new £100m start-up investment fund

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

Ijeoma Uchegbu appointed to Wellcome board | News | Wellcome

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 announces plans to be open and ready to teach for September 2020

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.

University of Sussex appoints Professor Sasha Roseneil as next Vice-Chancellor

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

UCL ranked ninth best university in the world

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.

COVID-19: UCL academics mobilise to provide critical advice and

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

UCL to honour all offers met to study Medicine this year

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.

Major Wellcome Trust award to UCL will drive forward translational research in Huntington’s disease...

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,...

Postdoc survey reveals disenchantment with working life

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.

Professor Sarah Tabrizi, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, receives the 2018 Cotzias Award |...

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

Ministers put £15m towards tackling decline in language learning in England

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

Scientists call for UK to rejoin EU’s Horizon research programme

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

UCL retains top global ranking for education and architecture & built

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.

Fish exports are a drop in the ocean next to overseas student fees

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

Equalised pay and benefits confirmed for UCL’s security, cleaning,

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

Eight new Discovery Research Platforms | Wellcome

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.

Artificial intelligence is not good or bad — it’s how we use it that matters

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...

UK Government awards £31m to UCL’s Global Disability Innovation Hub

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

Leading UCL scientist joins major new alliance to map spread of

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

UCL receives £54m boost to doctoral training in engineering and

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 Statement regarding staff working for contractors

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.

Spectre of return to austerity raises alarm in Whitehall

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

Academic neurology in the UK: a plea to turn away from the precipice

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,

The art of being noticed: Five reasons why UCL has become the media’s go to university

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,...