Teacher training at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society has been awarded 'Outstanding' by Ofsted.

Inspectors praised all four phases of @UCL's 'highly ambitious' Initial Teacher Education, from early years and primary to secondary and FE.
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Congratulations to innovative UCL #MedTech spinouts Nanomerics and Endomag on winning the prestigious @thekingsaward for enterprise 👏UCL Innovation & Enterprise ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/may/…

Congratulations to our Director, Max Parmar, who has been awarded the Royal Statistical Society's 2024 Bradford Hill Medal!🏅👏

Max has been recognised for his innovative work on efficient designs for late-phase #ClinicalTrials .

Learn more about this honour👉bit.ly/44zndPx

Congratulations to Prof Semir Zeki Semir Zeki @uclcdb UCL Biosciences who has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences for his groundbreaking neuroaesthetics work exploring the neuroscience of vision and the perception of beauty ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/may/…

The first results of the DESI Survey mapping 11 billion years of cosmic history largely support our current best theory of dark energy & the Universe's accelerating expansion, DESI collaboration member Prof Ofer Lahav UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences tells nature Davide Castelvecchi nature.com/articles/d4158…

Over 3/4 of Ghanaians make up to 10 daily trips on foot, but African cities aren’t welcoming places for pedestrians.

Dr Daniel Oviedo The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU) urges city planners to work with residents to find solutions to make urban neighbourhoods walkable.

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Congratulations to Professor Richard Ellis UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences who has been elected to the US National Academy of Sciences National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his distinguished research tracking the most distant galaxies in the Universe ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/may/…

Climate tipping points can be linear, or can “flicker' between two climatic states that alternate before a final, permanent transition occurs, finds a new study of changes to north Africa's climate, involving Professor Mark Maslin 𝕏 🙄 UCL Geography UCL Social & Historical Sciences ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/may/…

Congratulations to Professors Paolo De Coppi & Prof. Bobby Gaspar UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children who have been named in TIME's inaugural TIME100 Health List, as two of the 100 most influential people in global health this year ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/may/…

During sleep, the brain weakens new connections made between neurons while awake—but only during the 1st half of sleep, finds a new study in fish led by Prof Jason Rihel The Rihel lab & Dr Anya Suppermpool Anya Suppermpool @uclcdb UCL Biosciences UCL Ear Institute ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/may/…

A steady decade-long decline in the average number of cigarettes consumed each day by smokers in England has plateaued since late 2019, finds a new study led by Sarah Jackson & Prof Jamie Brown Behavioural Science & Health UCL UCL IEHC. Funded by Science and Innovation at Cancer Research UK ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/may/…

In order for the #Democrats to get Joe Biden over the line in November, they will need to appeal to far more young people than just those who attend the country’s top universities, explains Thomas Gift UCL Political Science - School of Public Policy UCL Centre on US Politics (CUSP) in the The Conversation
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As part of the Online Safety Bill, #cyberflashing is now a criminal offence.

But Prof PROF J Ringrose she/her/TRANS NONBINARY ALLY🏳️‍⚧️ IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society & Dr @KaitlynRegehr UCL Information Studies call for more action to counter the normalisation of image-based sexual harassment and abuse in youth culture.

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“He was an exceptional film critic and someone who truly understood the form”: Dr Clive Nwonka UCL IAS on writer and activist James Baldwin in the The Guardian, whose work is the subject of a new film season at the Barbican Centre this month
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King Charles III and Queen Camilla met @UCL clinical researchers developing new cancer treatments, including Profs Charles Swanton, Mariam Jamal-Hanjani & Karl Peggs UCLcancer, along with cancer patients and their families, in a visit to UCLh this week ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/may/…

Yesterday in parliament Joyce Harper UCL-IfWH, NickyKeayFitness DoM_UCL & Dr Shema Tariq Dr Shema Tariq (she/her) UCL Global Health, announced new details about 'In Tune', the UK's first menopause education and support programme, which is due to launch this summer ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/may/…

'Physical punishment is a major and pressing public health and children’s right issue': Over one in five 10-year-olds experienced physical punishment in 2020/21, reports a research briefing led by Anja Heilmann UCL IEHC Nuffield Foundation NSPCC Barnardo’s ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/may/…

Professor Sir Sir Michael Marmot has written to 58 MPs, including former PM Liz Truss, imploring them to act if they care about their local population’s health, after a The Michael Marmot Institute of Health Equity UCL report confirmed that UK government policies are cutting people’s lives short ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/may/…

Profs Mark Emberton & Caroline Moore UCL Div of Surgery will be two of six lead researchers on @ProstateCancerUK's £42million screening trial. The biggest prostate cancer trial in 20 years aims to transform diagnosis and save thousands more men each year
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Perimenopausal women are 40% more likely to experience depression than premenopausal women- underlining the need for effective support and screening, finds a new study by UCL Psych & Lang Sci researchers, including Prof Aimee Spector & Dr Roopal Desai Menopause Mind Lab ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/may/…