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Horizon with Hannah Fry and How to Find Love Online
21 April 2016
On Monday night (25th April) BBC2 will air an episode of Horizon presented by CASA’s own Hannah Fry.The programme, entitled “How to find love online”, is based on the experiments in ...
Bartlett School of Architecture marks 175 years with celebratory publication
21 April 2016
The Bartlett School of Architecture has published a special supplement with the Architectural Review (AR) celebrating 175 years of architectural education at UCL.
Adam Dennett wins 2016 Student Choice Award for Outstanding Teaching
20 April 2016
We are delighted to report that Dr Adam Dennett was a proud recipient of the 2016 Student Choice Award for Outstanding Teaching, presented by the Provost at the UCLU Teaching & Learning Conference. Only ...
Borders and camps - Setting an initial research agenda
Makeshift camps, created in various and dynamically changing locations across Europe (near and within cities, ports, forests, borders), have become an integral part of the so-called current refugee crisis. Amongst these, the Jungle ...
CO2 emissions for every ship for every hour, now that's big data!
Researchers at UCL Energy Institute use the methodology they developed for the Third IMO GHG Study 2014 and AIS data to estimate emissions from five different ship types and display this in a ...
Jenny Post Receives Provost's Teaching Award
The Bartlett School of Planning's Undergraduate Programmes Manager Jenny Post has been awarded a UCL Provost's Teaching Award in recognition of her exceptional contribution to the learning experience of the school ...Dr Barbara Penner wins major grant from Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA)
Congratulations to Dr Barbara Penner and Prof Adrian Forty from UCL's Bartlett School of Architecture who have been awarded a prestigious Joint Research Programme (JRP) grant from the Humanities in the European ...Members of UCL Energy Institute pay tribute to Professor David Mackay
Members of UCL Energy Institute have paid tribute to Professor David Mackay, former DECC Chief Scientific Advisor and friend to UCL-Energy, who passed away yesterday:“All those working for the mitigation of climate ...
New paper: Integrated decision making about housing, energy and wellbeing: a qualitative system dynamics model
Members of the Housing, Energy and Wellbeing (HEW) project collaborated on a paper recently published in a special issue of Environmental Health, which was launched at the Healthy-Polis workshop on the 14th ...Events
UCL ISR Seminar - Feeding a growing population: Food Sustainability and International Economic Law
27 April 2016
UCL-Energy seminar: 'Developing secure, environmentally sound city and national energy systems' with UCL-Energy lecturer Dr Mark Barrett and research associate Dr Ed Sharp
03 May 2016
Think Space
04 May 2016
Space Syntax Laboratory Research Seminar Series: Velina Mirincheva
09 May 2016
This study looks into the concept of polycentric development and the challenges of its applications in fast-growing cities, such as Doha. It responds to current theoretical and analytical shortcomings in understanding, mapping and ...
Space Syntax Laboratory Research Seminar Series: Sophia Psarra and Tasos Varoudis
25 May 2016
As digital technologies are revolutionising the ways in which buildings are produced, there is a growing risk for architecture to become a practice without a theory. The first part of this seminar will ...
Planning the social: diversity beyond recognition?
26 May 2016
The Bartlett School of Planning Public Lecture Series is supported by Capita’s property and infrastructure business, a leading multidisciplinary consultancy that provides real estate, design, project delivery, infrastructure, and business transformation services ...Joint UCL-Energy and UCL STEaPP seminar: 'Evaluating the Paris Agreement's Mitigation Pledges' with Joe Aldy, Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School
02 June 2016
The 2015 Paris Agreement reflected an unprecedented breadth of participation in international climate policy, with some 185 countries comprising about 95% of global greenhouse gas emissions having submitted emission mitigation pledges. These so-called ...