As a top 10 global university, UCL is one of the world’s foremost centres for teaching and research relevant to Europe, across departments, domains and disciplines. Academics in this field hail from departments such as Laws, Political Science, European and International and Political Studies, Economics, the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, or the Energy Institute.
Explore a small selection of the UCL academics, from different departments and faculties, to get a sense of the breadth and wealth of UCL expertise on European and EU Law, Politics and Policy. Click on academics profiles to find out more about their work or explore themes and interests that cut across their work.
European & International Social & Political Studies Nationalism, representations of warfare, Europeanism; international relations & WWI; German history
Faculty of Laws Religious freedom, pluralism and democracy; European Convention of Human Rights; comparative methodologies; the role of courts in Europe; French laïcité
Faculty of Laws Law and policy of environmental protection; the effect of Brexit on environmental law; planning law; public participation and environmental democracy
School of European Languages, Culture & Society French & European politics; religions and laïcité; ideologies and French republicanism; French far right; France & the EU
UCL European & International Social & Political Studies’ European Social and Political Studies (ESPS) and International Social and Political Studies (ISPS) are challenging, flexible, diverse four-year programmes at a university known for academic innovation, open access and the quality of its teaching. Students gain not only from UCL’s world-class teaching system and the insights of its renowned humanities, language and social sciences scholars, but also from the expertise of their European and international counterparts
The School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) is one of the UK's largest institutions for research and teaching on Russia, the Baltics, and Central, Eastern and South-East Europe.
The School of European Languages, Culture and Society (SELCS) offers the widest range of language-based degrees in the UK, with programmes in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Scandinavian, Iberian and Latin American Studies as well as cross-cutting degrees.
The UCL European Institute has been a proud Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence since 2016, a designation that provides funding via the Erasmus+ programme.