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New staff are required to complete UCL’s mandatory training courses. Existing staff must periodically review and update mandatory training as required.
Why do you need to complete this training?
UCL is committed to ensuring a welcoming, safe and healthy working environment for all staff, students and visitors. Our mandatory training pathway and courses are designed to both support UCL’s compliance with institutional legal responsibilities, and to equip UCL staff with the knowledge to keep themselves, each other and the community safe.
Mandatory training forms part of the requirements of your probation, please review UCL's probation policy and mandatory training policy for further information.
Core mandatory training
Listed below are the mandatory courses all UCL staff need to complete.
You can access the courses by signing into LearnUpon using your UCL user ID and password.
To login you can use the following link which will direct you to your Training Dashboard: Learner Dashboard - LearnUpon.
If you have any issues with logging in via the above link, please report to ISD.
To be completed within your first 6 weeks of employment at UCL:
- UCL Fire Safety
- UCL Safety Induction
- Information Security Training with CybSafe (Note: This training is hosted on a separate platform called Cybsafe which is an NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre) approved learning platform. It uses UCL SSO to login and everyone is pre-register for ease.
- Data Protection and Freedom of Information
- Change possible: sustainable UCL
- Disclosing and managing conflicts of interest at UCL
- Prevent at UCL
- Introduction to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
If you are a student, please access the “Information Security Awareness Training" on Cybsafe.
Role-specific training
Some training only applies if you are in a particular role. Your department and line manager will be able to provide clarity around what role-specific training is essential to your role.
- UCL Safeguarding Training if you work with children or adults at risk.
- Fair and Inclusive Recruitment at UCL if you are a recruiting manager, panel member or recruitment administrator.
- Understanding and protecting intellectual property for academics, research associates, professional services research support staff (e.g. all those in roles creating and handling research outputs, supporting research proposals and collaborations), innovation and enterprise support staff (e.g. business managers, partnership managers), and staff involved in procuring specialist services.
- Research Supervision if you supervise research students.
- UCL Arena for Lecturers on probation. (This course is for Lecturers only)
- UCL Arena for PGTA Staff
- UCL Arena Gateway Workshop
UCL Safety Training if you are laboratory-based, undertaking genetic modification work or work with biological agents, etc.
UCL mandatory training policy
This policy provides information on UCL’s mandatory training courses and outlines which courses must be undertaken by which types of staff. It also provides guidance on managing compliance and the implications of non-compliance for staff and UCL.