UCL in the media
The ethics of Non-Disclosure Agreements
Professor Richard Moorhead (UCL Centre for Ethics & Law) argues that there is an ethical consideration in the imposition of NDAs and that lawyers who hide behind clients risk bringing themselves into disrepute.
Read: Telegraph (£)How mapping and data has influenced urban planning
Professor Laura Vaughan (UCL Bartlett School of Architecture) discusses how combining maps and data has proved the links between poor housing and disease.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Thinking Allowed' (from 6 mins)Recycling plastic products
Professor Mark Maslin (UCL Geography) discusses issues relating to recycling plastic products.
Listen: BBC Radio 5 Live 'Anna Foster' (from 1 hour 49 mins)The issue of plastic waste
Professor Mark Miodownik (UCL Mechanical Engineering) highlights the scale of the problem of plastic waste in the ground and oceans.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 News (from 12 mins). More: BBC Radio 2 'Sara Cox' (from 2 mins), BBC Radio 5 'Phil Williams' (from 1 hour 34 mins)Clock ticking for deal on post-Brexit research ties
UCL President & Provost Professor Michael Arthur is quoted in an article exploring the university sector's preparations for potential research funding gaps post-Brexit. Read:
TES (£)A win for Mrs May is not impossible
In a letter to the FT, Professor Albert Weale (UCL Political Science) suggests Theresa May could be a 'Condorcet-winner' in her position over Brexit.
Read: FT (£)Risks of drinking Fijian 'kava'
Emeritus Professor David Colquhoun (UCL Biosciences) warned that Fijian drink 'kava', offered to Prince Harry on his recent Royal tour, is a depressant and can be dangerous.
Read: BBC News, More: iNewsAnother way of looking at living standards
Professor Paul Ormerod (UCL Computer Science) discusses the work of Nobel Prize winner Bill Nordhaus, who co-devised the Measure of Economic Welfare - a new way of looking at living standards - in 1972.
Read: City AMPioneering spina bifida operation on unborn babies
A team of surgeons co-ordinated by Professor Anna David (UCL Institute of Women's Health) has successfully repaired the spines of two babies with spina bifida while still in the womb. Read:
BBC News. More: Guardian, Independent, Telegraph, Daily Mail, ITV News, Sky News, CNN, NY Times, UCL News.Why is bowel cancer rising among young in Europe?
Commenting on research by the Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam showing a steady annual rise in bowel cancer amongst 20-to-39-year-olds, Professor Scott Montgomery (UCL Institute of Epidemiology & Health) suggested the most likely factor was rising obesity.
Read: Guardian