UCL in the media
London LGBTQ+ venues have more than halved in past decade
A study, conducted by Dr Ben Campkin (Director, UCL Urban Laboratory) and Laura Marshall (UCL Urban Laboratory), has found that the number of LGBTQ+ venues in London has fallen by 58% since 2006.
Read: BBC News, More: Evening Standard, ITV News, NBC News, Reuters, Business Insider, Gay Times, Attitude, Pink News, GetWestLondon, UCL News, FT (£)Mars covered in toxic chemicals that can wipe out living organisms, tests reveal
Professor Andrew Coates (Space & Climate Physics), who leads the ExoMars panoramic camera team, said the work shows that the surface of Mars today is more hostile to life than thought.
Read: GuardianMacron's ambitions run into economic reality
Professor Philippe Marlière (UCL School of European Languages, Culture & Society) says that more protests could arise spontaneously in the face of Macron's ambitious economic plans.
Read: The Economist (£)200-year old burial site uncovered at Brighton Dome
Darryl Palmer, Assistant Director of Archaeology South-East (UCL Archaeology), describes how his team has helped uncover a 200-year-old burial site found during recent redevelopment work at Brighton Dome Corn Exchange.
Read: BBC News, More: Archaeology Magazine, Heritage Daily.Being on a zero-hours contract is bad for your health
UCL research, led by Dr Morag Henderson (UCL Institute of Education), has found that young people employed on zero-hours contracts are more likely to have worse mental and physical health than peers with more stable positions.
Read: The Guardian, More: The Independent, Mirror, ITV, Huffington Post, UCL NewsNew HIV self-testing kit study aims to increase diagnosis rates
Professor Sheena McCormack (UCL MRC Clinical Trials Unit) and Dr Alison Rodger (UCL Institute for Global Health) said that the study may encourage more people to find out their HIV status, and may help them to be treated earlier.
Read: Mail Online, More: UCL NewsGaze direction affects sensitivity to sounds
Dr Ulrich Pomper (UCL Ear Institute), first-author of a new UCL paper, said the team found that gazing away from what we are listening to is mentally taxing, and has detrimental consequences to performance.
Read: Mail Online, More: UCL NewsHard evidence: are public sector workers due a pay rise?
Professor Alex Bryson (UCL Institute of Education) says that average hourly earnings for public sector workers have fallen by 5.8% since 2005, taking inflation into account.
Read: The ConversationNew summer school aimed at boosting diversity within publishing
UCL is running a new, vocational course this summer, supported by Hachette UK, Penguin Random House and the Publishers Association, aimed at increasing employee diversity in the publishing industry.
Read: The BooksellerInvestigating voices
Professor Sophie Scott (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) explains how a team at UCL are trying to find different ways of investigating voices, and to map out some of the complexities of the voice.
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