UCL in the media
Why do philosophers make unsuitable life partners?
Professor Jonathan Wolff (UCL Philosophy) says we need a new model of academic progression that does not involve working evenings and weekends.
Read: GuardianOptical ultrasound probes to provide detailed imaging and guide surgical tools
Dr Adrien Desjardins (UCL Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering) has been awarded one of the first nine EPSRC Healthcare Technologies Challenge Awards for his development of optical ultrasound probes.
Read: The EngineerDigging for Britain
Dr Matt Pope and Dr Ed Blinkhorn (both UCL Institute of Archaeology) discuss their work to find evidence of a Stone Age hunter-gather campsite in Jersey as part of the Ice Age Island Project.
Watch: BBC Two 'Digging for Britain' (from 42 mins)Gene therapy in the womb for ill babies
Dr Anna David (UCL Institute for Women's Health) is leading a proposed trial which will use maternal growth factor gene therapy to treat severe early-onset fetal growth restriction in unborn babies.
Read: Daily Mail, More: UCL NewsWhat Sydney can learn from Hong Kong about affordable housing
Professor Nick Gallent (UCL Bartlett School of Planning) says that despite the significant affordability levies, England had been "very bad at building housing" with some major housing sites having a decades-long history of "development inertia".
Read: Sydney Morning HeraldEurope's 200 best universities: who is at the top in 2016?
Professor Simon Marginson (UCL Institute of Education) says: "The top research universities in northwestern Europe…have considerably lifted their performance and profile at world level in the last 15 years".
Read: THE (£)Ask the experts: Ways to curb burglaries in NZ
Dr Spencer Chainey (UCL Crime & Security Science) says: "The risk of burglary to properties near a recently burgled home is much higher than the risk to those further away. If that risk can be reduced - by informing neighbours and offering crime prevention advice - burglaries in the area will significantly decline".
Read: New Zealand HeraldThe science (and art) of medicine
Professor Sir John Tooke (UCL SLMS Partnerships & Projects) explains how the 19th century saw the move of medical education into the university environment in the UK so that the advances in science, and pathology in particular, could begin to inform clinical practice.
Read: LancetHealth of the public in 2040
Professor Dame Anne Johnson (Vice-Dean for External Relations) reflects on the insights gained by the 'Health of the public in 2040' working group and the important role that early career researchers will have in supporting a better, fairer future for the health of the public.
Read: LancetEscalating the war on looting
Kathy Tubb (UCL Archaeology) comments on the effort to intercept the illicit trade of looted antiquities from conflict zones.
Read: New York Times