UCL in the media
Future perfect: what will universities look like in 2030?
In an op-ed piece, Professor Simon Marginson (UCL Institute of Education) explains why the real game changer for universities will be viable measures of comparative student learning outcomes.
Read: THE (£)Paris is a pragmatic climate deal, even if it is 25 years late
Following the Paris climate summit, Michael Jacobs (UCL Political Science) gives his verdict on the deal to curb global warming.
Read: New ScientistSelf-mastery can be yours with three pillars of emotional wisdom
Dr Cesar Lima (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) explains that the way people interpret laughter is altered by the facial expressions accompanying them.
Read: New Scientist (£)Broadwater Farm riots
Dr Althea Legal-Miller (UCL Institute of the Americas) discusses the remarks made by Oliver Letwin following the 1985 Broadwater Farm riots in north London.
Listen: BBC Radio London 'Dotun Adebayo' (from 21 mins 50 secs)Future of energy
Professor Tadj Oreszczyn (UCL Bartlett School of Environment, Energy & Resources) discusses energy demand and whether if we reduce this can we also reduce the amount of energy we need to produce in the first place.
Listen: BBC World Service 'Discovery' (from 20 mins 35 secs)Infuriating packaging
Professor Mark Miodownik (UCL Mechanical Engineering) helps to examine how science can save us from infuriating packaging and suggest that packages that can be opened by mobile phones could be the solution.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Putting Science to Work' (from 9 mins 2 secs)Michael Sheen explores science, the universe and everything
Professor Jon Butterworth (UCL Physics & Astronomy) joins Michael Sheen to explore issues of existence and science.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Today'John Thurloe, Cromwell's postmaster, and the interception of mail
Professor Jason Peacey (UCL History) explains why Oliver Cromwell gave John Thurloe powers to intercept mail in the seventeenth century as the Postmaster General.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'The Long View' (from 1 min 34 secs)Gene editing
Dr Jack Stilgoe (UCL Science & Technology Studies) examines some of the issues relating to gene editing.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Today' (from 2 hours 15 mins)1 million people should be given weight-loss surgery
A study by co-authored by LSHTM and Professor Rachel Batterham (UCL Metabolism & Experimental Therapeutics) suggests that offering weight-loss surgery to more than a million obese people would prevent tens of thousands of cases of diabetes, high blood pressure and heart attacks.
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