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Makers of the 21st Century
Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) has been named one of the 100 most influential Britons of the modern age by The Sunday Times.
Read: Sunday Times (£)Environmental legal aid slashed when Australia needs it most
Christine Trenorden (UCL Australia) looks at the consequences of the Australian federal government axing A$10 million in funding for Environmental Defenders Offices (EDOs), which provide not-for-profit legal aid.
Read: The ConversationRape victims could get chance to give evidence by video link
Professor Cheryl Thomas (UCL Faculty of Laws) discusses a new research project which will look at the effect of how rape and sex abuse victims give evidence in court.
Read: Times (£)Peter Rees takes up a professorship at UCL
Peter Rees will become Professor of Places and City Planning at UCL after 29 years as the City of London Corporation's City Planning Officer.
Read: Independent, More: Evening Standard, Architects' Journal (£), UCL NewsSpeed reading apps are great for snippets but not sonnets
As a new app for speed reading is due to be released, Dr Anna Cox and Dr Duncan Brumby (UCL Interaction Centre) look at how useful such an app will actually be.
Read: The ConversationWhy was Nicolas Anelka punished?
Professor Philippe Marlière (UCL School of European Languages, Culture & Society) explained at an independent FA commission whether the quenelle gesture was associated with anti-Semitism.
Read: Independent, More: The Sun (£)Technology for Nature
Professor Kate Jones (UCL Genetics, Evolution and Environment) discusses the need for technological advances in animal tracking and population monitoring.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Inside Science' (from 16 minutes)Low paid workers are not paid enough to live healthily
Professor Sir Michael Marmot (UCL Epidemiology & Public Health) discusses how poverty in workless households has gone down but has increased in working households and the subsequent effect this has on health.
Read: BMJDrugs breakthrough could end misery of painful eye injection
A team of researchers led by Professor Francesca Cordeiro (UCL Institute of Ophthalmology) have found a way to deliver drugs to the back of the eye in simple eye drops.
Read: Express, More: Times of India, UCL NewsTatar Sunni Muslims pose a threat to Russia's occupation of Crimea
Dr Andrew Wilson (UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies) says: "Pro-Ukrainian Islamic minority could mount a more organised resistance against Russian forces in Crimea peninsula".
Read: Guardian