UCL in the media
Older LGB people report lower satisfaction with sex life
A study co-authored by Dr Sarah Jackson (UCL Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care) found that LGB people aged 50 and over reported less satisfaction with their sex life and a lower quality of life than their heterosexual peers.
What Michael Cohen's testimony means for Donald Trump
Dr Brian Klaas (UCL School of European Languages, Culture & Society) argues that Michael Cohen’s testimony against Donald Trump is a “game-changer”, putting pressure on Republicans loyal to the US president.
Listen: BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme (from 2 hours 48 mins)
Skateboarding and the city
Professor Iain Borden (UCL Bartlett School of Architecture) discusses the global popularity and history of skateboarding, explaining that “the best skateboarder is the one who is having the most fun.”
Rise in mental health problems among teenagers
Young people today are more likely to be depressed and to self-harm than they were 10 years ago, but substance misuse and anti-social behaviour has declined, according to a study co-authored by Dr Praveetha Patalay (UCL Institute of Education and UCL Population Health Sciences).
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Windows 10 users frustrated by automatic updates
Dr Simon Parkin, Jason Morris (both UCL Computer Science) and Ingolf Becker (UCL Security and Crime Science) surveyed 93 Windows 10 Home users, with half saying they’d experienced their PC restarting “unexpectedly” to install an update.
UCL top for education and architecture in QS rankings
The UCL Bartlett School of Architecture is number one for studying architecture in the QS World University Rankings 2019. The UCL Institute of Education is number one in education for the sixth year running.
A link between autism and anorexia
Amidst claims that the NHS must change the way it assesses eating disorders to take account of autism, Dr William Mandy (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) says part of the problem is that women and girls are less likely to be diagnosed with autism in the first place.
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Do women make better leaders?
Professor Tomas Chamorro Premuzic (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) believes women make better leaders than men because they "have better people skills, more altruistic, better able to control their impulses."
The rise and fall of concrete
Professor Adrian Forty (UCL Bartlett School of Architecture) writes that "concrete has been the material of choice for revolutionary change" but is no longer what it was, having lost its "transformative aura".
Women working long hours at risk of depression
A team of researchers led by Gill Weston (UCL Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care) studied over 20,000 adults to find that women who work long hours have a higher risk of depression than their male counterparts.
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