"The last great hope for EDF was that the Chinese would step in, but it now seems very unlikely," said Dr Paul Dorfman (UCL Energy Institute). Watch: BBC One's Look East (from 7 mins)

“I’m not keen on having to put new online ethics guidelines in place because as soon as you do, the world will shift yet again,” says Dr Andy Hudson-Smith (UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysi). Read: Research Fortnight

Professor Iain Borden (UCL Bartlett School of Architecture) comments on attempts to declare the skate park at the Southbank Centre a village green in response to plans to redevelop it into retail units. Read: Guardian More: Sunday People (no link)

"It's very difficult to prove a link between building high speed rail lines and closing regional inequalities," said Professor John Tomaney (UCL Bartlett School of Planning). Read: BBC Watch: BBC Newsnight

London franchises the bus service to various operators with strict control over service levels. "I think there's general agreement that the London model... has worked brilliantly," said Sir Peter Hall (UCL Bartlett School of Planning). Read: Strait Times (£)

"A lot of open-plan offices are just rows of people only working at their computers. And people don't want to be there," says Professor Alexi Marmot (UCL Bartlett). Read: BBC News

"There were problems in the construction, but the bigger problem was that they didn’t build the maintenance costs into the finance structure," said Dr Ben Campkin (UCL Bartlett School of Architecture). Read: Evening Standard

A map produced by Dr James Cheshire (UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysisi) and Ed Manley (UCL Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering) was featured in the centre page of the Guardian. Photo (no link available)

The UCL Academy will be formally unveiled by Andrew Adonis, the former education minister, on Tuesday 19 March. Read: Architects Journal

People-oriented urbanization requires local governments to transform from an entrepreneurial actor in land dealings to a provider of public goods, writes Professor Fulong Wu (UCL Bartlett School of Planning). Read: China Daily

“There will be more competition for remaining reserves [of gas], so the prices will go up,” says Dr Mark Barrett (UCL Energy Institute). Watch: Channel 5 News

Researchers at UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis map 8.5 million tweets captured between January 2010 and February 2013. Read: Guardian More: Gizmodo

The Bartlett is planning to expand its teaching and research programmes into sustainable construction and digital manufacturing. Read: Building Design More: UCL News

Professor Alexi Marmot (UCL Bartlett School of Graduate Studies) comments on Open Plan Offices. Listen: BBC World Service

Sofie Pelsmakers (UCL Energy Institute) is featured in Architects Journal's Women in Architecture 2013. Read: Architects Journal

Professor Matthew Carmona (UCL Bartlett School of Planning) comments on the increasing levels of privatisation in London. Watch: BBC One Inside Out (from 13mins)

Professor John Tomaney (UCL Bartlett School of Planning) discusses how the proposed route for the high-speed train network will impact life in the UK. Listen: BBC R4 Today More: FT (£) BBC News at 10 (from 5mins) Guardian BBC News BBC News II Telegraph

Professor Iain Borden (UCL Bartlett School of Architecture) explores the experience of driving cars as a way of encountering landscapes and cities and looks at how driving is portrayed in cinema. Read: Telegraph

Professor Laura Vaughan (UCL Bartlett School of Graduate Studies) and David Jeevendrampillai (UCL Anthropology & UCL Bartlett School of Graduate Studies) comment on the future of British high streets. Read: Huffington Post

Dr Andy Hudson-Smith, Dr James Cheshire and Oliver O'Brien (UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis) showcase their alternative tube maps. Read: Guardian More: Londonist

"Just because the resource is there, it does not mean that it can be produced economically," says Christophe McGlade (UCL Energy Institute), who recently worked on a report for the European commission on the level of shale in the EU. Read: The Observer

The British government's new emphasis on gas power and fracking puts the climate and consumers at risk, says Professor Paul Ekins (UCL Energy Institute). Read: New Scientist

"Europe is a very, very different situation to the US," said Professor Paul Ekins (UCL Energy Institute). "The US by itself will not have the kind of impact on the world's gas market that would allow our prices to fall significantly." Read: Irish Times

The Dissertation Medal has been awarded to Matthew Leung (UCL Bartlett School of Architecture) for his highly accomplished piece of work on the development of Chinese style within a major Japanese city. Read: Building Design

“Much of the debate around the choice between offshore wind electricity generation in the years post-2020 assumes wind is more expensive. This study represents powerful evidence to the contrary,” says Professor Paul Elkins (UCL Energy Institute). Read: Independent