UCL Faculties
UCL’s academic structure consists of 10 faculties, each home to world-class research, teaching and learning in a wide-ranging variety of fields. In fact, UCL is London’s largest leading multi-disciplinary university. Find out more about our faculties below.
Arts & Humanities
Faculty of Arts & Humanities website
The UCL Faculty of Arts & Humanities is a renowned centre of excellence, where research of world-leading quality feeds directly into all programmes of study.
Students benefit from the multi-disciplinary breadth of teaching in areas such as English, Philosophy, Greek & Latin, Hebrew & Jewish Studies along with more than 20 modern European languages. Programmes are available from our various centres for research, and the faculty also hosts the Slade School of Fine Art, which consistently contributes to the lively discourses of contemporary art, both nationally and internationally.
We aim to enable students to follow their own academic interests and to develop both intellectually and personally.
Departments
- UCL English Language & Literature
- UCL European Social & Political Studies
- UCL Greek & Latin
- UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies
- UCL Information Studies
- UCL Philosophy
- UCL School of European Languages, Culture and Society
- UCL Slade School of Fine Art
Latest Arts & Humanities News
UCL Festival of the Arts: Q&A with Professor Jonathan Wolff
With the UCL Festival of the Arts running from 7 - 17 May, UCL News spoke to Professor Jonathan Wolff (UCL Philosophy), Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, about the festival, and the importance of celebrating the arts at the time when many courses at other institutions are under threat. More...
Sounds of UCL: competition winners and panoramas
What sounds make up London’s global university? UCL Communications has announced the winners of its ‘Sounds of UCL’ competition, which invited staff and students to capture ambient audio clips that reflect the life of UCL. More...
Dean of Faculty
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 3067, internal 33067
PA: +44 (0)20 7679 3156, internal 33156
Principal units
- UCL Centre for Archives & Records Management
- UCL Centre for Digital Humanities
- UCL Centre for Early Modern Exchanges
- UCL Centre for European Studies
- UCL Centre for Intercultural Studies
- UCL Medieval & Renaissance Studies
- UCL Centre for Philosophy, Justice & Health
- UCL Centre for Publishing
- UCL Survey of English Usage
- UCL Institute of Jewish Studies
- UCL Centre for Editing Lives and Letters
- UCL Centre for Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Projects
Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment
Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment
Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment website
The Bartlett, UCL’s Faculty of the Built Environment, comprises eight sections covering the full spectrum of built environment domains, including architecture, complex built environment systems, construction and project management, development planning, energy and sustainable resources, town planning, space and spatial analysis. This allows it to tackle the most significant interdisciplinary issues facing the world, including UCL's Grand Challenges for Sustainable Cities, Intercultural Interactions, Human Wellbeing and Global Health.
The Bartlett has a world-leading reputation for education and research, attracting students and staff worldwide. Working in partnership with London's exceptional concentration of built environment firms and acting in local contexts across the globe, The Bartlett is an urban institution engaged with urban phenomena. It offers a vibrant centre of exchange for the built environment, acting as an academic, cultural and professional hub where leading research is announced and discussed, lively debates are hosted and encouraged, and innumerable exhibitions, conferences, public talks and film screenings take place.
Departments
- The UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
- The UCL Bartlett School of Architecture
- The UCL Bartlett School of Construction & Project Management
- The UCL Bartlett Development Planning Unit
- The UCL Bartlett School of Graduate Studies
- The UCL Bartlett School of Planning
- UCL Energy Institute
- UCL Institute of Sustainable Resources
Latest Built Environment News
Sounds of UCL: competition winners and panoramas
What sounds make up London’s global university? UCL Communications has announced the winners of its ‘Sounds of UCL’ competition, which invited staff and students to capture ambient audio clips that reflect the life of UCL. More...
Call for proposals: UCL–French Embassy science and technology workshops
UCL researchers are invited to submit funding proposals to run collaborative science and/or technology workshops as part of the UCL–French Embassy partnership. More...
Dean of Faculty
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 4567, internal x24567
PA: +44 (0)20 7679 4567, internal x24567
Brain Sciences
Brain Sciences
Faculty of Brain Sciences website
The UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences undertakes world-leading research and teaching in areas that range from neural pathways used to control body functions (e.g. hearing, sight and speech) to cognition and psychology, which determine human behaviour.
We are recognised as world leaders in our fields and our work attracts staff and students from around the globe. The faculty and its component parts create an outstanding and vibrant environment for study and research.
UCL is Europe’s research powerhouse in neuroscience. We are ranked second in the world, and first in Europe, in neuroscience and behaviour by Thomson ISI Essential Science Indicators, with more than twice as many publications and citations as any other European institution. UCL Neuroscience researchers generate over 30% of the country’s contribution to the most highly cited publications in neuroscience, more than twice as much as any other university. In neuroimaging and clinical neurology, UCL produces 65% and 44% of the UK's contribution to the world's most highly cited papers, five times that of the next highest UK institution.
The Faculty of Brain Sciences along with the Faculties of Life Sciences, Medical Sciences and Population Health Sciences combine to form the School of Life & Medical Sciences. The School is one of the largest and most prestigious aggregations of academics in its field and has a global reputation for teaching informed by cutting-edge research. The SLMS Domains encompass the breadth of research activity across the School within nine core groupings. This research is conducted in collaboration with other UCL departments and supported by partnerships with our NHS trusts, research councils, charities and industry.
Latest Brain Sciences News
Study finds brain system for emotional self-control
Different brain areas are activated when we choose for ourselves to suppress an emotion, compared to situations where we are instructed to inhibit an emotion, according a new study from the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Ghent University. More...
TRACK-HD study identifies early predictors of disease progression in Huntington's disease
An international team led by researchers at the UCL Institute of Neurology has identified a set of tests that could help identify whether - and how - Huntington’s disease (HD) is progressing in groups of people who are not yet showing symptoms. More...
Dean of Faculty
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 6559, internal x46559
PA: +44 (0)20 7679 6924, internal x46924
Engineering
Engineering
Faculty of Engineering website
UCL Engineering delivers research and training across all aspects of the modern world. Previous studies and work here have produced rapid vaccine productions, fibre-optic communications and the infrastructure of the internet, and we continue to deliver world-changing innovations.
Our students and staff are drawn from across the globe, as are our academic and business partners. Our teaching programmes focus on subjects that have an impact on the world around us, while their content is led by the best international research. Members of the faculty use their skills across Engineering's institutes and centres, within UCL, and in the wider world.
Departments
- UCL Biochemical Engineering
- UCL Chemical Engineering
- UCL Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering
- UCL Computer Science
- UCL Electronic & Electrical Engineering
- UCL Management Science & Innovation
- UCL Mechanical Engineering
- UCL Medical Physics & Bioengineering
- UCL Security & Crime Science
Latest Engineering Sciences News
Brain training and stimulation improves mental arithmetic ability
With just a few days of non-harmful brain stimulation and brain training, scientists have improved people’s ability to manipulate numbers for up to six months. More...
Mobile health technologies to rapidly test and track infectious diseases
Early-warning sensor systems that can test and track serious infectious diseases – such as major flu epidemics, MRSA and HIV – using mobile phones and the internet are being developed by a major new Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (IRC) led by UCL. More...
Dean of Faculty
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 7293, internal x37293
PA: 020 7679 0347, internal x30347
Principal associated units
- UCL Institute of Biomedical Engineering
- UCL Bloomsbury Centre for Bioinformatics
- Innovative Manufacturing Centre for Bioprocessing
- UCL Extreme Citizen Science (ExCiteS)
- UCL Centre for Digital Humanities
- Gatsby Centre for Computational Neuroscience
- UCL Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning
- Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Emergent Macromolecular Therapies
- UCL Centre for Health Informatics and Multiprofessional Education (CHIME)
- UCL Interaction Centre (UCLIC)
- UCL Institute of Making
- UCL CRUCIBLE Centre for Lifelong Health and Wellbeing
- UCL Centre for Nature Inspired Engineering
- UCL Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology (CoMPLEX)
- UCL Centre for Research into Evolution, Search and Testing
- UCL Centre for Medical Imaging Computing (CMIC)
- UCL Centre for CO2 Technology
- London Centre for Nanotechnology
- UCL Institute of Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Science
- UCL JDI Institute of Security and Crime Science
- UCL Centre for Systems Engineering
- UCL Centre for Transport Studies
- UCL School of Energy & Resources, Australia
Laws
Laws
UCL Laws is one of the world’s leading law schools. It is committed to the rigorous, multi-disciplinary and innovative study of law in all its dimensions, with particular attention to the global context in which law operates.
The faculty’s top-rated research makes a vital contribution to the quality of our teaching and the supervision of our students. It also contributes to the development of law, whilst shaping legal practice and public policy.
Our London base provides a positive opportunity to draw on the resources of a city that is the UK’s centre of law, commerce, finance and culture.
Latest Arts & Humanities News
UCL Festival of the Arts: Q&A with Professor Jonathan Wolff
With the UCL Festival of the Arts running from 7 - 17 May, UCL News spoke to Professor Jonathan Wolff (UCL Philosophy), Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, about the festival, and the importance of celebrating the arts at the time when many courses at other institutions are under threat. More...
Sounds of UCL: competition winners and panoramas
What sounds make up London’s global university? UCL Communications has announced the winners of its ‘Sounds of UCL’ competition, which invited staff and students to capture ambient audio clips that reflect the life of UCL. More...
Dean of Faculty
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 1436, internal x21436
PA: 020 7679 1404, internal x21404
Principal units
- UCL Bentham Project
- UCL Institute of Brand and Innovation Law
- UCL Carbon Capture Legal Programme
- UCL Centre for Commercial Law
- Constitutional Law Group
- UCL Centre for Criminal Law
- UCL Centre for Empirical Legal Studies
- UCL Centre for Ethics & Law
- UCL Institute of Global Law
- UCL Institute for Human Rights
- UCL Centre for International Courts & Tribunals
- UCL Jevons Institute of Competition Law & Economics
- UCL Judicial Institute
- Jurisprudence @ UCL
- UCL Labour Rights Institute
- UCL Centre for Law & Economics
- UCL Centre for Law & the Environment
- UCL Centre for Law & Governance in Europe
- London Labour Laws Group
- WTO Scholars' Forum
Life Sciences
Life Sciences
Faculty of Life Sciences website
The UCL Faculty of Life Sciences undertakes world-leading research and teaching, which combines the strengths of UCL’s basic biological and preclinical sciences. Our work attracts staff and students from around the world, and together they create an outstanding and vibrant environment for both students and researchers. The faculty comprises the Division of Biosciences, the UCL School of Pharmacy, the UCL MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology and the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit.
The Faculty of Life Sciences along with the Faculties of Brain Sciences, Medical Sciences and Population Health Sciences combine to form the School of Life & Medical Sciences. The School is one of the largest and most prestigious aggregations of academics in its field and has a global reputation for teaching informed by cutting-edge research. The SLMS Domains encompass the breadth of research activity across the School within nine core groupings. This research is conducted in collaboration with other UCL departments and supported by partnerships with our NHS trusts, research councils, charities and industry.
Latest Life Sciences News
Grant Museum wins Cultural Pros Award at Museums + Heritage Awards
The Grant Museum of Zoology at UCL has been voted the winner of the inaugural Culture Pros Pick at the Museums + Heritage Awards – the Oscars of the museum world – at the awards ceremony last night. More...
Behaviour of seabirds during migration revealed
The behaviour of seabirds during migration – including patterns of foraging, rest and flight – has been revealed in new detail using novel computational analyses and tracking technologies. More...
Dean of Faculty
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 9301, internal x09301
PA: 020 7679 0883, internal x40883
Mathematical & Physical Sciences
Mathematical & Physical Sciences
Faculty of Mathematical & Physical Sciences website
The Faculty of Mathematical & Physical Sciences encompasses the logical, experimental and mathematical study of our universe. Front-line research feeds directly into our teaching programmes, and our students benefit from access to first-class laboratory facilities. The faculty offers an array of three-year BSc and four-year Master's-level MSci degrees in emerging as well as more traditional academic areas.
The faculty provides a base for several research centres. These facilitate in-depth, interdisciplinary research through collaboration between experts within the faculty, and in related areas in Engineering and Life Sciences. The faculty also has its own interdepartmental degree programme: Natural Sciences.
Departments
- UCL Chemistry
- UCL Earth Sciences
- UCL Mathematics
- UCL Natural Sciences
- UCL Physics & Astronomy
- UCL Science & Technology Studies
- UCL Space & Climate Physics (Mullard Space Science Laboratory)
- UCL Statistical Science
Latest Mathematical & Physical Sciences News
Mobile health technologies to rapidly test and track infectious diseases
Early-warning sensor systems that can test and track serious infectious diseases – such as major flu epidemics, MRSA and HIV – using mobile phones and the internet are being developed by a major new Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (IRC) led by UCL. More...
UCL awarded record number of ESRC studentships
18 multidisciplinary studentships worth an estimated £1.6 million have been awarded to UCL’s Doctoral Training Centre by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). More...
Dean of Faculty
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 2818, internal x32818
PA: 020 7679 0650, internal x30650
Principal associated units
- Aon Benfield UCL Hazard Centre
- UCL Centre for Materials Research
- Centre for Planetary Sciences
- UCL Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology (CoMPLEX)
- London Centre for Nanotechnology
- UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction
- UCL Molecular Modelling and Materials Science EngD Centre
- UCL Institute of Origins
- The Thomas Young Centre: The London Centre for Theory and Simulation of Materials
Medical Sciences
Medical Sciences
Faculty of Medical Sciences website
The UCL Faculty of Medical Sciences brings together UCL Medical School and seven of UCL's divisions and institutes, creating a powerhouse of medical science research and teaching.
Staff in the faculty undertake world-leading research and teaching in areas that range from viral oncology to connective tissue disease and oral health. The faculty and its component parts create an outstanding and vibrant environment for study and research.
The Faculty of Medical Sciences along with the Faculties of Brain Sciences, Life Sciences, and Population Health Sciences combine to form the School of Life & Medical Sciences. The School is one of the largest and most prestigious aggregations of academics in its field and has a global reputation for teaching informed by cutting-edge research. The SLMS Domains encompass the breadth of research activity across the School within nine core groupings. This research is conducted in collaboration with other UCL departments and supported by partnerships with our NHS trusts, research councils, charities and industry.
Latest Medical Sciences News
Sounds of UCL: competition winners and panoramas
What sounds make up London’s global university? UCL Communications has announced the winners of its ‘Sounds of UCL’ competition, which invited staff and students to capture ambient audio clips that reflect the life of UCL. More...
European Commission must innovate to get value from €70 billion science funding programme
The European Commission needs to make some key innovations in its science funding programme if Europe is to enjoy the full benefits of the €70 billion to be spent on science research as part of the Horizon 2020 programme kicking off in 2014, according to an academic paper published by SAGE in the Journal of Health Services Research & Policy today. More...
Dean of Faculty
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 6503, internal x36503
PA: +44 20 3108 2105, internal x52105
Population Health Sciences
Population Health Sciences
Faculty of Population Health Sciences website
The UCL Faculty of Population Health Sciences brings together expertise in child health, women's and reproductive health, epidemiology and healthcare, global health and cardiovascular science. Its aim is to deliver outstanding research and teaching for improved human health, and the unifying concept that informs its scholarship and educational activity is the life course.
The faculty’s research elucidates the biological, behavioural and psychosocial processes that operate across an individual’s life, and across generations, that affect the development of disease in populations. This research informs undergraduate, postgraduate and vocational teaching.
The Faculty of Population Health Sciences, along with the Faculties of Brain Sciences, Life Sciences and Medical Sciences combine to form the School of Life & Medical Sciences. The School is one of the largest and most prestigious aggregations of academics in its field and has a global reputation for teaching informed by cutting-edge research. The SLMS Domains encompass the breadth of research activity across the School within nine core groupings. This research is conducted in collaboration with other UCL departments and supported by partnerships with our NHS trusts, research councils, charities and industry.
Latest Population Health Sciences News
Grassroots women’s groups could halve maternal death rate
Women’s groups can dramatically reduce the number of maternal and newborn deaths in some of the world’s poorest communities, according to a new meta-analysis published in The Lancet. More...
Global health policy fails to address burden of disease on men
Men experience a higher burden of disease and lower life expectancy than women, but policies focusing on the health needs of men are notably absent from the strategies of global health organisations, according to a Viewpoint article in this week’s Lancet. More...
Dean of Faculty
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 6630, internal x46630
PA: +44 (0)20 7679 6630, internal x46630
Social & Historical Sciences
Social & Historical Sciences
UCL Social & Historical Sciences faculty website
The UCL Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences represents an area of knowledge where humanities and science meet. The interests and methods of the nine component departments offer excellent opportunities for innovative and collaborative research.
Each of the departments has major research strengths in its own discipline. Some 200 academic staff contribute to the teaching activities across the faculty and their research activities are complemented by those of almost 100 research staff. The departments also play a major role in UCL’s growing network of interdisciplinary research centres.
Departments
- UCL Institute of the Americas
- UCL Anthropology
- UCL Institute of Archaeology
- UCL Economics
- UCL Geography
- UCL History
- UCL History of Art
- UCL Political Science
- UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies
Latest Social & Historical Sciences News
Viking jewellery sheds light on dark period of British history
The presence of Scandinavian-style female jewellery in Britain has overturned the idea that the Viking conquest of England was an all-male affair, suggesting that in fact large numbers of women travelled over from the Scandinavian homelands. More...
Dig This! UCL masters students at the Geffrye Museum
Masters students from the UCL Institute of Archaeology are collaborating with the Geffrye Museum on an exciting project about gardening and happiness in the urban home. More...
Dean of Faculty
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5882, internal x25882
PA: 020 7679 1346, internal x31346
Principal units
- UCL Constitution Unit
- UCL Environment Institute
- UCL Centre for Digital Anthropology
- UCL Institute for Subjectivity and the Cultural Imagination
- UCL Laboratory for the Ethnography of the UK
- UCL Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice
- UCL Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration
- UCL Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies
- UCL Centre for Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy
- NORFACE Research Programme on Migration
- UCL Employment Migration and Social Justice
- UCL Centre for Transnational History
- UCL Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies
- UCL China Centre for Health & Humanity
- International Centre for Chinese Heritage and Archaeology
- Centre for Applied Archaeology
- Centre for Museums, Heritage and Material Culture Studies
- Centre for Audio-Visual Study and Practice in Archaeology
- Environmental Change Research Centre
- Climate and Water Research Unit
- Coastal and Estuarine Research Centre
- The Equiano Centre
- Migration Research Unit
- UCL Urban Lab
- Centre for Terrestrial Carbon Dynamics
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