UCL Faculties
UCL's academic structure consists of 10 faculties, each home to world-class research, teaching and learning in an exciting and wide-ranging variety of fields. In fact, UCL is the largest leading university in London. Find out more about our faculties below.
Arts & Humanities
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.
Dean of Faculty: Professor Jonathan Wolff, BA MPhil
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...
Published: Apr 29, 2013 2:59:24 PM
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...
Published: Apr 19, 2013 8:47:57 AM
Arts & Humanities faculty website
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
Centres
- 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
The Bartlett, UCL’s Faculty of the Built Environment, comprises seven sections covering the full spectrum of built environment domains, including architecture, complex built environment systems, construction and project management, development planning, energy, 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. It works in partnership with London's exceptional concentration of built environment firms, acting in local contexts across the globe.
Dean of Faculty: Professor Alan Penn, BSc MSc Dip Arch RIBA
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...
Published: Apr 19, 2013 8:47:57 AM
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...
Published: Mar 26, 2013 4:29:53 PM
Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment website
- UCL Bartlett School of Architecture
- UCL Bartlett School of Construction & Project Management
- UCL Bartlett School of Graduate Studies
- UCL Bartlett School of Planning
- UCL Bartlett Development Planning Unit
- UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
- UCL Energy Institute
Brain Sciences
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.
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.
Professor Alan Thompson, MD FRCP FRCPI FAAN
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...
Published: May 10, 2013 11:03:14 AM
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...
Published: May 9, 2013 5:34:00 PM
Engineering
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.
Dean of Faculty: Professor Anthony Finkelstein, BEng MSc PhD CEng CITP FIET FBCS
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...
Published: May 17, 2013 10:43:55 AM
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...
Published: May 9, 2013 10:46:59 AM
UCL Engineering faculty website
- 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
Associated Institutes and Centres
- UCL Advances
- UCL Institute of Biomedical Engineering
- Bloomsbury Centre for Bioinformatics
- Innovative Manufacturing Centre for Bioprocessing
- Chorley Institute
- Gatsby Centre for Computational Neuroscience
- Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning
- UCL Energy Institute
- UCL Environment Institute
- UCL Centre for Health Informatics and Multiprofessional Education (CHIME)
- UCL Interaction Centre (UCLIC)
- UCL Centre for Materials Research
- UCL Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology (CoMPLEX)
- UCL Centre for Medical Imaging Computing (CMIC)
- London Centre for Nanotechnology
- Institute of Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Science
- UCL Centre for Security and Crime Science
- UCL Centre for Systems Engineering
- Centre for Transport Studies
- Urban Laboratory
- UCL School of Energy & Resources, Australia
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.
Dean of Faculty: Professor Dame Hazel Genn, DBE QC (Hon) FBA BA LLB LLD
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...
Published: Apr 29, 2013 2:59:24 PM
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...
Published: Apr 19, 2013 8:47:57 AM
- 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
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.
Dean of Faculty: Professor Mary Collins, BA PhD FMedSci
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...
Published: May 16, 2013 10:42:08 AM
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...
Published: May 1, 2013 1:44:44 PM
Mathematical & Physical Sciences
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.
Dean of Faculty: Professor Richard Catlow, FRS
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...
Published: May 9, 2013 10:46:59 AM
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...
Published: May 9, 2013 10:46:59 AM
UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences faculty website
- 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
Centres and institutes
- 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
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.
Professor David Lomas, PhD ScD FRCP FMedSci
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...
Published: Apr 19, 2013 8:47:57 AM
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...
Published: Apr 18, 2013 9:27:28 AM
Population Health Sciences
The UCL Faculty of Population Health Sciences brings together expertise in child health, women's and reproductive health, population 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.
Professor Graham Hart, BA PhD FMedSci
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...
Published: May 17, 2013 12:06:13 PM
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...
Published: May 17, 2013 1:30:00 AM
Social & Historical Sciences
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.
Dean of Faculty: Professor Stephen Smith, BA MA(Econ), PhD
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...
Published: May 16, 2013 4:04:13 PM
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...
Published: May 7, 2013 2:57:00 PM
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