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23 postdoctoral researchers from 14 different countries have been awarded Marie Curie Individual Fellowships. The awards will enable researchers to spend up to two years working with research teams across all schools at UCL.

Researchers from UCL have found that cycling is safer than driving for young males, with 17 to 20 year old drivers facing almost five times greater risk per hour than cyclists of the same age.

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• Future Proofing Cities
• UCL Development Planning Unit

The UCL Grand Challenges Small Grants Scheme invites applications to fund cross-disciplinary projects in Global Health, Sustainable Cities, Intercultural Interaction and Human Wellbeing.

UCL Behaviour Change Month in November 2012 will comprise a series of cross-disciplinary talks, discussions and workshops, and lead up to a £10,000 research prize workshop in January 2013.

Dr Nick Lane (UCL Genetics, Evolution & Environment) addresses one of the most fundamental questions: how did complex life arise? He does so as the inaugural UCL Provost’s Venture Research Fellow, a programme for which new applications are invited.

The UCL News podcast gives you the opportunity to listen to the latest news and research from around UCL every fortnight. Split up into three parts, you can either listen to the podcast all in one go, or save features for later listening. 

The proportion of the world’s population that lives in cities has been steadily rising, so that 3 in 5 of all people globally will live in a city by 2030. The UCL-Lancet Commission on Healthy Cities explores the many issues other than health services that contribute to population health in a city environment.

UCL, Imperial College London and Intel have announced the launch of the Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Sustainable Connected Cities. The new London-based institute will be Intel’s first research centre and global hub dedicated to exploring how technology can support and sustain the social and economic development of cities worldwide. 

UCL has contributed to setting the European research agenda relating to cultural heritage and global change.

A UCL-led workshop held in December 2011 resulted in the League of European Research Universities (LERU) Declaration on the Joint Programming Initiative ‘Cultural Heritage and Global Change: A New Challenge for Europe’ (The UCL Declaration).

UCL, Imperial College London and Intel have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the aim of establishing an Institute for Sustainable Connected Cities.

Tackling rising CO2 emissions from the residential sector could make a vital contribution towards mitigating climate change, according to a new report from the UCL Bartlett School of Planning.

The 2011 UCL Research Strategy calls for a transformation of the understanding of the role of our comprehensive research-intensive university in the 21st century.

Up to £5,000 per project is available to UCL staff through the 2011 UCL Grand Challenges Small Grants Scheme. The closing date for applications is 18 November 2011.

A major art installation commenting on the role of the built environment during times of environmental change has been created by two senior lecturers from UCL’s Bartlett School of Architecture. It takes pride of place at the centre of the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, USA.

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• Royal Commission report on demographic trends and consumption patterns
• Professor Maria Lee
• Professor Joanne Scott
• Professor Mark Tewdwr-Jones
• Population Footprints symposium: 25–26 May 2011

Should damaging ecosystems and global health be made the fifth crime against peace? Sarah Ball, Research & Programme Development Manager at the UCL Institute for Global Health, summarises the discussion at the symposium on ecocide on 19 January.

David Martin and Toby Neville, UCL Chemical Engineering PhD students, spoke to Mike Rann, Premier of South Australia, about his ambitions for renewable energy, following his lecture at UCL on 1 December.

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• UCL–Lancet Commission documents
• UCL Grand Challenge of Global Health
• UCL focus on climate change

UCL’s cloisters hosted 33 students from a wide range of London secondary schools in the last week of October for a three-day workshop in planning and urban design.

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• UCL Alumni Hong Kong Club
• UCL Laws events
• UCL and COP15: focus on climate change

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• UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment
• Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan City Cluster
• Central South University