The Source Event: London Careers Fair for Scientists
UCL (University College London) is pleased to be an Event Ambassador for The Source Event: a dedicated Science Career Fair organised and sponsored by Naturejobs and held in London, UK.
As a world class institution with some 8,000 staff, 19,000 students and a turn over of £560million we are ranked as one of the top five universities in Europe and within the top 30 world wide. UCL has some 2,100 research staff (PostDocs) and they are supported by a dedicated staff development programme.
UCL has an internationally acclaimed research profile including:
top ratings of '5' and '5*' for 60 UCL departments - as well as the next-highest rating, '4', for nine other departments – in the government's Research Assessment Exercise, published in December 2001.
the launch of 13 new research projects costing almost £68 million, through successful applications to the UK government’s Joint Infrastructure Fund, enhancing UCL’s strengths across the sciences, engineering and medicine.
a higher award than any other UK university through the Science Research Investment Fund – based on research excellence and volume – enabling investment of more than £60 million in ongoing research and emerging disciplines.
more than 40 royalty-bearing licence agreements negotiated and about 160 patent families invested in, through UCL BioMedica and UCL Business, which between them manage the protection and exploitation of new technologies arising from research.
more than 40 spin-off and joint-venture companies, raising more than £25 million in capital, created through UCL BioMedica and UCL Business, as well as the establishment of two £4 million seed investment funds, aiming to provide very early stage capital to biomedical and information-technology spin-off companies.
UCL: some further facts and figures:
More than 4,000 academic and research staff in 72 departments are dedicated to research and teaching of the highest standards.
UCL has the highest number of professors of any university in the UK, with more than 600 established and personal chairs, as well as the highest number of female professors.
Our academic community includes 35 fellows of the Royal Society, 22 Fellows of the British Academy, 11 Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering and 77 Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
Nobel Prizes have been awarded to 19 academics and graduates.
We have hundreds of collaborative research and teaching partners, including almost 150 research links and 129 student-exchange partnerships with European universities.
Innovative partnerships with commerce and industry are of great importance to UCL, including a research and graduate training centre at BT's Adastral Park, as well as a £4.6-million programme to equip UCL's scientists and engineers with enterprise and business skills.
