UCL Outreach

Nadia Bukhari

UCL School of Pharmacy

Monday, 1st July 2013, 4:00 - 6:00pm

Is Chemistry your forte at school? If so, Pharmacy may be the career for you.

Join the masterclass at UCL to find out the different career pathways you can take as a pharmacist. Dispensing medicines on the local high street is not the only role we fulfil. With the aid of an interactive workshop using prescriptions, this masterclass promises to give you an overview of how pharmacy fits in the healthcare profession.

This masterclass is open to students who are currently studying Chemistry and either Biology, Mathematics or Physics at A Level or IB.

Ms. Olga Thomas

UCL Faculty of Laws

Monday, 1st July 2013, 4:00 - 6:00pm

Have you ever wondered whether there was a way to get away with murder? If so, this is the masterclass for you! This interesting, fun and interactive session will familiarise participants with one of the criminal law defences. It will consist of a short lecture followed by case studies and the opportunity to offer legal advice to fictitious clients.

This masterclass is open to all students who are interested, although it is particularly suitable for students who are considering studying Law at university.

Students taking part in the Pathways to Law programme should not apply for this masterclass as the content is covered as part of the Pathways scheme.

Professor Clare Elwell

UCL Department of Medical Physics & Bioengineering

Wednesday, 3rd July 2013, 4:00 - 6:00pm

Ultrasound scans of foetuses growing in the womb, images that allow us to watch the brain think and electrical nerve stimulation to help paraplegics walk are all examples of Medical Physics at work in the 21st century. Medical physicists work at the interface between technical development and clinical application, using their physics skills to solve healthcare problems. With the aid of a number of demonstrations of modern hospital and medical research equipment, this Masterclass will illustrate the crucial role that Medical Physics plays in medicine. Find out how physicists really can bring science to life.

This masterclass is open to students who are currently studying either or both Mathematics and Physics at A Level or IB.

Dr Claire Thomson

Department of Scandinavian Studies

Monday, 1st July 2013, 4:00 - 6:00pm

Danish television series such as Borgen, The Killing and The Bridge (Danish-Swedish) have been immensely popular in the UK in the last year or two. Denmark also produces a surprising number of internationally-successful film directors, relative to its size: e.g. Lars von Trier, Susanne Bier, Thomas Vinterberg. This masterclass will present selected highlights from Danish film history, comparing today’s ‘golden age’ of film and television to earlier periods of success, and exploring the role of the state institutions and directors themselves in shaping this small country’s film culture. We’ll watch and analyse examples of Danish filmmaking, including some of the following: the very earliest productions around 1900, government short films promoting the welfare state in the 1940s, the great auteur Carl Th. Dreyer, the Dogme 95 movement, and film/television in the present day.

Students taking the masterclass can request a focus on particular periods, genres or directors, and we will try to accommodate everyone’s wishes.

Students studying any combination of A Levels or IB are welcome to apply for this masterclass.

Dr Geraldine Brodie

UCL Dutch Department

Monday, 1st July 2013, 4:00 - 6:00pm

Have you ever wondered why subtitles are inexact? If we are familiar with the original language, we can often spot that a subtitled film is not conveying the full detail of its source. But what about when we don’t know the source language, or when a film or play is adapted to fit the expectations of the audience?  This masterclass examines translation as a cultural force in film and theatre. We will write short dialogues in English, and then think about how they are affected by performance on stage or screen, especially when translation is involved. We will try some basic subtitling, reviewing the parameters that influence transmission of the original to the receiver of a translation. Our aim is to gain a deeper understanding of the nature of translation in intercultural connectivity. This session is taught in English. Students with a knowledge of any other language are very welcome, along with those with an academic interest in film and theatre.

Chris Carey

Department of Greek and Latin

Tuesday, 2nd July 2013, 4:00 - 6:00pm

It has been said that sport is war by other means. But nothing in modern sport comes even close to its meaning for the ancient Greeks. It was tied to questions of ethnicity and national identity. It had a major role in politics at all levels. And it was played with a fierce intensity which allowed only for winners and losers with no middle ground. This masterclass will explore this centrality of sport and the ruthlessness with which it was played.

Students studying any combination of A Levels or IB are welcome to apply for this masterclass.

Dr Mererid Puw Davies

Department of German

Tuesday, 2nd July 2013, 4:00 - 6:00pm

What is a city? What does it look like? And when film-makers and other artists show us a city, how do their ideas, choices and techniques influence what we see and think? In this class we will consider how Berlin, one of the great urban, cultural and artistic centres of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, appears in film and contemporary television.

Students interested in applying for this masterclass must be studying German.

Dr Jessica Ferm

The Bartlett School of Planning

Tuesday, 2nd July 2013, 4:00 - 6:00pm

Are you interested in how cities work? Do you want to have a hand in the way cities of the 21st Century are designed, developed and managed? If so, come along to the urban planning masterclass, which will give you an overview of what urban planning is and the skills required to pursue a career in planning today. You will also be given an opportunity to meet and talk with current students on the Bartlett School of Planning’s degree programmes and refreshments will be provided.

Students studying any combination of A Levels or IB are welcome to apply for this masterclass.

Ruth E. N. Austin 

Department of French

Wednesday, 3rd July 2013, 4:00 - 6:00pm

In this seminar we will consider some of the ways in which narrative can be constructed in film. Beginning with the question ‘what is narrative?’ we will examine how key techniques in filmmaking function in relation to the narrative form. We will examine the use of music and sound as well as the visual image.  We will take various examples from a variety of films in order to think about what is usually termed "classical Hollywood narrative" and how innovative cinema can play with, fragment and fundamentally question these  conventions of narrative structure.

Students studying any combination of A Levels or IB, including a language, are welcome to apply for this masterclass.

Dr Chris Taylorson

Department of Structural & Molecular Biology

Wednesday, 3rd July 2013, 4:00 - 6:00pm

This lecture outlines the amazing flexibility and verstaility of enzymes as biological catalysts with examples.

Students studying Chemistry and one other science or Mathematics at A Level or IB higher level are welcome to apply for this masterclass.

Jesper Hansen

Department of Scandinavian Studies

Thursday, 4th July 2013, 4:00 - 6:00pm

The initial lecture takes students through the main trends of Danish literary history from mid 1600s to the early 20th century. In the second half students look at undated examples of texts, and using the knowledge gained in the first half try to date the excerpts (all examples will be provided in Danish and English translation). 

Students studying any combination of A Levels or IB, including a language, are welcome to apply for this masterclass.

Dr Jenni Rodd

Department of Cognitive Perceptual and Brain Sciences 

Thursday, 4th July 2013, 4:00 - 6:00pm

The ability to communicate with other people using spoken language is fundamental to all aspects of our lives. Communication is ordinarily so effortless that we often overlook the complex computations that are necessary to understand speech. Psychological studies of language provide interesting, and often surprising, insights into the mental processes and representations that are involved in communication. These results provide insights into our own communication abilities and also help us to understand the all-too-frequent language difficulties that are faced by patients with brain damage. 

Students should be studying A Levels in at least one, preferably two subjects from: Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics and Psychology. This masterclass is aimed at students wishing to study Psychology at university.

Jacqueline Kinghan

Faculty of Laws

Thursday, 4th July 2013, 4:00 - 6:00pm

This class will explore basic principles of human rights and apply them in a variety of contexts. The class will be interactive and, together with UCL law students, will afford participants the opportunity to contribute to a human rights debate and assist in deciding mock cases.  

Students studying any combination of A Levels or IB are welcome to apply for this masterclass.

Dr Alison Shell

Department of English 

Friday, 5th July 2013, 4:00 - 6:00pm

Early 17th-century England was a time when belief in the magical powers of witches and sorcerers was commonplace, when scientific enquiry contained a strong element of magical thinking, and when England's monarch, James I, was deeply engaged with the issue of witchcraft. It is hardly surprising, then, that Shakespeare made such creative use of magic, folklore and  superstition during this period. This masterclass will examine passages from Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth and The Tempest, one of his final plays, engaging in a close reading of these, setting them within their historical context and looking at their performance history.

Students wishing to apply for this masterclass must be studying English and History at A Level or IB.

Dr Chris Taylorson

Department of Structural and Molecular Biology

Friday, 5th July 2013, 4:00 - 6:00pm

Here we look at the use of proteins as therapeutic agents and how they can be modified and used.  Nearly 40% of all drugs are protein based or are inhibitors of enzymes and this will probably increase in future years.

Students studying Chemistry and one other science or Maths at A Level or IB higher level are welcome to apply for this masterclass.

Navaz Davoodian

Bartlett School of Graduate Studies

Monday, 8th July 2013, 4:00 - 6:00pm

Are you good at Maths and Physics but also like Art and Design Technology? Then maybe you’d like to know more about light and lighting design! The role of lighting designers has gone through significant changes over the years. This masterclass will illustrate how lighting designers work in 21st century. You will learn how their job varies from lighting masterplans for cities to lighting for museums and art galleries or maybe designing a light fitting itself.

Students studying any combination of A Levels or IB are welcome to apply for this masterclass.

Pushpa Arabindoo 

Department of Geography

Wednesday, 10th July 2013, 4:00 - 6:00pm

How much do we really know about the geographies of London? This masterclass offers a preliminary understanding of the city’s multi-layered, plural geographies, ranging from socio-cultural (multiculturalism) to its political economy (financial geography) and its urban natural environments. It emphasises the way the city can be used as a learning laboratory to introduce students to the geographical challenges faced by this global city. Through this course’s focus on London, students will be able to form a more critical understanding of their own surrounding environments, using key analytical lenses drawn from the geographical discourse. It encourages them to rethink their everyday practices and experiences at a variety of scales (micro to macro), emphasising the multi-scalar nature of urban life and environments.

Students studying any combination of A Levels or IB are welcome to apply for this masterclass.

Marie Fournier

Department of French

Thursday, 11th July 2013, 4:00 - 6:00pm

This masterclass will explore the importance of comics, now widely recognised as a legitimate form of art and referred to as the "ninth art", in French culture. It will be designed so as to foster a broader knowledge of what is entailed in the study of bande dessinée at university level, and will focus on the representation of history (in particular colonial history). Students will work on a selection of comics extracts (chosen, for instance, from Tintin au Congo) and will concentrate both on the visual and narrative aspects of the genre. The class will be taught in French by a native speaker.

Students studying any combination of A Levels or IB are welcome to apply for this masterclass.

Dr Jemma Kerns 

Faculty of Medical Sciences

Monday, 8th July 2013, 4:00 - 6:00pm

This masterclass will take place at the Royal Free Hospital.

Researchers in Division of Surgery and Interventional Science have been developing and using novel technologies, such as nanotechnology, for translational research. In this session, we will give overviews and specific examples (and where we have got to on the BENCH TO BEDSIDE map) for some of our research work. The 2 hours will comprise short talks interspaced with demonstrations – for example, of our own nanoparticles and their visible emissions throughout the colour scale; “body parts”etc. The development of novel technologies into new diagnostic techniques, e.g., Raman spectroscopy to study osteogenesis imperfecta. Photographs and video clips may be used where appropriate.

Students studying at least one science A Level or at higher level IB are welcome to apply for this masterclass.

Dr Julie Evans

Faculty of Brain Sciences

Thursday, 11th July 2013, 4:00 - 6:00pm

This class will introduce the main theories about the nature of intelligence and the evidence for these views. The seminar will explore to what extent variations in people's 'intelliegence' is due to 'nature' or 'nurture'.

Students who wish to apply for this masterclass should be studying Biology and Psychology at A Level or IB.