FACULTY OF SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL SCIENCES

One of our students, Imachibundu Oluwadara Onuzo short listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize for her novel The Spider King's Daughter.

The Institute of Archaeology currently has a vacancy for a Lecturer in Chinese Archaeology (Ref.:1290898). The deadline for applications is 28 November 2012.  

An international conference in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention will be held at UCL on 1 December.  

Experimentation, Behaviour Change and Public Policy

Experimentation, Behaviour Change and Public Policy

Congratulations to Jennifer Carpenter (1st year, BA Archaeology and Anthropology) and Tahiya Qureshi (BA Archaeology) who have both won a place on the Lloyds Scholars Programme for 2012-13.

UCL - Institute of the Americas is proud to announce that the prestigious Santander-Catalyst Award 2012 has been conferred to our colleague, Dr Par Engstrom, to support his research collaboration with the Instituto de Relações Internacionais of the Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil. Dr Engstrom’s visit is intended to facilitate the planning of a collaborative research project on the impact of the Inter-American Human Rights Court and Commission on human rights outcomes in Latin America, as well as future research and student exchanges between UCL-IA and USP.

Dorian Fuller was recently appointed to take over as the UK Executive Director of the International Centre for Chinese Heritage and Archaeology (ICCHA). 

For more information please see the EEA Newsletter.

Congratulations to Honorary Professor Henry Cleere who has been awarded the prestigious International Yellow River Friendship Prize for his outstanding contribution to the safeguarding of Chinese cultural heritage.

Two new volumes in the series on Critical Cultural Heritage, published by Left Coast Press, with Beverley Butler as Series Editor, are now available.