FACULTY OF SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL SCIENCES

A one-day symposium will be held at the British Museum in March 2013 to coincide with the Sowei Mask: Spirit of Sierra Leone exhibition and a call for papers has just been announced.

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UCL Wilkins Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre on 20 November 2012

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Andrew Robertshaw, Honorary Lecturer at the Institute, has recreated a WWI trench in the garden of his Surrey home, recording battle experience in a new book 24 Hours in Battle set in April 1918.

UCL History of Art postgraduates have recently launched an online media gallery. The International New Media Gallery specialises in contemporary moving image artwork. They currently have a show by photographer Corinne Silva, with catalogue contributions by UCL postgraduates. An in-conversation will be held between the artist and UCL’s Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art in December.

Congratulations to the Institute students who have been awarded UCL, Faculty and departmental prizes for the 2011-12 academic session.

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new title in the UCL Studies of the Americas series.

The Institute will introduce three new masters degrees in 2013-14, the second of which is concerned with the archaeology of the Middle East.

A staff/student discussion on studying for a Research Degree.

A panel of SPP academic staff offered advice on what to expect if students chose to continue studying for an MPhil /PhD after the completion of their current Masters course.

Research undertaken by the Institute's EUROEVOL project team and colleagues at Plymouth University has revealed prehistoric central Scotland as being one of the earliest agricultural 'hot spots'.  

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The happier you are as a teenager, the more money you are likely to earn by the time you reach 30, according to a long-term study that tracked the wellbeing and income of more than 10,000 people.