Grand Challenges, Grand Impacts

This free exhibition explores themes, partnerships and ideas generated by UCL's unique Grand Challenges initiative, celebrates its history and achievements to date, and explores its evolution.

The exhibition features a thematic exploration of work supported by Grand Challenges and highlights the range of impacts generated. A series of case studies showcases the diversity of ideas, themes and partnerships involved, and the recognition that impactful solutions to societal challenges rarely come from one field alone.

Grand Challenges, Grand Impacts invites you to learn about the work completed so far and to think about how UCL’s Grand Challenges might inspire or amplify your own innovative and disruptive thinking.

Exhibition themes

Catalysing Research

We want to support the growth of new research partnerships and enable collaboration across disciplines. From seed funding to networking, workshops and mentoring, here are some of the ways we make change happen.

Informing Decision Makers

We’re working to get research in front of policy partners, and support the development of evidence based policy through roundtables, parliamentary commissions and more.

Engaging Communities

Working with communities across the UK and beyond to ensure our research reflects the needs of the people it affects through co-production, community engagement and citizen science initiatives.

Creating New Platforms

Build the community you want to be part of. Creating space for new research collaborations, sparking new conversations and facilitating innovation.

Prototyping

From pilot projects to grassroots innovation, we want to get your idea off the ground. Find out more about how we support research startups.

Challenging the Status Quo

UCL’s radical history is also our radical future. Our disruptive thinking is re-evaluating how we approach issues as diverse as healthcare, social justice, technology and more.

Read more on the Grand Challenges, Grand Impacts webpage