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UCL in Latin America
“Our focus on Chile and Mexico has developed significantly over the last five years, and this will ensure that UCL positions itself as partner of choice for cross-disciplinary, co-designed, challenge-led research, as well as a postgraduate student destination of choice across Latin America.
Professor Stephen Hart
Former Pro-Vice-Provost (Latin America)
MAKING AN IMPACT
UCL community
There are 404 students from Latin America at UCL.
UCL has 4,271 alumni in Latin America.
Dr Cecilia Vindrola, an applied medical anthropologist in the Department of Targeted Intervention at UCL, has been studying how children access cancer treatment in Argentina.
Find out how the Clairmonte E Bourne Bursary for UCL students, by UCL alumnus Monty Bourne, is changing the landscape of the law profession.
Meet Isabel Gonçalves Cattuzzo, Departmental Laboratory Manager for the School of Pharmacy, who previously worked as a Chemical Engineer in industry in Brazil.
UCL Geospatial Sciences MSc alumnus, now working in Chile, presents at international conference with UCL support.
UCL Mexican Association, established in 2013, was recognised as the Alumni Volunteer Network / Group of the Year at the UCL Volunteering Awards 2019.
We're proud of our international and multi-cultural community which counts 404 students from Latin America currently studying at UCL and 4,271 UCL alumni in Latin America, as well as our academics and staff from or with links to Latin America.
Meet some of our students, alumni and academics through the slideshow above.
Research, partnerships and projects
UCL has collaborated with Brazilian researchers and indigenous peoples to reclaim indigenous history from Amazonian soil
UCL is supporting Argentinian lawyers and judges to adapt to the country’s legal reforms
Three mechanical engineers from Lima are using their know-how and equipment to manufacture UCL-Ventura CPAP machines for local hospitals.
Drawing support from UCL grant, UCL academic organises a collaboration with colleagues in Mexico, France and the USA to investigate 'The Mexican Opium Crisis'.
UCL's Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) is working with academics and government officials to shape a stronger post-COVID recovery across Latin America.
The UCL Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science has been supporting the implementation of hot spot policing in Latin America.
A UCL-led project exploring the impact of coronavirus on older people’s mental health in Peru is one of the first to receive new funding to address the pandemic’s impact in low- and middle-income countries.
UCL's Development Planning Unit has contributed to debates on COVID-19 in precarious settlements and social housing in Latin America.
A new study led by researchers at UCL and the University of the Republic in Uruguay suggest daytime napping may help preserve brain health.
UCL has strong links with institutions and organisations across Latin America, particularly in the areas of earth sciences, disaster reduction, public and global health and development studies.
For example, in Mexico, UCL is working with UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) focussing on the global, social and cultural impact of Covid-19. In Chile, UCL and PUC (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago) are exploring the role resilience plays in the everyday culture of Latin America. Find out more here and through UCL's Institute of the Americas.
GET INVOLVED
Current and future partners
Partnership enquiries
We are keen to develop partnerships and collaborations with universities and institutions in Latin America. If you are interested in exploring ways to work with UCL, contact our Senior Global Engagement Manager (Americas & Australasia), Clément Leroy.
Existing partners include:
