UCL Grand Challenges

UCL Grand Challenges tackles complex global, national and local issues through interdisciplinary research and collaboration, harnessing UCL's diverse expertise to drive meaningful change.

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Grand Challenge Themes

UCL's Strategic Plan 2022-27 positions Grand Challenges as a cross-UCL flagship programme centred around five academically led themes.

Current themes

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Inequalities
Intercultural communication

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Project highlights

The Lancet

UCL Grand Challenges has kickstarted a number of large scale, worldwide collaborations between academics that have reported their findings in The Lancet.

'Structurally Unsound' was a collaboration between UCL’s Grand Challenge of Justice & Equality, UCL Public Policy, and the Resolution Foundation, funded by UCL’s Knowledge Exchange Fund (HEIF), exploring structural inequalities in the UK.

Media highlight: What is net zero? What is blue carbon? Experts explain key climate terms

In a video interview with The Conversation, Professor Mark Maslin (Pro-Vice-Provost (Climate Crisis) explains what Net Zero is without the need for jargon or unnecessarily technical language.

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