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Graffinity, an innovative EdTech start-up supported by the UCL Centre for Digital Innovation Acceleration Programme, has won a share of £1 million as part of the Department for Education’s AI Tools for Education Competition.

Calorie labelling of food on menus and products leads people to choose slightly fewer calories finds a new Cochrane review co-led by UCL researchers.

Congratulations to members of UCL’s community who have been recognised in the New Year Honours 2025. Notably, two of our distinguished professors have earned Damehoods.

The UK government’s Department for Education (DfE) has confirmed UCL IOE as a lead provider for the new Early Career Teacher Entitlement (ECTE), commencing in September 2025.

The Blended and Online Learning Design short course developed by IOE experts has won the 2024 Global MOOC and Online Education Alliance (GMA) Award.

Congratulations to members of UCL's community who have been recognised in the 2025 New Year Honours. Three IOE staff and an alumnus have earned recognition in the Honours.

Calorie labelling of food on menus and products leads people to choose slightly fewer calories finds a new Cochrane review co-led by Dr Gareth Hollands (IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education).

Families who want to have children are waiting longer to try for them because of economic factors such as higher inflation, the rising cost of living and housing prices, and according to research from the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS).

“The Labour Party is playing to an old playbook, assuming the Awami League best represents the UK Bangladeshi diaspora,” said Dr Ashraf Hoque (IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society), on Labour’s connection to Bangladesh’s ousted ruling party.

In an essay for The New York Times, Dr Saul Justin Newman (UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies) highlights how pervasive bureaucratic errors, lost documentation and outright fraud cloud research into the longevity of supercentenarians, individuals more than 100 years old.

Writing for Wonkhe, Dr Joe Mintz (IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education & Society) discusses the challenges around demonstrating research impact.

Writing for the British Medical Journal, Dr Katie Gaddini (UCL Social Research Institute) argues that by identifying the priorities of anti-abortion and other movements working to further rollback reproductive rights, we can take action to safeguard these rights.