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The Hot Brain 2: UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology's second Climate Change conference
UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology held its second climate change conference on 16th May 2024, which was joined online and in person by over 100 UK and international attendees.
Professor Sanjay Sisodiya has been awarded one of the first UCL Grand Challenges of Climate Crisis Small Grants Award.
- Climate Change and Chronic Diseases: highly-resolved disease-specific pilot study. £10,000
- Professor Sanjay Sisodiya
- Professor Anna Mavrogianni
UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology achieves Gold in UCL Sustainability awards 2024
We're delighted to announce recognition of UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology's commitment to sustainability by receiving all Gold LEAF and Green Impact awards in 2024.
The Hot Brain: UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology’s Climate Change conferences
As registration opens for Hot Brain 2: Climate Change and Brain Health, Professor Sanjay Sisodiya (Deputy Director for Sustainability and Climate Change, Queen Square Institute of Neurology and founder of Epilepsy Climate Change) looks back on their first climate change conference in 2023. Faculty Sustainability Blog post
UCL Sustainability Leadership Conference 2024
The first Sustainability Leadership Conference took place at UCL East 18-19th April 2024, as a joint venture ran by the Students’ Union UCL and Sustainable UCL . You can read the reflections of Shashwat, ION Student Sustainability Ambassador, and one of the student delegates, on the SU website.
UCL Sustainability Awards 2023
Congratulations to all the IoN departments who received awards!
Awards
- Global epilepsy consortium wins PR award for COP26 campaign
- EnvironMental Issue wins Bronze in Clios Health 2022 awards
Faculty of Brain Sciences Sustainability blog
Faculty Sustainability Committee have launched their own blog. Be sure to check in regularly to see what they get up to in their mission to bring the issue of sustainability to the forefront of our agenda. ION features in this blog post
Articles
- Gulcebi, M.I., Leddy, S., Behl, K. et al. Imperatives and co-benefits of research into climate change and neurological disease. Nat Rev Neurol (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41582-024-01055-6
- Sisodiya SM Hot brain: practical climate change advice for neurologists Practical Neurology Published Online First: 10 November 2023.
- Sisodiya SM. Climate change and neurology: time to talk and to act. Lancet Neurology 2023
- Dr Olga Tiurikova discusses a novel alternative to the use of animals in astroglia research. In this blog, Dr Olga Tiurikova, Research Fellow in the Department of Clinical & Experimental Epilepsy at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology talks about the benefits and challenges of using human brain tissue in research.
- Heatwaves may increase likelihood of seizures in people with epilepsy Heatwaves can worsen abnormal excitability of the brain in people with epilepsy, finds a new small-scale patient study led by clinical scientists at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology.
- Climate change likely to aggravate brain conditions In a Personal View article, published in The Lancet Neurology ahead of Hot Brain 2, a team of researchers led by Professor Sanjay Sisodiya emphasise the urgent need to understand the impact of climate change on people with neurological conditions.
- Dr Sara Leddy blog post on her research project investigating the effects of climate change on people with neurological diseases.