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This week we meet Alex Marshall, Communications and Digital Content Manager in UCL Risk and Disaster Reduction. We caught up with Alex about showcasing alumni career journeys, his love of gardening and making music in an old converted lightship.

Meet Alex Marshall, Communications and Digital Content Manager in UCL Risk and Disaster Reduction. We caught up with Alex about showcasing alumni career journeys and making music in an old lightship.

Professor Kathryn Woods, Pro-Vice-Provost (Education - Student Academic Engagement) has been awarded a National Teaching Fellowship.

UCL’s in-person Lunch Hour Lecture series returns with a special bicentennial edition and deep dive into ancient DNA research.

Following the UK Supreme Court decision last year on the legal definitions of sex within the Equality Act 2010, the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s updated Code of Practice will replace the previous 2011 guidance from Wednesday 5 August 2026.  

Professor Jacqui Glass, Dean of the UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment and a leading expert in construction and the built environment, has been appointed interim Vice-Provost (Faculties) at UCL.

Our latest Faces of UCL spotlights the staff who keep UCL running and work tirelessly to ensure our campus remains safe, smart, resilient and sustainable for many years to come.

The annual pay uplift, which is normally applied from August, will be delayed this year while national pay negotiations are completed.

Essential repairs to a leak in the Bloomsbury Heat and Power Network will require a temporary hot water and heating outage in several UCL Bloomsbury buildings at the end of August.

A joint end of academic year thank you message from our UCL President & Provost and Chief People Officer and a reflection on staff achievements in our landmark bicentennial year.

Throughout our bicentennial year, the UCL200 team have been collaborating with students and members of ‘26’, a non-profit aiming to connect people through creative crowd-writing projects, on a special initiative to commemorate UCL’s rich history.

UCL’s Council has approved a series of updates to the delegations for the acceptance of gifts and other Advancement related matters including how gifts are accepted and how gift-related risks are managed.

UCL’s Council has approved updates to clarify UCL’s rules on the management and disposal of fixed assets and equipment, and a new manual is available to bring definitions and guidance together in one place.

This week we speak to Ayeshah Emon, Lecturer in Public Health at UCL's Institute of Epidemiology and Health Care and medical anthropologist about fostering creative learning, doing what you love for a living, and how a parakeet can take you back in time...

We are delighted to celebrate the success of colleagues recognised through UCL’s Senior Academic, Research and Teaching Promotions process for 2025–26.