UCL in the media
Interview: Meet Mariana Mazzucato
Public intellectual Professor Mariana Mazzucato (UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose) is interviewed about her new book: The Value of Everything.
Read: Spectator, More: Channel 4, Bloomberg, New Statesman, City AM, City AM (2)Gaia telescope's 'book of the heavens' takes shape
Professor Mark Cropper and Dr George Seabroke (UCL Space & Climate Physics) are part of a UCL team that has helped map the positions and distances of over one billion stars in our Milky Way Galaxy as part of the European Space Agency's Gaia mission.
Read: BBC News, More: UCL News, The ConversationHuman consciousness in the lab
Dr Selina Wray (UCL Institute of Neurology) discusses the ethics of research on human brain tissue.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Today' (from 1 hr 16 mins 46 secs)The origin of our species
Professor Mark Thomas (UCL Genetics, Evolution & Environment) is part of a group of researchers who are proposing a radical rethink of how the human species emerged.
Read: New Scientist (£)Call to increase class sizes to give teachers more time for CPD
Professor Becky Allen (UCL Institute of Education) argues secondary school classes should be increased significantly to give teachers more time for continuing professional development opportunities.
Read: TES (£)Why students make their ideas commercial faster
Dr Kenny Ching (UCL School of Management) has co-authored a study showing that student-led ventures commercialize their activities much faster than faculty-led initiatives and are more likely to pursue a strategy that is 'execution-oriented' rather than one which is patient and controlled.
Read: ForbesClimate change is not a key cause of conflict, finds new study
Professor Mark Maslin (UCL Geography) says conflict in Africa is not attributable to climate variations but more due to rapid population growth, reduced or negative economic growth and instability of political regimes.
Read: The Conversation, More: Yahoo, UCL NewsCyber society needs monopoly-busting competition, not misguided regulation
Dr Paul Ormerod (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) argues the most effective way of undermining monopolies like Facebook and Google is by encouraging more innovation.
Read: City AMShakespeare, creativity and the role of the writer
Professor Philip Horne (UCl English Language & Literature) discusses the notebooks left behind with the novelist Henry James died.
Listen: BBC Radio 3 'Free Thinking'Hospitals miss dementia even when already diagnosed
Dr Andrew Sommerlad (UCL Psychiatry) has demonstrated that medical staff in hospitals are routinely treating patients without realising they have dementia, which could have profound effects on patient treatment.
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