UCL in the media
Adults are having less sex than 20 years ago, finds study
Dr Cath Mercer (UCL Infection & Population Health) comments on a study finding that Americans report having sex less frequently in the early 2010s compared to the early 1990s, saying the results chime with UK findings.
Read: The GuardianThinking about women and girls makes development work better for everyone
Dr Orlanda Ward (UCL Political Science) writes about her research finding that development programming is most effective if it's both gender sensitive and politically informed.
Read: The ConversationTax fears over diesel cars have seen sales plummet
Paul Drummond (UCL Bartlett School of Environment, Energy & Resources) is mentioned for calling on the UK government to raise the registration tax on diesel cars.
Read: The SunHas Alzheimer's research reached crisis point?
Professor Bart De Strooper (UCL Institute of Neurology) is quoted about how researchers need to shift their thinking to discover better treatments for dementia.
Read: The TelegraphCannabis use is soaring so let's focus on reducing harm instead
Tom Freeman (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences) comments on ways to reduce the harm caused by cannabis use, after co-writing a piece in The Lancet on the subject.
Read: i NewsWelsh devolution
Professor Rick Rawlings (UCL Laws) is interviewed about the constituting of the fourth main phase of Welsh devolution in just twenty years, in the Wales Act 2017.
Listen: BBC Radio Wales 'Sunday Supplement' (from 42 mins 22 secs)How disappearing sea ice has put Arctic ecosystem under threat
Professor Julienne Stroeve (UCL Earth Sciences) comments on the threat disappearing sea ice poses to animals in the Arctic such as harp seals, reindeer and caribou.
Read: The ObserverPrize for cracking brain's 'feel good' system
Professor Peter Dayan (UCL Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit) and Professor Ray Dolan (UCL Max Planck Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research) are two of the three winners of the The Brain Prize for 2017, worth €1m, for their analysis of how the brain recognises and processes reward.
Read: BBC News, More: The Guardian, BBC News at Six, BBC World Service 'Newshour' (from 38 mins 40 secs), Reuters, Evening Standard, i News, New Scientist, The Guardian (2), The Telegraph, The Times (£), Daily Mail, UCL NewsBreast cancer sufferers could be better off taking vital drug for just nine weeks
Dr Caroline Clarke (UCL Primary Care & Population Health) led a study finding that breast cancer patients who receive the drug Herceptin for nine weeks as part of their post-surgery chemotherapy regime may enjoy better health outcomes compared to those who receive it for the NHS-recommended 12 months.
Read: Mirror, More: UCL NewsMove country to improve post-PhD career prospects, study suggests
Dr Giulio Marini (UCL Institute of Education) discusses his study investigating which factors influence employment and salary prospects for PhD graduates.
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