UCL in the media
Looking for a way to rid your need of reading glasses?
The effectiveness of natural techniques to avoid presbyopia is "difficult to swallow", says Professor Glen Jeffery (UCL Institute of Ophthalmology) but adds: "There are many things about the eye that we still don't understand".
Read: Daily MailMoorfields Eye Hospital to put historic site on the market
Moorfields Eye Hospital and its research partner, the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, are due to move to a new site in 2023.
Read: Financial TimesPeople who come to UK as refugees more likely to identify themselves as British
Research by Stuart Campbell (UCL Institute of Education) has found that immigrants who travel to Britain as refugees or because of family ties are more than twice as likely to see themselves as having a British national identity than economic migrants.
Read: IndependentThe world's top universities by subject
The UCL Institute of Education has been ranked number one in the world for Education in the QS subject league tables.
Read: Telegraph, More: Guardian, Guardian (2), City AM, Independent, UCL NewsToo poor to stay warm
Research led by Dr Jessica Allen (UCL Institute of Health Equity) has suggested that more than 9,000 deaths in 2014-15 were specifically due to living in a cold home.
Watch: BBC One 'Panorama' (from 11 mins 37 secs), Read: BBC News, More: Guardian, Listen: BBC Radio London 'Drivetime' (from 2 hours 28 mins)Saving science from the scientists
Professor Sophie Scott (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) discusses the need to promote academic papers.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'Saving Science from the Scientists' (from 4 mins 4 secs)Why criminals can't hide behind Bitcoin
Sarah Meiklejohn (UCL Computer Science) says "there's a steady shift toward seeing cryptocurrency as a tool for prosecuting crimes" within law enforcement.
Read: ScienceHow to find a flying squirrel
Professor Muki Haklay (UCL Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering) says the term "citizen scientist" was coined in a 1979 issue of New Scientist.
Read: Washington PostFor refugees, another risk: schizophrenia
A study co-authored Dr James Kirkbride (UCL Psychiatry) and Karolinska Institutet of 1.3 million people in Sweden found that the risk of being diagnosed with schizophrenia or other psychoses was three times higher in refugees than in the Swedish-born population.
Read: Washington Post, More: Huffington Post, The Conversation, UCL News'Stressed' children as young as two are sent to hypnotists
Professor David Colquhoun (UCL Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology) says there is 'no evidence' hypnotherapy works, adding: "There's no restriction on the title of hypnotherapist, but - like nutritionists - many are just quacks".
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