UCL in the media
School ties and Oxbridge degrees are still key to a career at the Bar
Professor Richard Moorhead (UCL Laws) explains how the recruitment and promotion practices at the Bar remain a serious impediment to a diverse judiciary.
Read: The Times (£)U.K.'s big banks face probe into checking accounts
Dr Ioannis Lianos (UCL Laws) explains why some of Britain's largest banks face an investigation into small-business lending and checking accounts.
Read: Washington PostGross underinvestment in antibacterial research
Michael Head (UCL Infection & Population Health) comments on a study which found that between 2008-13 less than 1% of research funding was awarded to UK researchers for cutting edge work on antibiotics.
Read: Lancet (£), More: Times of IndiaCapacity Mechanism
Professor Michael Grubb (UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources) discusses the government's Capacity Mechanism and says that the likelihood of power cuts occurring is very small.
Listen: BBC Radio 4 'You and Yours' (from 38 mins 16 secs)The (atrocious) luck of the dinosaurs
Research conducted by a team of international academics, including Dr Paul Upchurch (UCL Earth Sciences), has found that dinosaurs may have survived if the asteroid that killed them had struck slightly earlier or later.
Read: ForbesCreepy crawlies decline as human population soars
A study co-authored by Dr Ben Collen (UCL Genetics, Evolution & Environment) has found that invertebrate numbers have decreased by 45% over the past 35 years, a period in which the human population has doubled.
Read: Telegraph, More: Independent, Daily Mail, Herald, Times of India, New Zealand Herald, Straits Times (£), UCL NewsSingle-dose radiotherapy eases breast cancer stress
Professor Jayant Vaidya (UCL General Surgery) has helped develop a new form of radiotherapy which can be given to breast cancer patients during surgery.
Read: Times (£)Half-hour breast cancer treatment can replace weeks of radiotherapy
Professor Michael Baum (UCL General Surgery) comments on intrabeam radiotherapy.
Read: Daily MailGreat Brain Experiment
Dr Peter Zeidman (UCL Imaging Neuroscience) discusses the Great Brain Experiment, a free mobile app run by neuroscientists at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL.
Read: BBC News, Listen: BBC World Service 'Science in Action'What is a circular economy?
Dr Teresa Domenech (UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources) explains what a circular economy is and how one can be implemented in the EU.
Read: The Conversation