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UCL in the media
“Children’s voices” omitted from care records
The voices of looked-after children and young people are missing from their social care records and the experience of accessing social care records later in life can be dehumanising, according to new research led by Professor Elizabeth Shepherd (UCL Information Studies).
Read: The Conversation, More: Yahoo News, BBC Radio London (from 2 hrs 23 mins), UCL News
UCL pioneer is one of London’s ‘tech titans’
Arthur Kay, the UCL graduate whose company bio-bean turns used coffee grounds into clean energy, is included in a profile of London’s tech entrepreneurs. His story has been shortlisted as part of the #MadeAtUCL project.
Health worsens the longer you live in a deprived area
People living in poor neighbourhoods face a higher risk of ill health and an early death, according to a new review by Dr Stephen Jivraj (UCL Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care) of over 50 longitudinal studies on health and living in deprived areas.
Corbyn’s shake-up of Big Pharma isn’t the only way
Dr Samir Nuseibeh (UCL Biochemical Engineering) argues that the UK government could improve its negotiating position with the pharmaceutical industry by investing in facilities to manufacture a new class of “biological” drugs which are difficult to produce.
The case for ‘rewilding’ 25% of the UK
Professor Simon Lewis (UCL Geography) describes how forests and wetlands could be restored to a quarter of the UK with modest investment, sequestering at least 14% of the UK’s emissions each year.
Google celebrates UCL chemist who reshaped periodic table
A Google Doodle pays tribute to Scottish chemist Professor Sir William Ramsay (UCL Chemistry), who as Chair of Inorganic Chemistry discovered the “noble” or inert gases, winning the Nobel Prize and reshaping the periodic table.
Read: iNews, More: Independent, Express, Scotsman, New Scientist, The National, Sun
Stormzy congratulates UCL student over hip-hop dissertation
Recent UCL student Amarie Cassidy is congratulated by Stormzy for her first-class Arts & Sciences degree after she tweeted about her dissertation and thanked him for helping to inspire it. The dissertation challenged negative stereotypes of black male identity in British hip-hop.
The rise of 3D printing
Martyn Carter (UCL Bartlett School of Architecture) takes viewers through the process of 3D printing from the B-made 3D printing service at UCL and explains how 3D printing has become suddenly so accessible.
Listen: BBC World Service’s ‘Digital Planet’ (from 23 mins 2 secs)
Actions on social media may not count as much as you think
Visiting Professor Paul Ormerod (UCL Centre for the Study of Decision-Making Uncertainty) describes how 2 million people pledged online to gather outside Area 51, a military base in Nevada, but only 200 turned up – reflecting the difference between stated and revealed preference.
Rise in homeless deaths a public health emergency
Professor Andrew Hayward (UCL Epidemiology & Health Care) says the unprecedented rise in homeless deaths in the UK is a “public health emergency” and represents a “failure to protect the most vulnerable”, especially as many of the deaths are from treatable conditions.
