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The 'Prejudice in Power' digital showcase brings together a wide range of responses to UCL’s historic connections with eugenics. These are coming from within UCL and from engaging with communities affected by the legacies of eugenics, as a result of the 'Prejudice in Power' programme.

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Please note: This programme addresses eugenics and its legacies. Our content deals with conversations about racism, colonialism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia and class warfare. Please take care when accessing any resources.

 

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PAST

UCL has a history of formally promoting eugenics as part of its academic mission. It also has a history of resisting eugenics, working to dismantle it, and working to replace ideologies of discrimination with programmes grounded in inclusion and belonging.

Find out about the history of eugenics and resistance in UCL

PRESENT

Explore how Prejudice in Power projects are responding to UCL’s legacy of eugenics today. 

These include co-created projects, an exhibition in the Student Centre, new cataloguing of eugenics material in our libraries and archives and a special Prejudice in Power Fellowship, as well as important public art commissions.

27 Feb to Dec 2025 - Prejudice in Power Exhibition

Introducing many aspects of the Prejudice in Power programme and including work created by the PiP Co-creation projects.

The exhibition is hosted at UCL Student Centre.

View some photos of the Exhibition.

 

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Framing Inclusion: AI art response to Burt's Educational Standards

For this project, project facilitator Jess Starns worked with the Alliance for Inclusive Education (ALLFE) as part of their 'Our Voice' Project aimed at amplifying Disabled Young people's voices and addressing the erasure of Young people's education experiences. Discover their artwork...

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The Digital Legacy of Eugenics

This project facilitated by Lila Brustad, explored the relationship between a pseudo-scientific method of photography developed by Eugenicists, and the statistics that determine what images users see on TikTok and Instagram. Discover their artwork...

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Transgender Lives and Eugenics in the Museum Space

This project, facilitated by Aleks Jagielski and Cerys Bradley, explored the relationship between eugenics and transgender lives, identities, and transphobia, while championing and highlighting trans voices from within the UCL community and beyond. Discover their artwork...

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And Salt the Earth Behind: Designerly Violence and the Eugenic Archive

Critically looking at Eugenics as a ‘design project’, project facilitator Soul Miles produced a publication of essays interrogating the eugenic logic in design, drawing a lineage from the ideologies of Galton and his contemporaries to modern practices of social control. Discover their artwork...

Jasmine Sachdev

Eugenics and the Body

This project, facilitated by Jasmine Sachdev, invited a group of postgraduate students at a London university, who are first- or second-generation migrants and people of colour to share their experiences of learning in Western academic institutions, doing so in a therapeutic space using creative arts as a medium of exploration.

UCL PiP Words Matter participants

Words Matter: Public Art Programme

UCL’s Culture and Community Engagement team partnered with specialist arts organisations, Brownton Abbey, CRIPtic Arts, The New Black Film Collective and UD Music, to recruit and support twelve artists. Over a four-month period, the artists came together to interrogate false and discriminative notions of ‘normality’ and ‘superiority’ and to explore ideas of hope and reparative healing. Discover their artwork...

UCL PiP Galton Lab workers

Prejudice in Power Fellowship and Cataloguing

Underpinning all of the collaborative 'Prejudice in Power' projects is the work done by collection managers and curators to make the wide range of items held in UCL’s Museums and Special Collections accessible. Cataloguing the collections, so that they are visible to everyone, is the first step to surfacing the past and opening up discourse. Find out more about the cataloguing work and the fellowship supporting this work...

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Eugenics Legacy Education Project (ELEP)

ELEP is a three-year project covering the education-related recommendations from the Eugenics Inquiry. The ELEP team is working in collaboration with staff and students to support and develop professional learning opportunities for all staff and students, and create resources to support module and programme development.

FUTURE

'Prejudice in Power' and associated projects at UCL have led to difficult conversations about the legacy of eugenics, both at an individual and a university level. 

These short films, made for Prejudice in Power, explore other difficult conversations we could and should be having. They feature UCL staff, students and participants in 'Prejudice in Power'.

Explore our videos about having difficult conversations.

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