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- Our three 2025-26 pilot projects are supporting 13 cross-disciplinary collaborations across UCL
- This call was supported by generous funding from the UCL Faculties of Engineering Sciences (and the Departments of Computer Science and Security and Crime Science), IOE and Social & Historical Sciences
School-Based Nurseries expansion policy: exploring feasibility and what works in real-world contexts
Sociology of education + architecture
What are the barriers to and enablers of the expansion of school-based nursery provision in primary schools? What are the key considerations in terms of pedagogy and space for schools wishing to establish a school-based nursery? The UK government has committed to opening an additional 300 school-based nurseries (SBNs) in England as part of its mission to improve early years outcomes. This interdisciplinary project, a new collaboration between the Sociology of Education (IOE) and Architecture (Bartlett), aims to: examine the real-world feasibility of this policy in London’s schools, further inform its development, and lead to future more expansive research. Further detail
Artificial Intelligence and Financial Markets: A Computational-Neuro-Economics Approach
Economics + computer science + cognative neuroscience
Artificial intelligence can have a big impact on the functioning of financial markets, e.g., through machine learning and algorithmic trading. This impact may be positive, enhancing efficiency and liquidity, or negative, offering more opportunities for manipulation and collusion, and amplifying volatility and instability. Our research question is: how does the interaction between humans and machines affect the process of trading and market making, and what are the consequences for the efficiency and stability of financial markets? To answer this question, we focus on human behavior and how it adapts to the interaction with algorithms in financial markets. Further details
Learning with Gazan Scholars About Reconstructing Home: Lessons for anti-colonial research
Sociology + English + History + Political Science
How are Palestinians in Gaza sustaining and reconstructing home across scales and spheres (e.g., the intimate, communal, and institutional) amidst ongoing genocide? How can scholars within and outside of Gaza engage ethically and with solidarity in researching this question? What are the implications for anti-colonial research practices?
To explore these questions, this project brings together three co-investigators in Gaza with expertise in oral history and the family, social cartography and settler colonialism, and digital storytelling and education with a UCL-based team with sociological expertise in forced migration, life-making practices, solidarity, and research co-production (PI) and education, societal transitions, and multi-lingual research in unsettled contexts (ECR). Further details