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Laws and governments change. Do you know how that might affect your organisation? We have world-leading expertise that can provide policy analysis for public and private organisations. Our experts have deep knowledge on relevant laws and apply the latest techniques to understand the effects of different public policies. We also provide advice and work on ethical and corporate social responsibility topics and work with government organisations to train and advise on law and trade matters.


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Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

UCL provides economics training to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

UCL’s Centre for Teaching and Learning in Economics designs and delivers bespoke economics training for the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO).

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Digital Speech Lab

What are the fundamental principles that should guide the private and public regulation of speech and online expression? Through public events and closed meetings, the Digital Speech Lab offers guidance and analysis to a wide range of decision-makers within technology companies, civil society oversight organizations, and governments. 

 


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UCL Policy Lab

UCL Policy Lab

Bringing together extraordinary ideas and everyday experience to tackle the challenges facing us all.

Valentina Amuso

Valentina Amuso

Lecturer (Teaching) in Political Economy and Comparative Politics, UCL Political Science

Email: v.amuso@ucl.ac.uk

Specific expertise: Her policy-oriented work focuses on enhancing stakeholder engagement to refine the policy development process, collaborating  with policymakers and international organisations. She also works on developing approaches to enhance  the consultation process, ensuring  that a diverse range of perspectives informs policy formulation. Her research focuses on  the role of government agencies in shaping regulatory approaches to innovation, as well as the decision-making mechanisms that underpin these approaches.  

Teaching: Public Sector Economics; International Political Economy; and Innovation: Political Economy and Policy Perspectives.

Andrew Barry

Andrew Barry

Professor of Human Geography, UCL Geography

Email: a.barry@ucl.ac.uk

Specific expertise: he contributed to wider debates about science and technology policy, worked at the office of Science and Technology Options Assessment at the European Parliament, and to the Institute of Public Policy Research Condition of Britain project, member of the advisory board of the British Film Institute InView project, commissioned to develop a design for an exhibition on Making Things Public.

Teaching: Human Ecology: Geographical Perspectives/ Political Geography and Geopolitics/ Environmental Knowledges/ Advanced Geopolitics.  

Wendy Carlin

Wendy Carlin

Professor of Economics, UCL Economics

Director of CORE Econ, and co-director of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Centre on Wealth Concentration, Inequality and the Economy.

Email: w.carlin@ucl.ac.uk

Specific expertise: The mission of the Stone Centre at UCL is to advance research and teaching to provide a clear understanding of the causes of wealth inequality, and its economic and political consequences.

Parama Chaudhury

Parama Chaudhury

Pro-Vice Provost (Education - Student Academic Experience), Director of CTaLE and Professor (Teaching), UCL Economics

Emailp.chaudhury@ucl.ac.uk

Specific expertise: labour economics, specifically inequality and technological change, and economics education. Parama currently leads the CTaLE Team in designing and delivering bespoke economics training courses for public sector clients, including UK government departments and regulatory agencies. She is an elected member of the Royal Economic Society's Council and the RES Education and Training Committee, and chaired the 2023 Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) Economics Subject Benchmark Statement.

Teaching: Introductory Economics. Industrial Relations. International Trade.

Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh

Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh

Professor of Migration and Refugee Studies, Former Co-Director of UCL's Migration Research Unit, UCL Geography

Email: e.fiddian-qasmiyeh@ucl.ac.uk

Specific expertise: Migration and refugees studies. Experiences of and responses to conflict-induced displacement. Regularly contributes to evaluations and assessments by humanitarian organisations and agencies such as Oxfam and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.  

Teaching: Migration and Transnationalism/ Interdisciplinary Approaches to Global Migration/Gender, Generation and Forced Migration/Issues in Global Migration

Robert Hazell

Robert Hazell

Professor of Government and the Constitution, The Constitution Unit, UCL Political Science

Email: r.hazell@ucl.ac.uk

Specific expertise: Constitutional reform in UK. Civil service. Ethical regulation and Codes of Conduct. Freedom of information. Special Advisers. Parliamentary reform. Human Rights Act. Church and State

Consulting experience: House of Commons, House of Lords, Ministry of Justice, Scottish Parliament, Information Commissioner, World Bank

Teaching: Co-Director of HM Treasury Policy Leadership Programme

Julie Norman

Julie Norman

Associate Professor (Teaching) in Politics and International Relations, UCL Political Science

Email: julie.norman@ucl.ac.uk

Specific expertise:

•    Policy-relevant research on protracted conflict, divided societies, political violence, resistance, security, extremism, polarization, and foreign policy

•    Focus on the Middle East, including Israel-Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq; US foreign policy

•    Extensive experience with ethnographic fieldwork, oral history,  interviews, and focus groups, as well as surveys and experimental methods

•    Consulting experience with United Nations Development Programme, British Council, IrishAid, US Institute of Peace (USIP), MoD, FCDO, US State Department

•    Senior Associate Fellow on the Middle East & International Security at RUSI; Member of Israel-Palestine Working Group and Transatlantic Working Group at Chatham House

Teaching:

•    Political Violence

•    Middle East Politics

•    US Foreign Policy

•    Disagreeing Well

Lauge Poulsen

Lauge Poulsen

Professor of International Relations and Law, UCL Political Science

Email: l.poulsen@ucl.ac.uk

Specific expertise: Politics and law of international economic relations. Chair of OECD’s inter-governmental work programme on climate change and investment law. Served as specialist adviser to the International Trade Committee in the House of Commons and was advisor to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 2017 to 2020. In 2022, Poulsen was appointed OBE (Officer of the British Empire) for services to UK trade policy. 

Teaching: modules on Trade Policy and Climate Change and International Political Economy.

Christian Schuster

Christian Schuster

Professor in Public Management, UCL Political Science

Email: c.schuster@ucl.ac.uk

Specific expertise: data analytics and civil service management: using data from original surveys, administrative records and field experiments for more evidence-based management of public servants.

Teaching: Governance and Public Management; Policy Advice