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Our new campus will be open, accessible and publicly-engaged, with spaces that can be shared and used by those who live, work or study in east London.

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We are already building strong relationships with local communities.

UCL has a proud history of being the first university in England to be open to all, regardless of gender, background or faith. As we move into east London we recognise the importance of being an active part of our local community: using our research together with the experiences of those who live and work in east London to effect meaningful long-term change.

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Public Art programme

UCL East's ambitious public art programme includes a Student Artist in Residence scheme, as well as commissions of local artists for permanent artwork for the UCL East buildings - and much more.

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Trellis

This academic, artist and community co-creation​​​​​​ project delivers a range of activity designed to support and facilitate university-community partnership working. This includes events, funding and training.

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Growing community university partnerships

As part of the Trellis project, UCL researchers can participate in community engagement and knowledge exchange activities with communities in east London.

A session organised as part of the Creating Connections project

Funding opportunities

One of the main streams of activities of the Community Engagement (East) team is to offer funding to support the development of engagement in east London.

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Online Engagement Training

Undertake up to four online modules in public and community engagement, which will address many topics, from incorporating public engagement within your research, to planning your evaluation activities.

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Train and Engage

This flagship training and funding programme has been developed to support UCL postgraduate research students with their ideas for engagement.

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Community Volunteering in east London

Students’ Union UCL’s Volunteering Service has developed links with over 50 not-for-profit organisations across east London to promote and develop their volunteering opportunities with UCL students in mind.

Participants at a networking event as part of the Creating Connections project.

Creating Connections East

This project brings together UCL staff and postgraduate students with representatives from community organisations, charities, residents’ groups, social enterprises and statutory organisations in east London, with the aim of finding ways to work together.

“We want to invite the outside in, and we want to take the inside out” – Simon Cane, Executive Director, UCL Culture

New: 2019/20 Annual Report

Cover page, showing two women speaking in front of a street art mural, of the UCL East engagement 2019/20 annual report.

The UCL East Engagement 2019/20 Annual Report gives an overview of the range of activities that UCL was involved with in east London. 

These range from school engagement workshops and after school clubs, to social hackathons, to public art programming. 

Download the report

Latest news and opportunities

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Case studies

Young people in Grant Museum as part of a bio-inspired robotics workshop

Discover what the Community Engagement (East) team has been working on with communities in east London for the past few years.

Explore our case studies

Visit UCL East virtually

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Contacts

For queries about our UCL East Engagement programme, please contact:

Minna Ruohonen
Head of Community Engagement (East) 
m.ruohonen@ucl.ac.uk

Alternatively, you can email the UCL East Engagement team: engagement-east@ucl.ac.uk