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UCL’s Access Team works with Academic departments to provide a range of subject specific activities, events, and programmes.
UCL’s Access Team works with Academic departments to provide a range of subject-specific activities, events, and programmes. These all vary in size and subject, but you can see the most up-to-date list of Access Initiative projects and registration links on this web page.
- Institute of the America's Summer School
At the Institute of the Americas Summer School, you will gain hands-on training to study the history and politics of the Americas. This one-week in-person course will centre on Black Power movements in the United States, the Caribbean, and elsewhere, as we seek to understand how revolution, protest, and transnational activism challenged White supremacy.
Students will work with archival documents, material and visual culture, and data to analyse revolutions and international relations from a multidisciplinary perspective. Active, team-based work will drive the weeklong projects you create and design.
Within London, we will visit sites connected to the city’s history of revolution and protest. We will also visit the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton to better understand the long, international history of racial justice. Our course will be supplemented by film screenings and similar events.
Beyond analysing Black Power and its relevance today, students will also learn what it’s like to study and live at a university, speak to current students, and build the knowledge you need to pursue further study. This course, which runs from 24-28 July, is open to Year 12 students from the London area and will take place mainly at UCL.
You can apply to take part in this summer school by completing the following application form.
- AnthroSchools (for teachers)
Do you want to stretch and inspire your students? Do you want to open up a different way of apprehending the world by fostering diverse, empathetic, and curious thinking? If so, Anthropology might be for you and your pupils.
At AnthroSchools UCL, we are keen to share the university subject of anthropology with teachers and pupils in your school. As part of our widening participation initiative, we offer a range of free and open-access extracurricular teaching resources and in-school activities which connect anthropology to national curriculum school subjects. Our website showcases all we have to offer here: AnthroSchools.
Anthropology offers young people the chance to explore different aspects of human diversity; from our evolution as a species to our relationship with material/digital forms, and our vast variety of cultural practices across the world. It is therefore appealing to students with a broad range of subject interests that cut across Science, the Social Sciences, and Arts and Humanities.
AnthroSchools offers in-person or online taster lectures, as well as in-classroom interactive workshops for students in years 7 to 13 that address different subject themes. Our workshops revolve around the Anthropo-box — a briefcase with various artifacts and cultural objects from the department’s ethnographic collection — and this can also be used as part of a taster lecture for smaller groups. The Anthropo-box is great for sparking curiosity about the social world and engaging problem-solving and research skills.
We also offer innovative teaching resources which connect anthropology to UK curriculum subjects such as Geography, Psychology, Biology, and History at Key Stage 5. These can be used as homework or in-class activities and are designed to stretch your students and foster lateral and critical thinking.
If you would like to schedule a school visit, an online taster lecture, or discuss any other aspect of AnthroSchools, please get in touch: anthroschools@ucl.ac.uk.