Yale-UCL Collaborative: House of Commons event
Senior leaders and scientists from Yale and UCL mixed with government ministers, MPs and peers at an event at the House of Commons on 27 June, which aimed to raise awareness of the Yale-UCL...
View ArticleThe Politics of Coalition
We are almost halfway through the first coalition government that the UK has had in more than 70 years, which seems like an appropriate time to reflect on its successes and its failures. Thankfully,...
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If you were to sum up the results of the third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal), it would go something like this: gay marriage is fine, cheating is bad and sexual behaviours...
View ArticleGender equality in Latin America: creating policy environments that achieve...
“The message of gender equality still resonates over a century after it was first proposed by the revolutionary Clara Zetkin.” One of the opening statements of Professor Maxine Molyneux’s Lunch Hour...
View ArticleHave your say: how should the government invest capital for scientific research?
Written by Cher Thornhill The Rt Hon David Willetts MP, Minister for Universities and Science, recently visited UCL to deliver a talk entitled, ‘New opportunities for science capital’. After...
View ArticleHow experts can give better advice to policymakers
One of the main purposes of government is to manage risks. Key to assessing these risks is scientific and technical expertise. So conversations between academics and policymakers are very important....
View Article2015 UCL and the Wellcome Trust Science Policy Question Time
Written by Mr Greg Tinker and Dr Olivia Stevenson (OVPR) Five things we learned about the pressures on science in the UK In advance of the 2015 Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR), an event organised...
View ArticleGetting science into policy in international development: faults on both sides?
Written by Ms Helen Hopkins, Dr Olivia Stevenson and Mr Greg Tinker (OVPR) These days you are just as likely to hear academics as you are policymakers use terms such as ‘evidence-based’,...
View ArticleCould this be the way to get your research into the public eye?
Written by Olivia Stevenson & Greg Tinker with Michael Kenny, Catherine Miller & Graeme Reid Scientists and researchers from across academia are engaged in research that could make a...
View ArticleBrexit minister Rt Hon David Jones MP visits UCL
Written by Conor Rickford, Senior Partnership Manager (Europe) On 16 March 2017, UCL hosted a visit by a UCL alumnus and someone who will be about as close to the Brexit negotiations as one can get. Rt...
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