Learning from experience

Part of the UCL Grand Challenges Research Summer School is hearing about UCL researchers who have successsfully carried out their own cross-disciplinary research projects.

The 2015 summer school included contributions from the Geography, Pharmacy, The Institute of Education, The Bartlett School of Architecture, The Development Planning Unit and the Centre for Behaviour Change.

Students at the summer school heard how video ethnography can be used to study decsion making by surgeons, why an understanding of human behaviour is essential to make organisations more environmentally sustainable and how our understanding of suburbs can be enriched by taking multiple disciplinary approaches.

Speakers:

• Ijeoma Uchegbu, Professor of Pharmaceutical Nanoscience
• Jeff Bezemer, Reader in Learning and Communications, Institute of Education
• Patrick Rickles, Bartlett School of Architecture
• Liza Griffin, Development Planning Unit
• Lou Atkins & Richard Jackson, Centre for Behaviour Change
• Caroline Bressey, Reader in Historical Geography