UCL 2034 Progress Report

UCL has published the Progress Report 2019, highlighting some of UCL’s key achievements and steps towards realising the vision set out in UCL 2034. Highlights in this year’s report start with a Library Services initiative, the UCL Open megajournal as an example of academic leadership. You can see the review on the 2034 website at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/2034/progress-report-2019

Here’s a summary:

Principal Themes 

1. Academic Leadership
   UCL Open’s Megajournal – The Constitution Unit’s role in a think-tank for Northern Ireland – Forming closer ties with the European Space Agency
2. Integration of Research and Education
   Posters in Parliament – UCL’s 1000^th Arena Fellow – the Bloomsbury Theatre and Performance Lab
3. Addressing Global Challenges
   Antiretroviral treatment preventing the transmission of HIV – Developing a legal tool to protect refugees’ rights – Helping an indigenous community restore parts of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest
4. Accessible and Publicly Engaged
   Public art at UCL – Growing community-university partnerships in East London – Building robots inspired by nature
5. London’s Global University
   Working with Camden to drive innovation and social change – planning approval granted for new UK Dementia Institute – “Cosmic Coffee”
6. Delivering Global Impact
   The RELIEF centre working to better integrate the forcibly displaced – Tackling chronic pain in children – Biogas project awarded Horizon 2020 funding

   Key Enablers

   1. Best Student Support – the Accommodation team’s Welcome programme
   2. Valuing our Staff – Welcome to UCL programme for onboarding new staff
   3. Financing our ambitions – an update from the It’s All Academic campaign
   4. Excellent systems – new UCL Staff Intranet
   5. Sustainable estate – Transforming the IOE
   6. Communicating and engaging – the #MadeatUCL campaign