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Windows of the Soul: Co-creating artworks to understand visual impairment
By sarah.barnes, on 15 April 2025
Siegfried is a vitreoretinal fellow at Moorfields Eye Hospital and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at UCL. He had ten years of medical training and clinical practice under his belt before embarking upon a research career. As a second-year PhD student in the Institute of Ophthalmology in the faculty of brain science at UCL, Siegfried […]
Hearing underheard voices: A study engaged with mothers of children in social care
By sarah.barnes, on 12 March 2025
Claire Grant strives to develop an understanding of the mental health and support needs of women who have had their children placed into care through child protection processes within the English family court system. She is a is a third-year PhD student based in epidemiology and public health at UCL. A research area where Claire […]
Nurturing Kindness Through Engagement : Connecting Research into Pro-Social Behaviour with the Classroom
By sarah.barnes, on 19 February 2025
Aneeza Pervez works with primary school-aged children and explores how ‘pro-social behaviour’, or simply put, kindness, is understood and shaped through the social interactions that they have in school settings. She is in the final stages of her PhD research at the Institute of Education (Department of Psychology and Human Behaviour). She spoke with Siân […]
Co-producing co-production training for UCL
By sarah.barnes, on 11 December 2024
*Please note that expressions of interest for this project have now closed* We are embarking on an exciting new project in the Co-Production and Public Engagement team, and are looking for UCL staff or students to join a project to join a co-production team to develop an online co-production training course. Supported by the Research […]
Update from UCL’s Public Engagement Team
By sarah.barnes and h.craig, on 12 November 2024
We are pleased to let you know that the Public Engagement support offer at UCL has been relaunched! This blog outlines how we’re prioritising the needs of staff and students at UCL and shares our hopes for the future. Firstly, Helen Craig, Joint Head of Public Engagement, shares what is new: Welcome back to the […]
Every Face, A Voice: Engaging Communities in Mumbai, India, in Speaking Out Against Violence Against Women
By Briony Fleming, on 27 February 2024
In this blog Sukanya Paradkar and Lu Gram from SNEHA Mumbai and UCL Institute for Global Health respectively talk about a social psychology experiment and poster campaign carried out in Mumbai, India to address violence against women. Sukanya and Lu share their experiences carrying out a public engagement activity on a topic as sensitive as […]
Understanding Variation in Health Visiting
By Briony Fleming, on 17 December 2023
This Blog has been written by Amanda Clery together with Emily and Claire, members of a parents group Amanda has been working with. This blog post offers reflections on a long-term, collaborative public engagement group to support research into understanding variation in health visiting, as part of Amanda’s PhD at UCL Institute of Child Health. […]
Ethnic Health Inequity and Data Justice – A Conversation with Abdullahi
By h.craig, on 18 May 2023
This article has been written by Abdullahi, a young person from Coram Young Citizens. Young Citizens is Coram’s award winning programme for 16-25 year olds from migrant and refugee backgrounds who make a difference to the lives of other young people new to the UK through direct work, improving practice and policy change. Find out […]
Ethnic Health Inequity and Data Justice – A Conversation with Abdulrahman
By h.craig, on 10 May 2023
This article has been written by Abdulrahman, a young person from Coram Young Citizens. Abdulrahman came from Syria and has lived in the UK for 5 years. Young Citizens is Coram’s award winning programme for 16-25 year olds from migrant and refugee backgrounds who make a difference to the lives of other young people new […]
UCL welcomes three new STEP trainees
By sadesarumi, on 16 December 2022
This blog has been written collaboratively by Sadé Sarumi, Salma Mohamed and Makella Ketedzi introducing themselves as they joined UCL. Now five-months in to their time at UCL watch this space for further updates. This year UCL welcomes three (yes, three!) new STEP trainees working across teams at UCL. STEP, east London’s Shared Training Employment […]