In this blog,  Luke Pearce from the UCL Department of English Language and Literature explains their engagement project, and shares plans to celebrate English Grammar Day in 2025. Grammar can be a difficult topic to engage with, especially for people outside of schools and academia. For many, it’s something of a ‘marmite’ topic which conjures […]

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 […]

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 […]

*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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The following blog has been written by Sara Brouwer (Institute of Making), Fiona Dear (The Restart Project), Ben Littlefield (UCL Engagement) and Rupy Kaur Matharu (Mechanical Engineering Researchers Society). The UCL Repair Café that took place on 17th February 2022 was a collaboration between the Institute of Making, UCL Engagement, Dean Sully and volunteers from […]