LONDON’S GLOBAL UNIVERSITY

Review 2010 Contents

Research Highlights 2

Global 8

Teaching & Learning 11

Enterprise 14

Highlights 2010 17-20

Awards & Appointments 21

London 26

Finance & Investment 30

Professorial Appointments 34

Professorial Promotions 35

People 36 Design studiospecial.com

Leadership 37

UCL – London’s Global University

We are We are committed • a world-class centre of research and teaching, • to the pursuit of excellence and sustainability dedicated to developing and disseminating original • to maintaining rich academic diversity knowledge to benefit the world of the future embracing the Arts and Sciences • to equality of opportunity and fulfilment We believe of potential for our staff and students • in engaging fully with the world around us • in breaking new ground through We strive always challenging convention • to lead • in progress through partnership • to inspire • to achieve We value • creativity and innovation • integrity • energy • perseverance Introduction

Welcome to UCL’s Annual Review for 2010, which I hope will give you a clear picture of the continuing excellence of our staff and students, and of our future aspirations.

Despite an exceptionally challenging environment for higher education, it has been a year of exciting developments, and of wonderful achievements from across the UCL community. In October, UCL signed an agreement to become first UK university to establish a campus in Qatar, focusing on Arab and We are entering a wholly new era, and alongside all universities, Islamic archaeology and museums studies. From its opening, we must put ourselves in the place of parents and students who UCL-Q will conduct research of relevance to the Gulf and to the are facing high costs and an uncertain future. In response to Arab world more broadly, with professional courses starting in these changes, UCL must drive out all waste and unnecessary spring 2011, and two masters programmes starting in 2012. cost in its processes, whilst ensuring that we invest in the highest Combined with major institutional partnerships cemented with quality in teaching and student support. It is crucial that the Kazakhstan and China during the year, UCL really lived up to its student experience is excellent across all areas of university life. moniker of London’s global university in 2010. A major estates planning project, the Bloomsbury Masterplan, is currently being developed in order to transform the UCL campus UCL is committed to maximizing the impact of its research, and meet the needs of future generations of students and staff. which includes developing infrastructures which support UCL researchers to work across disciplines and bring their research to bear on public life, from the development of new medicines We are faced by many uncertainties. UCL is operating in an and business ideas, through to evidence-based policy environment of global competition with limited resources. development. 2010 saw the launch of UCL’s first Public Policy Changes in UK policy – such as the current proposals to tighten strategy, building on the role played by many of our academics in and limit immigration – will continue to pose major challenges for formulating policy with governments nationally and internationally. this institution. We have to make our own way, and it will be in a A number of successful UCL enterprises have bloomed in the world where there will be the highest premium to quality, every bit period, including major investment in Endomagnetics, a medical as much in teaching as in research. More than ever before, UCL imaging company sprung from UCL research, and the launch of will need to be consistently excellent and rigorous in order to Mapping for Change, a social enterprise that will support survive and flourish. sustainable communities through online mapping. Every reader of this review will be aware of the unprecedented changes to the funding of higher education that were confirmed in 2010. These changes will influence the future direction of the university, but I am determined that in the coming year we set out an ambitious strategy that is not only financially viable but builds Professor Malcolm Grant on the academic excellence and rigour of the institution. UCL President and Provost

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Developing interdisciplinary research and getting ATLAS: Simulated Higgs decaying into four muons the results into policy and practice was central to Image copyright: CERN our activity in 2010.

We have 4,000 leading researchers making exciting discoveries Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction, the UCL Centre for and generating advances in specialist knowledge. However, Digital Humanities, the UCL Institute of Sport, Exercise & their collective expertise can be made even greater than the Health, the UCL Jill Dando Centre for Forensic Sciences sum of its parts. Through UCL Grand Challenges we provide and the UCL Computational Life & Medical Sciences Network. opportunities for these researchers to interact across and beyond We are intent that the innovative problem-solving undertaken their conventional disciplinary boundaries: analysing profound through these activities be made compelling to policymakers. and complex problems from multiple perspectives in order to Thus we have established the UCL Public Policy Strategy to develop wise and timely solutions. optimise the impact of our research and expertise on policy During 2010, the opportunities for such interdisciplinary interaction formation and to ensure that our contributions respond to to tackle global problems included the Urban Water Poverty significant and urgent policy issues. workshops, the new Global Migration Symposia series, the UCL –Lancet Commission on Healthy Cities, the Transnational Histories conference and the Carbon Governance research project. Professor David Price Collaborative practices were further embedded through the UCL Vice-Provost (Research) establishment of a variety of inherently interdisciplinary research groups. These included the UCL European Institute, the UCL

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UCL’s role in world’s largest scientific experiment On 30 March, protons collided at seven trillion volts – the highest energies ever achieved by a man-made particle accelerator – at CERN (the European Organisation for Nuclear Research), which houses the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), near Geneva. The breakthrough marked the start of a two-year campaign that could see scientists make new discoveries about the universe and answer some of the unresolved questions in physics. The LHC aims to explore the nature of the universe moments after the Big Bang and to improve the understanding of how the Land use, London universe was created, what it is made of and how it will evolve. UCL’s Professor John Butterworth (UCL Physics & Astronomy) is leading the ATLAS detector’s UK team. The LHC will run at seven trillion volts for 18 months to two years to deliver enough data to make significant advances across a wide range a growing and ageing population with Even more disturbingly, people living in of physics areas. With the amount of data more people living alone, the report says poorer areas not only die sooner, but expected, scientists will be able to explore the land system will come under new spend more of their lives with disability a wide mass range, with the possibility of pressures from the rise of the low-carbon – an average total difference of 17 years. discovering the Higgs boson particle, the agenda alongside rising expectations The review has estimated the cost of missing solution to one of the most basic associated with growing incomes, such health inequalities in England as running puzzles in particle physics – why some as more living space, better transport, into more than £50 billion per year from particles possess mass and others do not. and additional health facilities. lost productivity and taxes in addition to healthcare costs. The review also predicts an increase in the cost of treating the Rethinking land management England’s health inequalities various illnesses that result from The country needs a radical rethink of its ‘unfair and unjust’ inequalities in obesity alone to rise from approach to managing land and its use, Most people in England don’t live as £2 billion per year to nearly £5 billion per according to a major report co-authored long as the rich and suffer more ill health, year by 2025. It calls for health inequalities by UCL’s Professor Mark Tewdwr-Jones according to the major UCL-led review, to sit alongside tackling climate change as (UCL Bartlett School of Planning), who Fair Society, Healthy Lives, which one of society’s core priorities. Creating is one of the leading experts behind proposes new ways to improve everyone’s a sustainable future is, the review argues, Foresight’s Land Use Futures report. health and reduce inequalities. The compatible with action to reduce health Foresight, part of the Government Office government asked Professor Sir Michael inequalities: sustainable local communities, for Science, is a thinktank that informs the Marmot (UCL Epidemiology & Public active transport, sustainable food strategic and long-term choices facing Health) to conduct the independent production, and zero carbon houses will government departments, business and review. It concluded that, although health all have health benefits across society. the general public. It looks at how inequalities are normally associated with landscapes and land use could change the poor, premature illness and death over the next 50 years. The report outlines affects everyone below the wealthiest the findings of a two-year study involving tier of English society. People living in more than 300 experts in subjects ranging the most deprived neighbourhoods will from ecology, economics, planning and on average die seven years earlier than geography. As well as climate change and people living in the richest neighbourhoods.

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Focus on: Improving newborn survival rates

Women’s community groups have had a dramatic effect on reducing neonatal mortality rates in some of the poorest areas in India, according to new UCL research published in The Lancet. A previous study conducted in Nepal suggested that participatory women’s groups could achieve a significant impact on neonatal health in poorer countries. To see if these findings could be applied in other countries, the researchers repeated the exercise in Jharkhand and Orissa, two of the poorest states in eastern India. Neonatal mortality rates in the two regions are 49 and 45 per 1,000 live births respectively, disproportionately higher than India’s national estimates of 39 per 1,000. By comparison, in the UK the figures are four per 1,000. Between 2005 and 2008, a team of researchers led by Professor Anthony Costello (UCL Institute of Child Health) Mother and child and Dr Prasanta Tripathy, from the Indian voluntary organisation Sudharak Olwe Ekjut, evaluated how women’s groups affected neonatal mortality and maternal depression in intervention areas as These areas also saw a significant fall (57%) in moderate compared to areas where no participatory groups were set depression amongst mothers. The researchers believe that up. The groups were facilitated by local women, non-healthcare improved social capital – the access the group gave women to professionals who tended to be married, with some schooling, a wider support network of peers – was potentially the most and respected members of the community. The effects of the valuable aspect. It may also explain why such groups have interventions were dramatic: by the second and third years had much greater success than direct – even one-to-one – of the trial, the neonatal mortality rate had fallen by 45%. interventions with healthcare workers.

Launch of Centre for Digital Humanities archaeological digs among other The UCL Centre for Digital Humanities artefacts. It covers the creation of digital launched in May 2010 with a speech by models, collections, software, systems James Murdoch of News Corporation. and interfaces, as well as the study of The centre brings together research from how audiences use these kinds of the traditionally separate disciplines of resources. Key areas of interest include computing and humanities to create new how digital data and objects may be tools that enhance the understanding and retrieved, organised, collected, curated study of the humanities and culture and preserved for future use. The centre heritage. Its researchers will also analyse already has several projects to its name, the impact of these new techniques on many of which involve collaboration with cultural heritage, memory institutions, departments and centres across UCL, libraries, archives and digital culture. as well as external organisations, such as Digital humanities involves the study of the National Gallery, the Science Museum texts, images, film, sound, performance, and the Southbank Centre. and objects from museums, galleries or

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‘Research Project of the Year’ winners Research that proves the existence of atom-sized ‘magnetic charges’ that behave and interact just like electric charges has been awarded the prize for ‘Research Project of the Year’ at the 2010 Times Higher Education Awards. The project, which was funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, discovered new magnetic properties of materials including a magnetic equivalent of electricity – a phenomenon dubbed ‘magnetricity’ by Professor Steve Bramwell, one of the team from the London Centre for Nanotechnology, which also included Dr Andrew Wills and Professors Gabriel Aeppli and Des McMorrow. Magnetic poles usually occur in inseparable north-south pairs. Fuel cell hybrid bus Discrete, separable poles called monopoles have been postulated since 1894 but they hadn’t been observed until the team detected them in special crystals known as spin ice. They were able to use greenhouse gas emissions were over Bartlett School of Graduate Studies), magnetic fields to make the monopoles 30% lower than an average diesel bus Dr Victor Buchli (UCL Anthropology), flow in a similar way to electrons in an with the same passenger-carrying and Dr Mordechai Haklay (UCL Civil, electric current. By engineering different capacity. Principal investigator Professor Environmental & Geomatic Engineering). spin ice materials to modify the ways Alan Smith (UCL Space & Climate Dr Vaughan said: “The need for a specific monopoles move through them, the Physics) said: “This is an exciting project, policy on suburbs to realise their materials might in future be used to boost as it allows us to apply systems ‘untapped potential’ is essential to improve computing power. engineering techniques that we routinely the quality of cities today. At a time of use for space technology a bit closer to great social and economic flux, home. It’s great to see the buses that characterised by new communications New lab to study fuel cell hybrid vehicles we’re working on rolling down Gower technologies and radically changing An old laboratory within UCL Mechanical Street every day.” patterns of work, living and consumption, Engineering has been converted into a suburban centres are an essential part of state-of-the-art facility to study fuel cell the urgently needed re-evaluation of how hybrid electric vehicles. The new facility The shaping of suburbs to plan for the future growth of our older will allow research into hydrogen-fuelled Researchers from three departments at cities. The research will provide evidence power plants and initial studies will UCL are studying how small-scale centres for policy-decision making and for concentrate on examining the potential of of social and economic activity are planning and design to improve the future fuel cells in hybrid buses. The grant is part shaped by the way in which physical and sustainability of the ageing built of a three-year, £4 million project – social networks change their form through environment. This research will also involving UCL, BAE Systems and time. The project aims to fill the gap in benefit the public by improving the quality Alexander Dennis, and funded by the knowledge about how smaller centres of life in local neighbourhoods.” Technology Strategy Board – to develop form part of the large-scale spatial/social hybrid bus technology, seeking significant network and address how local self- fuel savings through organisation, design interventions and a number of innovations. The bus was functional changes have an impact on recently awarded ‘Low Carbon Emission this process. The team includes Dr Laura Bus’ certification by proving that its Vaughan and Dr Sam Griffiths (UCL

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Revolutionary transplant operation Judicial Institute launch Professor Martin Birchall (UCL Ear In November, UCL Laws launched its new Institute) led a team of scientists and Judicial Institute, the UK’s first and only surgeons have led to transplant a new centre of excellence in research, teaching, trachea into a child and use the child’s policy engagement and scholarship on the own stem cells to rebuild the airway in judiciary. Often referred to as the ‘third arm’ the body. The revolutionary operation – of government, the judicial system is of a world first – involved laboratory-based crucial importance to legal decision-making scientists and hospital-based clinicians in this country, with a profound impact on all working in partnership with colleagues areas of society and all citizens. However, in Europe to treat 10-year-old Ciaran the UK’s judiciary has never been subject Finn-Lynch. He was born with a rare to broad academic scrutiny, despite the condition resulting in his windpipe not fact that such study is widespread and a growing and restricted breathing. Shortly greater part of legal teaching and research Ciaran Finn-Lynch and Professor Martin Birchall after birth, he underwent a conventional in other countries, including the US. The trachea transplant at Great Ormond Street creation of the institute will address that Hospital for Children (GOSH), but his gap, creating a better and more thorough condition deteriorated in 2009. Scientists understanding of the judicial system and its and surgeons at UCL, GOSH, the Royal workings. It is dedicated to the ongoing Biodiversity on film Free Hampstead NHS Trust, and the study of how judges are appointed, how UCL researchers provided insights into Careggi University Hospital in Italy, they reach decisions, the operation of the their work in a series of short films for the developed a new technique to treat the courts, and the relationship between the International Year of Biodiversity. Professor life-threatening condition. The application judiciary, other social institutions and other Volker Sommer (UCL Anthropology) of this technology – which has never been branches of government. Its aim is to discussed his unique project to protect used on a child before – should reduce inform this vital area of legal practice, West African primates; another film greatly the risk of rejection of the new through teaching, research and public followed undergraduates on the trachea, as Ciaran’s stem cells will not policy engagement. Ecological Genetics course in southern generate any immune response. Spain, as they investigated evolutionary biology in the region’s unique and varied Colorectal cancer incidence slashed ecosystem. Palaeobiologist Dr Anjali Study shows weight loss breakthrough through single screening test Goswami (UCL Genetics, Evolution for overweight children Just one five-minute screening test for & Environment and UCL Earth Sciences) A UCL study proved the success of the people aged between 55 and 64 could explained what we can learn about weight management programme MEND reduce the incidence of colorectal cancer biodiversity from the collections at UCL’s for overweight children. Professor Atul by a third and prevent thousands of deaths Grant Museum of Zoology. Dr Julia Day Singhal (UCL Institute of Child Health) led from the disease, UCL scientists have (UCL Genetics, Evolution & Environment) the study, published in the journal Obesity, found. Their findings were based on a trial provided an insight into her work on the which showed that participants in the on a test group of 170,432 men and women Great Lakes of East Africa, which are MEND (Mind, Exercise, Nutrition… Do It!) who were randomly assigned either to a among the richest freshwater ecosystems programme lost weight, lowered their control group (who were not offered on Earth. Finally, students from the body mass index and waist circumference, screening) or to be offered flexible groundbreaking MSc in Conservation and improved their self-esteem and sigmoidoscopy screening (the ‘Flexi-Scope’ gained a first-hand understanding of physical activity levels. All measures test) and were then followed over the course the problems they must confront in their improved at six months and were of 11 years. Approximately one in 20 people efforts to protect biodiversity. Course tutor sustained at 12 months. Their general develop colon cancer in their lifetime, and Dr Peter Jones led them along the sea health, including cardiovascular fitness, the disease causes 16,000 deaths a year in wall of the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, also improved. The independent study is the UK. Early economic analysis suggests examining the dilemma facing this the first randomised controlled trial in the that an NHS national screening programme fragile ecosystem. UK to investigate the benefits of a using the test in this age group could save community-based child weight money because of the relative cheapness management programme. of the test and the cost-savings from avoiding later cancer treatments.

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Quantum computer a stage closer The remarkable ability of an electron to exist in two places at once has been controlled in the most common electronic material – silicon – for the first time. The research findings – published in Nature by a UK–Dutch team from UCL, the University of Surrey, Heriot-Watt University, and the FOM Institute for Plasma Physics – marks a significant step towards the making of an affordable ‘quantum computer’. The scientists managed to make an electron simultaneously exist in two places, and crucially, control its behaviour, in the cheap and simple material out of which ordinary computer chips are made. By utilising this ability, the development of a quantum computer may be just over the horizon. VDV image of Haiti

Helping stroke survivors read again A medical and technological collaboration between the UCL Institute of Neurology and UCL’s Multimedia team has developed Read-Right, a therapeutic Earthquake experts focus on helping Haiti Eye test to aid Alzheimer’s detection website designed to help people with Scientists and engineers from UCL used A simple and inexpensive eye test could Hemianopic Alexia (HA) to improve and an innovative web tool to share their aid detection and diagnosis of major test their reading ability from their own expertise to help Haiti’s earthquake neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s homes. HA damages a person’s sight, victims. The Virtual Disaster Viewer (VDV) at an earlier stage than is currently usually after a stroke or brain injury, and is used by aid agencies to target possible. The research, led by Professors results in the loss of half of a person’s emergency food and medical supplies, Francesca Cordeiro and Stephen Moss field of vision, making reading difficult prioritise repairs to infrastructure, and (UCL Institute of Ophthalmology), and slow. Some people give up reading plan reconstruction and recovery. demonstrates a new technique that or even lose their jobs because they can’t UCL’s contingent is among the hundreds enables retinal, and therefore brain cell read at a sufficient pace. Read-Right of earthquake scientists and engineers death, to be directly measured in real time. enables people with HA to read scrolling working with the VDV to access The method could not only refine text, which is easier to read than static high-resolution ‘before and after’ satellite diagnosis of neurodegenerative disorders writing on a page because it creates an and aerial photos of the disaster zone. and help track disease progress; it could involuntary eye movement. The therapy The VDV collates this information to build also aid the assessment and development has been shown to improve a person’s up a master map of the damage and of new treatments. This research is the ability to read normal text when used dislocation caused across the whole first ever in vivo demonstration of retinal as part of a rehabilitation programme. disaster zone. It can also integrate aerial nerve cell death in Alzheimer’s disease. It also enables the exchange of intelligence with detailed ground-based The project has been supported by the audiovisual material and test results photos as it allows field reconnaissance UCL Business proof-of-concept funds between the reader and the website, teams to upload photos in real-time. and two patents have been filed around which offers clinical support. The data can be accessed through any this technology. internet-connected device. The VDV is also suitable for use in disaster situations such as hurricanes, tsunamis and floods.

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When we first described ourselves as ‘London’s Global University’, some people thought that we were overly Qatar Foundation Ceremonial Court ambitious. However, our approach to internationalising We also created the innovative MSc in Facilities Management our research and teaching and our commitment to – a collaboration with the Building and Construction Authority establishing effective partnerships with business and (BCA) in Singapore, whereby a UCL Masters is delivered to industry around the world have now convinced even professionals in Singapore through both face to face and online delivery of teaching. This programme is particularly exciting the sternest doubters. because it is delivered in a hybrid mode, with teachers from In this past year, we opened our School of Energy & Resources UCL and BCA physically present and materials being made in Adelaide, Australia (UCL SERAus). I was also privileged to available virtually to all students on a 24-7 basis. speak at the opening of the Nazarbayev University in Astana, UCL thus continues to demonstrate how it is indeed London’s the capital of Kazakhstan where UCL now has 60 staff teaching Global University, in terms of our physical presences overseas, 500 of the very best Kazakhstani students on our Undergraduate our international partnerships, and our framework of Global Preparatory Certificates. UCL is now also creating with the Citizenship for Education, in which all of our teaching programmes Nazarbayev University a School of Engineering, which we shall operate. Above all, UCL is truly global in its mindset. mentor and support. In autumn, we signed an agreement to establish UCL-Q, the first Professor Michael Worton British university campus in Qatar; through its cultural heritage UCL Vice-Provost (Academic & International) programmes, it will help to build a sense of national identity not only in Qatar, but in the whole of the Gulf region.

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Focus on: International Campuses

The UCL School of Energy & Resources in Adelaide was formally opened on 28 April. The school, UCL’s first ever campus outside the UK, was opened by the British High Commissioner to Australia, Baroness Valerie Amos; the South Australian Premier, the Hon. Mike Rann; UCL President & Provost Professor Malcolm Grant; UCL Vice-Provost (Academic & International) Professor Michael Worton; and energy company Santos CEO, David Knox. Professor Tony Owen, Campus Director and Santos Chair of Energy Resources, said: “Our energy policy issues in this country are dominated, directly and indirectly, by major concerns about the environmental degradation arising from widespread combustion of fossil carbon intensive fuels. The degree of complexity associated with the issues, impacts, and potential solutions, has highlighted the requirement for a rigorous, UCL Torrens Building, Adelaide multidisciplinary, visionary, approach.” As Foundation Partner, Santos is providing $10 million over five years to help establish the school, including scholarships, academic research, a leadership development program, the establishment of the UCL to support heritage in the Gulf with Qatari campus International Energy Policy Institute, and the professorial chair UCL will become the first British university to open a campus in held by Professor Owen. David Knox said: “UCL’s academic Doha, Qatar, following an agreement by UCL, Qatar Foundation excellence on issues of carbon and energy is attuned to the skills for Education, Science & Community Development and Qatar we need in Australia as we face the dual challenges of energy Museums Authority (QMA). Approximately 150 students per year security and transitioning to a carbon-constrained economy.” will study a range of research programmes and masters degrees in archaeology, conservation and museum studies at UCL in Qatar (UCL-Q), while a wide range of bespoke training courses will be provided for QMA’s museum and heritage professionals. Each of the three factions brings a network of other regional and international partners. This development will position Qatar as the regional centre of excellence in museum practice as well as furthering the understanding of Arab and Islamic archaeology. It will also establish Qatar as an international centre of excellence in research in archaeology, conservation, cultural heritage and museology. The UCL campus will have a distributed form, being situated both in Education City which currently houses branch campuses for seven international universities, and also in many parts of QMA’s museums, archaeological sites and conservation facilities. This distributed approach to UCL-Q will ensure that its activities take place in the parts of Qatar’s developing cultural resources where they can best serve the needs of heritage professionals, researchers and students.

Education City, Qatar

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UCL spreads city planning expertise UCL students join global summit to China for young pioneers UCL signed two Memoranda of In February, Dominic Baliszewski, a masters Understanding with officials from the student at the UCL Institute of Child Health, Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan City Cluster was among the delegates who attended the (CZT) in China’s Hunan province and One Young World summit. The event Central South University Business School brought together 1,000 young people from (CSU) to foster exchange of expertise 192 countries for a leadership summit in in city masterplanning within the region, London to address major global challenges. which comprises eight major cities and is The attendees were selected based on their home to 65 million people. The agreement leadership potential and their engagement was part of the UK-China Business in social change. Subjects ranged from Summit led by Prime Minister David global health and interfaith dialogue to the Cameron. The agreement demonstrates environment and the media. The debates the benefits of translating research were supported by counsellors including knowledge into practice and in so doing Desmond Tutu and Kofi Annan. The aim was fostering closer ties with China, from which to generate resolutions for a better future broader UK commercial opportunities can and in so doing to develop and link up a follow. The CZT is a critical development global network of alumni. Hong Kong zone which aims to build a world-class, modern, ecological, liveable city cluster which addresses sustainability and Partnership agreement with New industrial growth. As part of their long- University of Astana term strategy the CZT City Cluster needs A partnership forged between UCL and the to address energy demand reduction, New University of Astana (NUA) will enable Hong Kong conference reflects global integrated transportation systems, water, more high-potential school-leavers from nature of climate change challenge heritage conservation, regeneration and Kazakhstan to meet the demanding UCL co-hosted a climate change a programme of sustainable urbanisation. academic standards required for entrance conference in Hong Kong in November, 2010 has seen a concerted effort by to the world’s top bachelor degrees. The which brought together academics and UCL’s Bartlett Faculty of the Built agreement sees UCL delivering a foundation practitioners from all parts of the world. Environment to identify both research and year at the NUA and a programme in The two-day conference was held at The income-generating activities in mainland English for academic purposes, which University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the China, and this agreement builds on started in September 2010. The foundation wide variety of nationalities represented decades of goodwill brought about year is modelled on the highly successful underscored the global nature of the through academic research networking University Preparatory Certificate (UPC) climate change challenge. The keynote activities and the significant Chinese programmes that the UCL Language Centre speech was delivered by Mr Edward Yau, cohort of students and staff that in London offers to high-ability international Secretary of State for the Environment in contribute to the social and intellectual students. The UPC constitutes the first year Hong Kong. This conference was a result fabric of UCL and The Bartlett Faculty of the NUA’s four-year bachelor degree of close collaboration between Professors of the Built Environment in particular. programmes. The programme in English for Jolene Lin (HKU Law) and Professor Academic Purposes (EAP), also currently Joanne Scott (UCL Laws), who said: available in London, caters for able students “This collaboration is of immense value as whose English requires further support it facilitates a bridging of Europe and Asia before they can benefit from the UPC. Entry – two regions which are so crucial in standards are set at the same level as in meeting the challenge of climate change. London. The NUA is a new university This is just one example of partnership established by the Kazakh government, with between our two faculties and universities. strong support from Nursultan Nazarbayev, Exciting plans for continued collaboration President of Kazakhstan, to bring world- are under way.” class education to the Kazakh people, with the aim of becoming the leading university in Central Asia.

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2010 was an important year for UCL, as it saw the publication of our new Institutional Learning and UCL students preparing for a lecture Teaching Strategy 2010–2015. We are committed to developing further innovative ways of teaching and Now that we have three facilities overseas (in Australia, assessing, using more of the new technologies, so Kazakhstan and, from 2011, in Qatar), we want to establish that our students can take an even more active part UCL as an international hub for innovation in teaching. To do in their learning and access learning materials at any this, we are developing a network of high-level partnerships time of the day and from wherever they are. with international, research-led universities which will include the exchange of short Teaching Fellowships, so that we can We are also keen that our students gain more experience learn from the best provision throughout the world and share of what we call ‘experiential learning’, i.e. learning through our excellence with our partners. Our students will have their work placements, volunteering, visits to museums, galleries, own part to play in this international exchange, reporting back companies, etc. using London as an extension of the UCL to us on the excellent methods that they have encountered campus as well as making greater uses of digital spaces. when studying abroad, whilst also presenting UCL approaches This is a part of our vision of the UCL learning experience as to their teachers overseas. one of preparation for global citizenship, which involves an understanding of how the world of work functions, and of Professor Michael Worton what our responsibilities are and how we can best contribute UCL Vice-Provost (Academic & International) to improving the communities in which we live.

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Focus on: UCL Academy

In August, UCL received confirmation that the UCL Academy project will proceed. From September 2012, the academy, a secondary school for 11–18 year-olds, will be housed in purpose-built accommodation on Adelaide Road in Swiss Cottage. The new buildings will be specifically designed to support the curriculum and pastoral structures that the school will offer. The UCL Academy will be an exciting and inspiring place, with high quality teaching and outstanding facilities. A core aim is to provide the highest quality teaching in a first-rate learning environment. Subject specialists will develop and deliver teaching programmes for all students, and will be supported in their subject knowledge through links with UCL staff. UCL students will be encouraged to work in classrooms as tutors and mentors. The university will support UCL Academy staff to engage in further professional study, including providing fully-funded places on UCL masters’ programmes, particularly the MA in Academic Practice, as well as opportunities to undertake formal research into issues relating to teaching and learning.

UCL Academy site, North London

Teaching & Learning Conference 2010 Spring school explores secrets camera to capture people’s body UCL held its 7th biennial Teaching & of security science movements for surveillance applications. Learning Conference and exhibition in July. 25 students took part in UCL’s Security I was most impressed by the way they This was a forum for the UCL community to Science Spring School at UCL SECReT, quickly grasped technical concepts such share good practice and to discuss issues the university’s security science doctoral as Doppler theory and Fourier analysis.” and innovative approaches relevant to the research centre. The two-day school was student learning experience. The overall open to second- and third-year theme this year was the exploration of undergraduates and current masters Transition Programme rolled out UCL’s concept of Education for Global students from UCL and other universities. Transitions, an innovative and unique Citizenship and our commitments as The participants came from a range of support project for new UCL students London’s Global University. The conference scientific departments, but all had featuring advice from current students both explored how an HE curriculum demonstrated an interest in pursuing online and in person, has been rolled out contributes to an education for global PhD research in this area. The school gave across the university following a successful citizenship through presentations, them an understanding of what constitutes pilot. The programme supports all new discussions, debates, workshops, and security science and developed their UCL students in adapting to university life, an exhibition. All aspects of teaching in presentation, team-working and networking assisting first years in dealing with the higher education and of the student skills. The students participated in social, academic and personal issues that learning experience in the 21st century multidisciplinary mini-projects with the are specific to UCL. Departments with a were represented. To demonstrate UCL’s support of UCL researchers. One group full Transition Programme run a mentoring commitment to enhancing the UCL of five students at the spring school scheme with experienced students in the student learning experience, the received a £250 prize for their winning same teaching area and workshops on conference provided opportunities for mini-project ‘Seeing With Sound’. Dr Kevin academic skills. It also promotes events UCL students to work as project assistants Chetty (UCL Security and Crime Science), and discussion about all the issues in support of the conference manager who supervised their project, said: that affect students, ranging from in the lead up to the event during a “The team took part in a cutting-edge accommodation and finance to jobs once-a-week internship. project using a high-specification acoustic and socialising.

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Human Rights Review and Grassroots Initiative The second edition of the student-edited UCL Human Rights Review, encompassing contributions from eminent legal experts, UCL academics and students, was launched in March. The review aims to invigorate human rights academia by publishing original contributions by students and human rights professionals together in one journal. Judge Christos Rozakis and Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty, are among the authors of this volume. The UCL Student Human Rights Programme’s ‘Grassroots Initiative’ sets out to educate children about the importance of respect for one another and humanity. Co-ordinator Alice Cole Roberts explained: “Even basic knowledge of rights and duties that, as human beings, we should observe, will help make a considerable difference to the way many approach everyday social situations. Our workshops see volunteers Artists in Residence project at Heal’s from UCL leading weekly discussions Mick Farrell with children from the ages of 12–16 at London schools, with the objective of Key Skills system for taught students Provost’s Teaching Awards using education to ingrain the culture of Students on taught courses can now plan Eleven UCL staff were recognised for their defending human rights into classrooms and record their skills development with outstanding contribution to excellence and and homes.” the help of an online Key Skills system innovation in teaching in this year’s which is accessible through PORTICO, Provost’s Teaching Awards. Now in their Art and architecture out of the classroom UCL’s online student information portal. fourth year, the awards celebrate In January, a group of students from the The new system enables students to leadership in teaching and learning UCL Bartlett School of Architecture took consider systematically their opportunities across UCL’s eight faculties, and winners their radical ideas from the design studio to develop skills and to become more were nominated by their Dean or Head of to a vacant site in East London. The articulate about these skills over time. Department. There were 26 submissions project, led by tutors Dr Jan Kattein and A similar system is already available to this year, 21 of which were individuals, Liam Young, allowed the students to postgraduates on research degrees plus five team nominations. Professor explore bold approaches to the challenge through the graduate research student Michael Worton, Vice-Provost (Academic of sustainable urban development in a log. Dr Jenny Marie (UCL Centre for the & International), said: “Teaching has real environment. Meanwhile, 18 students Advancement of Learning & Teaching) always been a vital part of UCL’s activity from the UCL Slade School of Fine Art explained: “The Key Skills system is a and of its profile and reputation. However, took up residence in the windows of wonderful resource for students wanting to in today’s complex globalised world, with Heal’s flagship Tottenham Court Road develop their skills. UCL has always all of the challenges facing us, teaching furniture store to create a unique piece of provided plenty of opportunities for skills is going to be an even more important retail theatre. Heal’s has been at the development, but now students have dimension of what we do. It is vital forefront of modern design for 200 years a means of really considering their therefore that we not only maintain but and worked with UCL as part of its development needs and which of enhance our reputation for excellence bicentenary celebrations. Interactive art the opportunities will be of most help and innovation. installations were created day and night in to them.” Heal’s showcase window.

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Firstly I have to thank my colleague and the former Vice-Provost, Professor Mike Spyer, who guided UCL Tumour detection by Endomagnetics Enterprise over the last few years prior to his retirement UCL Business, as well as continuing to generate profit through in May. Thanks to Mike we are in an excellent position the successful commercialisation process, helps to generate to make a leading contribution to the UK economy many tens of millions of pounds in translational research income. through Enterprise and it is my job to build on that UCL spin-out company Endomagnetics was recently cited as one strong foundation. of the UK’s most promising healthcare technology businesses for its pioneering approach to treatment of breast cancer. We have a wide-range of enterprise activities and our overall aim is to support the UCL community in making contributions I was also delighted to see initiatives designed to help promote to the social and economic benefit of UCL and the UK. collaborative working with industrial partners as a key part of Research-intensive universities are a key part of a growth UCL’s contribution to improving the global competitiveness of UK agenda and it is clear that pioneering research is the platform companies. In particular, the UCL IMPACT studentship scheme, for sustaining a knowledge-based economy. In that context we which began this year, has been designed to help stimulate have three key aims: supporting UCL entrepreneurs; working the development of collaborative research projects for with external partners; and commercialising our assets. research students. Professor Stephen Caddick Our Centre for Entrepreneurship, UCL Advances, has supported UCL’s staff and students with events throughout 2010; more UCL Vice-Provost (Enterprise) than 2000 participants attended training events and almost 200 projects were provided with some form of support.

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Investment and new CEO for Endomagnetics Endomagnetics Ltd, a business that began life as a research project at UCL, has raised £770,000 from a syndicate led by UCL Business plc, UCL’s knowledge transfer and technology commercialisation company, and Sussex Place Ventures. The financing coincides with the appointment of Dr Eric Mayes as CEO of the company, and builds upon a previous seed round of investment together with support from the Technology Strategy Board. Endomagnetics Ltd is a

medical devices company that was spun UCL Advances out from UCL to capitalise upon research work in the area of magnetic sensing led by Professor Quentin Pankhurst, Director of the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory. Through the use of magnetic tracers and a highly sensitive magnetic sensing device, Endomagnetics is able to help breast cancer surgeons detect whether Three hatchlings for UCL Advances Second drug development programme breast cancer has spread to other parts Alive and Giving, a fundraising and for Pentraxin Therapeutics of the body. Globally this is vitally comparison website, The Sport Review, UCL spin-out company Pentraxin important, with around 1.38 million new an independent sports news website, and Therapeutics Ltd has licensed a second cases of breast cancer being diagnosed Zooza, an innovative online sales and drug development programme to each year, and the rate increasing by marketing platform, were the first pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline nearly 20,000 cases year on year. companies to be based in the UCL (GSK). Pentraxin was established by Advances Student Business Hatchery. Professor Mark Pepys, Director of the The facility provides a base for new UCL Centre for Amyloidosis and Acute Kit 4 Troops website launched student-led businesses when they first Phase Proteins, to hold all the intellectual A charitable website founded by two need it and to help prepare them for the property arising from his research. In this UCL postgraduate students was outside world. Both Zooza and The Sport latest agreement, Pentraxin will collaborate demonstrated and launched at UCL in Review were recipients of a UCL Bright with GSK to develop Professor Pepys’ August. Kit4Troops.org.uk was established Ideas Award 2010, while Alive and Giving invention of novel small molecules that by Steve McGregor and Inaam Tahir to won the undergraduate and Provost’s stabilise the blood protein transthyretin provide a way of thanking individual Prize categories in the 2009 London (TTR), a normal component of blood. soldiers by sending them practical Entrepreneurs’ Challenge and were also As people age, or when there are gifts they request and messages of recipients of a UCL Bright Ideas Award mutations in the TTR gene, the protein encouragement. The items requested 2009. In 2010 they were awarded an can become unstable and develop into range from gifts that soldiers can use in Innovation Central Bursary. In October, an abnormal form known as amyloid fibrils. their downtime to those that remind them Alive and Giving celebrated their launch These fibrils accumulate in the organs of home. In 2007, Steve was a Captain in by holding a charity fundraising event, and tissues, damaging their structure and the US 101st Airborne and deployed in sponsored by UCL Advances. function, and causing TTR amyloidosis, Iraq, and it was this experience that led a fatal and currently untreatable condition. him to realise the need for such a concept. One of the novel molecules created by The idea was first tested during the 2010 the UCL team is mds84, which is bound London Entrepreneurs’ Challenge, irreversibly by TTR and prevents the organised by UCL Advances, where the protein from forming amyloid. duo began to gain widespread support for the charity.

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Higher education reaching out to London’s businesses The university’s Centre for Entrepreneurship and Business Interaction, UCL Advances, is leading the Higher Education London Outreach Project (HELO), with support from the London Business School among others. HELO helps to bridge the gap between small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) and Higher Education Institutions by transferring the expertise, research and knowledge possessed by UCL students, faculty and staff to London enterprises. Participating in a HELO project, students get first hand experience in working with a real life scenario and contribute to the success of an SME. Mapping for Change They build their own networks and links as well as take advantage of training that HELO provides. HELO draws from the expertise of UCL and London Business School by creating teams of students to solve the problems of the businesses they work with. An awards ceremony in Mapping for Change There are a wide variety of potential uses, November celebrated the work of students In July, UCL launched Mapping for such as supporting funding applications and staff who have participated. HELO is Change, a social enterprise that will or creating interactive maps that help currently working with over 70 businesses support sustainable communities through engage communities as part of a in London and has completed over 30 online mapping and Geographical consultation process. Dr Muki Haklay projects, with a number of job placements Information Systems (GIS). Mapping (UCL Civil, Environmental & Geomatic resulting from the project. for Change is a partnership between Engineering), and Louise Francis, Chief UCL Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Executive of Mapping for Change, are Engineering, and London 21 Sustainability running the programme. The partnership Impact Studentships launched Network, a charity that works across is one of the first recipients of a Higher UCL is keen to encourage industrial Greater London to help create a greener, Education Social Entrepreneurship collaboration through contracted research healthier and more sustainable city. Award – a programme of financial and and collaborative studentships and is The organisation will specialise in other support provided by UnLtd, the now considered an international hub for providing a suite of innovative mapping foundation for social entrepreneurs, and collaborative doctoral training. Building on tools that communities, voluntary sector the Higher Education Funding Council these successes, in 2009 UCL developed organisations, local authorities and for England to help higher education the Impact Studentships, co-funded by developers can use to communicate institutions develop their expertise, skills, businesses and UCL. Impact awards complicated information in a visual format knowledge base and business support support collaborative PhD studentship that is affordable and easy to understand. structures in social entrepreneurship projects with organisations such as The services can be applied across and social enterprise activity. charities, companies, government a range of sectors including school institutions and social enterprises, and programmes, food growth, distribution, during 2010 awarded 194 studentships. town planning and sustainable tourism.

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Highlights 2010

‘Ingredients for life’ on Saturnian moon The icy surface of Enceladus Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute A team from the Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL) evidence for the presence of liquid water. The spacecraft’s working on the Cassini-Huygens mission found negatively plasma spectrometer, used to gather this data, also found charged water ions in the ice plume of Enceladus, one of other species of negatively charged ions including Saturn’s 61 known moons. Their analysis of data gathered hydrocarbons. during the spacecraft’s plume fly-throughs in 2008 provide UCL was established in 1826 in This year, the UCL Voluntary Services order to open up education in THE UCL SPIRIT Unit has supported 43 student-led England for the first time to students community projects, including baby first aid community training sessions, of any race, class or religion. befriending schemes for children with The idea was bold, radical, and special needs, activity sessions with responsive to the needs of the dementia patients and sports, maths, world; three qualities that we science and language clubs in primary believe passionately in to this day. schools. UCL students volunteered 26,000 hours of their time, representing We’ve always believed that excellence a major part of UCL’s community should go hand-in-hand with enriching engagement with London. society. Whether we’re designing the iconic parks or buildings of tomorrow, or grappling with issues such as global health or climate change, the challenges of daily life inspire each generation of UCL students and academics.

Universities thrive on the collective Eminent female UCL figures have featured efforts of their scholars in tackling INSPIRING MINDS in Suffrage Science – a collection of complex ideas that require breadth interviews and stories about the significant contributions that women have made and range of expertise. But the to science over the past 100 years. work of unique thinkers is equally The volume, published on the centenary fundamental in the march of of the first International Women’s Day, progress. includes interviews with Vivienne Parry, Vice-chair of UCL Council, Professor UCL individuals, both past and present, Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (UCL Institute have made discoveries and inventions of Cognitive Neuroscience) and that have changed the world. Some Professor Mary Collins (UCL Infection UCL people are household names, & Immunity), Dean of UCL Life Sciences. while other, equally brilliant thinkers It also features prominently Professor are known primarily within their field. Uta Frith (UCL Institute of Cognitive There is inspiration for all of us Neuroscience), whose seminal work among UCL’s people. on autism provided inspiration for Professor Blakemore’s scientific ambitions, and Professor Kathleen Lonsdale, UCL Chemistry (1947-1971), chemist and crystallographer.

Fierce intelligence, a desire to UCL student Zain Jaffer has been change the world, juggling a STUDENTS selected as one of the youngest of the challenging study programme, future top 80 ‘world leaders’ to attend WITH AMBITION the Graduate Studies Programme at volunteer work and London’s Singularity University, a prestigious new exciting social life – UCL students initiative supported by NASA, Google and have a zest for life. other leading Silicon Valley corporations, Coming to UCL from nearly 140 countries that aims to educate future leaders to around the world, they share common solve global problems using technologies attributes of creativity and critical thinking. such as robotics, nanotech, biotech and They are prepared to take their subject artificial intelligence. A part-time student knowledge into the community, be it to the on the UCL MSc in Technology government or local schools, and enjoy Entrepreneurship course, Zain also runs the cultural and social diversity of UCL his own business. He hopes to use the and London life. While entrepreneurship is programme to use emerging technologies a budding area among the student body, to teach children around the world how to demonstrations of innovation and use a variety of software, with the ultimate leadership occur on an everyday basis. aim of enabling them to generate their Our students graduate with a wealth own income in the future. of experiences that make them true global citizens.

18 UCL Review 2010 With dedication and a creative UCL mechanical engineers are working approach, academic research can RESEARCH on award-winning research that is be used to tackle the world’s most transforming medical imaging and drug WITH IMPACT delivery. They are using microbubbles urgent problems – that’s what we containing tiny amounts of gas and believe at UCL. magnetic nanoparticles to move the Our research approach is built on bubbles harmlessly round the body to foundations of excellence in the a targeted area, e.g. a tumour, where the fundamental disciplines, encouraging bubbles can be dissolved by ultrasound, UCL people to work together and delivering a drug accurately and transform society with their ideas and specifically where it’s needed. innovations. We have developed a series The bubbles also work using the same of Grand Challenges, designed to activate principal for imaging, and can make a response from across UCL to major ultrasound scans clearer by controlling problems of our times, including global the density of specific parts of the body. health and sustainable cities. From legal The team is currently concentrating on reform to carbon capture, UCL ideas are increasing the accuracy of control of the changing everyday life. microbubbles, which have the potential for many medical applications.

At UCL, we’re committed to the Access to clean water is a basic right principle of merging and working CROSSING denied to millions of people living in cities across traditional subject SUBJECT across the world. In 2000 the United Nations included targets to reduce by half boundaries. BOUNDARIES the proportion of people without access to Our interdisciplinary approach is so safe water and sanitation in the Millennium important to us because it enables ideas Development Goals (MDGs) and in 2005 from one subject area to be seeded into it launched the Decade of Water for Life. another, resulting in fruitful new ideas – To mark the half-way point, the UCL Urban and even new disciplines. English and Water Poverty project convened two Laws were once bundles of ideas from events through the Grand Challenge different subjects rather than the of Sustainable Cities: a public panel established fields that they are today: discussion and an expert symposium. UCL was the first to systematically teach UCL researchers from a broad range both. These days, we have many leading of disciplines as well as external centres where groundbreaking organisations such as WaterAid came interdisciplinary work takes place, and our together to test how well UCL research students and staff are taking daring new is informing progress towards the MDGs approaches to find the answers to their and to better define what is meant by the questions about the world. concept of ‘urban water poverty’ in light of rapid global urbanisation.

Forging effective partnerships A delegation of leading space scientists is integral to UCL’s belief in PROGRESS from Russia visited UCL in July to cement maximising the social impact of THROUGH research collaboration and funding between the UK and Russia. The its intellectual resources. PARTNERSHIP International Science and Technology As a research institution, our primary Centre, Moscow and the British Embassy expertise is on developing ideas and in Moscow supported the three-day knowledge, so by working with institutions visit, which resulted in the signing of a with a practical focus to their activities, Memorandum of Understanding, and the such as hospitals, schools, business or Russian Space Agency, Roscosmos, also government, we can help these ideas turn forged closer ties with UCL. David Willetts, into real-world solutions. Getting a Minister of State for Universities and breakthrough cancer drug to the patient Science, gave the keynote speech, and waiting in the clinic, or conveying the the agenda included space medicine, magic of a Greek drama to a group of satellite communication technologies, local schoolchildren – these are just two optics and instrument systems, monitoring examples of how UCL expertise is and natural disasters, robotics and delivered most effectively through strong cybernetics and microgravitation. external relationships.

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Highlights 2010

Two dinosaur species discovered Credit: Reconstruction of Linhenykus Monodactylus by Julius T Csotonyi PhD student Michael Pittman (UCL Earth Sciences) after the nearby city of Linhe, and is the first to be discovered discovered two new species of dinosaur during field work with only one finger, as opposed to the usual three. in Inner Mongolia. The first, named Linheraptor Exquisitusis, Both dinosaurs belong to the carnivorous theropoda family is in excellent condition and will help scientists work out the of dinosaurs, which gave rise to Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor appearance of other closely related species. The second is and modern birds. a parrot-sized dinosaur named Linhenykus Monodactylus Awards & Appointments

Awards, Medals and Prizes

Alcon Research Institute HealthWatch International Institute Royal Astronomical Society Alcon Research Institute Prize: Annual Award: for Conservation of Historic 2010 Fowler Prize: Professor Graham Holder Professor David Colquhoun and Artistic Works Dr Barbara Ercolano (UCL Physics (UCL Institute of Ophthalmology) (UCL Biosciences) Forbes Prize: & Astronomy) Professor David Lowenthal American Pain Society Royal Anthropological Institute Royal College of Obstetricians (UCL Geography) Jeffrey Lawson Award for Advocacy Rivers Memorial Medal: & Gynaecologists in Children’s Pain Relief: Professor Stephen Shennan International Society for Magnetic Eardley Holland Medal: Professor Maria Fitzgerald (UCL Institute of Archaeology) Resonance in Medicine Professor Charles Rodeck (UCL Neuroscience, Physiology Sir Peter Mansfield Prize: (UCL Maternal & Fetal Medicine) Institute of Materials, Minerals & Pharmacology) Dr David Carmichael (UCL Institute and Mining Royal Geographical Society of Neurology) British Academy Beilby Medal & Prize: Busk Medal: Wiley Prize for Psychology: Dr Suwan Jayasinghe Islamic Republic of Iran Professor Ann Varley Dr Essi Viding (UCL Clinical, (UCL Mechanical Engineering) World Book Prize: (UCL Geography) Educational & Health Psychology) Amélie Kuhrt (UCL History) for Institute of Physics Cuthbert Peek Award: The Persian Empire: A Corpus British Pharmacological Society Best Astroparticle Physics Thesis Dr Jerome Lewis of Sources from the (UCL Anthropology) Gaddum Memorial Award: in the UK: Achaemenid Period. Professor Geoff Burnstock Dr Matthew Kauer (UCL Physics Victoria Medal: (UCL Division of Biosciences) & Astronomy) Leverhulme Trust Professor Rick Battarbee FRS Philip Leverhulme Prize: (UCL Geography) Centre for Economic Studies Business & Innovation Medal: Dr Sylvie Delacroix (UCL Laws) CES Prize in Economics: Professor Sir Michael Pepper Royal Institute of British Architects Dr Angus Gowland (UCL History) Professor Richard Blundell (UCL Electrical & Electronic Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis: Dr Ralph Wilde (UCL Laws) (UCL Economics) Engineering and the London Victoria Perry (UCL Bartlett School Centre for Nanotechnology) Lupus Foundation of America of Architecture) Czech Academy of Sciences Evelyn V Hess Research Award: Gregor Mendal Medal: Franklin Medal & Prize: Royal Photographic Society Professor David Isenberg Professor Robin Weiss Professor Tom Duke (UCL Physics Davies Medal: Dr Mark Lythgoe (UCL Inflammation) (UCL Virology) & Astronomy and the London (UCL Centre for Advanced Centre for Nanotechnology) Medical Research Society Biomedical Imaging) European Neuroendocrine Young Investigator Award: Tumor Society Holweck Medal & Prize: Royal Society Dr Daniel Gale (UCL Division Best Scientific Research Prize: Professor Steven Bramwell Prize for Science Books: of Medicine) Dr Chrissie Thirlwell (UCL Physics & Astronomy) Dr Nick Lane (UCL Genetics, (UCL Cancer Institute) Nicholas Kurti European Evolution & Environment) for Thomson Medal & Prize: Science Prize Life Ascending Best Clinical Research Prize: Professor Gaetana Laricchia Dr Christian Ruegg Dr Mohid Kahn (UCL Physics & Astronomy) Royal Society of Chemistry (UCL Physics & Astronomy) (UCL Cancer Institute) Rita and John Cornforth Award: Institution of Chemical Engineers Polish Academy of Sciences UCL Bioconversion Chemistry European Society for Frank Lees Medal: Engineering Interface Programme Nicolaus Copernicus Gold Medal: Medical Oncology Professor Haroun Mahgerfeteh Professor Kenneth Phillips Royal Society of Literature Lifetime Achievement Award: (UCL Chemical Engineering) (UCL Mullard Space Science Ondaatje Prize: Mr Ian Thomson Professor Hilary Calvert International Academy Laboratory) (UCL Royal Literary Fund Fellow) (UCL Cancer Institute) of Astronautics for The Dead Yard Regional Science Association Experimental Psychology Society Laurel for Team Achievement: William Alonso Prize: UK Society for Biomaterials Mid-Career Award: Cluster and Double Star teams: Professor Michael Batty Biocompatibles Endowed Award: Professor David Shanks Professor Andrew Fazakerley (UCL (UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Professor Jonathan Knowles (UCL Cognitive, Perceptual Space & Climate Physics) led the Analysis) (UCL Eastman Dental Institute) & Brain Sciences) instrument teams on both missions Royal Academy of Engineering Worshipful Company of Fermilab International Conference Royal Academy of Engineering/ Armourers & Brasiers Alvin Tollestrup Award: on Software Engineering Exxon Mobil Award for Excellence 2010 Materials Science Venture Dr Justin Evans Special Award: in Teaching: Dr Suzanne Farid Prize: Professor Mohan Edirisinghe (UCL Physics & Astronomy) Professor Anthony Finkelstein (UCL Biochemical Engineering) and Professor Eleanor Stride (UCL Computer Sciences) (UCL Mechanical Engineering)

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Awards & Appointments

Honorary Doctorates, Fellowships, Lectureships Fellowships and Senior Investigatorships

American Academy of Arts Dr Noreena Hertz (UCL Philosophy, & Sciences 1987), Centre for International Professor Christopher Peacocke Business & Management (UCL Philosophy) Distinguished Fellow, University of Cambridge British Academy Fellows: Professor Juliet Mitchell (UCL Ms Mary Reilly (UCL History, 1974) Clinical, Educational Partner and Head of Charities, & Health Psychology) Deloitte LLP Professor Timothy Shallice Professor Henry Woudhuysen (UCL Psychology, PhD) Sector (UCL English Language Coordinator, Sector of Cognitive & Literature) Neuroscience, International School for Advanced Studies, and former Corresponding Fellow: Professor Director of the UCL Institute for Ms Mary Reilly Professor Chris Rapley Guy Laroque (UCL Economics) Cognitive Neuroscience (UCL History, 1974) (UCL Earth Sciences) Geological Society of America Mr John Walton (UCL Economics, Professor Kevin Pickering 1968) Founder and former (UCL Earth Sciences) Managing Director and Chairman, UCL Honorary Degrees British Society Of Audiology Asset Value Investments Professor Lorna Casselton (DSc): Thomas Simm Littler Lectureship: Hungarian Academy of Science Foreign Secretary of the Royal Professor Stuart Rosen Professor Imre Barany UCL Honorary Fellows 2010 Society and Emeritus Professor (UCL Speech, Hearing (UCL Mathematics) Professor Muhammad Akhtar: of Fungal Genetics University of & Phonetic Sciences) Distinguished National Professor, Oxford Institute of Electrical & Electronic Higher Education Commission, King’s College London Engineers Islamabad; Director General, Professor Peter Higgs (DSc): Honorary Doctorate: Professor Polina Bayvel (UCL School of Biological Sciences, British theoretical physicist Professor Sir Alan Wilson (UCL Centre for Advanced Electronic & Electrical Engineering) University of the Punjab Professor Jonathan Israel (DLit): Spatial Analysis) Professor Arokia Nathan (London Mr Neal Ascherson: Editor, Writer on Dutch history, Centre for Nanotechnology) Public Archaeology the Age of Enlightenment and University of East Anglia European Jewry Honorary Doctorate: International Association for Sheikh Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber: Professor Chris Rapley Professor Charles K Kao (DSc): the Cryptologic Research Founder, Chairman and CEO, MBI (UCL Earth Sciences) Professor Yvo Desmedt International 2009 Nobel Laureate in Physics (UCL Computer Science) Professor John Birks: Professor Professor Timothy Killeen (DSc): Royal Society Fellows of Quantitative Ecology and Assistant Director for the Professor Gabriel Aeppli Palaeoecology, University Geosciences at the US National (UCL Physics & Astronomy) of Bergen Science Foundation Professor Ray Dolan Professor Roger Ekins: Emeritus Neil MacGregor (DLit): Director (UCL Imaging Neuroscience) Professor of Biophysics, UCL of the British Museum UCL Fellows 2010 Professor Saku Tsuneta: Director, The Rt. Hon. the Lord Neuberger Professor John Goddard Hinode Science Centre, National of Abbotsbury (LLD): Master (UCL Geography, 1965) Emeritus Astronomical Observatory of the Rolls Professor of Regional Development of Japan The Baroness Professor Onora Studies, Newcastle University O’Neill of Bengarve (DLit): Dr John van Griethuysen (UCL Philosopher and crossbench Mechanical Engineering, 1975), member of the House of Lords Chief Engineer for Submarines, Ministry of Defence

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Awards & Appointments

Presidencies, Directorships, Chairs and Editorships Memberships

Association of European Academia Europaea American Academy of Arts Research Libraries Professor Hugh Clout & Sciences President: Dr Paul Ayris, (UCL Geography) Honorary Member: (UCL Library Services) Professor Dame Linda Partridge Professor Chris Rapley (UCL Genetics, Evolution & Association of University (UCL Earth Sciences) Environment) Administrators: Chair Mr Chris Academia Nacional de Hallas (UCL Registry) American Philosophical Society Medicina (Brazil) International Member: Foreign honorary member: Bingham Centre for Professor Robin Clark Professor Andrew Lees the Rule of Law (UCL Chemistry) (UCL Institute of Neurology) Founder Director: Professor Chartered Institute of Library Jeffrey Jowell (UCL Laws) Academy of Medical Sciences and Information Professionals Professor Martin Birchall British Medical Association Councillor: Andy Dawson (UCL Ear Institute) President: Professor Sir Michael (UCL Information Studies) Professor Dawn Oliver Marmot (UCL Epidemiology Professor Anthony Costello (UCL Laws) Middle Temple & Public Health) (UCL Centre for International Under-Treasurer: Health & Development) British Psychological Society Professor Dawn Oliver (UCL Laws) President: Professor Paul Burgess Professor Nick Fox Royal Society (UCL Cognitive Neuroscience) (UCL Neurology) Council member: International Centre for Professor Graham Hart Professor Sir Alan Wilson Mathematical Sciences (UCL Infection & Population (UCL Centre for Advanced Scientific Director: Health) Spatial Analysis) Professor Keith Ball Professor Stephen Humphries Wellcome Trust (UCL Mathematics) (UCL Medicine) Board of Governors: NHS London Professor Anne Johnson Professor David Miller Acting Chairman: (UCL Institute for GlobalHealth) (UCL Institute of Neurology) Professor Mike Spyer (UCL Biosciences) Professor Geraint Rees (UCL Institute of Cognitive Royal Astronomical Society Neuroscience) Vice-President & Chair of Professor Graham Scambler International Committee: Professor William Richardson (UCL Infection & Population Health) Professor Ofer Lahav (UCL Wolfson Institute for (UCL Physics & Astronomy) Biomedical Research) Royal Economics Society Academy of Social Sciences President: Professor Richard Academicians: Professor Adrian Blundell (UCL Economics) Furnham (UCL Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology) Royal Statistical Society President: Professor Valerie Professor Susan Michie Isham (UCL Statistical Science) (UCL Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology) Professor Graham Scambler (UCL Infection & Population Health)

Professor Geraint Rees (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience)

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Royal, National and International Honours UCL Awards

New Year’s Honours Queen’s Birthday Honours UCL Awards for Enterprise Knight Bachelor: Professor Commander of the Order of the UCL Bright Ideas Awards: ZooZa, Salvador Moncada (Wolfson British Empire (CBE): Dr Jean AAAS Steering, Three O Nine Institute of Biomedical Research Venables FRS (Advisory Board Custom Clothing, 36Zero and at UCL) for services to science Member, UCL Grand Challenge The Sport Review of Sustainable Cities; Programme Commander of the Order UCL Business Award: Professor Board Member of the UCL-led of the British Empire (CBE): Quentin Pankhurst (UCL Physics programme UrbanBuzz) for Professor Janet Darbyshire & Astronomy) for his endeavours services to civil engineering (Medical Research Council in the establishment of Clinical Trials Unit at UCL) Ordinary Commander of the Civil Endomagnetics Limited for services to clinical science Division (CBE): Professor Linda UCL Consultants Award: Professor Luxon (UCL Ear Institute and Professor Carol Dezateux Tadj Oreszczyn (UCL Bartlett Professor of Audiological (UCL Institute of Child Health) School of Graduate Studies) Medicine, University College for services to science Dr Rekha Bajoria London Hospitals NHS Foundation UCL Enterprise Partner (UCL Obstetrics & Gynaecology) Order of the Netherlands Trust) for services to medicine of the Year Award: Arup Officier in de Orde van UCL Knowledge Transfer Oranje–Nassau: Professor Partnership Award: UCL Bartlett Experienced Staff: Jane Fenoulhet (UCL Dutch) School of Graduate Studies Dr Rekha Bajoria and Dr Ratna for outstanding contribution to and SpacelabUK Chatterjee – joint award knowledge and understanding (UCL Obstetrics & Gynaecology) of Dutch language and literature Lifetime Achievement Award: and to society Sir Derek Roberts Dr Helen Chatterjee (UCL Biological Sciences and London Entrepreneurs’ UCL Museums & Collections) Challenge Awards Winner: 36Zero Dr Sue Hamilton (UCL Institute of Archaeology) Runner-up: (undergraduate) Gourmandie Dr John Mitchell (UCL Electronic & Electrical Engineering) Runner-Up: (postgraduate or staff) H2NRG Dr Mike Porter, (UCL Chemistry) Provost’s Prize: H2NRG Dr Ariane Smart, (UCL Language Centre) Innovation Central Bursaries: Kit 4 Troops, Alive & Giving, Professor Roger Wotton (UCL AAAS Steering and Tigersense Genetics, Evolution & Environment) UCL Provost’s Spirit of Enterprise Supporting Learning: Professor Salvador Moncada Professor Jane Fenoulhet Award: Professor David Shima Professor Andrew Eder (Wolfson Institute of Biomedical (UCL Dutch) (UCL Institute of Ophthalmology) (UCL Eastman Dental Institute) Research at UCL) Social Enterprise Project of the UCL Mathematical & Physical Year Award: The UCL Refugee Sciences Faculty Project: Noor Alyassin (UCL Teaching Award: Biochemical Engineering) and Professor Raman Prinja Yasmin Grewal (UCL Geography) (UCL Physics & Astronomy) Provost’s Teaching Awards UCL Centre for Neuroimaging Beginning of Career: Techniques Dr Daniel Richardson (UCL Young UCL Investigator in Psychology & Language Sciences) Neuroimaging of the Year, sponsored by Brain Products: Dr Sonia Arbaci Sallazzaro, David Carmichael (UCL Bartlett School of Planning)

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UCL Appointments Research Fellowships

Australian Research Council Future Fellowship: Dr Quentin Stevens (UCL Bartlett School of Planning) Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council Leadership Fellowship: Professor Sofia Olhede (UCL Statistical Science) Lister Institute Research Prize Fellowship: Dr Josef Kittler (UCL Neuroscience, Physiology Professor Anthony Finkelstein Professor Alan Smith Professor Alwyn Seeds & Pharmacology) (UCL Computer Science) (UCL Space & Climate Physics) (UCL Electronic & Electrical Engineering) Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship: Dr Claire Colomb (UCL Bartlett UCL Division of Psychology UCL Electronic & Electrical School of Planning) & Language Sciences Engineering: Acting Associate Dean: Professor Professor Alwyn Seeds Newton International Fellowships: Gabriella Vigliocco Dr Alexandra Alvergne UCL English Language & Dr Javier Carrasco UCL Engineering Sciences Literature: Professor John Mullan Dr Marianna D’Arco Dean: Professor Anthony UCL Geography: Dr Neel Dhruv Finkelstein (UCL Computer Professor Jon French Dr Pedro Halla Science) Dr Martha Nari Havenith UCL Mathematics: UCL Enterprise Dr Simona Irrera Professor Robb McDonald Vice Provost for Enterprise: Dr Koon Fung Lam Professor Steve Caddick UCL School of Slavonic & East Dr Yixian Lin (UCL Chemistry) European Studies: Dr Christopher Olivola Dr Robin Aizlewood Dr Simone Severini UCL Human Resources Dr Deborah Villarroel-Lamb Director: Mr Nigel Waugh UCL Science & Dr Xiaobo Zhai Technology Studies: Department Heads and Dr Joe Cain Wellcome Trust Career Institute Directors Development Fellowship: UCL Division of Biosciences: UCL Security & Crime Science: Dr Paul Bays (UCL Institute Professor John Carroll Professor Richard Wortley of Neurology) UCL Cancer Institute: UCL Slade School of Fine Art: Dr Fiona McNab (UCL Institute Professor Chris Boshoff Dr Susan Collins of Neurology) UCL Division of Infection UCL Space & Climate Physics: Worshipful Company & Immunity: Professor Alan Smith of Scientific Instrument Makers Professor Arne Akbar UCL Statistical Science: Beloe Fellowship: UCL Division of Professor Valerie Isham Dimitris Sarantaridis Population Health: (UCL Chemistry) UCL Surgical & Professor Graham Hart Interventional Science: UCL Earth Sciences: Professor Marc Winslett Professor Phil Meredith UCLH/UCL NIHR Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre: Professor Deenan Pillay

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Situated at the heart of Bloomsbury, with its buildings and institutes spreading throughout London, UCL is UCL student volunteers intimately linked to the capital, drawing inspiration and UCL students, from engineers to artists and historians to medics, support from London’s endeavours, values and people, contribute to the vibrancy and development of London as a and contributing in turn to London life. We are proud to world-leading city. The role they play – through volunteering and be one of London’s leading universities, and we believe community projects and taking research out to the people across passionately in contributing to the city’s development. the city – enhances the lives of Londoners and beyond. With such close ties to the city they study in, it isn’t surprising that over UCL’s impact on London encompasses many realms, including half of UCL’s undergraduate students remain in London after health, community, education, environment, business activities finishing their degree. and even entertainment. We are London’s Beacon for Public Engagement, building relationships between universities and A world-leading biomedical hub, UCL has formed a partnership the wider public with a programme of events and activities, with four leading London teaching hospitals in order to facilitate and using our expertise for benefit in the community. We are the transition of basic scientific research into leading edge the sponsors of an Academy School in Camden, which will treatments for patients, and to train the healthcare professionals open in 2012. Our staff provide training and consultancy to of the future. UCL has also joined together with the Medical London businesses, helping to strengthen our local economy, Research Council, Wellcome Trust, and Cancer Research UK and the research of our academics helps to inform policy to establish the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation formation in local and central government. at St Pancras. Set on a site between the British Library and St Pancras Eurostar terminal, this will be one of the world’s top medical research centres, bringing together 1,500 scientists and support staff in the heart of the capital.

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UCL researchers reveal ‘polycentric’ to be included in the standard planning London for the aftermath of a terrorist attack. Professor Michael Batty (UCL Centre for Lead author Professor Chris Brewin (UCL Advanced Spatial Analysis) and Dr Soong Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology) Kang (UCL Management Science and explained: “If this programme hadn’t Innovation) applied statistical physics existed then there would be hundreds of techniques to millions of Oyster Card people still suffering from post-traumatic journeys to discover how, why and where stress or other psychological problems. Londoners travel. They used Transport for This intervention is really a new way of London’s database of 11 million records identifying traumatised people.” taken over one week from the Oyster Card electronic ticketing system. Such detailed data is fast heralding a new age for the UCL-led project lets Genie out of Bottle study and planning of cities, as it gives A unique UCL-led project to inform young researchers a greater insight into the people about climate change facilitated complex web of relationships and the world premier of a short film in May. interactions that constitute urban life. The Genie in the Bottle is an animated The patterns revealed by the study show version of an illustrated children’s story how complex city centres actually are – by Professor Hugh Montgomery (UCL London contained no single centre, but Clinical Physiology), who is also an instead has around 10 ‘polycentres’ award-winning children’s author. The film that interlink in complex patterns. tells the story of an old man explaining These patterns could help predict and the fate of a once beautiful planet to his mitigate the impact of major changes grandchild. Professor Montgomery and to infrastructure such as the construction the film’s director, Dr Jack Kreindler, run of Crossrail, a project that involves Project Genie – a groundbreaking initiative building a series of new railway for primary school teachers and their UCL Bright Club connections under central London. pupils. Registered schools receive Image: Dr Hilary Jackson materials that use The Genie in the Bottle story to explain the science of climate & Academic), said: “This year, UCL Outreach programme brings relief change. In addition to the film and the students contributed nearly 26,000 hours, to 7/7 bombing survivors story, teachers receive a textbook, lesson i.e. more than 12 working years to the A mental health outreach programme set plans, and an electronic device to Borough of Camden, a truly significant up after the 2005 London bombings has measure and encourage energy saving. achievement. What I find most inspiring successfully identified and treated The initiative is underpinned by science is that every year, there are more and hundreds of survivors. After the 7/7 from the UCL Environment Institute and more students who choose to volunteer bombings in 2005 a group of clinical the Met Office, and has so far been piloted in the community. This is something of psychologists targeted nearly a thousand in over 140 UK schools and reached more which UCL is enormously proud.” survivors of the attacks by painstakingly than 34,000 children. James Hodgson, UCL Union Student compiling hospital treatment records, Activities Officer, added: “It is often easy police witness files and referrals from GPs. to forget that the volunteers are also The need for this new method of reaching Student volunteers celebrated full-time students at a demanding and potential patients was evident after results UCL held an awards ceremony to world-leading university, and I hope they showed that only 4% of patients contacted celebrate the community work of its are extremely proud of themselves for by the programme had been referred for 1,000-strong army of student volunteers. everything they have achieved. I know that treatment by their GPs – the traditional In the past year volunteers have worked people whose lives they have benefited in pathway to mental heath care. Overall, with children, improved the environment, their voluntary work will echo my sincere more than a third of people contacted helped disabled people, refugees and appreciation for all their efforts.” needed treatment for post-traumatic asylum seekers, and much more, with the stress disorder. The results of the study, support of the UCL Union Volunteering published in Psychological Medicine, Services Unit (VSU). Professor Michael suggest that a similar programme needs Worton, UCL Vice-Provost (International

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Focus on: Public Engagement

As one of the UK’s six Beacons for Public Engagement, UCL offers funding to its staff to connect with people outside the university in innovative ways. UCL also supports an extensive outreach programme of public lectures, exhibitions, workshops and events, as well as being home to museums and collections, and the Bloomsbury Theatre. These many and varied projects and facilties aim to nurture a society in which the next generation want to take part in research, teaching and learning.

Relocating the Grant Museum

UCL Museums undergo restoration For the first time in over 30 years, the UCL Petrie Museum has staged a major redisplay of its collection of 80,000 Egyptian and Sudanese artefacts. Highlighted in this new display are some of Bringing the public more of the Bright stuff the museum’s many ‘firsts’: a dress from 5,000 BC; the earliest UCL Bright Club – the thinking person’s variety night – continues example of metal from Egypt and the oldest will on papyrus to spark the public imagination with a series of events and paper. The experience of visiting the Petrie Museum is now podcasts. Bright Club takes place in a comedy club in further enhanced by a new multi-purpose space where visitors Clerkenwell, where, every month, a collection of professional can test cutting-edge technological tools developed at the comedians, musicians, UCL staff and students take to the stage museum. Visitors will be able to use the museum’s 3D image to educate and entertain on a given theme. In October, the club kiosks to ‘virtually’ pick up and rotate priceless artefacts to see sold out UCL’s 500-seat Bloomsbury Theatre and have received them from different angles and perspectives. The new space will critical acclaim in both national and international press. Dr Steve also host the museum’s dynamic programme of lectures, Cross, Bright Club creator and Head of UCL Public Engagement object-handling sessions, temporary exhibitions, and music and said: “I still can’t quite believe that Bright Club works. Every film events. Concurrently, the UCL Grant Museum of Zoology is month people who don’t work or study at a university will come undergoing a move to new premises in the Rockefeller Building. and see researchers who have never tried comedy before be The move will provide the museum with more space for its funny. And they go away having learned a few things, and having innovative events programme and teaching activities, and much changed their ideas of what universities are. It’s basically a improved display areas, allowing more of the specimens to be on group of very brave researchers and academics, stepping well show. The museum will reopen in March 2011. These projects are outside their comfort zones to share their work. Through jokes.” part of UCL Museums & Collections’ new initiative to reveal the highly innovative, experimental and interdisciplinary work.

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campus to encourage their future aspirations. The students explored the Bloomsbury area, took part in a creative design challenge and made a short film featuring their ideas and suggestions to show to their local councillors and decision- makers. This year UCL and Open-City collaborated on an educational programme for primary schools, which brings together architecture students, Open-City’s educators and renowned London-based architectural practices to inspire and unlock architecture for 1,000 pupils every year. Pupils are taken for a ‘behind the scenes’ exploration of exemplary architecture as a catalyst to producing their own responses to a design brief, and attend an in-school workshop with a partner student, architect and Open-City educator. A number of Bartlett students took up the opportunity to be partnered with classes across London over the past academic year, to develop their skills for working with the next generation, who will ultimately inherit the effects of their design decisions.

Record numbers choose brain food for lunch UCL’s Lunch Hour Lecture series has captured the imagination of more people than ever before. The free lectures, which have been running since the 1940s and are rated as one of the 10 best ways to spend your lunch break in London by The Guardian, feature some of the university’s most high-profile academics. Their provocative subject matter included a defence of the right to think obscene thoughts, ruminations on the dark side of the Biblia Latina, parchment, 14th century universe, a debate about the appearance of aliens, a focus on UCL Library and Special Collections World Aids Day and a celebration of Mahatma Gandhi’s birth. The lectures reached an even larger audience as thousands who The curious history of Ink couldn’t make it in person watched live over the internet. An interdisciplinary public exhibition exploring the rich and curious history of ink in all its forms opened at UCL in November. Ink provided the setting for a series of interactions around the Exploring Your Universe history and substance of ink. It drew from the one million objects UCL hosted a free festival of astronomy for schools, families and housed within UCL’s Museums & Collections and also included the general public as part of National Science and Engineering contemporary art works, film, text and other media from across Week in March. Your Universe showed how UCL scientists are the breadth and depth of UCL’s departments. Designed, built contributing to the advancement of our knowledge, from and transformed into an intimate and highly distinctive space by discovering extra-solar planets to unravelling the mystery of architects Mobile Studio, who also teach at the UCL Bartlett dark energy. Highlights of the three-day festival included: the School of Architecture, this was the first time UCL’s North Lodge Magic Planet, a spherical projection able to reproduce any has been used for a public exhibition. planet or star with all its motions, colours and landscapes, building the Universe from the big bang to the present day along a 14-metre long timeline, using UCL’s telescopes to look at the Architecture students open young people’s eyes to good design sun and the planets Venus and Mars (weather permitting), and UCL’s cloisters hosted 33 students from a wide range of London a series of lectures about astronomy, astrophysics or cosmology. secondary schools in October for a three-day workshop in The event proved to be extremely popular and is being held in planning and urban design. The event was part of an educational March 2011. programme organised by Open-City, whose mission is to make architecture accessible through creative and innovative programmes. UCL offered an inspirational location for the workshop, which gave the young people a chance to see architecturally significant buildings and a bustling university

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The 2010 year has seen a significant improvement in the overall financial position of the university with the Architect’s impression of the UKCMRI retained surplus rising from £5m to £30m. Whilst some of the improvement has come from continued The past year has been a very successful one for UCL and this is income growth of 6% from almost all sources in the year, reflected in its financial results. This puts UCL in a good position much of it has come from robust controls over its cost base. to meet the challenges of the next few years arising from the These have meant that staff and operating costs, which Comprehensive Spending Review outcomes. Like other Higher make up 94% of total expenditure, have risen by only 4.6%. Education institutions the university will need to consider over the The improvement in the surplus has followed through to the coming months how it will respond to these changes, which year-end cash position improved to £164 million. These results represent a fundamental change in the way universities are need to be taken in context. It is vital that the university generates funded in the future. As always this response needs to be based and sustains sufficient surpluses and cash balances to meet its on an outstanding teaching package and the maintenance of future investment needs particularly in the light of an anticipated research excellence. significant reduction in capital funding from HEFCE as well as reductions in teaching grants, and to a lesser extent research funding. These results reflect the decisions taken over the past two years to not only grow our income but also to control Alison Woodhams costs in order to move UCL towards a more financially UCL Director of Finance sustainable position in the long term.

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UKCMRI progress of the economic downturn. However, we Progress continues on the UK Centre welcome sustained funding for research for Medical Research and Innovation intensive universities like UCL which (UKCMRI). UCL is one of the four recognises the significant contributions founding partners for the venture, along we make to the UK economy.” with the Medical Research Council (MRC), Cancer Research UK and the Wellcome Trust. The Government’s decision to invest Staff £220 million in the venture was This year UCL has undertaken a root and announced in the Comprehensive branch review of its equality strategies Spending Review in October 2010 and and action plans. There are now revised the Joint Venture Agreement between the disability and race equality schemes founding partners was signed in in place, both with targeted action plans November 2010. In June the consortium to measure progress. These initiatives Illustration from the Bloomsbury Masterplan released its vision for the institute were informed by findings from the Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands alongside designs for the building, which 2009 staff survey and were developed will be based at St Pancras and Somers in consultation with staff and interest Town in the London Borough of Camden. groups. As part of a continual review of research student population to match The vision has been drafted by a panel of the range of benefits available to staff, those of key competitors, the Impact leading international scientists who came UCL introduced a ‘Pensions Exchange’ scheme has fostered links with industrial together to conceive of an institute scheme in May 2010 for all members and other organisations providing match capable of tackling the underlying causes of its two biggest pension schemes. funding for the awards. of our most challenging health problems. As a result, staff take-home pay has The building is designed to foster increased and UCL has benefited from innovation by allowing collaboration savings in employers’ national insurance Estates contributions. The savings are being between different academic disciplines. The year saw the start of a comprehensive used to enhance the working environment review of the Estate Strategy with the for staff and to help meet the rising cost long- term objectives of ensuring the HEFCE funding rise of pension provision. estate is fit for purpose, efficiently and UCL received an overall 1.73% increase effectively supports the academic mission, in funding for 2010–2011 from the Higher is effectively utilised and environmentally Education Funding Council for England Students sustainable. The process commenced with (HEFCE) compared with last year, in Student numbers for 2009–10 reached a utilisation study of the Bloomsbury allocations for universities announced in a total of 22,628, an increase of 1,502 campus where pressures on space are March. The recurrent funding allocation or 7.1% on 2008–09. The majority of intense. The survey took place through the across the university sector for 2010–2011 the increase was in postgraduate student second term and a full report was issued has increased by 0.4%. UCL’s research numbers, with the largest increase in after Easter. The survey information has funding has increased by 4.28%, international taught postgraduate provided a robust platform for the second compared with a sector average increase students, which were up 384 or 26% stage of the strategic review, the of 2.05%. UCL’s teaching funding has on the previous year. In order to try and development of a masterplan for the decreased by 1.58%, compared with a increase UK/EU numbers further, during Bloomsbury campus. This work sector average decrease of 0.14%. In the year UCL has awarded 194 Impact commenced in June 2010 with the terms of grant funding awarded, UCL has studentships which provide 50% of the appointment of the masterplan team led retained its position among UK funding required for fees and stipend by the architectural practice Lifchutz universities with regards to total research for the full three or four years of the Davidson Sandilands. The brief for the funds (3rd), programme. Early feedback on the masterplan includes: space utilisation, total grant (5th) and total teaching funds scheme is encouraging and it is expected including efficient use of space, (11th). Professor David Price, UCL that matched funding will functionality and location of uses; Vice-Provost (Research) said: “We are be secured to allow around 150 of the movement & circulation; environmental aware that universities cannot be awards to be taken up during 2010–11. sustainability; public engagement and completely protected from the impact As well as enabling UCL to expand its accessibility; identity, heritage and

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integrity with the locality; and the quality of New projects under way include the student experience. The development refurbishment of the Darwin building with of a strategic masterplan is a substantial improved and consolidated facilities for the undertaking, which will establish a biosciences together with a full long- term and flexible framework for the refurbishment of the Darwin lecture estate for the next ten years and beyond. theatre. The final phase of the Foster Court The study is expected to be completed by refurbishment and completion of public Easter 2011 and will form the centrepiece realm improvements to Malet Place of a new estate strategy planned to be including a new courtyard outside the published during the second half of 2011. Medwar Building are also well advanced. Following the acquisition of Central House, During the year a strategic priority has Upper Woburn Place last year, extensive been to focus on improving the modernisation and refurbishment works environmental sustainability of the estate. have commenced with a mix of support A series of new initiatives has been and academic activities due to move into implemented, notably joining the the building over coming months. At the EcoCampus environmental accreditation Royal Free Hampstead campus significant scheme for universities; significant works have progressed to improve acceleration of progress in implementing research facilities. This year has also seen the carbon management plan supported the start of a substantial programme of by the HEFCE-Salix Revolving Green Fund; works to improve many centrally booked The Lewis’s Building commitment to the 10:10 campaign to teaching rooms including a major upgrade reduce carbon emissions by up to 10% in of the Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre. 2010; and the start of the development

of a strategy to increase the capacity

of local combined heat and power Fundraising and Communications new graduates to help encourage a culture generation. An indicator of progress The Development & Alumni Relations of giving has paid dividends with the class has been UCL’s improved position in the Office has continued to coordinate of 2008 alumni making up 13% of all new People and Planet university green league fundraising activity for UCL priorities, whilst donors recruited last year. table, rising 50 places between 2009 staff in academic departments have also and 2010. UCLTV is now an official channel on been successful in securing gifts for their YouTube EDU, the section of the video- The year saw continuing public realm research and other activities. There has sharing site that showcases some of the improvement with the completion of the been particular success in raising gifts to world’s best higher education digital Bloomsbury Campus external illuminated support the renovation of the Lewis’s content. It has had more than 100,000 way finding signage, the refurbishment of Building into new student union views since UCL Communications began the Front Lodges, and improvements to accommodation, and for scholarships and creating and uploading videos last Malet Place. Other capital improvements bursaries for undergraduate students. summer, and the monthly viewing figures completed include: the refurbishment of The Campaign for UCL has now raised puts UCL on a par with our world-leading 20–21 Gordon Square; the restoration of over £195 million towards the target of peers. The UCL channel offers a wide the front façade of 16–26 Gordon Square; £300 million by 2013. The Annual Fund has variety of short films, including mini- completion of the second phase of the seen a second year of growth in lectures by academics and content learning laboratory on the ground floor of unrestricted funding and generated over created by students. the DMS Watson building; a new £640,000 for UCL’s greatest needs and Radiochemistry suite in the Kathleen priorities and departmental discretionary Lonsdale Building and the expansion of funds. A newly established gift club the CPD clinical skills facilities on the acknowledging UCL’s most generous fourth floor of 123 Grays Inn Road for the donors, called the Provost’s Circle, has Eastman Dental Institute. also seen gifts in excess of £1000 increase by 76% on last year. A focus on

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Reports And Financial Statements FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS 08/09 For The Year Ended 31 July 2010

CONSOLIDATED INCOME & EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT 2010 £m 2009 £m Funding Council grants 201.0 209.9 Academic fees and support grants 150.5 126.7 Research grants and contracts 275.1 254.3 Other operating income 133.8 124.0 Endowment income and interest receivable 5.0 8.2 Total income 765.4 723.1 Share of income from joint ventures (3.0) (3.7) NET INCOME 762.4 719.4 TOTAL EXPENDITURE 732.4 707.5

Share of operating loss in joint ventures and associates (0.3) (0.7) Profit on disposal of subsidiary - - Profit/(loss) on disposal of tangible fixed assets - (6.1) Profit on disposal of fixed asset investments 0.7 - Taxation - - Minority interest (0.9) - Transfer to accumulated income within specific endowments 0.1 0.1 SURPLUS FOR THE YEAR 29.6 5.1

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET Fixed assets 605.0 599.4 Endowment asset investments 67.9 57.2 Net current assets 55.5 30.9 Total assets less current liabilities 728.4 687.5 Non-current liabilities and provisions (78.7) (80.1) Provision for liabilities and charges (1.3) (1.3) Pension assets/(liabilities) (8.1) (8.1)

TOTAL NET ASSETS 640.3 598.0 Represented by:

Deferred grants 348.2 349.5 Endowments 67.9 57.2 Reserves 224.3 192.3 Minority interest (0.1) (1.0)

To read the 2009/2010 Financial Report in full, go to www.ucl.ac.uk/finance/finance_docs/report_accts.html

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Professor Charles Mitchell Dr Eli Keshavarz Moore Chair of Laws Professor of Bioprocess Science & Enterprise

UCL Bartlett School of UCL Mathematics UCL Institute of Archaeology Graduate Studies Chair of Applied Mathematics: Professor of Mediterranean Chair of Facility Professor Valery Smyshlaev Archaeology: Management Innovation: Dr Cyprian Broodbank UCL Physics & Astronomy Professor Michael Pitt Chair of Astrophysics: Professor of Prehistory: UCL Cancer Biology Professor Bruce Swinyard Dr Susan Hamilton Chair of Stem Cell Biology: UCL Political Science Professor of Archaeological Professor Tariq Enver Chair of Government & Museum Conservation: UCL Institute of Child Health & Public Policy: Ms Elizabeth Pye Chair of Paediatric Oncology: Dr Tony Wright Professor of Medieval Professor Kathy Pritchard- Chair of Politics, Public Policy Archaeology: Jones & International Relations: Dr Andrew Reynolds True Colours Professor Albert Weale UCL Anthropology Chair of Paediatric UCL Security & Crime Science Professor of Anthropology: Palliative Care: Chair of Crime Science: Dr Sara Randall Professor Myra Professor Richard Wortley Bluebond-Langner UCL Biochemical Engineering UCL Statistical Science Professor of Bioprocess UCL Computer Science Chair of Statistics: Science & Enterprise: Chair of Computer Science: Professor Mark Girolami Dr Eli Keshavarz Moore Professor Mark Harman UCL Cell & Developmental UCL Laws Biology Chair of Judicial Studies: Professor of Developmental Professor Cheryl Thomas & Cellular Neurobiology: Chair of Laws: Dr Roberto Mayor Professor Charles Mitchell Professor of Chronobiology: Chair of Laws: Dr David Whitmore Dr Paul Mitchell UCL Chemistry Professor of Chemical Biology: Dr Helen Hailes

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UCL Metabolism & Experimental Therapeutics Professor of Experimental Inflammation & Pharmacology: Dr Derek Gilroy UCL Institute of Neurology Professor of Neurology: Dr Henry Houlden Professor of Clinical Neurology: Dr Mary Reilly Dr Philippe Marliere Dr Simon Gayther Dr Jane Holder Professor of French Professor of Cancer Genetics Professor of Environmental Law UCL Neuroscience, Physiology & European Politics & Pharmacology Professor of Systems Pharmacology: UCL Institute of Child Health UCL Computer Science UCL Gynaecological Cancer Dr Andrew Ramage Professor of Transplantation Professor of Computational Professor of Cancer Genetics: UCL Oncology Immunology: Statistics & Machine Learning: Dr Simon Gayther Professor of Medical Dr Persis Amrolia Dr Massi Pontil UCL Haematology Oncology: Professor of Ophthalmic UCL Earth Sciences Professor of Haematology: Dr Siow Ming Lee Epidemiology: Professor of Dr Atul Mehta UCL Institute of Ophthalmology Dr Jugnoo Rahi Micropalaeontology: UCL Centre for Health Professor of Visual Dr Paul Bown Professor of Paediatric Informatics & Multiprofessional Psychophysics: Rheumatology: UCL Eastman Dental Institute Education Dr Steven Dakin Dr Lucy Wedderburn Clinical Research Professor Professor of Medical Statistics UCL Physics & Astronomy in Orthodontics: & Epidemiology: Professor of Physics: Professor of Anthropology Dr Susan Cunningham Miss Sally Stenning Dr Anthony Harker & Paediatric Nutrition: Dr Jonathan Wells UCL Electronic & Electrical UCL History of Art Professor of Physics: Engineering Professor of History of Dr Robert Thorne UCL Civil, Environmental Professor of Analogue Art & Architecture: & Geomatic Engineering Professor of Physics: & Biomedical Electronics: Dr Frederic Schwartz Professor of Nonlinear Dr Matthew Wing Dr Andreas Demosthenous Dynamics: UCL Infection & Population UCL Primary Care Dr Gert Van Der Heijden UCL English Language Health & Population Health & Literature Professor of Epidemiology UCL Clinical Neuroscience Professor of Epidemiology: Professor of English: & Medical Statistics: Professor of Clinical Dr Goya Wannamethee Dr Helen Hackett Dr Amanda Mocroft Neurology: UCL Scandinavian Studies Dr Lionel Ginsberg UCL French UCL Information Studies Professor of Swedish Professor of French Professor of Information: UCL Institute of Cognitive & Gender Studies: & European Politics: Dr Ian Rowlands Neuroscience Dr Helena Forsas-Scott Dr Philippe Marliere Professor of Cognitive UCL Laws UCL Space & Climate Physics Neuroscience: UCL Genetics, Evolution Professor of Environmental Professor of Space Plasma Dr Sarah-Jayne Blakemore & Environment Law: Physics: Professor of Evolutionary Dr Jane Holder UCL Cognitive, Perceptual Dr Andrew Fazakerley Biology: & Brain Sciences UCL Mathematics Dr Kevin Fowler UCL Urology Professor of Psychology: Professor of Mathematics: Professor of Urology: Dr David Green Dr Rod Halburd Mr Mark Emberton

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Faculty Academic and Undergraduate Graduate Research Staff Students Students (as of October 2010) (2009/10) (2009/10)

UCL Arts & Humanities 184 2104 921 UCL Biomedical Sciences 2017 1916 2239 UCL Built Environment 156 674 998 UCL Engineering Sciences 401 1613 1395 UCL Laws 62 565 500 UCL Life Sciences 591 1728 1162 UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences 472 1960 592 UCL Social & Historical Sciences 290 2472 1789

Total 4173 13032 9596

36 UCL Review 2010 Leadership at 1 January 2011

Members of UCL Council Pro-Provosts and Regional Other UCL Officers Special Advisers Professor David Attwell Academic Registrar Dr Bob Barber Pro-Provost for Africa Mr Christopher Hallas Ms Anne Bulford (Treasurer) Professor Volker Sommer Dean of Students (Academic) Mr Matthew Burgess Professor Michael Ewing Mr Michael Chessum Pro-Provost for China, Hong Kong & Macau Ms Philippa Foster-Back OBE Dean of Students (Welfare) Professor Z Xiao Guo Professor Malcolm Grant CBE Dr Ruth Siddall Mr Rob Holden, CBE Pro-Provost for East & South East Asia Director of Academic Services Mr Mark Knight Professor Derek A Tocher Mr Tim R Perry Ms Catherine Newman QC Pro-Provost for Europe Ms Vivienne Parry (Vice-Chair) Director of Administration, Professor Mike Wilson Ms Katharine Roseveare UCL Medical School Dr Gill Samuels Pro-Provost for Canada, Mr Andrew J Whalley Professor Chris Thompson Mexico & USA Acting Head of Centre for the Sir Stephen Wall (Chair) Professor CJ Lim Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe Advancement of Learning Professor Maria Wyke Pro-Provost for South Asia & Teaching Dr Benet Salway & the Middle East Ms Susan Bryant Professor Vince Emery Dr Stephanie Schorge Director of Communications Design studiospecial.com Professor Nick Tyler Special Adviser on Kazakhstan Mr Mark Sudbury Professor Stefaan Simons Secretary to Council Director of Development Mr Tim Perry & Alumni Relations Mrs Lori Manders Deans of UCL Faculties Director of Estates & Facilities UCL Officers Arts and Humanities Mr J Andrew Grainger Professor Henry Woudhuysen Visitor Director of Finance The Master of the Rolls Built Environment Mrs Alison C Woodhams Professor Alan Penn Chair of Council Director of Human Resources Sir Stephen Wall (Chair) Biomedical Sciences Mr Nigel Waugh Professor Ian Jacobs Vice-Chair of Council Director of Information Services Ms Vivienne Parry Engineering Sciences Dr Mike Cope Professor Anthony Finkelstein Treasurer Director of Information Systems Ms Anne Bulford Laws Mr Gavin I McLachlan Professor Dame Hazel Genn President and Provost Director of Management Systems Professor Malcolm Grant Life Sciences Dr Will Miller Professor Mary Collins Director of Media Services Mathematical and Physical Sciences Mr Jeremy C Speller Vice-Provosts Professor Richard Catlow Director of Library Services Academic and International Social & Historical Sciences Dr Paul Ayris Professor Michael Worton Professor Stephen Smith Director of Museums, Collections Enterprise and Public Engagement Professor Steve Caddick Ms Sally MacDonald Health Director of Research Planning Professor Sir John Tooke Dr Mary E Phillips Operations Head of Graduate School Mr Rex Knight Professor I David L Bogle Research Professor David Price

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