LONDON’S GLOBAL UNIVERSITY

ReviewHighlights 2009 2009

A New Landscape for Physics

UCL is contributing a wealth of engineering, computing detectors that record, process and analyse data from and scientific expertise to the ATLAS project – one of the the events. Principal Investigator of the UK ATLAS team, detectors in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), Geneva. Professor John Butterworth (UCL Physics & Astronomy) The LHC is an underground ring-shaped tunnel, which fires describes the project as allowing physicists access to an protons at each other to create head-on collisions at undiscovered, high-energy realm in which everyday forces, unprecedented energy levels. An international collaboration such as electromagnetism, behave completely differently. of 2,500 scientists, ATLAS consists of highly sophisticated Credit: ESA Contents Introduction

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Global 8 Welcome to UCL’s annual review for 2009, which offers a flavour of what we have achieved over the past year, Teaching & Learning 11 and of our aspirations for the year to come. Enterprise 14

Highlights 2009 17 The past year has once again seen a continuing stream Awards & Appointments 21 of fine achievements on the part of students and staff. Yet it has been a challenging period for UCL in many respects. London 26 We have felt already the impact of the global recession and know that we face a challenging economic future. Finance & Investment 30 In response to concerns about the employment prospects of last This approach is reflected in our ambitions as London’s Global Professorial Appointments 34 year’s graduating class, we launched a unique support package. University. We have entered into new models of global teaching We wanted to encourage new graduates to extend their learning and research through founding overseas institutes and 35 Professorial Promotions and enhance their qualifications, so we offered a significant fees collaborations, including the innovative new partnership with reduction on our taught masters courses, and the opportunity Yale University and our respective partner hospitals. People 36 Design studiospecial.com to spend 8–12 weeks on fully funded internships with local A word about league tables. UCL’s progress in the Times businesses. We also ran a series of Entrepreneurship Boot Leadership 37 Higher-QS world university rankings has been widely described Camps for them which proved overwhelmingly popular. as meteoric. Our stock has risen from place 34 five years ago, On a broader front, we offered support to the London economy by significant margins every year, until October 2009, when we by engaging with business and the public and voluntary sectors, were declared to be in fourth place, overtaking both Oxford and tackling problems through the application of discoveries in Imperial. We do not, of course, claim that the methodology is science and through commercialising innovation in engineering, rigorous, but this result nonetheless captures very accurately UCL – London’s Global University healthcare and technology. We enjoy strong relationships with the enormous strength of this great institution. London’s other global institutions, from the City to the museums With intense pressure on public funding, the coming years will and galleries, research institutes, hospitals, Whitehall and be challenging for universities. I want UCL to be able to look Westminster. We are wholly open for business through back and say that we were the university who responded best. partnership and collaboration. We are We are committed It is with this in mind that we are embarking in 2010 upon a • a world-class centre of research and teaching, • to the pursuit of excellence and sustainability process intended to define UCL’s course over the coming years. dedicated to developing and disseminating original • to maintaining rich academic diversity Structured around the four key concepts of sustainability, impact, knowledge to benefit the world of the future. embracing the Arts and Sciences student experience and internationality, our strategy will set out • to equality of opportunity and fulfilment the values and processes required to meet future challenges. The underpinning principle will always be excellence, and of We believe of potential for all our staff and students. that you will find many examples in this annual report. • 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 Professor Malcolm Grant • independent thought UCL President and Provost • integrity • energy • perseverance.

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Focus on: UCL Grand Challenges

UCL’s second Grand Challenge, that of Sustainable Cities, was formally launched in July. The UCL Grand Challenges programme provides time, space and support to allow our talented researchers to interact and collaborate across and beyond specific academic disciplines, because together they can have an impact exponentially greater than that which they can achieve alone.

Brooklyn, New York Image: Mr Daniel Fitzpatrick (UCL Bartlett School of Planning)

Intercultural Interaction and Human Wellbeing growth will further stress the urban environment, posing Work on UCL’s Grand Challenges of Intercultural Interaction significant problems in areas such as food security, energy, water, and of Human Wellbeing began in 2009, with the aims of waste, transport, economy, trade, manufacture, wealth creation creating new modes of collaboration across disciplines at UCL and quality of life – problems UCL is poised to address. and developing partnerships with institutions and organisations Other initiatives in the Sustainable Cities inaugural year included: from the public, private and third sector. Building on these Franny Armstrong (UCL Zoology 1994), director of The Age of approaches, the programmes sought to enhance the impact Stupid, participating in an expert panel discussion following the of UCL’s research, to influence intellectual debate, shape film’s screening; an examination of the legacy of the London policy development and engage the wider public. Olympics called Growing a New Piece of City: Designing a The Grand Challenge of Intercultural Interaction examines the Legacy for 21st Century London; a one-day symposium on causes and features of social and cultural diversity, assesses Just Enough: Sufficiency and the Cultural Imagination; and the their implications and devises novel strategies to address them. start of major research projects on Cities and Migration, Cities It works to mobilise expertise on the complexity of relations and Water, Healthy Cities and London’s long-term future. Cross-disciplinary collaboration was a central feature Land in Mumbai is a valuable commodity between individuals and groups from different ethnic, religious of major developments in UCL’s research in 2009. Image: Mr William Hunter (UCL Bartlett Development Planning Unit) and linguistic backgrounds and heritage, between states, Global Health The excellence of our 4,000 individual researchers – evident The second of UCL’s Grand Challenges, that of Sustainable regions and civil societies, and between intellectual and A major report by The Lancet and UCL warned that climate in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise – is key to everything Cities, was formally launched to mark the university’s artistic traditions and developments. change is the biggest global-health threat of the 21st century. that UCL accomplishes. Recruiting and retaining the best minds commitment to deploying the breadth of its expertise The Grand Challenge of Human Wellbeing considers both Managing the Health Effects of Climate Change was the work remains our university’s central concern. – in imaginative, interdisciplinary collaborations and the nature of being human and the nature of wellbeing. It of UCL academics from many disciplines across the university partnerships with policymakers and practitioners – to make Yet it is what these minds can do together – working across encompasses: how to achieve lifelong wellbeing for individuals – including health, anthropology, geography, engineering, our cities fit for purpose. and beyond conventional boundaries – that makes UCL’s and for society, including physical, mental, social and economics, law and philosophy. potential impact on the world’s major problems extraordinary. External alliances focused on health also thrived, with a new environmental wellbeing; how to achieve wellbeing in the context Shortly after the publication, UCL was represented at the partnership between UCL and Yale University, and ongoing of different social and economic goals and priorities; and topics The formal launch in 2009 of several significant research Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting on Health & Climate progress with UCL Partners, bringing the university together relating to happiness, cultural wellbeing, health and social justice. groups reflected this approach to collaboration; they included Change and the World Health Assembly meeting, which with four of its teaching hospitals, and the UK Centre for the UCL Institute of Origins, the UCL Centre for Stem Cells sets priorities for the World Health Organization. Six briefing Medical Research & Innovation, a collaboration between & Regenerative Medicine, the UCL Energy Institute, the UCL Sustainable Cities papers on managing the health effects of climate change, UCL, Cancer Research UK, the Medical Research Council Institute for Human Rights, the UCL Genetics Institute and Hundreds of invited guests – including policymakers and commissioned from UCL by the Commonwealth Secretariat, and the Wellcome Trust. the UCL Urban Laboratory. practitioners from government bodies and non-governmental were also published. organisations, architectural practices and engineering firms – UCL ‘Town Meetings’ prepared the way for further thematic Professor David Price UCL’s Grand Challenge of Global Health continued its series were welcomed by UCL President and Provost Professor Malcolm of interdisciplinary symposia, this year including sessions on collaboration, this year on digital humanities, infectious diseases, UCL Vice-Provost (Research) Grant for the launch of Sustainable Cities, a response to the rapid developmental cognitive neuroscience, risk and disaster global finance, adolescent health, forgotten child health issues, expansion of urban areas that will see some 80 per cent of social determinants of health and population growth. reduction, and Europe. humanity living in cities by the end of the century. This rapid

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£5 million for nanotechnology Implementation of open access healthcare research policy to all research UCL won four grants worth a total of UCL announced the establishment of just over £5 million from the Engineering a UCL Publications Board to implement and Physical Sciences Research Council the university’s open access policy (EPSRC) to support research into and be responsible for ensuring that, large-scale integrated projects that exploit subject to copyright permissions, all nanotechnology for healthcare purposes. UCL research is placed online in the The projects will focus on using university’s institutional repository, freely nanotechnologies – systems that function accessible to all. This move places UCL at the level of molecules – to advance at the forefront of academic institutions knowledge and treatment of cancer, who are pioneering the move to Open dementia and HIV. Projects include the Access, as the first European university investigation of novel high-efficiency ranked in the global top ten in the targeting agents that can treat locally THE–QS world university rankings to metastatic cancers (cancers that spread do so. Open access is a new form of out from a primary site in the body), the dissemination for published books, targeted delivery of novel therapies for articles, conference proceedings and Alzheimer’s disease, research into digital outputs. portable, non-invasive imaging methods to detect colon cancer biomarkers, and First preconception baby tested for UCL’s role in a world-leading consortium genetic breast cancer to engineer and commercialise the next The first baby tested preconceptionally in generation of multi-marker HIV smart Microscopic image of a human cell loaded British Slave Ownership Study the UK for a genetic form of breast cancer chips, which will rapidly diagnose and with nano-magnets (in red) Image: Library of Congress (BRCA1) has been born. Women who monitor HIV in resource-limited Image: Dr Manfred Junemann-Ramirez (Centre for Cardiovascular Biology carry this genetic variation have an 80 per environments such as district hospitals, and Medicine, UCL Division of Medicine) and Mr Panagiotis Kyrtatos (Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging, UCL Division of Medicine cent chance of developing breast cancer GP surgeries and developing countries. and Institute of Child Health) and a 60 per cent chance of developing ovarian cancer during their lifetime. Ninth EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training Ten industry-linked awards from MRC management or business strategy. £5.8m grant to improve interactive deliver improvements in the design and Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) A new Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) UCL has received funding for ten new UCL also received two awards in the MRC medical devices selection of devices and training users. provides information regarding the genetic in Energy Demand Reduction & the Built awards from the Medical Research Capacity Building Studentship Scheme, A team from the UCL Interaction Centre It will both save lives and improve the status of the embryo, to be known prior Environment – a collaboration between Council (MRC), which aim to strengthen which funds targeted PhD courses to help (UCLIC) has been awarded a £5.8m grant standard of living, particularly of those to conception. It has the added advantage the UCL Energy Institute and research training links between academia UK research organisations make a from the EPSRC. CHI+MED (Computer- with long-term illnesses. of avoiding the potential dilemma and Loughborough University – has been and industry and to meet the UK’s need significant impact on unmet national Human Interaction for Medical Devices) physical and emotional trauma of

funded by the Engineering & Physical for health research skills. UCL has been needs for advanced biomedical and is improving devices that are designed undergoing a termination of an affected UCL British slave ownership study Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). awarded eight industrial CASE PhD health research skills. to be used by people without extensive pregnancy. The Assisted Conception A major investigation into Britain’s debt The centre will receive £5.8 million over studentships with seven different industrial technical training, such as infusion Unit and the PGD group at the UCL to slavery revealed founders of banking the next eight years to support 40 partners, the highest number received devices, glucometers and vital signs Institute for Women’s Health have UCL excellence recognised by AHRC dynasties who benefited from slavery. students through a doctorate programme by any UK institution. The awards aim to monitors. The CHI+MED team involves pioneered and successfully applied this The Arts & Humanities Research Council The three-year UCL project, Legacies in energy-demand reduction in buildings. support the provision of multidisciplinary investigators from Swansea University, technology for avoiding transmission (AHRC), awarded UCL with funding for of British Slave Ownership sponsored A further 40 students will be supported research training between industry and City University, the Royal Free Hospital, of cancer predispositions in a whole 447 research posts over the next five by the Economic and Social Research from the partner universities’ own funds. academia that will enhance the student the Singleton Hospital and Queen Mary host of cancers. years as part of new Block Grant Council (ESRC), built a systematic The strategic aim is to educate the next experience and provide a range of skills College, University of London. Medical Partnership (BGP) Scheme. The AHRC analysis of the economic, commercial, generation of highly skilled and broadly to strengthen the research workforce. errors in the UK are estimated to kill or Computer scientists on ‘database confirmed that UCL was “one of the most political, cultural, social and physical based energy researchers to lead and All those who take up a studentship seriously injure 74,000 a year. Many of state’ failure successful” of the 48 institutions to receive legacies of slave ownership. The study support the complex, multidisciplinary will be based at UCL but will also spend these involve mistakes using interactive Researchers from UCL Computer Science BGP funding, winning 81 per cent of posts sought to highlight the major companies, task of driving down energy demand part of their time with the company. medical devices, so the ease of use and contributed to a study, entitled Database submitted. The UCL allocation will fund art collections and institutions that can and CO emissions from the UK The industry placement is expected to reliability of such devices is critical. The State, that reveals that a quarter of all 2 176 PhD and 271 MA awards. trace their existence back to colonial building stock. include business-related training for the project will work with those who design, public sector databases are flawed. slavery in the 19th century. student in areas such as project purchase, deploy and use devices, to According to the report, published by

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the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, only Ovarian cancer screening tests 15 per cent of major public sector Preliminary results of a UCL-led databases are effective, proportionate investigation suggest that testing women and necessary. The report recommends for ovarian cancers may become a reality. new measures to promote scrutiny and Following the largest randomised trial transparency of all IT projects; radical of ovarian cancer screening to date, initiatives to select and train civil servants Professor Ian Jacobs (Dean of UCL Health to handle complex systems; and changes Sciences Research and Director of the to public-sector procurement rules to UCL Institute for Women’s Health), and favour more medium-sized systems over Dr Usha Menon (Head of the UCL very large projects. Gynaecological Cancer Research Centre), published their findings inThe Lancet

Oncology. The report indicates that two UKCMRI strategy and design revealed tests – a multimodal one involving a Further details of the UK Centre for UKCMRI interior combined blood test and ultrasound, and Medical Research and Innovation a transvaginal ultrasound – are feasible (UKCMRI) were revealed at a press on a large scale and capable of detecting conference in December. A partnership early stage ovarian cancers. between UCL, Cancer Research UK, the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust, its aim is to develop New centre for sustainable transport understanding of and treatments for The ESRC, the Department for Transport Carson, Los Angeles illnesses such as cancers, heart disease, and the Scottish Government announced Image: Professor Matthew Gandy (UCL Geography) infections and stroke. The architectural the creation of a new centre – the UK plans for the site near St Pancras were Transport Research Centre (UKTRC) – unveiled along with the scientific vision which will help to revolutionise research and research strategy of the centre. and knowledge transfer in transport and The vision summarises how the centre the social sciences, and in which UCL is Focus on: climate change will use interdisciplinary and innovative a key partner. The centre will initially fund approaches to reveal the basic biology research into key policy areas including of human health, necessary to attack productivity and competitiveness, impacts low-carbon world, plays a leading role in advising government The past year saw UCL focus many of its intellectual the causes of disease. of non-transport technologies, travel and industry, and its research embraces everything from legal London Underground resources on climate change and its growing impact governance of climate change, and to frameworks for carbon capture to modelling demand for on global health, particularly the publication of the provide direct research support to the transporting people and goods. The following month, UCL Magnetricity observed and measured Managing the Health Effects of Climate Change report Department for Transport. formally launched Sustainable Cities, the second of its four for the first time (see focus on UCL Grand Challenges p.3). Grand Challenges (see focus on UCL Grand Challenges). A magnetic charge can behave and interact just like an electric charge in UCLP announces academic strategy As if to underline this commitment, a major UCL-led programme some materials, according to new In November 2009, the Board of UCL UCL’s Centre for Sustainable Heritage was rewarded for its was subsequently shortlisted for an award recognising an research led by the London Centre for Partners (UCLP) – an alliance between key role in a project to map and model the likely impact of ‘outstanding contribution to sustainable development’. The Times Nanotechnology (LCN). The findings UCL and its associated teaching hospitals a changing climate on Europe’s cultural heritage. The Noah’s Higher Education (THE) Awards 2009 acknowledged the impact could lead to a reassessment of current – approved the new academic strategy Ark project won a Europa Nostra Award, which recognises of UrbanBuzz, UCL’s flagship two-year knowledge exchange magnetism theories, as well as significant for the partnership. The strategy is outstanding research on the impact of global climate change on programme that brought together experts from the private, technological advances. The study, underpinned by the key principles the built heritage and cultural landscapes. The project examines academic and public sectors to develop new approaches to published in Nature, proves the existence of academic excellence, a focus on the processes of change in building materials and ensembles, the challenge of creating sustainable communities. and the indoor environments of historic buildings that often house of atom-sized ‘magnetic charges’ that translation, genuine engagement, irreplaceable fixtures, fittings, furniture and decorative art. Staff at the UCL Environment Institute became their own behave and interact just like electric promotion of innovation, national and objects of study as they calculated the carbon footprint of their charges. It also demonstrates a perfect global impact, optimal training The UCL Energy Institute, launched in June, was set up to work-related travel as part of an ongoing attempt to reduce the symmetry between electricity and environments for clinical and clinician coordinate and stimulate research on energy and carbon- institute’s impact on the environment. magnetism – a phenomenon dubbed scientists, and integration with the Health emissions reductions across the university by building ‘magnetricity’ by the authors. Innovation and Education Clusters. Drosophilia ovaries multidisciplinary teams and supporting ambitious projects. Image: Miss Emily Richardson (MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology) The institute, which seeks to draw up a working blueprint for a

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Focus on: WHO impact

At our World Health Organization (WHO) meeting, health ministers from 192 countries agreed on a landmark resolution to reduce health inequalities, in response to the findings of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH), chaired by Professor Sir Michael Marmot (UCL Epidemiology & Public Health). Social determinants of health are the conditions in which people live, including the health system. They are shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources at global and local levels. These determinants are responsible for the unfair and avoidable differences in health status.

Following the publication of the UCL–Lancet Commission on Managing the Health Effects of Climate Change report, UCL was represented at the Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting on Health & Climate Change and the World Health Assembly The Dharavi Slum, Mumbai meeting – which sets priorities for the WHO – in May 2009. Image: Mr George Carothers (UCL Bartlett School of Planning) Dr Mary Phillips, UCL Director of Research Planning, attended the meetings in Geneva, Switzerland. The Commonwealth Health Ministers were also presented with a series of briefing papers commissioned from UCL, which summarised the report’s findings.

At UCL, we want our students to be global citizens; Filling funding gap for overseas research Long-term impact of detention centres Improving maternity care in Africa A small public library supported by UCL Library students students who understand the context of what they A report conducted by the Migration Improving health facilities and access to Services opening in India this year UCL introduced a £1.3 million annual Research Unit at UCL and the Zimbabwe drugs could mean 60,000 fewer maternal are studying. overseas research student scholarship Association showed that the impact of deaths in Africa per year from post-partum For us, developing global citizenship is more than simply Our sponsorship of the Camden Academy, whilst local to our award scheme to replace a national detention is enduring – even if the period bleeding and sepsis, according to a study developing a series of attributes in our students: it is the London campus, will see 14 - 19 year olds involved in international scheme being phased out by the national in custody is relatively short. The majority by Dr Christina Pagel (UCL Clinical creation of a new kind of student who understands that they partnerships, so that they are aware of, for example, how to work funding body HEFCE. UCL is the first UK of detainees interviewed experienced Operational Research Unit), Professor are always going to be working in a global as well as a local across time zones or how the religious obligations affect in very university to launch an equivalent scheme acute short-term distress – including Anthony Costello (UCL Institute of Child context. We want our students to be critical but also creative practical ways how a schools or businesses are run in other of its own to ensure that the most talented deterioration in mental and physical Health) and colleagues. Maternal mortality in their thinking, and this can only happen by looking beyond countries. We have also created a new kind of Masters degree international postgraduate students health, and difficulties in re-adjusting to ratios have changed little since 1990 and our own frames of reference. in our new campus in Adelaide in Australia, where students will continue to receive funding to come to life in the community. The longer-term progress towards Millennium Development spend the whole of their second year working in a company on the university to study. The UCL Overseas effects were worse among ex-detainees Goal 5 – to improve maternal health – Putting global citizenship into practice means that all our a research project determined by industry and thereby gaining Research Scholarships (UCL-ORS) will who remain in limbo in the UK. They is far off track in sub-Saharan Africa: departments are internationalising their curriculum. We can’t sustained work experience. Ultimately, our aim is to create a offer funding to successful applicants described feeling depressed and anxious, the maternal mortality rate has fallen by simply pepper our lectures and seminars with examples triangulation across all our global campuses between from around the world outside the EU. and some said they had felt suicidal. only 16 deaths per 100,000 since 1990. from other countries; we need to explore and come fully to government, UCL and business and industry. The only criteria will be the academic Although those who had since been Having developed three intervention understand and then learn from different methodologies from excellence and the research potential recognised as refugees were faring better, packages and a mathematical model, across the world. It is vital that we use these and other, different Professor Michael Worton of each applicant. The scheme will be they tended to have a great sense of the researchers estimated that the perspectives to inform our programmes and our teaching styles, UCL Vice-Provost (Academic & International) phased in over three years, starting in being victims of injustice – a feeling that packages could prevent between seven in order to ensure that we provide a range of learning and 2009/10, and will maintain funding at the was not eradicated by subsequent per cent and 36 per cent of deaths. assessment methods that are not only rigorous academically levels currently set in the national scheme, acceptance of asylum claims and being but also culturally relevant. ORSAS. granted British citizenship.

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European travel cultural heritage portal UCL SERAus enrolment begins Books, maps and manuscripts from UCL’s School of Energy and Resources the UCL School of Slavonic and East in Australia (UCL SERAus), the university’s European Studies (SSEES) that date first overseas campus, opened enrolment back nearly 500 years will reach a global for its pioneering executive education audience on a new cultural heritage portal courses, which started in August 2009. giving access to digital content on the The school offers four executive education themes of travel, tourism, trade routes streams – short, intensive courses, and exploration from Europe’s leading suitable for middle managers working libraries. Under the auspices of in or providing services to the energy EuropeanaTravel – a two-year digitisation and resources industry who are looking project funded by the European Union to advance their careers. – SSEES will contribute around 160,000 Each course is led by a UCL academic pages from 300 books and other works to and explores real world issues, Europeana.eu, providing comprehensive advancements and concepts related coverage of travel writing relating to to the energy and resources sector. Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, In addition, each course features two and Russia from 1557–1860. high profile guest speakers – one with international expertise and the other with The authenticity of Hawaiian feasting a specialist focus from within Australia. Dr Kaori O’Connor (UCL Anthropology) This structure brings together staff and has won the international 2009 Sophie guest speakers with extensive global Europeana Travel project Coe Prize in Food History for her paper connections and other like-minded sector ‘The Hawaiian Luau: Food As Tradition, professionals, providing outstanding Transgression, Transformation and Travel’. networking opportunities. In the paper, described as “a superb UCL SERAus is the outcome of a piece of scholarship” by the judges and partnership agreement between UCL, published in the journal Food, Culture Yale global health alliance the Government of South Australia, and & Society, Dr O’Connor lays bare the UCL and Yale University formed an Santos Limited, one of Australia’s largest religious, social and political history of alliance to improve global health through energy companies. It aims to provide a the feast to explain why its present-day scientific research, clinical and range of programmes to address areas pineapple-and-pork image is a far cry educational collaboration. The agreement of skill shortage identified by industry from the original ritual. in France; he made me understand the spoken and the written brings together the skills and expertise of and government, and to provide scientists Every year is marked by moments. At UCL, the most word as two very different experiences. But beyond that, he also UCL and its associated hospitals (known and engineers with management skills memorable are those where we discover more about taught me to think about ‘the Other’, and this is perhaps one as UCL Partners), Yale University and UCL archaeologist returns to Somaliland through courses designed specifically ourselves, the world and our place within it. For learning of the most important issues for learning and teaching in a Yale-New Haven Hospital. It is based on Sada Mire, a PhD student at the UCL for the energy sector. and teaching, these moments are our raison d’être 21st century world. In every learning encounter, people are the universities’ shared aims to advance Institute of Archaeology, returned to her because they inspire us to do things differently, to think coming from different backgrounds, offering a rich diversity biomedical research and treatment of native Somaliland to investigate cultural differently, even to live differently. An inspiring person landscapes. She is the first British-based of experience that can inform and enhance our own. disease for people around the world. The or moment takes us forward into our lives and remains new collaboration will immediately create researcher to work in Somaliland for 28 with us. It may be a tutor, a seminar, a discovery, Professor Michael Worton new joint clinical programmes to treat years – and the only Somali archaeologist UCL Vice-Provost (Academic & International) cardiomyopathy, congenital heart disease, anywhere in the world. The government in someone or something that shapes our thinking and sudden cardiac death and chronic total Somaliland have expressed their support changes the way we see the world. for her project, which is the first occlusion of the coronary arteries. In For me, it was my modern French theatre tutor at Edinburgh indigenous archaeology project to take addition to exchanging expert physicians University: he was enthusiastic, energetic and completely place there. The project will focus on the to treat individual cases at each site, the passionate about a subject that he wanted us to understand by cultural uses of the landscape, and will members of the collaboration will make doing it and not simply by reading about it. It was partly because include an archaeological survey of use of telemedicine technology to share of him that I later trained in acting and mime and theatre direction clinical information and expertise among significant sites. themselves, and eventually with other institutions around the world. Rock painting, Somaliland

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PhD student investigating giant Global Citizenship Lectures Student ambassador visits Kuwait downturn. UCL offered its graduating underwater volcano UCL hosted three lectures in association Jack Davies, a 2nd Year LLB student in students a £1,000 discount on tuition fees A PhD student from UCL Earth Sciences with the Commonwealth Secretariat, UCL Laws, was among six British students for masters programmes, a week-long joined an expedition to investigate a giant designed to explore key issues around who travelled to Kuwait as guests of summer ‘boot camp’ in entrepreneurship underwater volcano in the Pacific Ocean. the concept of global citizenship, focusing Kuwait University in December, as part to teach graduates the basics of starting Kate Littler spent two months aboard the particularly on areas relevant to UCL’s of an initiative of the university to improve up a business, reading balance sheets JOIDES (Joint Oceanographic Institutions research and teaching agendas and its relations with selected UK universities. and producing a solid business plan, for Deep Earth Sampling) Resolution as to the international activities of the During his packed schedule, Jack a raft of new graduate programmes in shipboard sedimentologist. The Integrated secretariat. Guest speakers included experienced tastes of Kuwaiti culture, management, enterprise and the Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) explores Ransford Smith, Commonwealth Deputy industry, charity organisations, and commercialisation of science and Earth’s history and structure recorded in Secretary General, Professor Ngaire education with enough time to even attend technology, an increase in the number seafloor sediments and rocks. The aim of Woods, Director, Economic Governance a traditional wedding. of graduates on internships with UCL the expedition was to drill and recover Programme, University of Oxford, and departments, spin-out companies and

igneous rocks from the Shatsky Rise, Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen, corporate partners, and additional National Student Entrepreneurship which erupted in the ancient Pacific about who gave a stimulating and challenging investment in UCL’s Careers Service success 200 million years ago, and to investigate lecture which explored ideas around to ensure graduates have access to Undergraduates from UCL Management how this huge structure was first formed. ‘organised violence’ (war, genocide, professional careers support for at least Science & Innovation received the second Ms Littler helped to describe and interpret terrorism) and violence against the one year following graduation. prize in an entrepreneurship challenge at the layers of marine sedimentary rock that individual. an event organised by e-skills UK and cover the plateau. leading software provider CA UK & Work experience praise from students Shaping the curriculum for a global Ireland. Kerry Benford, Lauren Garcia, and businesses Scholarship awards university and Sarah Mazuch delivered a A perfect partnership – that was the Pi Magazine In December, UCL’s newest scholarship UCL held a one-day colloquium on presentation on how IT can be exploited verdict of companies that hosted UCL Jack Davies, UCL student ambassador recipients were presented with their ‘Shaping the curriculum for a global in the current economic climate, before students on work experience during award certificates at the annual university’ on 23 June, bringing fielding questions from company summer 2009. Companies ranging from Scholarship Awards Ceremony. The together colleagues from across professionals. In addition to the team start-ups to multinationals signed up for Pi listed for Guardian Student Media event was attended by the 145 winners the UCL community to explore how prize, Kerry came second out of 100 the innovative scheme, which involved Awards and their guests; Ambassadors, High departments are developing curricula students in a competition to win a day hosting one or more students for six to Pi Magazine, written and published Commissioners and other senior that are international in scope and shadowing the senior vice-president eight weeks. All the placements by UCL students, was a runner-up for diplomats from some of the 46 countries which embody UCL’s global citizenship of CA UK & Ireland. represented real opportunities to gain ‘Magazine of the Year’ in the prestigious represented by the scholars; and principles. Internationalisation of the training and experience while earning a Guardian Student Media Awards. representatives of some of the funding curriculum is an important strategic stipend of £200 a week from the university. The magazine is dedicated to student Teaching, Learning and Assessment organisations, including Abbey, the Karim objective for UCL, and a key element More than 50 students from a range of culture and regularly features high-profile public forum Rida Said Foundation and the Ernest of the Global Citizenship agenda. different academic disciplines secured interviews. UCL student magazine UCL’s teaching, learning and assessment Hecht Charitable Foundation. placements through the scheme, which Cheese Grater was shortlisted in the strategy for the next six years was Students from the Study China programme was organised by UCL Advances. same category in 2007. The awards seek UCL student nominated for Black discussed at a public forum organised out the best student writers, designers, UCL degree taster for students by students Achievement Award by Professor Michael Worton, UCL broadcasters, editors and photographers. 30 A-level students had a sample of Oluwatosin Taiwo, a UCL Human Genetics Vice-Provost (Academic & International) Provost’s Teaching Awards Study China The magazine category recognises English studies at degree level at a graduate, was a nominee at the 2009 in February. The meeting pulled together 11 UCL staff members were recognised Five UCL students spent three weeks “an intelligent mix: accurate targeting three-day summer school in July. Students Black Academic Achievement Awards. recent teaching and learning activity for their outstanding contribution to in the Far East as part of Study China, of the student and local readership; were recruited from eight different During her degree Oluwatosin worked and invited staff involvement in the excellence and innovation in teaching a UK government-funded programme that strong ideas; high-quality writing; institutions, most of which were from as a part-time laboratory assistant, helped development of the strategic priorities at the Provost’s Teaching Awards. gives students an opportunity to learn thoughtful packaging of articles; clear sectors currently under-represented in with new student inductions and mentored for teaching and learning across UCL Now in their third year, the awards about the country’s language and culture. and confident presentation, design, the study of English literature. Organised first-year students. She was also on the in the medium term. celebrate leadership in teaching and The students flew out to one of two host and ‘selling’ of contents.” by research students at UCL English, the Dean’s list for outstanding achievement in learning across UCL’s eight faculties, institutions, Shandong University in

summer school covered specific eras in recognition of the high grades she gained and demonstrate our commitment to Shandong Province and Nanjing Graduate support package English literary history from the Anglo- throughout her degree. Diane Abbott MP the promotion of research-led teaching. University in Jiansu Province. Their varied UCL invested £500,000 in a radical set Saxon period to the present day, and established the awards in 2006 to The awards have four categories: itinerary included a visit to the Peking of measures to support students facing included film screenings and field trips to celebrate high-achieving black students. beginning of career, experienced Opera, Mandarin lessons, lectures, and the prospect of graduating into a difficult places of literary or historical significance academic staff, postgraduate teaching classes in Chinese art forms such as Tai employment market during the economic including the British Museum. assistants and supporting learning. chi, calligraphy, painting, and martial arts.

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Enterprise Enterprise

Amyloidosis and Alzheimer’s Research commercialisation award collaborations Professor Mohan Edirisinghe (UCL Professor Mark Pepys (Director of the Mechanical Engineering), Chair of UCL Centre for Amyloidosis and Acute Biomaterials, has been awarded the 2009 Phase Proteins) has conducted long-term Kroll prize from the Institute of Materials, amyloidosis research, which has led to Minerals & Mining for his research on highly promising breakthroughs and a inorganic materials and the 2009 Brian GlaxoSmithKline collaboration to develop Mercer Innovation Feasibility Award from a drug-antibody for the disease. the Royal Society. Professor Edirisinghe Amyloidosis is caused by amyloid was commended for the Kroll medal deposits in the body that results in and prize for his significant scholarly progressive organ failure in patients. contribution to materials chemistry as It also has an aspect in common with applied to the industrial production of Alzheimer’s disease: amyloids are present materials. The Brian Mercer Awards in the brain of patients with Alzheimer’s. aim to encourage enthusiasm and After successful pre-clinical studies, in entrepreneurship in today’s scientists. which the development of both diseases The award recognised a proposal for have been arrested, new doors of the development of novel engineering research have opened for Professor devices for healthcare to be undertaken Pepys, whose team is embarking on by the UCL Microencapsulation for clinical trials to examine treatments for Drug Delivery Group. These devices both diseases. can transport different combinations of fluids and suspensions simultaneously

under the influence of an electric field. Research at the LCN Ocera Therapeutics licenses UCL liver Such devices will immensely advance failure research modern drug delivery and tissue UCL Business and biopharmaceutical engineering strategies. company Ocera Therapeutics Inc have signed an exclusive worldwide Industry microscope training partnership licensing agreement for UCL-L1V – UCL & Arup collaboration and training The London Centre for Nanotechnology a compound that can be used to treat UCL has signed a memorandum of Section of a murine eye with nuclei of retinal (LCN) – a partnership between UCL and The best moment of 2009 for me was putting pen to acute hepatic encephalopathy (AHE) – understanding (MoU) with global firm cells stained blue Imperial College London – has joined paper to sign up to a three-year strategic alliance with a common complication of cirrhosis Arup to boost collaboration and training Image: Dr Anastasios Georgiadis (UCL Institute of Ophthalmology) forces with Veeco Instruments to train GlaxoSmithKline at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and acute liver failure. Symptoms of AHE in a number of fields including design, industry and academics in the use of (IoO). That moment saw three or four years’ hard work include impaired cognition, uncontrolled engineering and sustainable development. Atomic Force Microscopes (AFM). movements and decreased levels The MoU will encourage researchers to at the IoO come together. Veeco specialises in the manufacture of of consciousness leading to coma. work jointly on projects, exchange measurement equipment including AFMs, It was especially poignant for me because it reflected a general We’ve also seen UCL develop a significant income stream International research led by Professor personnel, share supervision of doctoral a type of high-resolution microscope that shift over the year towards deeper and longer-term relationships through licensing agreements, with agreements in the fields Rajiv Jalan and the Liver Failure Group training programmes, enable students is one of the foremost tools for imaging, with pharmaceutical partners – including Pfizer – on the London of liver failure and amyloidosis. at the UCL Institute of Hepatology showed to spend time in each organisation, and measuring and manipulating matter at Project to Cure Blindness. These strategic alliances are resulting the compound directly reduces blood share thinking on innovation. It also aims Overall, this has been a year where a great deal of work has the nanoscale. The training course is in comprehensive collaborations between UCL scientists and levels of ammonia: a highly toxic chemical to boost knowledge transfer to businesses. been put into the foundations of new projects, which we will sanctioned by a professional certification business people, with many benefits to UCL. that builds up during attacks of AHE. It builds on projects including The Thames see come to fruition in 2010 and beyond. controlled and maintained by the LCN, I am delighted that Enterprise has been able to develop in this Ocera will develop the licensed compound Gateway Institute for Sustainability, a which will be valid for three years to way during a recession, and what is more, we’ve harnessed as a treatment for AHE in patients with research institute to be set in the heart guarantee the practical competences the power of UCL Advances this year to support our graduates liver disease. Clinical trials in patients of a new sustainability industries park of certified staff. with a recession-busting package worth £2.5 million, which has Professor Mike Spyer are taking place at centres including at Dagenham Dock, as part of the delivered significant training to our graduates, helping them UCL Vice-Provost (Enterprise) University College Hospital. regeneration of the area. to market themselves in a tight time for employment.

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Enterprise Highlights 2009

Imhotep bronze from the UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology scanned using the Arius3D Image: Ms Mona Hess (UCL Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering)

UCL hosts seedcamps for fledgling Entrepreneurship Guest Lecture series Virtual exhibitions partnership entrepreneurs Lord Karan Bilimoria, Founder of Cobra New partnership agreements have been The fledgling entrepreneurs of the future Beers and cross-bench life peer, was signed that enable the university to take took part in a week-long training course, among the speakers during the a leading role in the development of hosted by UCL Advances. Seedcamp university’s Entrepreneurship Guest virtual exhibitions in the arts and heritage sees top venture capital investors and Lecture Series. Lord Bilimoria – the sector. UCL has extended its agreement business leaders representing many of National Champion for the National with Arius3D for the loan of a 3D colour the leading European technology start-up Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship laser scanner, which has already been companies share their expertise with – outlined his views on how the UK should used to scan artefacts in the UCL Petrie students. The occasion is an opportunity fight its way out of the current economic Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, which for mentoring and networking for the next climate, with the help of the Government. can display and support 3D imaging of its generation and aims to support first-time UCL Advances, the university’s centre collection, while retaining copyright of the entrepreneurs as they develop their for entrepreneurship, hosted the events. images. Use of the scanner has already business ideas and their confidence. generated £2.5 million of research income

and the new agreement will allow UCL to Enterprise awards stage touring exhibitions based on scans Learning from Ovid The UCL Bloomsbury Theatre hosted the of artefacts in its custody and further Maurice Biriotti, UCL Honorary Visiting second annual UCL Awards for Enterprise relationships with external institutions. Professor of Humanities for Business, on 15 May to honour many of the most delivered his inaugural lecture ‘Learning notable entrepreneurial and commercial UCL has also entered into a contract from Ovid: Literary and Organisational activities that have taken place within with Íomhánna Éigipteach Teoranta (IET), Transformation’ in April. Professor Biriotti UCL during the last year while also for licensing 3D images and for the has founded a successful consultancy bringing together academics with development of virtual exhibitions. firm, which applies humanities teaching businesses and investors. The awards UCL aims to set international standards to commercial challenges of all kinds. are unique among UK universities as for 3D laser technology and 3D His approach is at the leading edge of a an event that celebrates a complete visualisation in the heritage sector, sea-change in management training and cross-section of enterprise activities. as well as developing significant new executive education, which has received technologies for authentication, A New Landscape for Physics added impetus by the downturn now registration and measurement of decay.

confronting the economy. The scanner’s applications also serve a UCL is contributing a wealth of engineering, computing detectors that record, process and analyse data from range of sectors, including engineering, and scientific expertise to the ATLAS project – one of the the events. Principal Investigator of the UK ATLAS team,

medicine, dentistry, anthropology, detectors in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), Geneva. Professor John Butterworth (UCL Physics & Astronomy) archaeology, art and architecture. The LHC is an underground ring-shaped tunnel, which fires describes the project as allowing physicists access to an protons at each other to create head-on collisions at undiscovered, high-energy realm in which everyday forces, unprecedented energy levels. An international collaboration such as electromagnetism, behave completely differently. of 2,500 scientists, ATLAS consists of highly sophisticated Credit: ESA

16 UCL Review 2009 UCL was established in 1826 in A team of undergraduates from UCL Civil, With dedication and a creative A pilot study led by Professor Carol order to open up education in THE UCL SPIRIT Environmental & Geomatic Engineering approach, academic research can RESEARCH Dezateux (UCL Institute for Child Health) England for the first time to students spent the summer building earthquake- be used to tackle the world’s most led to the introduction of a blood test for resistant housing in Peru. The project WITH IMPACT a rare metabolic condition for all newborn of any race, class or religion. urgent problems – that’s what we involved building new homes in Casa babies across England. Medium Chain The idea was bold, radical, and Blanca, a small community on the believe at UCL. Acyl CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency responsive to the needs of the outskirts of the southern city of Ica, which Our research approach is built on (MCADD) affects the body’s ability to world; three qualities that we believe was severely affected by an earthquake in foundations of excellence in the break down fat for energy. The first sign of passionately in to this day. 2007. Many people in the region still live in fundamental disciplines, encouraging the disorder is usually when the sufferer is transitional housing. The team used UCL people to work together and taken seriously ill. Introducing the test was We’ve always believed that excellence quincha: a variation on a traditional transform society with their ideas and relatively easy and inexpensive as a blood should go hand-in-hand with enriching construction method using wood, mud innovations. We have developed a series spot test is already taken for conditions society. Whether we’re designing the and cane, which is resistant to seismic of Grand Challenges, designed to activate such as cystic fibrosis. The test has now iconic parks or buildings of tomorrow, or activity. The students also instructed the a response from across UCL to major been rolled out across England and each grappling with issues such as global communities in which they are working in problems of our times, including global year around 650,000 babies are being health or climate change, the challenges the differences between the traditional health and sustainable cities. From legal tested by 13 screening labs. Professor of daily life inspire each generation of and improved method of construction, so reform to carbon capture, UCL ideas are Dezateux described the successful UCL students and academics. that they can carry on rebuilding safe, changing everyday life. roll-out of the screening programme earthquake-resistant houses. as an outstanding achievement.

Universities thrive on the collective Dr Nick Lane (UCL Department of At UCL, we’re committed to the A major report on managing the health efforts of their scholars in tackling INSPIRING MINDS Genetics, Evolution & Environment) principle of merging and working CROSSING effects of climate change, launched jointly complex ideas that require breadth received the first UCL Provost’s Venture across traditional subject SUBJECT by The Lancet and UCL in May 2009, Research Fellowship – an initiative to fund stated that climate change is the biggest and range of expertise. But the boundaries. researchers whose ideas challenge the BOUNDARIES global-health threat of the 21st century. work of unique thinkers is equally norm and have the potential to Our interdisciplinary approach is so ‘Managing the Health Effects of Climate fundamental in the march of substantially change the way we think important to us because it enables ideas Change’ was the work of UCL academics progress. about an important subject, free of the from one subject area to be seeded into from many disciplines across the constraints set by funding rules and peer another, resulting in fruitful new ideas – university – including health, anthropology, UCL individuals, both past and present, review. “There is a big hole at the very and even new disciplines. English and geography, engineering, economics, law have made discoveries and inventions heart of biology, and it concerns the origin Laws were once bundles of ideas from and philosophy. Lead author Professor that have changed the world. Some UCL of all complex life on earth – why our different subjects rather than the Anthony Costello (UCL Institute for Global people are household names, while planet erupted with life, and why humans established fields that they are today: Health) said that this project brought down other, equally brilliant thinkers are turn out to be so closely related to UCL was the first to systematically teach the traditional disciplinary barriers known primarily within their field. mushrooms at the level of our cells,” both. These days, we have many leading common at all universities, and that he There is inspiration for all of us explains Dr Lane, who will now seek to centres where groundbreaking hoped it could act as a model for global among UCL’s people. solve this mystery, with potentially interdisciplinary work takes place, and our governance bodies to work together. groundbreaking implications for the students and staff are taking daring new ageing process and the origins of the approaches to find the answers to their species itself. questions about the world.

Image: Power Plant by Odra Noel

Fierce intelligence, a desire to Four UCL students travelled to the United Forging effective partnerships is A team from the UCL Mullard Space change the world, juggling a STUDENTS Nation’s Climate Change Conference in integral to UCL’s belief in PROGRESS Science Laboratory supplied one of three challenging study programme, November 2009 to share ideas with maximising the social impact of its THROUGH telescopes on board the European Space WITH AMBITION students from 16 other universities on how Agency’s satellite observatory Herschel, volunteer work and London’s intellectual resources. their respective institutions can become PARTNERSHIP launched on 14 May 2009. The telescope, exciting social life – UCL students more sustainable and energy efficient. As a research institution, our primary known as SPIRE, was designed and built have a zest for life. The students were dubbed the ‘dream expertise is on developing ideas and by a UCL engineering team who Coming to UCL from nearly 140 countries team’ by Director of UCL Environment knowledge, so by working with institutions developed a ‘Russian Doll’ concept of around the world, they share common Institute Professor Mark Maslin, because: with a practical focus to their activities, stepped down boxes, each thermally attributes of creativity and critical thinking. “It’s not going to be us, the middle-aged such as hospitals, schools, business or isolated from its predecessor and with its They are prepared to take their subject and elderly statesmen, who are actually government, we can help these ideas turn own cryogenic temperature. The Herschel knowledge into the community, be it to the going to have to live through climate into real-world solutions. Getting a space mission is the result of an extensive government or local schools, and enjoy change – it’s the youth, the students of breakthrough cancer drug to the patient international consortium of industry and the cultural and social diversity of UCL today. It’s the dream team that’s going to waiting in the clinic, or conveying the research institutes. Expected to end in and London life. While entrepreneurship is have to manage this problem and be the magic of a Greek drama to a group of 2012, is studying the formation of galaxies a budding area among the student body, policymakers of the future.” local schoolchildren – these are just two and stars in the early universe and their demonstrations of innovation and examples of how UCL expertise is subsequent evolution. leadership occur on an everyday basis. delivered most effectively through strong Our students graduate with a wealth external relationships. of experiences that make them true global citizens.

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Awards & Appointments Highlights 2009

Fellowships

Professor David Delpy (DSc UCL Research Fellowships Medical Physics): Chief Executive, Alexander von Humboldt Engineering and Physical Sciences Foundation Research Council Humboldt Research Fellowship: Dr Claire Colomb (UCL Bartlett The Rt Hon The Lord Mayor School of Planning), Dr Quentin Alderman Ian Luder (UCL Stevens (UCL Bartlett School Economics): Lord Mayor of the of Planning) City of London International Association for the Dr Diana Manuel (UCL Zoology; Study of Pain MSc, MPhil, PhD UCL History and John J Bonica Trainee Fellowship: Philosophy of Science): Honorary Ms Lucie Low (UCL Neuroscience, Senior Research Associate at the Physiology & Pharmacology) Wellcome Trust Centre for the Dr Claire Colomb Professor Jon Driver History of Medicine at UCL L’Oréal UNESCO UK & Ireland (UCL Bartlett School of Planning) (UCL Imaging Neuroscience) Women In Science Fellowship: Sir Ian McAllister (UCL Dr Patricia Alireza (UCL Physics Economics): Non-Executive & Astronomy) Chairman, Network Rail Medical Research Council Professor Brian Warner (UCL Bioinformatics Training Fellowship: Astronomy): Professor Emeritus of Dr M Ryten (Institute of Neurology) Natural Philosophy, University of Clinician Scientist Fellowship: Academy of Medical Sciences British Machine Vision Cape Town Dr R Alonzi (Wolfson Institute for Fellows: Professor Stephan Beck, Association UCL Honorary Fellows 2009 Biomedical Research) Professor for Medical Genomics Distinguished Fellow: Sir John Birch: Former ambassador Clinical Training Fellowship: (UCL Cancer Institute), Professor Professor Bernard Buxton to Hungary and to the United Dr B Carpenter (Division of Neil Burgess, MRC Senior (UCL Engineering Sciences) Nations Biosciences), Dr T Connor non-clinical Research Fellow Royal Society (Metabolism & Experimental (UCL Neuroscience), Professor Professor Sir Peter Cook: UCL Fellows: Professor Michael Batty Therapeutics), Dr G Winston Andrew Lees, Professor of Bartlett Professor of Architecture (UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial (Institute of Neurology), Dr C Yeo Cerebrovascular Medicine and Chair of the UCL Bartlett Analysis), Professor John Hardy (Division of Medicine) (UCL Neuroscience), Professor School (UCL Institute of Neurology) Senior Non-Clinical Fellowship: John Wood, Professor of Molecular Professor Peter Isaacson (UCL Professor Michael Crawford: Dr Josef Kittler (UCL Neurobiology (UCL Neuroscience, Research Department of Honorary Librarian of the Hellenic Neuroscience, Physiology and Physiology & Pharmacology) Pathology), Professor Jonathan and Roman Societies Pharmacology), Dr Antonella Association for Research in Vision Tennyson (UCL Physics & Riccio (MRC Laboratory for Michael & Morven Heller: Founders and Ophthalmology Astronomy), Professor John Wood Molecular Cell Biology) of the Michael & Morven Heller Fellows: Professor Fred Fitzke (UCL Wolfson Institute for Charitable Foundation Royal Society (UCL Institute of Ophthalmology), Biomedical Science) Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship: Professor Sue Lightman Professor Richard Munton: UCL Fellows 2009 Dr Janet Anders (UCL Physics (UCL Institute of Ophthalmology), Emeritus Professor and former Jane Cannon (UCL Electronic & Astronomy) Professor Gary Rubin Head of UCL Geography & Electrical Engineering): Group 2010 Anniversary Research (UCL Institute of Ophthalmology) Managing Director, Lockheed Professorship: Professor Jon Driver The Grand Challenge Of Sustainable Cities Professor Michael Worton: British Academy Martin UK Information Systems Vice-Provost (Academic & (UCL Imaging Neuroscience) Fellows: Professor Michael & Global Services Cities – now home to more than half the world’s population wealth creation and quality of life. In response, UCL’s Grand International) and Fielden TED Freeman (UCL Laws), Professor of French Language – face complex and systemic problems. By the end of Challenge of Sustainable Cities was launched in July 2009. Vincent Cheung (UCL Laws): Senior Fellowship: Professor Rachel Griffith & Literature at UCL the 21st century some 80% of humanity will live in cities. The event marked UCL’s commitment to deploying the Founding Partner of Vincent TK Rachel Armstrong (UCL Bartlett (UCL Economics) This rapid growth will further stress the urban environment, breadth of its expertise – in imaginative, interdisciplinary Cheung, Yap & Co School of Architecture) posing significant problems in areas such as food security, collaborations and partnerships with policymakers Professor Roger Davies (UCL Wellcome Trust energy, water, waste, transport, economy, trade, manufacture, and practitioners – to make our cities fit for purpose. Physics): Philip Wetton Professor Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral of Astrophysics, Oxford University Fellowship: Dr Jennifer Brookes Credit: Mr Hang Kei Ho (UCL Geography) A worker in Hong Kong uses bamboo scaffolding on the 28th floor

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Honorary Doctorates, Fellowships, Presidencies, Directorships, Lectureships and Senior Investigatorships Chairs and Editorships Awards, Medals & Prizes

University of Paris II International Society for Doctorat Honoris Causa: Developmental Biology Professor Jeffrey Jowell President: Professor Claudio Stern (UCL Laws) (UCL Cell & Developmental Biology)

Professor Jeffrey Jowell Professor Claudio Stern Professor Mohan Edirisinghe Dr Ralph Wilde Anike Akinrinlade Professor Rick Battarbee (UCL Laws) (UCL Cell & Developmental Biology) (UCL Mechanical Engineering) (UCL Laws) (UCL Biochemical Engineering) (UCL Geography) Axel Nystrom Awards, Medals & Prizes (UCL Biochemical Engineering) Xiang Chen (UCL Research Department of Structural & Molecular Biology)

American Society of Limnology C Mondino Foundation, Fondation NRJ, Institut de France Institute of Medical Illustrators and Oceanography University of Pavia Grand Prix Scientifique: Gold Award: Mr Rakhee Bashar Ruth Patrick Award: Professor Rick Ottorino Rossi Award: Professor John Wood and Mr David Bishop Battarbee (UCL Geography) Professor Stephen Hunt (UCL Wolfson Institute for (UCL Medical Illustration Unit) (UCL Cell & Developmental Biomedical Science) Biochemical Society Institute of Physics Biology) AstraZeneca Award: International Association Moseley Medal: Dr Matthew Wing Professor Bonnie Wallace Coastal and Estuarine for the Study of Pain (UCL Physics & Astronomy) Research Federation Young Investigator Award in British Institute for Paterson Medal: Dr Rachel Pritchard Award: Dr Hélène Paediatric Pain: Dr Suellen Walker the Study of Iraq McKendry (London Centre for Burningham (UCL Geography), (UCL Neuroscience, Physiology Gertrude Bell Memorial Gold Nanotechnology) Professor Jon French & Pharmacology) Professor Robin Ali Professor Martin Rossor Dr Lucie Green Professor CJ Lim Medal: Dr Lamia al-Gailani Werr (UCL Geography) Institute of Physics & Italian (UCL Institute of Ophthalmology) (UCL Institute of Neurology) (UCL Mullard Space (UCL Bartlett School of (UCL Institute of Archaeology) International Genetically Physical Society Science Laboratory) Architecture) Environmental Design Engineered Machines Competition British Medical Association Occhialini Medal and Prize: Research Association Silver Medal: Anike Akinrinlade 2009 Student Textbook Award: Professor Gaetana Laricchia Great Place Planning Award: (UCL Biochemical Engineering), Dr Terence Leung (UCL Physics & Astronomy) Professor CJ Lim (UCL Bartlett Axel Nystrom (UCL Biochemical (UCL Medical Physics School of Architecture) Engineering), Xiang Chen Institution of Engineering Alcon Research Institute American Academy of American Association for the American Society of Hematology & Bioengineering) (UCL Structural & Molecular and Technology Award for outstanding contribution Neurology & National Multiple Advancement of Science 2009 Wallace H Coulter Lifetime European Physical Society Walter Jobson Horne Prize: Biology) Oliver Lodge Medal: Professor to advancing eye health: Sclerosis Society Newcomb Cleveland Prize: Achievement Award: Prize for High Energy Physics: Professor Martin Birchall Anthony Finkelstein Professor Robin Ali (UCL Institute John Dystel Prize for Multiple Professor Jeremy Brockes, Professor George Janossy UCL High Energy Particle International Movement (UCL Ear Institute) (UCL Computer Science) of Ophthalmology) Sclerosis Research: Phillip Gates, Dr James Godwin (UCL Immunology) Physics Group Disorder Society Professor David Miller and Dr Anoop Kumar (UCL British Neuroscience Association Junior Award for Excellence in Alzheimer’s Association American Society of European Science Foundation (UCL Institute of Neurology) Structural & Molecular Biology) British Neuroscience Award: Clinical Research: Dr Helen Ling 2009 Bengt Winblad Lifetime International Law European Latsis Prize: Professor Geoff Burnstock (Reta Lila Weston Institute of Achievement Award: American Epilepsy Society Certificate of Merit: Professor Chris Frith (UCL Institute (UCL Cell & Developmental Neurological Studies) Professor Martin Rossor 2009 Epilepsy Research Dr Ralph Wilde (UCL Laws) of Neurology), Professor Uta Frith Biology) (UCL Institute of Neurology) Recognition Award for Clinical (UCL Institute of Cognitive Institute of Materials, Science: Professor Josemir W British Oncological Association Neuroscience) Minerals & Mining Sander (UCL Department of Lifetime Achievement Award: Kroll Prize: Professor Mohan Clinical & Experimental Epilepsy) Professor Hilary Calvert Edirisinghe (UCL Mechanical (UCL Cancer Institute) Engineering)

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Royal, National Awards, Medals & Prizes UCL Appointments Memberships and International Honours

National Aeronautics and Science, Engineering and UCL Energy Institute Queen’s Birthday Honours Space Administration (US) Technology for Britain Director: Professor Tadj Oreszczyn Order of the British Empire (DBE): Group Achievement Award: Poster Competition Engineering (UCL Bartlett School of Graduate Professor Linda Partridge, CBE Dr Nick Achilleos (UCL Physics Medal and first prize:Dr Eleanor Studies) (UCL Institute of Healthy Ageing) & Astronomy) and team Stride (UCL Mechanical UCL Partners New Year’s Honours Engineering) Group Achievement Award: Managing Director: Professor Dame Commander of the Order Dr Giovanna Tinetti (UCL Physics Society for History in the Federal David Fish (Medical Director of the British Empire (DBE) & Astronomy) and team Government (US) for Specialist Hospitals, UCLH) for services to medicine: Henry Adams Prize for Professor Sally Davies Neuroscience Institute, Miguel Programme Directors: Anglo-American history: (UCL Institute of Child Health), Hernandez University (Spain) Child health: Professor Professor Kathleen Burk MSc Middlesex Hospital Medical Remedios Caro Almela Prize in David Goldblatt (UCL Institute (UCL History) School 1981 Developmental Neurobiology: of Child Health) Professor Stephen Wilson Sophie Coe Memorial Fund Eyes and vision: Professor Commander of the Order of the (UCL Cell & Developmental Sophie Coe Prize in Food History: Professor Linda Partridge Dr Giovanna Tinetti Peng T Khaw (UCL Institute Dr Maggie Aderin British Empire (CBE) for services Biology) Dr Kaori O’Connor (UCL Genetics, Evolution (UCL Physics & Astronomy) of Ophthalmology) (UCL Science & Technology Studies) to international sustainable (UCL Anthropology) & Environment) Immunology and transplantation: development and UK/China Oronzio and Niccolo De Nora Professor Hans Stauss relations: Emeritus Professor Foundation (Italy) Sparks (UCL Immunology Centre) David Norse, (UCL Environment Prize for Applied Electrochemistry: Young Investigator of the Year: Infectious diseases: Institute and UCL Geography), Dr Dan Brett (UCL Chemical Dr Richard Chin (UCL Institute Professor Deenan Pillay former Pro-Provost Engineering) of Child Health) (UCL Research Department CBE for services to life sciences: Royal Astronomical Society UK Resource Centre for UCL Awards UCL Awards for Enterprise of Infection) American Academy of MINOS Experiment Emeritus Professor Martin Raff Fowler Prize for Astronomy: Women in Science, Engineering Provost’s Teaching Awards: Lifetime Achievement Award: Neurological disorders: Sciences Foreign Associate: Co-spokesperson: Professor (UCL Life Sciences), Dr Sarah Bridle (UCL Physics and Technology Beginning of Career: Dr Karen Mr Cengiz Tarhan Professor Alan Thompson Professor Richard Frackowiak Jenny Thomas (UCL Physics UCL Honorary Fellow 2004 & Astronomy) Woman of Outstanding Radner (UCL History) (UCL Business plc) (UCL Institute of Neurology) (UCL Institute of Neurology) & Astronomy) Achievement 2009: Professor Women’s health: Professor Athens Academy Officer of the Order of the British Gold Medal: Professor Experienced Staff: Dr David Enterprise Partner of the Year: Royal Academy of Engineering Linda Partridge (UCL Genetics, Judith Stephenson Member: Professor Jeffrey Jowell Empire (OBE) for services to David Williams (UCL Physics Bender (UCL Biosciences), GlaxoSmithKline Member: Professor Sir Michael Evolution & Environment) (UCL Institute for Women’s Health) (UCL Laws) children with communication & Astronomy) Dr Tim Beasley-Murray (UCL Pepper (UCL Electronic & UCL Business Award: disorders: Dr Stephen Davis Universita Degli Studi School of Slavonic & East Chair of Energy & Environment Climate Change Adaptation Electrical Engineering) Royal Society Professor Rajiv Jalan (UCL Division (UCL Psychology), BSc Psychology di Ferrara (Italy) European Studies), Dr Greg Policy Sub-committee Brian Mercer Innovation Feasibility of Medicine) Royal Commission on 1998; PhD Psychology 2002 Copernicus Gold Medal: Campbell (UCL Biosciences), Professor Paul Ekins Member: Professor Anne Johnson Award: Professor Mohan Environmental Pollution Professor Geoff Burnstock Dr Peter Delves (UCL Infection UCL Consultants Award: (UCL Energy Institute) (UCL Institute of Global Health) Member of the Order of the British Edirisinghe (UCL Mechanical Members: Professor Maria Lee (UCL Cell & Developmental & Immunity), Dr John Eyre (UCL Mr Spencer Chainey (UCL Jill Empire (MBE) for services to Engineering) Dean of Students (Academic) Commission for Architecture (UCL Laws), Professor Joanne Biology) Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Dando Institute of Crime Science) science: Dr Maggie Aderin Professor Mike Ewing and the Built Environment Scott (UCL Laws) Engineering and Physical Sciences Engineering), Dr Stephen Instone (UCL Science & Technology Wellcome Image Awards London Entrepreneurs’ Challenge: (UCL Chemistry) Enabling Panel Research Council Journal of the (UCL Greek & Latin), Dr Mark Lake British Pain Society Studies). Theresia Hofer (Wellcome Trust Alive and Giving Members: Dr Pushpa Arabindoo Royal Society Interface Award: (UCL Institute of Archaeology), Nuffield Professor of Child Health Honorary Membership: Centre for the History of Medicine (UCL Geography), Professor Professor Mohan Edirisinghe Dr Adam Wojcik (UCL Mechanical UCL Research Challenges 2009 Professor Terence Stephenson Professor Anthony Dickenson at UCL), Jackie Lewin Yvonne Rydin (UCL Bartlett School (UCL Mechanical Engineering), Engineering) Dr Noemie Bouhana (UCL Jill (UCL Institute of Child Health) (UCL Research Department (UCL Medical School) of Planning) Uthumankandu Farook Dando Institute of Security & Crime of Neuroscience, Physiology Postgraduate Teaching Assistant: UCL School of Energy (UCL Mechanical Engineering), Zoological Society of London/ Science), Professor Yves Cabannes European Molecular & Pharmacology) Rachel Morley (UCL School of & Resources, Australia Dr Eleanor Stride (UCL Mechanical Thomson Reuters (UCL Development Planning Unit), Biology Organization Slavonic & East European Studies) Director: Professor Tony Owen Engineering) Award for Communicating Zoology: Professor David Coen (UCL School Member: Professor Elizabeth Fisher Professor Steve Jones Supporting Learning: of Public Policy), Dr Lee Grieveson UCL Institute of Origins (UCL Neurodegenerative Kohn Award: Dr Lucie Green (UCL Biology) Judy Medrington (UCL Institute (UCL Centre for Intercultural Director: Professor Louise Harra Diseases) (UCL Mullard Space Science of Archaeology) Studies) and Dr Jann Matlock (UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory) National Academy (UCL French), Dr Maria Kett Laboratory) UCL Centre for Neuroimaging of Engineering (US) Royal Society of Medicine (UCL Epidemiology & Public Techniques Foreign Associate: Professor Peter Student Research Poster Prize: Health), Dr Pablo Mateos (UCL Young UCL Investigator Award: Kirstein (UCL Computer Science) Anna Rose (UCL Institute of Geography), Dr David McCoy Benjamin Judkewitz (UCL Wolfson Ophthalmology) (UCL Centre for International Institute for Biomedical Research) Health & Development)

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Culture

The UCL Public Engagement Unit provides funding as part of our status as London’s Beacon for Public Engagement. The three main funding streams are the Beacon Bursaries, Beacon Fellowships, and Innovation Seed funding. In 2009, Beacon Bursaries were awarded to 25 UCL projects, including the following:

Towers of London is developing a growing public interest in London’s buildings and urban histories. With support from UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis the public will be invited to upload photographs, web-links, videos and personal stories about living or working in and around London’s tall buildings onto an interactive online map. The toy car used for Object Retrieval

Destination London: Writing Cities was a series of public events Image: Joshua Sofaer and UCL Museums & Collections structured around the experiences and perceptions of East Europeans who have written about London – and, in addition, is intended to explore new approaches to seeing and writing about the city, in the belief that even long-term Londoners can experience their city anew through reading and hearing about Object retrieval and disposal the perspectives of others. A London Routemaster bus was the unorthodox host for the interactive exhibition ‘Object Retrieval: You are the Routemaster’, In spring 2009, the unit awarded its first fellowship to which invited the UCL community and the general public to trace Professor David Napier (UCL Department of Anthropology), the origins of an unusual object from UCL’s museum collections. for his project on migration and wellbeing, which includes a The project – the brainchild of internationally renowned artist programme of talks and activities with the communities affected Joshua Sofaer and UCL curator Simon Gould – ran for 24 hours by the issues discussed. It also gives students in the Network a day over the course of a week. Visitors joined researchers to for Student Activism the opportunity to take placements working build an enormous biographical network of information around on the community activities. This will help to create sustainable UCL and London are interwoven: many of the a toy car from the UCL Pathology Collection. The car’s paint is Bankside, London relationships between UCL, the British Museum, and the university’s achievements can be attributed to the thought to have caused lead poisoning in a four-year-old boy. communities engaged. endeavours, values and people of the city, and UCL A picnic basket linked to Agatha Christie, soil samples Our staff and postgraduates provide local and central government The unit also launched the highly popular Bright Club – billed as in turn helps propel the capital forward. We are collected before the Channel Tunnel was built and a radioactive with specialist research and consultancy on health, transport, the thinking person’s variety night – blending comedy, music, art, proud to be one of London’s leading universities rock used in a Nobel Prize-winning experiment featured in the housing, climate change, cultural heritage, town planning, security, new writing, science, and performance. Bright Club aims to bring ‘Disposal?’ exhibition, which invited visitors to comment on the and we take our role in the development of the city human rights, enterprise and many more issues that affect us all. UCL researchers together with a new audience, primarily 20–40 most challenging question faced by museums today: What and our community seriously. year olds who have no existing relationship with academia. UCL has partnered with its four key teaching hospitals to deliver should we collect and hold on to and what should we get rid of? We are London’s Beacon for Public Engagement, building closer pioneering research work from the laboratory bench to the The exhibition contained five objects earmarked for disposal that involvement between universities, local communities and the bedside, care for thousands of patients and train the healthcare the public could vote on. This is one of several ways in which wider public. The strength of our commitment to local children is professionals of the future. We have also joined with the Medical people can contribute their views on the collections: on what they epitomised by our role as sponsor for a new Academy school to Research Council, Cancer Research UK and the Wellcome Trust think is important, what should be collected and what they feel open in 2011. to establish the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation. would be better off elsewhere. The centre will be set on a derelict site in London between Our academics provide expert consultancy and training to the British Library and St Pancras Eurostar terminal and will businesses, large and small, helping strengthen London’s be one of the world’s top medical research centres, housing economy, and we in turn aim to foster entrepreneurial awareness 1,500 scientists and support staff working on a range of among our staff through a dedicated department. UCL and biomedical projects. Camden Borough Council are working together to deliver a range of activities for new entrepreneurs and existing small businesses in Camden and across London.

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Government

Research influences House of Commons Reform Research by Dr Meg Russell (UCL Constitution Unit) heavily influenced the report of the Select Committee on Reform of the House of Commons, published in November. The committee, chaired by Tony Wright MP, has made a number of key suggestions for how control of the House of Commons could be wrested from government whips, with backbench MPs given more power. Dr Russell and former researcher Akash Paun first made several of the central proposals in a 2007 report. The creation of the committee was also influenced by Russell’s report, which was specifically mentioned by Tony Wright in his letter to the Prime Minister proposing that the committee be established. The central recommendation of Dr Russell’s report, The House Rules? International Lessons for Enhancing the UCL Professional Networking event Autonomy of the House of Commons, was that that there should be a clear distinction between ‘government and non-government business’ in the Commons. Government, which largely controls the Commons agenda, should relinquish control over scheduling non-government business to a committee of backbench MPs. The Wright committee has backed this proposal, recommending the establishment of a Backbench Business Committee.

Health Business Crowds explore the foreshore

Image: Lorna Richardson, Thames Discovery Programme UCL Partners becomes one of UK’s first Academic Health Business outreach for London Science Centres Project ‘HELO’ (Higher Education London Outreach) is a new UCL Partners (UCLP) has been designated as one of the UK’s initiative led by UCL in partnership with MegaNexus Ltd and first academic health science centres. The partnership is one of supported by London Business School and others. Launched in just five bids which satisfied the Department of Health’s rigorous November 2009, HELO will deliver a programme of new activities Focus on: The Thames Discovery Programme selection process, which included peer review of the application designed to link London-based SMEs with UCL and London by an international panel of experts. The successful outcome Business School staff and students to meet business needs and The Thames Discovery Programme (TDP) aims This ambitious project is hosted by the Thames Estuary demonstrates that the partnership possesses excellence in overcome the problems that limit their growth. The project is led to communicate an understanding and informed Partnership in the UCL Environment Institute, and the Thames research, education and patient care. UCLP comprises five by UCL Advances, the centre for entrepreneurship and business Explorer Trust with generous support from Heritage Lottery of London’s biggest and best known hospitals and research interaction at UCL, and it will run until the end of 2011. enjoyment of the historic Thames to the widest possible centres: UCL, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Funding. Other partners include the Museum of London, English audience. It was initially developed as a response to Trust (GOSH), Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, the Heritage and the UCL Institute of Archaeology. Sector-specific networking events the gradual loss of archaeological sites exposed on the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust and University College London UCL launched a series of professional networking events for The Foreshore Record Observation Group (FROG), the Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The Partnership will bring open foreshore – including prehistoric forests, a Bronze its graduates. Over 80 recent UCL graduates attended the first membership of which is drawn from right across the London together the combined skill and expertise of its clinicians and Age bridge, and boats, barges and shipyards – in a series of UCL professional networking events at ITV studios community, is being trained to survey key sites on a regular researchers to focus initially on seven areas: infectious diseases; threatened by the daily scour of the tidal Thames. in Waterloo in March, which focused on public relations, systematic basis. The funds will also directly support the running neurological disorders; eyes and vision; cardiovascular; child A monitoring programme is being established in which broadcasting and journalism. The second event, aimed at those of the public engagement training programmes themselves, health; women’s health; and immunology and transplantation. interested in the fields of architecture, planning, project key sites will be systematically surveyed on a regular again at the direct interface between UCL and the general public. The establishment of Academic Health Science Centres was one management and construction, was held at UCL in November basis. Once the training programme has been completed, the FROG of the major reforms recommended in Professor Lord Darzi’s 2009. The events, organised by UCL Alumni Relations, have been members will be empowered to take over the long term survey review, ‘Healthcare for London: a framework for action’, designed to connect experienced alumni with recent graduates, and re-survey of the Thames sites. The project is building on the published in July 2007 by NHS London. It sets out how London and to provide information on career change, or how to break into community fieldwork through the development of a web-based needs to change in order to meet Londoners’ health needs river-related database, Thames Discovery Programme: an industry sector. High-profile panels of UCL alumni drew on over the next ten years. Riverpedia, ultimately compiled by the public. their own career experiences to share insights and provide tips for career entry into their respective fields.

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HEFCE recurrent grants increase Student residences refurbished UCL’s recurrent grant allocation from the Student accommodation received an Higher Education Funding Council for overhaul in 2009 with the completion of England (HEFCE) for 2009/10 increased refurbishment work to Campbell House by 1.2 per cent on its 2008/9 allocation, East and Hawkridge House. Ian Baker to £176.6 million. UCL has received the House, a new student residence block third highest allocation of research in the courtyard of Ramsay Hall, was funding, the 11th highest allocation of also completed this year. total teaching funds, and the fifth highest

total grant overall. In addition, UCL was Updates to the main campus awarded £1.8 million from the Higher The Gower Street campus received some Education Innovation Fund, designed to important accessibility improvements over support and develop a broad range of the course of the year, including a new lift collaborations between higher education linking the Jeremy Bentham room and the and businesses or public sector, charity South Cloisters and Refectory, and a ramp or community groups, which result in Campbell House student residence for disabled access into the Rockefeller economic and social benefit to the UK. Building. A programme of refurbishment work carried out this year included restoration of UCL’s buildings at 16–26 Gordon Square.

Green investment Investment in environmental sustainability continued to increase in prominence throughout 2009. The existing ten per cent reduction target within UCL’s Carbon Trust Management Programme was accelerated via a successful bid to the HEFCE Salix Revolving Green Fund, to provide 2008–09 was another successful and busy year for The James Lighthill House £250,000 repayable via energy savings. UCL, which is reflected in its financial performance. The Estates Division has continued to But these results do not come easily and are testimony make progress by increasing recycling to the hard work of UCL staff. and reducing waste. Personal action is also at the centre of UCL’s approach, UCL’s total income for 2008–09 grew by 12 per cent to Fixed asset additions for the year were £65 million as and a Green Champions scheme of £714 million. Of particular note was an 18 per cent increase UCL continues to invest in new facilities and refurbishments. volunteers, designed to implement in research grants and contracts income where our enhanced With the financial pressures facing UCL likely to increase over sustainability initiatives at department levels of support for staff are starting to bear fruit. Fees income the next few years, the underlying position will demand further level, has been revitalised this year. rose by 18 per cent, reflecting increased student numbers significant effort to manage as effectively as possible the as well as the final year of the top up fees roll out. UCL is now a partner in the EcoCampus resources at UCL’s disposal if long term financial sustainability and the 10:10 initiative, providing new Total expenditure was up by 11 per cent in 2008–09, driven is to be achieved whilst maintaining our vision for excellence frameworks for improving the university’s largely by an increase in staff costs of nine per cent. Whilst around the student experience, our research and teaching. Ian Baker House student residence environmental performance. some of the rise reflects higher levels of activity, the high level These financial results leave UCL in a strong position to meet of national pay awards in 2008 has also had an impact. the challenges ahead. The operating surplus for 2008–09 before adjustments was just over £11 million, compared with less than a million the Alison Woodhams previous year, reflecting the increase in income ahead of the UCL Director of Finance increase in costs.

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Library refurbishment Reports And Financial Statements FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS 08/09 The second phase of learning laboratory For The Year Ended 31 July 2009 work was carried out on the ground floor of UCL’s Science Library. This forms part of a comprehensive refurbishment of CONSOLIDATED INCOME & EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT 2009 £m 2008 £m UCL’s libraries, transforming them into Funding Council grants 209.9 193.8 modern, state-of-the-art resources for Academic fees and support grants 126.7 107.8 students and researchers. Research grants and contracts 248.6 211.2 Other operating income 124.0 112.3 Investment in partnership Endowment income and interest receivable 8.2 10.7 Over the past year, UCL has continued Total income 717.4 635.8 to invest considerable time and resources Share of income from joint ventures into its relationships with external partners. (3.7) (0.4) These partnerships are intended to NET INCOME 713.7 635.4 maximise the impact of the university’s TOTAL EXPENDITURE research expertise. 701.9 634.8 In March 2009, UCL Partners was confirmed as one of five Academic Health Share of operating loss in joint ventures and associates (0.7) (0.6) Science Centres (AHSC) to be established Profit on disposal of subsidiary - 5.2 in England. UCL Partners has brought Profit/(loss) on disposal of tangible fixed assets (6.1) 0.2 UCL together with Great Ormond Street Profit on disposal of fixed asset investments - 0.1 Hospital for Children NHS Trust, the Taxation - - Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust and Minority interest - 0.5 University College London Hospitals Transfer to accumulated income NHS Trust. The AHSC model enables the within specific endowments 0.1 (0.5) smooth translation of ideas from basic SURPLUS FOR THE YEAR science into treatments for patients, and 5.1 5.5

provides academic-clinical groupings that are excellently suited for international collaborations. CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET Fixed assets 599.4 581.7 Fundraising and the Campaign for UCL Endowment asset investments 57.2 65.5 UCL’s fundraising efforts, channelled Net current assets 30.9 35.5 through the Campaign for UCL, reached Total assets less current liabilities 687.5 682.7 a ‘halfway to goal’ milestone this year – with total commitments now exceeding Non-current liabilities and provisions (80.1) (81.5) £156m towards the Campaign goal of Provision for liabilities and charges (1.3) - £300m goal by 2014. Pension assets/(liabilities) (8.1) (5.9) The total gift income generated during the year exceeded £6.15 million in 2008/2009 UCL’s Science library TOTAL NET ASSETS 598.0 595.3 and income from UCL’s Annual Fund, Represented by:

which relies on smaller gifts from UCL’s alumni and friends, crossed the £500,000 Deferred grants 349.5 341.9 level for the first time in UCL history. Endowments 57.2 65.5 Reserves 192.3 189.0 Minority interest (1.0) (1.1)

To read the 2008/2009 Financial Report in full, go to www.ucl.ac.uk/finance/finance_docs/report_accts.html

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UCL Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology Professor of Cell Biology: Dr Alison Lloyd UCL Institute of Neurology Professor of Neuroscience: Dr Linda Greensmith Professor of Clinical Neurology: Dr Sarah Tabrizi UCL Oncology Professor of Gastrointestinal Neuroendocrinology: Professor Jennifer Robinson Dr Jon French Miss Jane Fenoulhet Dr Mark Thomas Dr Martin Widschwendter (Chair of Human Geography) (Professor of Physical Geography) (Professor of Modern Dutch Studies) (Professor of Evolutionary Genetics) (Professor of Women’s Cancer) Dr Martyn Caplin Professor of Cancer Biology: Dr Barbara Pedley UCL Institute of Ophthalmology UCL Chemistry UCL Institute for Genetics, UCL Institute of Archaeology UCL Cognitive, Perceptual & Brain UCL Gatsby Computational UCL Immunology Professor of Molecular Genetics: Chair of Organic Chemistry: Evolution & Environment Professor of Environmental Sciences Neuroscience Unit Professor of Immunology: Dr Alison Hardcastle Professor James Anderson Chair of Statistical Genetics: Archaeology: Professor of Behavioural Professor of Theoretical Dr Peter Delves Professor David Balding Dr Arlene Rosen Neuroscience: Neuroscience: UCL Philosophy UCL Institute of Child Health Professor of Viral Immunology: Dr Kate Jeffery Dr Peter Latham Professor of Philosophy: Nuffield Chair of Child Health: UCL Geography UCL Bartlett School of Planning Dr Mala Maini Dr Mark Kalderon Professor Terence Stephenson Chair of Human Geography: Professor of Housing & Planning: UCL Computer Science UCL Genetics, Evolution UCL Italian Professor Jennifer Robinson Dr Nick Gallent Professor of Imaging Science: & Environment UCL Political Science UCL Ear Institute Professor of Modern Italian: Dr Daniel Alexander Professor of Zoology: Professor of Political Theory: Chair of Laryngology: Chair of Physical Geography: UCL Chemistry Dr John Dickie Dr Max Telford Dr Cecile Laborde Professor Martin Birchall Professor Chronis Tzedakis Professor of Inorganic Chemistry: Professor of Artificial Intelligence: London Centre for Dr Claire Carmalt Dr Anthony Hunter Professor of Evolutionary Genetics UCL Primary Care UCL Earth Sciences UCL Institute of Neurology Nanotechnology Dr Mark Thomas & Population Health Chair of Climate Science: Chair of Clinical Chemistry: UCL Institute of Child Health Professor of Virtual Environment Professor of Theoretical Chemistry: Professor of Medical Statistics Professor Chris Rapley Dr Simon Heales Professor of Genetics & Computer Graphics: UCL Geography Dr Angelos Michaelides & Epidemiology: & Fetal Medicine: Dr Anthony Steed Professor of Human Geography: Dr Richard Morris UCL Economics UCL Physics & Astronomy UCL Science & Innovation Dr Lyn Chitty Dr Richard Dennis Chair of Macroeconomics: Chair of Physics: UCL Dutch Professor of Management Science UCL Psychology & Professor Morten Ravn Dr Chris Pickard Professor of Global Health: Professor of Modern Dutch Professor of Physical Geography: & Innovation: Language Sciences Dr Therese Hesketh Studies: Dr Jon French Dr Bert De Reyck Professor of Clinical Psychology UCL D Epidemiology UCL Institute for Women’s Health Miss Jane Fenoulhet & Clinical Effectiveness: & Public Health Chair of Neonatology: Professor of Molecular Cardiology: Professor of Human Geography UCL Medical Physics Dr Stephen Pilling Chair of Health Economics: Professor Neil Marlow Dr Paul Riley UCL Earth Sciences Dr Ann Varley & Bioengineering Dr Stephen Morris Professor of Mineral Physics: Professor of Biomedical Optics: Professor of Paediatric & UCL Centre for Health Informatics UCL Space & Climate Physics Dr Lidunka Vocadlo Dr Paul Beard Professor of Space Astronomy: UCL of General Surgery Developmental Pathology: and Multiprofessional Education Dr Graziella Branduardi Raymont Chair of Cardiac Surgery: Dr Neil Sebire UCL Economics Professor of Health Informatics: Professor of Nutritional Professor Christopher McGregor Professor of Economics: Dr Dipak Kalra Biochemistry: Professor of Cardiovascular Wellcome Trust Centre for the Dr Sokbae Lee Dr David Bender Imaging: UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies History of Medicine at UCL Dr Andrew Taylor Professor of Economics: Professor of Hebrew & Jewish Professor of Incontinence Professor of Jung History: Dr Nicola Pavoni Studies: Technology: Dr Sonu Shamdasani UCL Clinical, Educational & Health Dr Ada Rapoport-Albert Dr Alan Cottenden Psychology Professor of Economics: UCL Institute for Women’s Health Professor of Gynaecological Professor of Psychoanalysis: Dr Imran Rasul Professor of Rabbinic Judaism: UCL Division of Medicine Dr Mary Target Dr Sacha Stern Professor of Respiratory Cell Cancer: UCL English Language & Molecular Biology: Dr Usha Menon UCL Clinical Operational & Literature Dr Rachel Chambers Professor of Women’s Cancer: Research Unit Professor of English: Professor of Operational Research: Dr Ardis Butterfield Dr Martin Widschwendter Dr Martin Utley

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Members of UCL Council Pro-Provosts Other UCL Officers Mr Josh Blacker Africa Academic Registrar Professor Iain Borden Professor Volker Sommer Mr Christopher Hallas Professor Robert Brown Canada, Mexico and the USA Dean of Students (Academic) Ms Anne Bulford (Treasurer) Professor CJ Lim Professor Michael Ewing Mr Andrew Caddy Lord Hart of Chilton China, Hong Kong and Macau Dean of Students (Welfare) Ms Philippa Foster-Back Professor Z Xiao Guo Dr Ruth Siddall Professor Malcolm Grant East and South East Asia Director of Academic Services Mr Rob Holden Professor Derek A Tocher Mr Tim R Perry Mr Mark Knight Dr Nikos Konstantinidis Europe Director of Administration, Ms Catherine Newman Professor Michael Wilson UCL Medical School Ms Vivienne Parry (Vice-Chair) Mr Andrew J Whalley Ms Katharine Roseveare South Asia and the Middle East Dr Benet Salway Professor Vince Emery Director of Centre for the Advancement of Learning Dr Gill Samuels Special Adviser on Kazakhstan & Teaching Professor Chris Thompson Professor Stefaan Simons Dr Andrea Townsend-Nicholson Ms Brigitte Picot Sir Stephen Wall (Chair) Director of Development Professor Maria Wyke Deans of UCL Faculties & Corporate Communications Mr Arthur G Wasserman Secretary to Council Arts and Humanities Mr Tim Perry Professor Henry Woudhuysen Director of Estates & Facilities Mr J Andrew Grainger Built Environment Professor Alan Penn Director of Finance UCL Officers Mrs Alison C Woodhams Biomedical Sciences Visitor Professor Ian Jacobs Director of Human Resources The Master of the Rolls Ms Sarah E Brant Engineering Sciences Chair of Council Professor Bernard F Buxton Director of Information Services Sir Stephen Wall Mr Chris Randle Laws Vice-Chair of Council Professor Dame Hazel Genn Director of Information Systems Ms Vivienne Parry Mr Gavin I McLachlan Life Sciences (Biological and Medical) Treasurer Professor Mary Collins Director of Management Systems Faculty Academic and Undergraduate Graduate Ms Anne Bulford Dr Will Miller Mathematical and Physical Sciences Research Staff Students Students President and Provost Professor Richard Catlow Director of Media Services (as of October 2009) (2008/09) (2008/09) Professor Malcolm Grant Mr Jeremy C Speller Social and Historical Sciences Director of Internal Audit Services UCL Arts & Humanities 180 2,034 826 Professor Stephen Smith Mr Peter J McCarroll Vice-Provosts UCL Biomedical Sciences 1,971 1,285 1,962 Director of Library Services Academic and International Dr Paul Ayris UCL Built Environment 136 678 942 Professor Michael Worton Director of Museums, Collections UCL Engineering Sciences 391 1,451 1,181 Enterprise and Public Engagement Professor Mike Spyer UCL Laws 62 605 491 Ms Sally MacDonald Health UCL Life Sciences 591 2,395 1,090 Director of Research Planning Professor Sir John Tooke Dr Mary E Phillips UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences 445 1,833 544 Operations Head of Graduate School Mr Rex Knight UCL Social & Historical Sciences 292 2,353 1,456 Professor I David L Bogle Research Total 4,078 12,634 8,492 Professor David Price

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Highlights 2009 Review 2009

The Grand Challenge Of Sustainable Cities Cities – now home to more than half the world’s population wealth creation and quality of life. In response, UCL’s Grand – face complex and systemic problems. By the end of Challenge of Sustainable Cities was launched in July 2009. the 21st century some 80% of humanity will live in cities. The event marked UCL’s commitment to deploying the This rapid growth will further stress the urban environment, breadth of its expertise – in imaginative, interdisciplinary posing significant problems in areas such as food security, collaborations and partnerships with policymakers energy, water, waste, transport, economy, trade, manufacture, and practitioners – to make our cities fit for purpose.

Credit: Mr Hang Kei Ho (UCL Geography) A worker in Hong Kong uses bamboo scaffolding on the 28th floor