In a democracy good governance depends on decision-makers hearing from a wide range of voices. It therefore follows that lobbying is an important part of the democratic process, contributing to good ...

For the new education minister in a refreshed government, the bulging in-tray must include young children, their education, wellbeing and family life. Over the next year, in a new blog series edited ...

In my previous post, I wrote about the possible connection between objects in the Petrie Museum, and ancient Egyptian tattooing practices. One of the greatest challenges in reconstructing the body ...

Tucked away up a narrow alley off Oxford Street’s north side, St Christopher’s Place has been a characterful shopping destination for many years. Almost all the buildings are Victorian or later, but ...

On 4 May 1978 Altab Ali, a 25-year old clothing machinist of Bangladeshi origin, was murdered in Adler Street, Whitechapel, beside the park that was then called St Mary’s Gardens, a name that recalled ...

On behalf of the UCL Office for Open Science & Scholarship and the UKRN local leads, we would like to thank everyone who engaged with the nominations and showed us how amazing the research community ...

We know that people from working class backgrounds and ethnic minority groups have worse labour market outcomes than their more affluent and white peers. We also know that they are less likely to work ...

Following a disastrous attempt to assign pupil grades using a controversial algorithm, last year’s GCSE and A level grades were eventually determined using Centre Assessed Grades (CAGs) following ...

The exhibition “She was the first one” – Phyllis Kaberry (1910-1977), a woman in the field is on display in the foyer of the Anthropology building until the end of April 2019. This exhibition has been ...

Half way through my family holiday in the Black Forest I found out that Martin Heidegger had lived in the neighbouring valley. I had accidentally chosen a location only about a mile, as a raven flies, ...

Toynbee Hall is currently undergoing a transformation of its buildings, but the 135 years that it has stood on Commercial Street, Whitechapel, have seen constant change and evolution. The distinctive ...

Four decades after the dismissal of the Whitlam government, letters between the Palace and the Governor-General of Australia have been made public. Anne Twomey explains that they show the Queen acted ...