UCL in the media
What causes and how can we treat stammers
Dr Frederique Liegeois (UCL GOS Institute of Child Health) explains research into whether stammering is in our genes. She said: “We’re interested in the little pieces of the puzzle in the brain that are not quite synchronised when people speak”
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If pupils avoid school due to anxiety, the system needs to change
Professor Priscilla Alderson (UCL IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society) writes that high absence in schools caused by anxiety is a signal that that many schools damage mental health – by punishing failure to learn, and enforcing petty rules and detentions, isolation rooms.
What the unrest in Leicester revealed about Britain – and Modi’s India
Dr Ashraf Hoque (UCL IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society) explains how for both Hijab and Dawah variants of Sunni Islam have a fundamental religious obligation, like all Muslims, to spread and purify the faith.”
UK to scrap Covid intensive care kit despite offer to send to Ukraine
Professor Rebecca Shipley (UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering) said: “It seems obtuse just to destroy them all when they work perfectly well [...] If the devices could help people in Ukraine, we should not stop now.”
Hope for Long Covid patients as the exercises that can help recovery revealed
Professor Matt Sydes (UCL Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology) described the effects of rehabilitation after Long Covid were modest.
Jeremy Hunt warned 'cut stamp duty now' in a bid to tackle housing crisis in Spring Budget
Paul Johnson (UCL Economics visiting professor) suggests the Chancellor scraps stamp duty for additional properties and warned that higher taxes on landlords translates to higher rents, ultimately affecting tenants.
Mike Johnson on shaky ground after house vote disaster
Dr Thomas Gift (UCL Political Science) explained that the odds of a GOP mutiny ahead of the election were unlikely, "simply for the fact that Republicans don't want a repeat of the Kevin McCarthy fiasco."
Erectile dysfunction drugs linked to reduced Alzheimer's risk
Drugs commonly used to treat erectile dysfunction may reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, finds a new study led by Dr Ruth Brauer (UCL School of Pharmacy).
What is the impact of e-scooters
Dr Manos Chaniotakis (UCL Bartlett School Environment, Energy & Resources) explains how his research into the impact of e-scooters in Bristol found that their use can reduce journeys made by car and therefore CO2 emissions.
Bomb cyclone to dump more water than in Lake Mead on California
Professor Chris Brierley (UCL Geography) explained that climate change is pushing more moisture in to the atmosphere and energising weather systems. This means the storms are a thermodynamic response of a warmer atmosphere and a higher saturation of vapor pressure.