UCL in the media
From Greenland to Mount Everest, this is the season of reckless jaunts
The risk theorist John Adams of UCL has long championed what is known as the Peltzman effect, whereby people behave less cautiously where they feel more protected and vice versa. He says: "Everyone has a risk thermostat, and may adjust it to the risk level he likes, regardless of the experts' best efforts to decrease the risk".
The Cold Truth About Emotional Investing
New research from Professor David Tuckett (UCL Psychology) and Professor Richard Taffler (Warwick Business School) suggests that emotions play an inevitable part in all investing, by amateurs and pros alike.
Creating new schools of thought
"The advantage of having an academy of our own is that we can build a truly deep relationship, in which every day there would be some type of contact going on between UCL and the [school]," said Professor Michael Worton (UCL International Vice Provost).
BPP to offer free qualifications to its LPC grads without law jobs
"It is good to see them thinking about the students, worried no doubt by continuing softness in the market," said Professor Richard Moorhead (UCL Laws).
Disputed results a fresh blow for social psychology
Professor David Shanks (UCL Cognitive, Perceptual & Brain Sciences) is lead author on a paper that reports failure to replicated intelligence priming experiments.
12 children in Everest trek for intensive care experiment
"The testing we are doing is a world first, because at high altitudes we can isolate the effect of low oxygen on otherwise healthy children," said Dr Mark Peters (UCL Institute of Child Health).
The Mafia's Secret Bunkers
Author and mafia historian Professor John Dickie (UCL Italian) uncovers the truth about Italy's most powerful mafia, the 'Ndrangheta', believed to be Europe's biggest cocaine traffickers.
Which side is David Cameron's new team on?
"To be serious and effective advisers to government, the backbenchers will need access to information and to papers which government departments will feel uncomfortable with," said professor Robert Hazell (UCL Political Science).
Why the middle class aren't breeding any more
Dr David Lawson (UCL Anthropology) contributed to a study which found: "Poorer households have relatively little to gain by limiting fertility, perhaps because the success of their children is more determined by broader societal factors, rather than investment and inheritance from parents, which is in short supply."
Conservatives want apology over Labour claims they chose site for new UCL Academy school for election votes
Conservative councillors say they have been "besmirched" by Labour Party chiefs who claimed the new UCL Academy was placed in Swiss Cottage partly for electoral gain.