UCL in the media
Women have a right to know the state of their reproductive health
Dr Helen O’Neill (UCL EGA Institute for Women's Health) discusses why she believes London is in the midst of a silent infertility epidemic and why her at-home test is at the frontier of reproductive health.
These are 30 simple lifestyle tweaks recommended by leading experts to help prevent dementia
Professor Gill Livingston (UCL Psychiatry) recommended people use a smaller glass to help them drink less. She said: “Many middle-aged people who wouldn't see themselves as problem drinkers regularly drink two large 250ml glasses of wine a night with dinner”.
Blow for Harris as poll suggests Trump is more trusted on immigration
Professor Andrew Rudalevige (UCL Political Science) said that that immigration policy will not "dramatically" change under a potential Harris administration.
Kamala Harris: What she's said about women's issues
Professor Iwan Morgan (UCL Institute of the Americas) said Harris "will show more concern for women's issues than any major party presidential candidate in history - greater even that Hillary Clinton because these issues are now under far more sustained attack than in 2016."
Profit and Loss
The work of the UCL Centre for the study of the legacies of British slavery to analyse historic compensation claims is profiled. Professor Catherine Hall (UCL History) said: “We needed to look at all the records [...] to know the scale of it”.
Can Britain’s “mission-led” government defy gravity?
Matthew Holdhouse writes in the Economist that Sir Kier Starmer's "mission-led" approach to government was partly inspired by the work of Professor Mariana Mazzucato's (UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose) “Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism”.
CrowdStrike tech outage shows the precarious nature of our digital world
Dr Michael Veale (UCL Laws) explained that the tech outage highlighted out over-reliance on individual software providers for security of key infrastructure.
How software errors melted down the world’s computer systems
Dr Marie Vasek (UCL Computer Science) said the widespread computer meltdowns showed how reliant technology systems are on a small number of companies’ software.
CrowdStrike tech outage
Professor Ilan Kelman (UCL Risk & Disaster Reduction) discusses the long-term impact of the tech outage. He said: “We know what the solutions are, so let's implement them.”
UK in ‘worse state’ to deal with pandemic than before Covid, say experts
Professor Sir Michael Marmot (UCL Institute of Health Equity) said the impact of Covid confirmed his predictions that such a pandemic “would expose the underlying inequalities in society and amplify them”.