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UCL Grand Challenges convenes cross-disciplinary collaborations to explore interconnected solutions to a range of societal issues.
🚨 Applications now open for the Precision Mind Prize!

Up to €250K funding for Franco–British projects on blood biomarkers in mental health.

Collaborate, innovate, and advance precision psychiatry.

📅 Apply now: Precision Mind Prize: https://bit.ly/4oRcIQa

Deadline 30 Jan
Precision Mind Prize: French - UK Prize for Research on Biomarkers in Mental Health
→ Lire ce contenu en français → Applications from November 4, 2025 to January 30, 2026.
www.fondation-fondamental.org
January 21, 2026 at 2:19 PM
🚀 UCL is proud to have submitted 7 multidisciplinary proposals to the Universities for Goal 13 Competition with 4 moving to Phase 2! Our student teams will now refine their ideas with mentors from Siemens Energy and Siemens Gamesa.
🔗 More on UG13: https://bit.ly/3YO9aDG
SDSN & Siemens Energy Launch 5th Edition of the "Universities for Goal 13" Competition and Award
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January 21, 2026 at 9:16 AM
🌍 Futurecasting 21st Century Global Health: Anticipating Threats and Preparing Responses

We're delighted to announce UCL-Lancet Lecture 2026 with Prof Natalia Kanem

📅 12 March
📍 Cruciform Lecture Theatre LT1
🕓 17:00 to 20:00

🔗 Register here: https://bit.ly/3YWu3MR
UCL-Lancet Lecture 2026: Professor Natalia Kanem
‘Futurecasting’ 21st Century Global Health: Anticipating Threats and Preparing Responses.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 19, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Approaches to promote children’s mental health and wellbeing
Date: Feb 9 | Time: 3pm to 5pm
Location: 26 Bedford Way

Hear from UCL academics as they explore how arts, leisure & physical activity can foster resilience & wellbeing in young people.

https://bit.ly/49iLxcz
Approaches to promote children’s mental health and wellbeing
Join us on 9th February for a special event during Children's Mental Health Week 2026.
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January 16, 2026 at 10:20 AM
Grand Challenges x ChangeMakers is back!
Students + staff can apply for funding to co-create projects that boost learning, wellbeing, or community at UCL.
📅 Info webinar: 9 Dec, 11–12pm 👉 https://bit.ly/4iry4Su
🗓 Apply by: 23 Jan 2026
🔗 Details: https://bit.ly/440AbH2
January 15, 2026 at 2:33 PM
We are delighted to announce the 7 successful Catalyst Grant projects from our recent funding call for Early Career Researchers, delivered through UCL’s Grand Challenge of Inequalities. Each worth up to £5,000.

https://bit.ly/3Ze5M52
January 15, 2026 at 10:50 AM
UCL are exploring how our environments affect health & wellbeing and how neuroarchitecture can design spaces for everyone.

Read the Portico Magazine feature on Dr Zisch, Prof Spiers & the International Centre for NeuroArchitecture and NeuroDesign:

🔗 https://bit.ly/45vsUzw
Designing healthier places | Portico Magazine | UCL
For better or worse, our environments shape us. Now, researchers from UCL’s The Bartlett are uncovering new ways for our built environment to support – and improve – our health and wellbeing.
magazine.ucl.ac.uk
January 13, 2026 at 10:17 AM
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Being able to recognise the early risk factors of eating disorders lets us prevent them.

UCL research is shifting policy attention to better health outcomes through strengthening children's decision-making and building healthy relationships with food.
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January 6, 2026 at 12:24 PM
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Interestingly, the same socioeconomic factors that predict engagement with the arts are also those that predict mental and physical health outcomes.

Share your recommendations in the reply section!
#ArtCure #CultureForHealth
@leverhulme.ac.uk @uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social
January 9, 2026 at 9:08 AM
🚨 Applications now open for the Precision Mind Prize!

Up to €250K funding for Franco–British projects on blood biomarkers in mental health.

Collaborate, innovate, and advance precision psychiatry.

📅 Apply now: Precision Mind Prize: https://bit.ly/4oRcIQa

Deadline 30 Jan
Precision Mind Prize: French - UK Prize for Research on Biomarkers in Mental Health
→ Lire ce contenu en français → Applications from November 4, 2025 to January 30, 2026.
www.fondation-fondamental.org
January 8, 2026 at 10:19 AM
How should universities prepare students for meaningful lives in an AI-driven world?
Join us with Public Policy & Policy Lab to explore:
✅ AI’s impact on jobs & skills
✅ What mindsets students need
✅ HE’s role in social mobility
📅 27 Jan, 6pm to 9pm
https://bit.ly/3LOKIPg
AI, the Future of Work, and the Role of a University Education
How should higher education evolve to prepare students not just for employment, but for meaningful lives in an AI-enabled world?
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 7, 2026 at 10:07 AM
🌍 Futurecasting 21st Century Global Health: Anticipating Threats and Preparing Responses

We're delighted to announce UCL-Lancet Lecture 2026 with Prof Natalia Kanem

📅 12 March
📍 Cruciform Lecture Theatre LT1
🕓 17:00 to 20:00

🔗 Register here: https://bit.ly/3YWu3MR
UCL-Lancet Lecture 2026: Professor Natalia Kanem
‘Futurecasting’ 21st Century Global Health: Anticipating Threats and Preparing Responses.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Grand Challenges x ChangeMakers is back!
Students + staff can apply for funding to co-create projects that boost learning, wellbeing, or community at UCL.
📅 Info webinar: 9 Dec, 11–12pm 👉 https://bit.ly/4iry4Su
🗓 Apply by: 23 Jan 2026
🔗 Details: https://bit.ly/440AbH2
January 5, 2026 at 10:33 AM
How should universities prepare students for meaningful lives in an AI-driven world?
Join us with Public Policy & Policy Lab to explore:
✅ AI’s impact on jobs & skills
✅ What mindsets students need
✅ HE’s role in social mobility
📅 27 Jan, 6pm to 9pm
https://bit.ly/3LOKIPg
AI, the Future of Work, and the Role of a University Education
How should higher education evolve to prepare students not just for employment, but for meaningful lives in an AI-enabled world?
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 31, 2025 at 10:07 AM
🚨 Applications now open for the Precision Mind Prize!

Up to €250K funding for Franco–British projects on blood biomarkers in mental health.

Collaborate, innovate, and advance precision psychiatry.

📅 Apply now: Precision Mind Prize: https://bit.ly/4oRcIQa

Deadline 30 Jan
Precision Mind Prize: French - UK Prize for Research on Biomarkers in Mental Health
→ Lire ce contenu en français → Applications from November 4, 2025 to January 30, 2026.
www.fondation-fondamental.org
December 29, 2025 at 10:19 AM
New podcast ep on Inequalities out now: Asylum, Housing & Community
Host Ethne James-Souch talks with Mette Berg, Dr Judith Spirig, Faith Nyamakanga, & Nelson Gomez about the realities of asylum housing in the UK & the policies shaping them.
🎧 Listen now: https://bit.ly/4p2aIFA
Asylum, Housing, and Community
In this episode, host Ethne James Souch speaks with Professor Mette Louise Berg, Dr Judith Spirig, Faith Nyamakanga, and Nelson Gomez about the lived realities of asylum housing in the UK, and the wid
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December 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
How should universities prepare students for meaningful lives in an AI-driven world?
Join us with Public Policy & Policy Lab to explore:
✅ AI’s impact on jobs & skills
✅ What mindsets students need
✅ HE’s role in social mobility
📅 27 Jan, 6pm to 9pm
https://bit.ly/3LOKIPg
AI, the Future of Work, and the Role of a University Education
How should higher education evolve to prepare students not just for employment, but for meaningful lives in an AI-enabled world?
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 24, 2025 at 10:07 AM
🚀 Out now! UCL's Grand Challenge of Justice & Equality Impact Report

Celebrating the work of researchers & partners from UCL & beyond to address inequality in all its forms, locally, nationally & globally.

🔗 Find out more & read the report: https://bit.ly/3Ma61e9
Launch of UCL Grand Challenge of Justice & Equality Impact Report
UCL Grand Challenges has published the Grand Challenge of Justice & Equality Impact Report, celebrating nearly a decade of pioneering research and collaboration to address inequalities of all forms, locally, nationally and globally.
www.ucl.ac.uk
December 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Funded by @uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social and Historic England, CASA Assoc Prof @huanfa.bsky.social has been working with @warmwelcomeuk.bsky.social to improve access to Warm Welcome Spaces. A new dashboard maps 5,500+ UK spaces, showing proximity boosts awareness for vulnerable groups.
December 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
New blog from GSS Conference keynote Allison Littlejohn (PVP to Grand Challenge of DES) out now! Exploring how technological change might influence the GSS and some factors to consider, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence.

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The future of GSS is in the hands of humans – Government Analysis Function
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December 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
🎄 Grand Challenges: The Christmas Story 2,000 Years Later…
As Christmas approaches, Sam Balch reflects on UCL Grand Challenges’ achievements and uncovers surprising parallels with the Christmas story. https://bit.ly/48TkDGH
December 18, 2025 at 10:21 AM
How should universities prepare students for meaningful lives in an AI-driven world?
Join us with Public Policy & Policy Lab to explore:
✅ AI’s impact on jobs & skills
✅ What mindsets students need
✅ HE’s role in social mobility
📅 27 Jan, 6pm to 9pm
https://bit.ly/3LOKIPg
AI, the Future of Work, and the Role of a University Education
How should higher education evolve to prepare students not just for employment, but for meaningful lives in an AI-enabled world?
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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UCL leads the Climate-U network, which works to strengthen collective climate action at universities around the world.

The network is now empowering local climate initiatives and fostering international collaboration.

Read in #IOEImpactStories x @uclgrandchallenges.bsky.social
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December 16, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Check out our December newsletter. Read the latest news, opportunities and upcoming events in our monthly bulletin: https://mailchi.mp/ed194d698dff/exhibition-launch-11016072

Make sure you sign up and stay up to date: https://lnkd.in/epY7Dpwr
December 16, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Two new episodes of @ucl.ac.uk’s Generation One podcast just dropped 🌍

🎙️ Paris +10: How the Paris Agreement is still shaping global climate policy

🌱 COP30: What happened in Belém and why it matters for our climate future

#UCLGeography @profmarkmaslin.bsky.social @simonchinyee.bsky.social
Gen One Ep 11 out now: Paris+10 live event
Mark Maslin, Lisa Vanhala & panel of guests discuss how climate governance, markets & multilateralism are shifting amid geopolitical turbulence live from UCL's event marking 10 years since the Paris Agreement.
🎧 https://bit.ly/4oHn3Om
Season 5, Episode 11 - Paris +10 Live event: reflections on the impact of the Paris Agreement
This episode brings you the highlights from a special event from UCL marking 10 years since the Paris Agreement. Hear how it continues to influence policy, markets, and public debate — and what lies
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December 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM