UCL IIPP in conversation series 10th Oct 2024 Uncommon Wealth is the little known and shocking history of how Britain treated its former non-white colonies after the end of empire. It is the story of how an interconnected group of British capitalists enabled horrific inequality across the globe, profiting in colonial Africa, Asia and the Caribbean. However, the greed unleashed in this era would boomerang, now leaving many ordinary Britons wondering where their own prosperity has gone. Ranging from Jamaica to Singapore, Ghana to Britain, this is a blistering account of how buried decisions of decades past are ravaging Britain today. Speaker: Dr Kojo Koram | Reader in Law at Birkbeck College, University of London Discussant: Reverend Professor Keith Magee | Visiting Professor in Cultural Justice at the UCL IIPP Chair: Dr Cecilia Rikap | Head of Research and Associate Professor in Economics at the UCL IIPP

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10/14/2024

Leading experts from a range of fields – from neuroscience to psychiatry and education – examine the evidence and how best that evidence can inform the design of our education system, as well as public understanding of the teenage years. Ever since ‘the teenager’ rose to prominence in the 1950s, the difficulty of adolescence has been a common trope and source of amusement in popular culture. But it is also a lived reality for young people and those around them. To what extent are ‘teenage behaviours’ part of our biology and to what extent are our societal structures and practices – from the time the school day starts, to the inexorable rise of social media – helping or hindering teenagers in navigating the years from age 11 to 19, and beyond? Iroise Dumontheil, Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience, Birkbeck Mark Lehain, Director, Parents and Teachers for Excellence Mike Shooter, Psychiatrist Bettina Hohnen, Clinical Psychologist Chair: Professor Sue Rogers, Interim Director, UCL IOE

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2/3/2020

HDCA 2019 Connecting Capabilities Recorded 9th September Professor Moses Oketch | Co-Director, CEID, University College London Professor Ingrid Robeyns | HDCA President Professor Michael Arthur | President & Provost, University College London Baroness Valerie Amos | Director, SOAS Professor Elaine Unterhalter | HDCA conference Chair, Co-Director CEID, UCL

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9/11/2019