A recap of the inaugural edition of the London International Conference on Inclusive Education, hosted by the UCL Centre for Inclusive Education on July 28-30, 2025.

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9/30/2025

Christina Bennett, CEO of Start Network, delivers the keynote “The Future of Aid” at the 15th UCL Risk and Disaster Reduction annual conference. In this talk she: • Diagnoses the strained humanitarian system: political pressures, funding cuts, eroding impartiality • Highlights that 323 million people now need aid amid shrinking donor budgets • Introduces the Start Fund’s anticipatory action model for 145 members • Explores AI’s promise and pitfalls in crisis response • Calls for a “factory-settings” reset: redistributing power, diversifying finance, and centring people over institutions • Invites academia to fuel evidence-based reform and local expertise. Watch the full address and join us in putting people back at the heart of humanitarian action. Learn more about the conference ➔ https://www.ucl.ac.uk/risk-disaster-reduction/events/2025/jul/15th-rdr-annual-conference-where-human-humanitarianism

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8/1/2025

Anna Beswick is a Policy Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute at LSE working on climate adaptation and resilience. She is working on the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance programme which is a multi-sectoral collaboration focusing on finding practical ways to support communities in developed and developing countries to strengthen their resilience to flood risk. The UK Alliance for Disaster Reduction (UKADR) 2024 Conference was hosted by UCL Department of Risk and Disaster Reduction (RDR) from 26 to 27 June 2024. The conference brought together academics, practitioners and funders with an interest in disaster risk reduction.

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11/27/2024

The UCL Open Science Conference 2024 took place on 20 June 2024

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7/11/2024

The UCL Open Science Conference 2024 took place on 20th June 2024.

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7/11/2024

The UCL Open Science conference 2024 took place on the 20th June 2024

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7/11/2024

The UCL Open Science Conference took place on 20 June 2024.

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7/11/2024

The augmentation of everyday software development and productivity tools with Large Language Model (LLM) capabilities is increasing and will become as ubiquitos as spelling and grammar checking tools. But, what do LLMs really mean in terms of assessed work? We thought we’d find out. Research Software Engineering with Python (COMP0233) is a large-ish level 7 module taken by students from predominantly Physics and related fields. The assessment is 100% coursework, split between an individual assignment and a group assignment. We firstly had to find out what an LLM could do with regards to the assignments, decide what we would tell students, then reflect on what they did why. This is the story of those tasks and what we learnt in the process.

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4/4/2024