UCL Grand Challenges events round up May 2024

We have lots of exciting events happening over the next few weeks for staff, students, researchers and academics. Check out the full list below and secure your place.

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Shaping the UCL Grand Challenge of Climate Crisis

Help shape the new Grand Challenge of Climate Crisis at our upcoming interactive workshop session. Join us as we hear from climate change experts, exchange ideas and developing innovative solutions to the climate crisis. Book your tickets and find out more. *This event is for UCL staff only. 

Date: 22 May 2024 | Time: 13:30 - 17:30 | Location: Wellcome Trust Collection, 183 Euston Rd, London, NW1 2BE. 

Festival of Afro-European Arts, Performance & Scholarship

UCL European Institute and SOAS University of London Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies, supported by the UCL Grand Challenge of Cultural Understanding, are hosting a festival celebrating Black cultural production and critical inquiry. Explore the structures that make Blackness seem natural, self-evident, and variously foreign across Europe. Find out more and book your place.

Date: 4 & 5 June 2024 | Time: 10:00 - 20:00 | Location: various locations across UCL campus and SOAS campus

Build-a-lab: Help us tackle the world’s most urgent challenges

If you're a UCL student, then please join our interactive day-long workshop. Help us tackle the big challenges of the world. Become a student consultant for the day and have your ideas brought to life by designing an innovation model for future student entrepreneurship on the Grand Challenges. Book your place.

Date: 6 June 2024 | Time: 09:00 - 17:00 | Location: UCL BaseKX, 103c Camley Street, London, N1C 4PF

Training: Make the best of LinkedIn

Are you a researcher looking to grow your social media knowledge and network on LinkedIn? Then join our online masterclass to get an overview of how to make the most of the platform as leaders in your industry. Find out more and book your place. Date: 7 June 2024 | Time: 13:00 - 14:00 | Online

Inclusivity in knowledge exchange and impact

UCL Innovation & Enterprise are hosting a showcase of UCL knowledge exchange projects where inclusivity has been part of their design, participation and outcomes. Hear from a range of speakers discussing the importance of working collaboratively and knowledge exchange as part of the Transform programme, including UCL Grand Challenges, Assistant Director, Siobhan Morris. *For UCL staff only.

Date: 10 June | Time: 10:00 – 11:30 | Location: UCL 188 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 7PH  Find out more.

LFA: Reimagining a more equitable London - Postcards from the Future

We are thrilled to announce that we'll be part of the London Festival of Architecture event, coming up this June! Join us, UCL Public Policy, Women in Architecture UK, LDN Collective , Considerate Urbanism , Commonplace and The Building Society for a new film screening based on UCL's report 'Structurally Unsound' followed by a panel discussion and workshop feeding into a Commonplace's digital platform. Uncover the complex and interlinked issues driving inequalities and share your perspectives and ideas for a more inclusive London.  Date: 20 June 2024 | Time: 18:00 – 21:00 | Location: The Building Society, 55 Whitfield Street, London, W1T 4AH. Find out more.

Cultures of Decolonisation at UCL Forum 

Join us for a UCL-wide forum on “Cultures of Decolonisation at UCL” with researchers, professional staff and students. Together we'll be discussing the 2022 report's themes and findings, as well as hear about the currently active funded projects connected to the initiative. Find out more and book your place. 

*UCL Staff and Students only. If you are from outside UCL and are interested in this event, please contact the event organisers. Date: 2 July 2024 | Time: 13:00 –14:30 | Location: Room 642, Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AL and Online