Calling researchers: OPSS launches 5 new Areas of Research Interest:
• Sector insights
• Product analysis
• Business compliance
• Supply chains
• Consumer behaviour

Help shape the future of UK product safety and regulation.

👉 Read more: opss.blog.gov.uk/2026/03/27/o...

Proud to be one of 17 Fellows on the Dept for Science, Innovation and Technology in the #Future of #Childhood and #Adolescence!

Can't wait to connect l with anyone in this space. Looking forward to sharing the final report early next year!

Does it matter how we talk about prosperity in the UK? Join us for an event exploring different metrics and approaches to measuring prosperity in the UK.

Does it matter how we talk about prosperity in the UK?
Join UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment UCL200 flagship panel on creating prosperous places, using innovative metrics like the Citizen Prosperity Index.
📅 23 April, 3–5pm (UCL & online)
✅ https://bit.ly/4814fEp

Delighted to welcome two UCL researchers to the 2026 Fellowship cohort

Dr Karen Mak joins DCMS, and Dr Harpreet Singh Chawla joins the GLA.

Meet the fellows: https://bit.ly/4twJMQJ

We’re proud to announce that Dr Keri Wong has been appointed a 2025/26 DSIT Expert Exchange Fellow. Embedded in the Government Office for Science, she’s shaping long‑term thinking on the future of childhood & adolescence to inform UK policy.
🔗 bit.ly/4tbFY6W

🚨Calling UCL staff - Deadline extended for UKRI Policy Fellowships
We're offering 2 Policy Fellowships with UKRI, working at the interface of research, policy and real‑world impact.
1️⃣ Clean Energy
2️⃣ Improve children’s home learning environments
https://bit.ly/4sOjpVA

🌍 Science-Policy Summer School 2026 — Apply Now!
Early‑career researcher working on environmental issues? Boost your real‑world impact through a week of training at the University of Geneva & UN sites.
📅 22–26 June 2026
Apply here by 16 April 👉 https://bit.ly/40N2Q01

Inaugural UCL Annual Lecture in Economic Policy, delivered by Torsten Bell MP · Luma The UCL Policy Lab and UCL Economics are pleased to host Torsten Bell MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Pensions and Parliamentary Secretary to…

The UCL Policy Lab and UCL Economics are pleased to host Torsten Bell MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Pensions and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury, for the first Annual UCL Lecture in Economic Policy on 23 April | 10:00 - 11:00

https://luma.com/17ccbouv

Upcoming Roundtable: Improving Communication During Adverse Gestational Events
13 April | 11.30am–12.30pm
Join this roundtable exploring how communication during adverse gestational events can be improved across healthcare and support systems.
Sign up: https://bit.ly/3OcnNyP

🚀Applications are now open for the UKRI Research and Development Missions Accelerator Programme Fellowships! focused on clean energy, the home learning environment, and experimental evaluation. Open to UCL staff (Grade 7+).
Apply by 10 April ⤵️
https://bit.ly/4sOjpVA

🌍 Science-Policy Summer School 2026 — Apply Now!
Early‑career researcher working on environmental issues? Boost your real‑world impact through a week of training at the University of Geneva & UN sites.
📅 22–26 June 2026
Apply here by 16 April 👉 https://bit.ly/40N2Q01

Book your place - Up Close & Policy: Naming the Crisis
12 May | 12pm
Join us for a panel discussion with academics from UCL, The Centric Lab), and Greater London Authority, spotlighting Air is Kin, a community and scientific project led by The Centric Lab. https://bit.ly/4dmAnpE

Upcoming Roundtable: Improving Communication During Adverse Gestational Events
13 April | 11.30am–12.30pm
Join this roundtable exploring how communication during adverse gestational events can be improved across healthcare and support systems.
Sign up: https://bit.ly/3OcnNyP

🚀Applications are now open for the UKRI Research and Development Missions Accelerator Programme Fellowships! focused on clean energy, the home learning environment, and experimental evaluation. Open to UCL staff (Grade 7+).
Apply by 10 April ⤵️
https://bit.ly/4sOjpVA

Up Close & Policy: Naming the Crisis What role does language play in how we understand, communicate, and respond to environmental crises?

NEW EVENT

What role does language play in how we understand, communicate, and respond to environmental crises? And what happens when science, community advocacy, and policy adopt a shared vocabulary rooted not in abstraction, but in lived experience?

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/up-close-p...

Up Close and Policy is produced by @uclpublicpolicy.bsky.social.

Lab director Araceli Camargo is speaking alongside:
🗣️ @ilankelman.bsky.social is Professor of Disasters and Health at University College London, and
🗣️ Poppy Lyle, currently Head of Air Quality at the Greater London Authority.

Health Equity in Cities: Linking evidence, communities and policy Join us for inspiring talks with two urban health experts!

Health Equity in Cities – 16 April, 09:00–12:00
Join leading experts in urban health and social epidemiology for a morning of talks exploring how structural conditions, social ties and the built environment, shape health inequities.
👉 Register: https://bit.ly/4r53UrA

🚀Applications are now open for the UKRI Research and Development Missions Accelerator Programme Fellowships! focused on clean energy, the home learning environment, and experimental evaluation. Open to UCL staff (Grade 7+).
Apply by 10 April ⤵️
https://bit.ly/4sOjpVA

🌍 Science-Policy Summer School 2026 — Apply Now!
Early‑career researcher working on environmental issues? Boost your real‑world impact through a week of training at the University of Geneva & UN sites.
📅 22–26 June 2026
Apply here by 16 April 👉 https://bit.ly/40N2Q01

The March edition of our newsletter is out now: https://bit.ly/4uNDNrr

This month we focus on ECRs and the value they bring to academic-public policy engagement. Plus opportunities, news and must read blogs.

Subscribe and stay in touch: bit.ly/4qG834j

Missed our Up Close & Policy webinar on People Powered Places?
Catch up now to hear how UCL is supporting Newham Council through independent evaluation and collaboration — helping residents shape decisions in their neighbourhoods.
🎥 https://bit.ly/49RF3At

Last chance to apply for brilliant Nuffield funded Fellowships for PhD students/graduates.

POST Fellowship | Nuffield Foundation The POST Fellowship is open to any PhD students in a scientific or quantitative social science field who are undertaking or have recently finished their PhD studies.

Calling PhD students in social or natural sciences! Applications open for 13‑wk Nuffield Foundation POST Fellowship! Includes funding of up to £8,000
Deadline: 23 March 2026, 23:55
💷 A fantastic chance to bring your research into real‑world policymaking.
https://bit.ly/4udrxAy

Join the launch of UCL’s Centre for Digital Public Health in Emergencies (dPHE) as it becomes a WHO Collaborating Centre for Digital Public Health & Pandemic Preparedness.
📅 25 March
🕔 17:00–21:00
📍 Bentham House, UCL
👉 Register: https://bit.ly/4bm01b5

DBT areas of research interest DBT’s areas of research interest (ARI) summarise the areas in which the department would like to receive evidence from the external research community.

The Department for Business and Trade has updated its Areas of Research Interest (ARI): the list of thematic areas and lines of investigation where the department is keen to hear from researchers.

🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4uFc9Nn

🚀Applications are now open for the UKRI Research and Development Missions Accelerator Programme Fellowships! focused on clean energy, the home learning environment, and experimental evaluation. Open to UCL staff (Grade 7+).
Apply by 10 April ⤵️
https://bit.ly/4sOjpVA

Researchers met for a mini action learning session as part of the UCL London Local Authority Policy Fellowship (2026). They shared project insights, challenges & peer learning, highlighting how academia & local policymakers can work more closely together.
bit.ly/4sQR4hf

Impact in Place: What works in policy brokerage for London How can place-based research partnerships better influence policy in London? What brokerage models really work - and why?

📅 Upcoming event: What Works in Policy Brokerage for London
19 March | 11:00–12:30 | Online
Learn how partnerships across London can better influence policy and improve lives, with practical examples of brokerage models that work.
🔗 Book your place: https://bit.ly/46rcwAL

Delighted to welcome UCL’s Dr Alison McKinlay and Dr Loren Kock to the 2025 UKRI Policy Fellowships cohort! Announced at UKRI’s Celebration of Knowledge Mobility event, where we also shared early findings from our 2023 evaluation.

Learn more: https://bit.ly/3P3y0xR

Masterclass on Understanding EU Public Health Policy: Levers, Processes, and Influence This masterclass is designed to offer an accessible introduction to EU policy-making for a varied cohort of UCL researchers

📣 Want to understand how EU public health policy is shaped & how research can feed into it?

Last chance to join UCL Global Engagement's free masterclass, Understanding EU Public Health Policy: Levers, Processes, and Influence on 18 Mar | 13.00–16.30

https://bit.ly/46fT9dT