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We welcome the news that all strike action planned for the next two weeks by our union partners has been paused following constructive negotiations on both pay and pensions.

Dr James Price and Dr Steve Pye (both UCL Bartlett School Environment, Energy & Resources) warn in The Conversation that as numerous countries rely on coal for power, oil and gas need to be phased out quickly to keep carbon emissions below catastrophic climate change levels.

UCL VPEE Student Journalism Scheme student Caroline Coyer (MFA Creative Documentary by Practice), visits UCL's Institute of Cardiovascular Science to explore their amazing new virtual reality technology Visiting UCL's Institute of Cardiovascular Science is a day of firsts for me.

Decarbonisation and technology minister Jesse Norman toured UCL's PEARL facility this week, as the laboratory hosted a roundtable with key stakeholder groups discussing e-scooters.

Professor Ilan Kelman (UCL Risk & Disaster Reduction) describes in The Conversation how warring countries can put aside their differences to save lives when a disaster, like the recent Turkey-Syria earthquake, strikes a region beset by conflict.

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Male school inspectors are more likely to award higher Ofsted grades than female inspectors when inspecting similar primary schools, according to new research by UCL and the University of Southampton. Released today as an academic working paper, the study examines the Ofsted grades awarded by 1,376 different inspectors across 35,751 school inspections conducted between 2012 and 2019.

Nearly half (45%) of all young people who reported having long COVID felt they had fallen behind their classmates due to the pandemic - with almost three in five (59%) saying that they had not caught up with lost learning - according to new research involving UCL. L ed jointly by the UCL Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities (CEPEO), the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies (CLS), and the Sutton Trust, the COVID Social Mobility & Opportunities (COSMO) study is the largest study examining the impacts of the pandemic on young people.

Almost three quarters of UK parents would support a chickenpox vaccine being added to the childhood vaccination schedule, finds new research led by UCL and Keele University. The research team, led by Professor Helen Bedford (UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health) and Dr Sue Sherman (Keele University), surveyed nearly 600 parents on their attitudes towards a varicella (chickenpox) vaccine, including whether it should be routinely offered to all children, and whether they would be likely to accept it for their child.

The national University and College Union (UCU) has announced plans for nationwide industrial action between February and March 2023, including strike and action short of strike (descriptions below), which may affect your studies.

Next week will see workers from a number of different industries going on strike, which may affect your work.

Undertaking between six to seven minutes of moderate or vigorous physical activity (MVPA) every day could improve cognitive performance, finds a new study led by UCL researchers. The research, published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, found that more intense exercise is better for working memory and mental processes, such as planning and organisation.

This week will see workers from a number of different industries going on strike, which may affect your work.

Allocating passenger aircraft emissions using airfares rather than travel class would give a more accurate idea of individual contributions, finds a study led by UCL.

A new Marmot review on the cost-of-living crisis in London launched on 20th January, 2023, lays out what needs to be done as a matter of urgency to support the health of Londoners, over half of whom are already 'financially struggling' or 'just about managing'.

A new personalised cancer treatment can radically improve the outlook for some patients with bile duct cancer, finds an international multicentre trial involving researchers at UCL and University College London Hospitals NHS Trust (UCLH).

Up to one in five adults with a history of poor mental health reported they were 'much worse off' financially a year into the COVID-19 pandemic, compared to one in ten of those who had never had psychological problems in adulthood, according to a new study by UCL researchers.

Explosions from a sinking ship are among the unexpected sounds detected by 50 highly sensitive seismometers placed on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean as part of an international collaboration led by UCL researcher Professor Ana Ferreira. The seismometers, which have now been collected after spending a year at the bottom of the ocean, record the Earth's ground motions on the sea floor and thus capture the Earth's "pulse".

UCL and the University of Oxford will jointly lead a new £8.7m, five-year project to establish an Energy Demand Observatory and Laboratory (EDOL), which aims to generate data on energy usage in UK homes and inform strategies to meet net zero targets.

Our pick of the most disruptive UCL Lunch Hour Lectures of all time - from talks on shopping at IKEA and weighing trees with lasers, to others that discuss innovations in x-ray imaging, the minds of cab drivers and whether fish can count.

Countries affected by the River Nile's Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) could benefit economically under cooperative adaptive management of the Nile that allows for different climate change scenarios, finds a study involving UCL researchers. The GERD will be Africa's largest hydroelectric power plant in terms of installed power capacity when completed.