UCL Institute for Global Prosperity

Want to meet the lecturers you’ll be learning from when you study an interdisciplinary social sciences course at UCL? Meet: 🟣 Dr Yuan He - Lecturer and programme lead of Global Prosperity MSc, co-lead of the Asian Prosperity Hub, and co-editor of the ‘Global Prosperity Thought and Practice’ book series published by UCL Press. 🟣Dr Sam Randalls – Associate Professor at UCL Department of Geography. 🟣Dr Alex Hyde - Associate Professor in Gender Studies and Co-Director of UCL Gender and Sexuality Studies at SELCS-CMII. Alex’s research is multidisciplinary, focusing on feminist epistemologies and gender relations in war. 🟣Dr Joe Penny - Associate Professor at UCL Urban Laboratory. Ask our academics your questions about social inequalities, poverty and the global climate crisis, and how you can address them through postgraduate study at UCL in our Q&A session following their taster lectures. 📅 Date: Tuesday 8 April 2025, 1pm to 2pm BST 📍 Online Register now: https://lnkd.in/e-i-BN7p UCL Arts and Humanities The Bartlett, UCL's Faculty of the Built Environment

Eid Mubarak to everyone in our global community who is celebrating ✨🌙

💡 Reflecting on FemTech Innovation At Fast Forward 2030, we won’t stop talking about the impact of the FemTech industry and recognizing the amazing work entrepreneurs are doing to transform women’s health. At our latest event, we had an inspiring discussion led by Solveiga Pakštaitė and Bola Olabisi FRSA, with industry leaders such as Veronika Bridgman, Melis Eda Ekinci, and Lauren Tappin. All pushing the boundaries of innovation in women’s health. Their work, alongside solutions like Unravel Health, Woost, and Femtech Search, is reshaping the future of healthcare. That’s why we encourage everyone to keep the conversation going and find new ways to collaborate, so groundbreaking solutions continue to flourish and transform the way we approach health. To dive deeper, we’re excited to share our latest blog post, written by two brilliant Master’s students from the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity, Sundas G. and Yingfang Ma. 📖 Read more about the key takeaways and the inspiring work being done in FemTech https://lnkd.in/e_tHw9_m Let’s keep pushing for a more inclusive healthcare system! 💡 What do you think needs to change to make women’s health a priority? Arthur Kay Selin Yigitbasi-Ducker 🌍 Amrit Chandan JP Dallmann Anaïs Engelmann UCL UCL Global Business School for Health UCL Institute of Health Equity The Bartlett, UCL's Faculty of the Built Environment Henrietta Moore

Congratulations to IGP's Solveiga Pakštaitė on this exciting next step for Mimica 🎉 🔬

Societies, like individuals, can get trapped in addictive patterns of behaviour like using fossil fuels or seeking 'growth at all costs'. In our latest blog, Professor Robert Costanza, of UCL Institute for Global Prosperity at UCL, discusses what we can learn from the individual addictions to overcome those on a societal level. 🔍 Read here: https://lnkd.in/e_WKRUxY

Congratulations to Hanna B. on winning the Arts Award for Engagement work on Food Justice! 🎉 We're thrilled to share that Another Provision, the collaborative practice of IGP researcher Dr Hanna B. and artist Johann Arens, has been awarded the Marsh Awards for Excellence in Visual Arts Engagement. The award, which celebrates innovation in visual arts and education contexts, is awarded annually by the Marsh Charitable Trust and Engage, the National Association for Gallery Education, a leading charity on arts engagement. Another Provision has led co-design and participatory work with food insecure people and food activists in London and Berlin over four years, envisioning the spaces and infrastructures required to make food a Universal Basic Service. Image © Johann Arens

What are the difficulties faced by experts in influencing UK policy and facilitating its implementation? Prof Alison Scott-Baumann has been commissioned by successive UK governments, in 1998, 2008 and 2018, to influence their thinking, aiming to address big policy, macro-level thinking with micro-level, community evidence about citizenship. Now working inside Westminster, Prof Scott-Baumann works with junior scholars and students alongside politicians on what is considered meso-level policy, constituting issues of mutual interest and urgency. Join us for a Director's Seminar with Prof Alison Scott-Baumann, Professor of Society and Belief at SOAS. 🕟 Thursday 27 March, 4:30pm 📍 UCL Darwin LT 🔗 Register now: https://lnkd.in/e32vuxWV

Join IGP's Maurizio Marinelli in Canary Wharf tomorrow for the final event in UCL School of Management's March Speaker series. An expert on China's development, Professor Marinelli will delve into China's socio-spatial transformation through an interdisciplinary lens. Book your place at the link below 🔽

How can interdisciplinary approaches tackle global challenges? 🌍 Join us for a UCL Information Session with the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL Department of Geography, and UCL Arts and Humanities, and UCL Urban Laboratory. We will explore how our master’s courses address today’s most pressing issues with perspectives on prosperity, sustainability, and innovation from our expert faculty. 📅 Date: Tuesday 8 April 2025, 1pm to 2pm BST 📍Online Register now ▶️ https://lnkd.in/e-i-BN7p Yuan H. The Bartlett, UCL's Faculty of the Built Environment

As we approach the spending review, let’s broaden the UK’s narrow of economic metrics and provide a more comprehensive assessment of the UK’s well-being. 👉 Looking beyond GDP: Rethinking economic progress: https://lnkd.in/dPbtd4wP UCL Institute for Global Prosperity #BeyondGDP #Sustainability #Wellbeing #SocialCohesion #SpendingReview