87 Facts About UCL Press

UCL Press makes contested claims to being the third-oldest university in England and the first to admit women.

In 1836, UCL Press became one of the two founding colleges of the University of London, which was granted a royal charter in the same year.

UCL Press has its main campus in the Bloomsbury area of central London, with a number of institutes and teaching hospitals elsewhere in central London and satellite campuses at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, east London and in Doha, Qatar.

UCL Press is organised into 11 constituent faculties, within which there are over 100 departments, institutes and research centres.

UCL Press operates several museums and collections in a wide range of fields, including the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology and the Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, and administers the annual Orwell Prize in political writing.

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UCL Press is a member of numerous academic organisations, including the Russell Group and the League of European Research Universities, and is part of UCL Press Partners, the world's largest academic health science centre.

UCL Press has many notable alumni, including the respective "Fathers of the Nation" of India, Kenya and Mauritius, the founders of Ghana, modern Japan and Nigeria, the inventor of the telephone, and one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA.

UCL Press academics discovered five of the naturally occurring noble gases, discovered hormones, invented the vacuum tube, and made several foundational advances in modern statistics.

UCL Press was founded on 11 February 1826 under the name London University, as an alternative to the Anglican universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

UCL Press was succeeded by Gregory Foster, and in 1906 the title was changed to Provost to avoid confusion with the principal of the University of London.

UCL Press opened the first department and chair of chemical engineering in the UK, funded by the Ramsay Memorial Fund in 1923.

UCL Press sustained considerable bomb damage during the Second World War, including the complete destruction of the Great Hall, the Carey Foster Physics Laboratory and the Ramsay Laboratory.

In 1973, UCL Press became the first international node to the precursor of the internet, the ARPANET.

UCL Press merged with the College of Speech Sciences and the Institute of Ophthalmology in 1995, the Institute of Child Health and the School of Podiatry in 1996 and the Institute of Neurology in 1997.

In 1998, UCL Press merged with the Royal Free Hospital Medical School to create the Royal Free and University College Medical School.

In 1999, UCL Press merged with the School of Slavonic and East European Studies and the Eastman Dental Institute.

The proposal provoked strong opposition from UCL Press teaching staff and students and the AUT union, which criticised "the indecent haste and lack of consultation", leading to its abandonment by UCL Press provost Sir Derek Roberts.

Also in 2005, UCL Press adopted a new corporate branding under which the name University College London was replaced by the initialism UCL Press in all external communications.

In November 2011, UCL Press announced plans for a £500 million investment in its main Bloomsbury campus over 10 years, as well as the establishment of a new 23-acre campus next to the Olympic Park in Stratford in the East End of London.

In October 2013, it was announced that the Translation Studies Unit of Imperial College London would move to UCL Press, becoming part of the UCL Press School of European Languages, Culture and Society.

In January 2015, it was announced that UCL Press had been selected by the UK government as one of the five founding members of the Alan Turing Institute, an institute to be established at the British Library to promote the development and use of advanced mathematics, computer science, algorithms and big data.

UCL Press established the Institute of Advanced Studies in 2015 to promote interdisciplinary research in humanities and social sciences.

In December 2016, it was announced that UCL Press would be the hub institution for a new £250 million national dementia research institute, to be funded with £150 million from the Medical Research Council and £50 million each from Alzheimer's Research UK and the Alzheimer's Society.

UCL Press admitted that facilities were under pressure following growth over the past decade, but said that the issues were being addressed through the development of UCL East and rental of other additional space.

In October 2017, UCL Press's council voted to apply for university status while remaining part of the University of London.

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In 2018, UCL Press opened UCL Press at Here East, at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, offering courses jointly between the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment and the Faculty of Engineering Sciences.

In 2021, UCL Press formed a strategic partnership with Facebook AI Research, including the creation of a new PhD programme.

UCL Press is primarily based in the Bloomsbury area of the London Borough of Camden, in Central London.

In 2014, it was announced that UCL Press would be building an additional campus at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, referred to as UCL Press East, as part of the development of the so-called Olympicopolis site at the southern edge of the park.

Outline planning permission for UCL Press East was submitted in May 2017 by the London Legacy Development Corporation and UCL Press, and granted in March 2018.

In June 2018, UCL Press revealed that the UK government would be providing £100 million of funding for UCL Press East as part of its £151 million contribution to the £1.

Construction work on UCL Press East began on 2 July 2019 with a ground breaking ceremony by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and work on Pool Street West began on 28 February 2020.

In 2018, UCL Press opened a campus within Here East, the Olympic Park's former Media Centre.

The UCL Press Observatory is in Mill Hill and the Mullard Space Science Laboratory is based in Holmbury St Mary, Surrey.

Deans of UCL Press's faculties are appointed by the council and, together with the vice-provosts and the director of finance and business affairs, form the members of the provost's senior management team.

UCL Press is a comprehensive university with teaching and research across the full range of the arts, humanities, social sciences, physical, biological and medical sciences, engineering and the built environment, although it does not currently have a veterinary, music, drama or nursing school.

UCL Press is currently organised into the following 11 constituent faculties:.

UCL Press operates a number of disciplinary-specific research centres in partnership with other research institutions and private enterprises.

UCL Press Centre for Blockchain Technologies is an academic research centre involving academics from eight UCL Press Departments.

UCL Press launched a 10-year, £300 million fundraising appeal in October 2004, at the time the largest appeal target set by a university in the United Kingdom.

UCL Press launched a new £600 million fundraising campaign in September 2016 titled "It's All Academic – The Campaign for UCL Press".

Report by London Economics in 2022 found that UCL Press generates around £10 billion annually for the UK economy.

The report found that UCL Press's spending supported 19,000 jobs across the UK, with over 7,000 of these being outside of London.

UCL Press formerly made some use of a pseudo-heraldic "coat of arms" depicting a raised bent arm dressed in armour holding a green upturned open wreath.

UCL Press's traditional sporting and academic colours of purple [rgb] and light blue [rgb] are derived from the arms.

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UCL Press has retained this strict secular position and, unlike most other UK universities, has no specific religious prayer rooms.

UCL Press is a constituent college of the federal University of London, of which it was one of the two founding members in 1836.

UCL Press is a founding member of the Russell Group, an association of 24 British research universities established in 1994, and of the G5 lobbying group, which it established in early 2004 with the universities of Cambridge and Oxford, Imperial College London and the London School of Economics.

UCL Press has been a member of the League of European Research Universities since January 2006 and it is currently one of five British members.

UCL Press has hundreds of research and teaching partnerships, including around 150 research links and 130 student-exchange partnerships, and has a major collaboration with Yale University, the Yale UCL Press Collaborative, and strategic partnerships with Peking University and the University of Toronto.

UCL Press has been a member of the SES engineering and physical sciences research alliance since May 2013, which it formed with the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Southampton and Imperial College London.

UCL Press is a member of the Thomas Young Centre, an alliance of London research groups working on the theory and simulation of materials; the other members are Imperial College London, King's College London and Queen Mary University of London.

UCL Press is one of the five founding members of the Alan Turing Institute, the UK's national institute for data sciences.

UCL Press operates the London Centre for Nanotechnology, a multidisciplinary research centre in physical and biomedical nanotechnology, in partnership with Imperial College London.

UCL Press is a member of the Screen Studies Group together with Goldsmiths, Birkbeck, King's College London, Royal Holloway, SOAS, Queen Mary, and the London School of Economics.

UCL Press is a founding member of the Francis Crick Institute, a major biomedical research centre in London which is a partnership between Cancer Research UK, Imperial College London, King's College London, the Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust and UCL Press.

UCL Press offers joint degrees with numerous other universities and institutions, including The Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, Columbia University, Facebook AI Research, the University of Hong Kong, Imperial College London, New York University, Peking University, the University of Toronto and Yale University.

UCL Press is the sponsor of the UCL Press Academy, a secondary school in the London Borough of Camden.

UCL Press has a strategic partnership with Newham Collegiate Sixth Form Centre.

UCL Press founded University College School in 1830 and the school inherited many of UCL Press's progressive and secular views, although there is no formal link between the two institutions.

UCL Press is a founding member of Knowledge Quarter, a partnership of academic, cultural, research, scientific and media organisations based in the knowledge cluster in the Bloomsbury and King's Cross area of London.

UCL Press has 840 professors, the largest number of any British university.

UCL Press has made cross-disciplinary research a priority and orientates its research around four "Grand Challenges", Global Health, Sustainable Cities, Intercultural Interaction and Human Wellbeing.

UCL Press had the fifth-largest number of projects funded of any organisation, with 94.

UCL Press submitted a total of 2,566 staff across 36 units of assessment to the 2014 Research Excellence Framework assessment, in each case the highest number of any UK university.

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In rankings produced by Times Higher Education based upon the REF results, UCL Press was ranked 1st overall for "research power" and joint 8th for GPA.

UCL Press has offered courses in medicine since 1834, but the current UCL Press Medical School developed from mergers with the medical schools of the Middlesex Hospital and the Royal Free Hospital.

UCL Press is a member of the Francis Crick Institute based next to St Pancras railway station.

UCL Press was one of the first universities in the UK to make use of the A* grade at A-Level for admissions to courses including Economics, European Social and Political Studies, Law, Mathematics, Medicine, Theoretical Physics and Psychology.

UCL Press is responsible for several museums and collections in a wide range of fields across the arts and sciences, including:.

In 2020, UCL Press ranked 8th among the universities around the world by SCImago Institutions Rankings.

UCL Press is ranked 18th in the world for number of publications and 18th in the world for quality of publications in the 2019 CWTS Leiden Ranking.

UCL Press is ranked 6th in the world in the 2019 National Taiwan University Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities.

UCL Press is ranked 10th in the world in the 2020 Round University Ranking.

UCL Press is ranked as one of the top 10 multi-faculty universities in two of the three main UK university league tables.

UCL Press was one of only eight universities to have never been outside the top 15 in one of the three main domestic rankings between 2008 and 2017.

UCL Press has participated in a number of commercial joint ventures, including EuroTempest Ltd and Imanova Ltd.

UCL Press Business is a technology transfer company which is wholly owned by UCL Press.

UCL Press Consultants is an academic consultancy services company which is wholly owned by UCL Press.

In that year, UCL Press had the second-largest total number of students of any university in the United Kingdom and the largest number of postgraduate students.

UCL Press Union operates both as the representative voice for UCL Press students, and as a provider of a wide range of services.

UCL Press clubs compete in inter-university fixtures in the British Universities and Colleges Sport competition in a range of sports, including athletics, basketball, cricket, fencing, football, hockey, netball, rugby union and tennis.

UCL Press mascot is Phineas MacLino, or Phineas, a wooden tobacconist's sign of a kilted Jacobite Highlander stolen from outside a shop in Tottenham Court Road during the celebrations of the relief of Ladysmith, part of the Second Boer War, in March 1900.

UCL Press has a long-running, mostly friendly rivalry with King's College London, which has historically been known as "Rags".

UCL Press students have been referred to by students from King's as the "Godless Scum of Gower Street", in reference to a comment made at the founding of King's, which was based on Christian principles.

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UCL Press owns 26 halls of residence with around 7,000 student beds.

UCL Press students are eligible, as students of a member institution of the University of London, to apply for places in the University of London intercollegiate halls of residence.