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Engineers could learn a lot from dance when designing urban transport
Choreographers could offer engineers tools to stimulate new ideas in city-making.
Nurses, drivers and delivery people: meet the real stars of the night time economy
The night time economy goes far beyond pubs and clubs.
New ‘race disparity audit’ means little unless we consider where people live
The physical segregation of cities has a crucial role in poverty and access to public services.
Faces reveal a lot – but the science needs to be interpreted with care
...just don't call it the new phrenology.
How to safeguard vulnerable metro systems against terrorist attacks
Keeping commuters safe will require new technology and highly-trained staff.
We faced abuse for asking people to kill wasps for science – here’s why it was worthwhile
Killing insects, as the Big Wasp Survey asked people to do, contributed to many vital advances in science.
Toddlers and touchscreens: a parent’s guide
Do tablets and smartphones have a place in the toy box?
Most museums are too chicken to celebrate ‘boring beasts’ – but we’re not
Dogs, rats, cats, cows, chickens and mice have also changed the world.
What it means to raise the Palestinian flag in today’s America
In a poisonous atmosphere of Islamophobia and xenophobia, Palestinian-Americans are finding ways to belong.
Theresa May in Florence: what advice would Machiavelli have for Brexit?
Pearls of wisdom for a prince will serve a prime minister, too.
300,000 women are missing from economics
To get them back, Economics 101 courses need to address real problems.
What we’re hoping to learn from the magnetic readings of Cassini’s final orbits
Cassini may be gone but the data it left behind could help reveal how long Saturn's day is and how its magnetic field is generated.
Parsons Green: how police hunt suspected attackers
Terrorists are changing their tactics, so security services must too.
Cities are gaining power in global politics – can the UN keep up?
An expert in urban leadership reports from the UN General Assembly's high-level conference.
Fact Check: does immigration have an impact on wages or employment?
Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable claims there is no evidence that immigration impacts wages. Is he right?
How a baby’s brain prepares for the outside world
Baby's brains have special activity to help them develop – now researchers have found where some of this happens.
The experts who put storytelling, language and better paid teachers at the heart of early education
Jerome Bruner, Kathy Sylva and Catherine Snow are names we are more familiar with than we think.
The rise in personalised story books and what it means for children’s privacy
Why are parents increasingly inserting their child's name into stories?
NO₂ – not as bad as we thought?
The estimated economic value of minimising the damage to public health has been reduced by 80 percent.
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Teaching Fellow, School of European Languages, Culture & Society, UCL
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User Researcher and Senior research associate, UCL
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Doctoral Student (Urban Governance for Sustainability), UCL
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PhD Candidate in Urban Governance (Cities, Networks and Knowledge Management), UCL
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Associate Professor in Security and Crime Science, UCL
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Manager of the Grant Museum of Zoology, UCL
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Urban Governance (Infrastructure Governance, Policy and Planning), UCL
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Researcher in Urban Design and Culture, UCL
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Teaching Fellow, Security and Crime Science, UCL
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Professor of Urban Form and Society, UCL
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Senior Research Associate, UCL
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PhD Candidate in Disaster Risk Reduction, UCL
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Reader in Behavioural Ecology, UCL
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PhD Candidate in Geography, UCL
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Professor of Economics, UCL
