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UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Led by Dr Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva, the Wellcome Trust-funded project (2025-2030) ‘How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild? Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)” explores how, historically, infectious diseases became associated to wild animals in rural and natural settings. The project focuses on Brazil, a country that was pitted against an unprecedented sanitary phenomenon between 1920 and 1975: the wild diseases.

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Historical studies on the relationship between science and diplomacy tend to focus on events since World War II and on initiatives for the maintenance of peace or to achieve cooperation over contenti....

Conversation with Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva on Disease Ecology, Spillbacks, and Belongings in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1980).

Lecturer in Social Anthropology - AC2674, Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies Salary: £47,389 - £58,226 per annum Start Date: 1 September 2026 , <p style="text-align: justify;"><span>The ...

Assistant Professor Science, Technology and Society Studies

How museums display extinct species—and what these exhibits say about us.   While it’s no longer possible to encounter a dodo in the wild, we can still come face-to-face with them in museums. The rema...

In this lecture, Monica Green explores how pathogen palaeogenetics, through ancient microbial genomes, is transforming our understanding of the evolution and global circulation of premodern infectious...

New Cambridge grant to help under-represented scholars publish

Studies addressing the so-called &#8220;diffusion&#8221; of modern European science utilized a Eurocentric viewpoint and considered non-European countries essentially as receivers and repeaters, conve...

In an age when microbes are once again at the centre of global attention - whether through pandemics, probiotics or planetary health - rethinking their histories is more than an academic exercise.

In an age when microbes are once again at the centre of global attention - whether through pandemics, probiotics or planetary health - rethinking their histories is more than an academic exercise.

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Researchers have detected highly pathogenic avian influenza in 41 at-risk bird species across all 10 Canadian provinces.

Cambridge Core - Classical Philosophy - Hegel and Colonialism

Workshop organized by Prof. Gregg Mitman and Dr. Emanuelle Roth (RCC/LMU)