UCL Social & Historical Sciences

22/10/2026

🏛️ Postgraduate Degree applications are now open on the University College London website.

🔗 follow the link in our linktree and stories today to find about more about the 60+ specialist postgraduate degrees in our faculty!

22/10/2026

✈️ In less than one week we will be visiting Shanghai, Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo! 🗺️

We are excited to meet all of the fantastic prospective students at the QS Fairs with our brilliant mascot Jeremy Beartham 🧸

We are really looking forward to meeting you all and answering all your questions about our 8 fantastic departments, life in London and of course studying in the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences at UCL.

🗓️ you can also book a call with Lee, our Senior Student Recruitment Marketing manager to talk about courses, UCL, London and moving to the UK! Link in linktree.

 

📸 1, 2 & 3 UCL Alumni Elena Jones Elena Jones
📸 4 Photo by Lightman Qian on Unsplash

09/10/2026

Your department needs you! Become an Academic Rep and make a difference for your fellow students!

Self-Nominations for Academic Rep positions closes today - Friday 9th October!

Self-nominate via: https://bit.ly/4zljTpn

Find full details of the Academic Rep Programme can be found on the Students’ Union Website: https://bit.ly/4zk1Wav

07/10/2026

Your department needs you! Become an Academic Rep and make a difference for your fellow students!

Self-Nominations for Academic Rep positions is open until Friday 9th October and voting will take place between 15th – 22nd October with results announced on 26th October.

Find full details of the Academic Rep Programme can be found on the Students’ Union Website.

05/10/2026

Join us for the Inaugural Lunch Hour Lecture hosted in-person at UCL East.

We're delighted to welcome the Lunch Hour Lecture series to UCL East for the first time since its creation in 1942, bringing this long-standing UCL tradition to our Stratford campus as part of our bicentennial celebrations.

Date: Wednesday 21 October
Title: William Ramsay: The Man the Gas and the Bicycle
Speakers: Professor Andrea Sella and Dr Nicholas Robbins

Lunch: 12:30pm, 7th Floor Staff room, Marshgate Building, UCL East
Lecture: 1:30pm to 2:30pm, Lecture Theatre 118, Marshgate Building, UCL East

Join us for this special in-person event as Professor Andrea Sella and Dr Nick Robbins examine how a scientific mystery solved at UCL led to the discovery of neon and transformed urban nightscapes around the world.

The lecture will explore the fascinating intersections of art, science, craftsmanship and innovation in nineteenth-century London, revealing the people and discoveries behind one of the modern world's most iconic forms of illumination.

Free to attend and open to all. A packed lunch will be provided.

Book your ticket now: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-person-william-ramsay-the-man-the-gas-and-the-bicycle-tickets-2002217520502

21/09/2026

Our Undergraduate Virtual Open Days bookings are now open!

Join our live Q&A sessions to hear directly from our students and academics about what it’s really like to study at UCL✨

More info, link in bio 🔗

11/09/2026

Joining us in September? Want a chance to meet some friends before you start? Join us online to Meet your Classmates and Student Adviser Team!

This is a chance to meet your Student Adviser team and learn about support available at UCL, as well as meet some friendly faces before starting at UCL and ask any questions you have ahead of starting!

Keep an eye out for an invitation email in the coming weeks and sign up for your departmental event.

We can't wait to see you there!

Your Student Adviser team

09/09/2026

“Whilst universities will, in principle, support and welcome more EU students back into classrooms, the government will have to make up for any shortfalls in fee income. Universities will not be able to absorb this,” said Johanna Waters, a professor of Human Geography and co-director of the Migration Research Unit at UCL.

Any concessions made by new prime minister likely to be fiercely opposed by universities fearful of losing millions of pounds in income

08/09/2026

Congratulations to everyone graduating today! 🥂 You did it! 💪

Well done on your fantastic achievement and we hope you enjoy celebrating - don’t let the weather put you off! ☔️🌈

05/09/2026

Welcome to University College London 🎉🎉🎉 the team from Social and Historical Sciences are in the Haldane Room until 3.30pm!