CONSULTING WITH EXPERTS
UCL is seventh in the world’s top ten universities
(QS Rankings 2015) and the UK’s top-rated
university for research strength (REF 2014). With
over 6,000 academic and research staff, £1 billion
turnover, and students from 150 countries, we are
London’s Global University.
UCL Consultants is a wholly-owned subsidiary of
UCL.
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UCL Consultants is one of the UK’s leading
providers of academic consultancy. Drawing
on the best of UCL, we can connect you with
critical specialist knowledge and first-class
research facilities, or provide the access to
leading researchers you need. With experience
in working with clients large and small, our
commercial and contractual experience allows
UCL’s academic input to be successfully
integrated into your project.
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UCL consulting capabilities:
International development
Delivered by UCL Consultants Ltd
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At UCL we undertake world-leading
research to find solutions to the challenges
in international development. We help build
capacity for socially just and sustainable
development, work towards sustainable world
health, and investigate human behaviour and
changes for long term global benefit. UCL
brings international development together
with insights from the built environment,
engineering, health, education, and beyond to
create a broad, multidisciplinary approach.
Our accomplishments include:
• UCL has developed a community
intervention for maternal and neonatal
health that has achieved a 30% reduction
in neonatal fatalities in Nepal, and is now
being rolled out for over 2 million people in
India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Malawi.
Services and capabilities offered:
UCL brings value when:
• Policy analysis and evaluation
• Designing policy
• Behaviour change
• Developing change initiatives
• Bespoke training
• Managing risk
• Evidence synthesis and communication
• Developing capacity
• Urban and infrastructure planning
• Health interventions
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• Researchers at UCL analysed the
experiences of Medellin’s urban
transformations to produce the Medellin
model, a foundation of international
policymaking guides for pro-poor urban
upgrading included in the UN-Habitat
Guides and launched at Rio+20.
• UCL has worked with the Kenya Ministry of
Education, Teachers’ Service Commission,
and National Union of Teachers to quantify
gender-based violence in schools and
develop policies to protect girls in schools.
Research themes:
• Urban planning and transformations
• Climate change and energy security
• Health and wellbeing of the vulnerable
• Education policy and infrastructure
• Resource, energy, and water management
• Gender- and minority-based violence
• Population health, hygiene, and sanitation
• Sustainable behaviour and economies
• Disaster and risk management
• Social and environmental change
• Migration, asylum, and refugees
• Poverty reduction
• Global governance, equity, and security
• Transportation policy and infrastructure