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UCL is one of the world鈥檚 leading centres for the study of Europe and the EU. More than 250 academic staff are engaged in scholarship on Europe, from Political Science to Comparative Literature, Laws to Health Informatics, Philosophy to Architecture.
Our European Institute is UCL鈥檚 hub for research, collaboration and engagement on Europe 鈥� recognised by the European Commission as a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence since 2016.
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UCL also has longstanding research and teaching partnerships with many leading European institutes and organisations. These range from multimillion pound joint research centres and seed-funding for individual and regional research collaborations, to collaborative doctoral schemes and dual degrees; from staff and student exchange schemes to joint workshop series; from CPD provision to collaborative MOOCs.
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The university is consistently ranked as one of the top performing organisations worldwide under the EU Framework Programmes for research.
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Highlights: UCL research on Europe
Brexit litigation
The work of UCL Laws Professors Jeff King and Tom Hickman is regarded as providing the 鈥榦rigins of the litigation鈥� in the landmark Brexit Miller ruling delivered on 24 January 2017, when the core of their argument, first published on the听, was upheld by the Supreme Court.
In 2018,听Professor Piet Eeckhout, Dean of听UCL Laws听and Academic Director of the听UCL European Institute, acted as academic consultant in the Wightman case on the unilateral revocation of Article 50, having written about the subject of revocability in听.
European colonialism
UCL academics in the UCL School of European Languages, Culture and Society, UCL History and elsewhere work extensively on the legacies of European colonialism, race and racism in Europe.
Examples include Prof Zolt谩n Biedermann鈥檚听听(OUP, 2018), Dr Chloe Ireton鈥檚 work on听Intellectual History in the Early Iberian Atlantic, Dr Jeff Bowersox鈥� project on听, UCL History鈥檚听Legacies of British Slave-Ownership听project, and听Professor Paul Gilroy鈥檚 work at the newly established Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation.
UCL Research with European Partners
Cities Partnership Programme
Max Planck UCL Centre Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing
The Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research is dedicated to studying the causes of psychiatric disorders and the causes of individual differences in cognitive development, with an emphasis on adulthood and old age.听The Centre was founded in April 2014 and is the result of an existing collaboration between the German Max Planck Society听and听UCL that began in 2011.听
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UCL-Paris Sciences et Lettres
Via the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) and the Cities Partnerships Programme, UCL is working with Universit茅 Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) to support early- and mid-career researchers leading multi-year projects. Projects funded range from multidisciplinary studies on living in outer space to summer schools on the inner life of consciousness. Founded in 2010, Universit茅 PSL includes eleven of Paris鈥櫶齧ost well-known grandes 茅coles and grands 茅tablissements as its component-schools.
>听Four projects awarded funding from UCL-PSL Partnership Funds (Global Engagement Office)
TU Delft
is a 2.5 year JPI Urban Europe-funded research project exploring the future of urban manufacturing in Europe with the focus on three cities: London, Rotterdam and Brussels. The project involves seven organisations, including the UCL Bartlett School of Environment, Energy & Resources and the听听and seeks to create a new narrative for urban manufacturing which can then be translated into policy or used to inform a local economic vision in which manufacturing has a clear place.
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