Impact gallery 2025-6
Get inspired by a sample of collaborative dissertation projects from the class of '26As part of our
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Information for Community Organisations: Volunteering
How can our amazing student volunteers help your organisation?Need a couple (or 20) extra hands on deck?
Pro Bono Research Consultancy Programme
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Community Resilience Assembly 2025
About the Assembly“We can’t predict exactly what’s coming — whether it’s extreme weather, global tensions, or rising social pressures
Community Resilience Assembly 2025
About the Assembly“UCL students are taking bold, innovative climate action in our UCL community and their local areas.
Action Starts with Us: Community Pathways to Climate Resilience
Author: Ruqaiyyah Abuwala, MSc Sustainable Resources: Economics, Policy & Transitions
Community Research for Undergraduates
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Dissertation gallery 2024-25
Get inspired by a sample of collaborative dissertation projects from the class of '25Click on each poster to read in full screen!
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UCL x SJTU Clean Energy Hackathon 2025
UCL x SJTU Clean Energy Hackathon 2025How do we achieve an equitable transition to clean energy?
Hackney Playbus Makes a Start by Chaiti Maheshwari
Hackney Playbus Makes a Start by Chaiti Maheshwari
Disclosure and Barring Service Checks
If it is a requirement for you to complete a DBS check for your volunteer role, you cannot do the activity in question until you have received your DBS Certificate.
Research Volunteer Services
Our servicesOur students have experience with a range of research methods. Since they will be working with you as volunteers, the scope of the work they can do is limited.
Celebrating Student Volunteering Week at Students' Union UCL
Student Volunteering Week, 10 - 16 February, is a national celebration where universities and schools across the country step up to organise opportunities and events to celebrate students who have volunteered as well as encourage more o
Hackney Shed Slam 2024
Read about UCL student Mia Magarian's experience attending the annual Hackney Shed Slam Final at Hackney Shed!
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Student FAQs
Student FAQsWhat is the Community Research Initiative?The Community Research Initi
Dissertation Gallery 2022-23
Take a look at what some of our 22-23 collaborators got up toClick on each poster to read in full screen!
Research Volunteering Gallery
The Community Research Initiative started as a way for master's students to do something different with their dissertations.
Dissertation gallery 2023-24
Get inspired by a sample of collaborative dissertation projects from the class of '24Click on each poster to read in full screen!
FAQs for new partners
FAQs for new organisational partnersWhat is the Community Research Initiative?The
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