An "oasis" at UCL
Written by an anonymous studentI joined the Jazz Society choir in my second year after spending the entirety of the first year stalking them on Instagram – they were a lively society whose every event seemed successful, large, and, well, jazzy.
New. Start. Now
It’s a new year and the perfect time to start something you didn’t get around to in term one. Like joining a society, learning yoga, volunteering or playing sport. It’s never too late to start.
Academic Rep of the Month - December 2018
As your Union, one of our most important jobs is representing your academic interests and making sure you can influence the way UCL works.  The best way for us to do this is by working with Academic Reps in every UCL Department.
Team UCL Sports Clubs raised a whopping £25,685.91 for Movember
Every November, as part of the Movember Foundation's campaign, this moustache-growing month takes place to raise awareness and fundraise for cancer and men's mental health.
Imposter syndrome at an elite univeristy
Jade Burroughs brings awareness to the largely unspoken phenomena of imposter syndrome. She gives us a personal account of her own struggles and comments on why this syndrome is so rife within a university setting.
Crap-tastic Christmas: The worst (and best) lights in London
London really knows how to do Christmas (have you been to Oxford Circus or Regents Street?). It’s that special time of the year when the whole city is covered in lights, mulled wine seeps out of every bar and club and you can’t escape the mince pies (funnily enough, they don’t contain any meat!).
Disabled History: Our Story (Un)Told
History is the narrative which a society presents itself in order to make sense of its past, its present and where the future might lie. Within that narrative there are many threads, overlapping and interweaving to form the many stories that make up said history.
Get festive with volunteering!
The festive season is all about giving back and bringing happiness to others and what better way is there to do that than through volunteering?
We're calling for a People's Vote on the Brexit deal
As a result of the All Student Meeting vote on whether the Union should support a People's Vote on the Brexit deal, we've written to our MP, Keir Starmer. The letter can be read below: Dear Sir Keir Starmer 
Open statement from LGBT+ representatives within the University of London
It has come to our attention that a letter was published in The Guardian newspaper on the 16th of October notifying the public about the formation of a network of academics who claim to be “concerned about the suppression of proper academic analysis and discussi
Rep Elections Results
Thanks to all 2,799 students who voted in our Rep Elections.  The lucky candidates who have been elected to be your representatives are below.  Congratulations to all and watch this space to find out what they get up to in the year ahead. 
People of Black History Month - Moise
We are just over halfway through Black History Month so we at the Union thought it was about time you heard from some of the key players in what is one of our most exciting and thought-provoking periods. 
How Volunteering Helped Me Unlock London
Postgraduate research degrees can get lonely. You spend a great deal of your time working by yourself – reading papers, collecting and analysing data, and so on. Add to this the fact that we are in one of the largest cities in the world, and it’s no surprise that some students find it difficult to develop that feeling of belonging to a community.
Academic Reps
We represent your academic interests, every day Every day, right across every UCL department, some of the over 1600 Academic Representatives that we work with are making your education better.
The 2018 3MT winner is...
Three Minute Thesis ®(3MT) challenges doctoral candidates to present a compelling spoken presentation on their research topic and its significance in just three minutes, in language appropriate to non-specialists. Three Minute Thesis was first established at the University of Queensland in 2008 and has rapidly spread all over the world.
New Tier 4 visa compliance regulations: 83% feel discriminated against as a UCL international student
Over the past two weeks, hundreds of international students from across the university have responded to our survey related to UCL's new visa compliance regulations.
We're committed to tackling sexual misconduct at UCL
A new report published by the NUS in the wake of the #metoo movement investigates sexual misconduct in Higher Education institutions. The results make for sobering reading and shows how far universities have to go to foster an inclusive and safe environment for all students.
Statement responding to changes to Tier 4 visa engagement monitoring at UCL
Developed and agreed at a UCL staff-student open meeting 5th June 2018, and finalised on 13th June. We have now launched our campaign, UCL: Stop Policing International Students.
What went down at our Education Awards?
This week, we teamed up with UCL for the first ever joint Education Awards, recognising the winners of the Academic Rep of the Year Awards, our Student Choice Awards, and UCL's Education Awards. 
We did it, we’ve been accredited as Investors in People!
Over the last few months the Investors in People auditors have been interviewing, surveying and well…auditing Students’ Union UCL. Our whole staff team have had the opportunity to take part and give their feedback on what it’s like to work here. The way we do things here has been under the microscope and the results are in. We're accredited!