UCL Arts and Humanities

📣 Have you heard? Thanks to incredible minds from every corner of the globe, from curious first-years to Nobel prize-winning researchers, we’re now joint #8 in the QS World University Rankings.

We are University College London. And here, it can happen.

🔗 Learn more about our ranking: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/jun/ucl-ranked-8th-best-university-qs-world-rankings

John Mullan is the Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at UCL and has been an influential figure in shaping modern understanding and appreciation of the 18th century novel.

Reflecting on his long-term role leading the English department, he says:

“I find it incredibly satisfying. I think (and hope) that my proudest achievement is making the students and staff in my department feel like they belong here.”

Find out more about John's life and work in his Faces of UCL profile: https://buff.ly/l58Z1rq

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About Faces of UCL: To mark UCL’s bicentenary in 2026, Faces of UCL highlights the people who have shaped 200 years of ground‑breaking research, innovation, education and impact.

Find out more: https://buff.ly/pmqhEco

Discover how a silver cigarette box captured the spirit of UCL’s Classics community, revealing a vibrant scholarly world and a legacy that still resonates today. 📚

Classics has been at the heart of UCL since its founding, thriving particularly in the mid-20th century. A signed silver cigarette box from 1968 offers a glimpse into a lively scholarly community and its enduring impact.

Read more: https://buff.ly/v9TGSms
UCL Greek & Latin

Join our team at UCL Arts and Humanities ✨

We’re looking for a creative, detail-driven Website & Digital Content Officer to help shape how we tell our stories online.

This is a fantastic opportunity to shape digital content, manage web platforms, and use data to drive continuous improvement.

📅 Apply by: 23 June 2026
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📅 22 June | Don’t miss out!

From the UCL Centre for Translation Studies The e-Expert Seminar Series (9th Edition) brings together leading voices to explore wellbeing, neurodiversity and innovation in translation and language education.

Join us in person or online: https://buff.ly/bIDJCeM

Espionage and epic tales: Ken Follett

UCL philosophy graduate Ken Follett is one of the world’s best-selling authors, whose books have sold over 199 million copies in over 80 countries.

After studying at UCL, Ken worked as a reporter for five years and later moved to publishing, whilst writing novels in his spare time. His commercial breakthrough came in 1978 with spy thriller Eye of the Needle.

Find out more about Ken's life and work in his Faces of UCL profile. https://buff.ly/yVmv7g0

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About Faces of UCL: To mark UCL’s bicentenary in 2026, Faces of UCL highlights the people who have shaped 200 years of ground‑breaking research, innovation, education and impact.

Find out more: https://buff.ly/pmqhEco

Our Creative Health MASc team will be at tomorrow’s Life and Medical Sciences Postgraduate Open Evening.

Join us during the first hour at UCL’s Bloomsbury campus to meet the team and find out more about the course.

Book your place: https://bit.ly/4vp24ne
UCL Arts & Sciences (BASc)

📍 Study Classics in central London
At UCL, you’re within walking distance of the British Museum and the British Library, as well as key research libraries including the Institute of Classical Studies, the Warburg Institute, and Senate House Library.

UCL offers an ideal setting for postgraduate study in Classics - join our virtual open event on 9 July to find out more.

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UCL Greek & Latin

Making new friends at university can feel daunting - but you’re not alone. 💬

In this honest and reassuring blog, UCL Classics student Arabella shares her experience of arriving in London without knowing anyone, and how she gradually built friendships through halls, societies, and simply starting conversations.

Read her story: https://buff.ly/zDC1f4g
UCL Greek & Latin

We’re excited to share Reimagining the Studio of Animal Art - a UCL200 collaboration between the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL Biosciences, the Grant Museum of Zoology, and the Zoological Society of London.

Inspired by London Zoo’s original 1930s animal art studio, designed by Berthold Lubetkin and Tecton, this interdisciplinary project revisits a historic model of learning, bringing art and science together to rethink how we study and represent the natural world.

Read more: https://buff.ly/3ntEMeb

📸 Lucy Pope 2026


Slade School of Fine Art