Welcome to the latest edition of the Institute’s termly newsletter, which is an update and highlights some of the many excellent activities at the Institute over the past 3 months, some attracting major media attention (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ion/news).

The last few months have focused on the UCL Strategic Plan consultation and a review of our own Institute Strategy. Following the productive discussions at our PI Science away day, townhall meetings and the Executive Committee away day at the end of 2021, we have established our key strategic priorities for the next 5 years; we have finalised our final IoN strategic plan, which is aligned with the Faculty’s strategic plan, which we are also feeding into following our annual planning and budgeting meetings. Please visit our website to read our new IoN strategic plan.

In so doing, we have also fed into the new UCL Strategy, and provided an Institute response to the Academic opportunities for targeted investment and the Evolving the UCL Grand Challenges draft papers; We encourage everyone to engage with this process by visiting the dedicated site where the draft UCL strategic papers have been uploaded. Members of the UCL community can provide feedback through the consultation site. Non-members should email consultation@ucl.ac.uk .

We continue the planning and building of our new centre of excellence for UCL Neuroscience at 256 Gray’s Inn Road. This will form part of a ‘dual hub’, supporting our existing laboratories and clinical activity at Queen Square. We have now reached the lowest excavation point, in February 2022, and hope to mark this important milestone; We aim to bury a time capsule at the lowest point in the building, which will be accessible, and will be opened in 2049. Several members of our IoN, DRI and UCL community, our UCLH partner and patients, as well as funding organisations and philanthropic partners are contributing to the time capsule content.

We have celebrated our new graduates at the UCL Graduation ceremonies, the first in person ceremonies since the start of the pandemic. Congratulations to all our Queen Square graduates, this a huge achievement especially during a pandemic. Thank you also to the staff who contributed to the graduation ceremonies and made it such an enjoyable event for our students and their guests.

We have continued to pursue our environmental sustainability and EDI strategies, which are top priorities for the Institute, and implemented a new IoN sustainable travel policy; We celebrated international women’s day by showcasing some of our formidable colleagues at the IoN across our academic, research and professional services staff communities. Please take a look at our newly revamped EDI resources pages and the new IoN Pregnancy and Parental Guidance Handbook.

As this term draws to a close, it is impossible not to reflect on the sad events taking place in Europe; We continue to provide support in the best way we can to our colleagues and students affected by the events in Ukraine- find out how you can contribute. We have also just marked the second anniversary since the first Covid pandemic lockdown; the Institute has done incredibly well over the past two years despite the pandemic, thanks to your resilience, determination, and hard work. The UCL President & Provost invites us all to join him at a special staff event on the 31st May 2022.

We hope you take the UCL Easter closure as an opportunity to have a well-deserved break, and don’t forget to Switch Off!

Michael & Hélène

• a book which will contain testimonials from the donors as well as key UCL figures. 
• images from our Early Career researchers of their work - see below
• drawings from a local school (Christopher Hatton) who have had a competition where children submit a drawing/letter of what they hope the building and scientists will achieve in 25 years time, and also to submit an item/idea that represents 2022.

• a newspaper dated the day of the internment,
• Unused COVID-19 vaccine vial and COVID-19 sequence,
• a plastic bag,
• CD containing digital copies of items within the capsule,
• building plans and flythrough videos.  

UCL Public Art Programme 

The public art programme is progressing well, Annie Cattrell is developing three related permanent artworks which will be highly visible from Grays’s Inn Road. We will be taking her proposed artwork for consultation with our planning partners at Camden Borough Council shortly and hope to be able to share the idea and vision more broadly later this year.

Artist, Freya Gabie and her research into the history of the site will be realised as three artworks including some exquisite lightboxes which will animate the new building. We are pleased to announce that artist Krystle Patel has joined the team at Helene Plun-Favreau's Laboratory as artist in residence and will be working with the team for the next 12 months.

Also joining the team is curator, Laura Purseglove, who will be working with us to commission an artist to work with our local neighbours at 256 Grays Inn Road. This work will be looking at gardening through a partnership with Calthorpe Gardens with an aim to invite local communities to make use of our public spaces in and around the new buildings.

We are shortly to commence Arbor, a knowledge exchange art programme which will invite academics/researchers and students work in collaboration with artists and local communities of communities of interest to create artworks. Watch this space as the programme develops as we hope to encourage your participation.

New Communications Manager
We are delighted that Anna Dabrowski has joined as the new communications manager for ION-DRI Programme

‘Biomarker Factory’ launched to find new ways to detect and monitor neurodegenerative disease

Professor Henrik Zetterberg (Group Leader at UK DRI at UCL) established the UK DRI Biomarker Factory in Spring 2021. The high-performance analytical platform can now also be accessed as a service for other researchers across the UK and beyond.

Congratulations!

We’re pleased to announce the following recent prizes and awards:
 

Congratulations to Professor John Hardy (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology) who has been appointed Knight Bachelor for services to human health in improving understanding of dementia and neurodegenerative diseases.
Professor Hardy has also received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Helsinki, to be awarded in June 2022



Dr Francesca Magrinelli chosen for Class of 2024 Edmond J. Safra Fellowship in Movement Disorders
The Michael J. Fox Foundation’s Edmond J. Safra Fellowship in Movement Disorders has selected its Class of 2024, from top neurology programmes across the world, including Dr Francesca Magrinelli, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology.



Congratulations to Dr Soyon Hong and Professor Kenneth Harris who have been awarded an Eisai / UK DRI Postdoc Award


UCL HD Centre Collaborator Receives Honour

Long-time HD Centre collaborator and worldwide Huntington's disease advocate, Charles Sabine, features on the 2022 New Years Honours List

Dr Daniel Bush among UCL academics awarded European Research Council funding
  UCL researchers have received the most EU funding of any UK institution, alongside the University of Cambridge, with five academics, including Dr Daniel Bush (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology) being awarded with prestigious Consolidator Grants

Delighted to announce that Professor Tammaryn Lashley has been elected the vice-president of the British Neuropathological Society   " I am looking forward to working with colleagues to shape the society over the next two years" 


Tobias Hauser has been elected as a Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe

Emma Holmes has been awarded the 2021 ARO Young Investigator Award for her pioneering studies of auditory perception and speech processing.

Naciye Magusali,, LabHeroes21 Highly Commended nomination for her ‘single-minded dedication’ to Alzheimer’s research during COVID-19. 



Rickie Patani formally receiving his Lister Institute Research Prize Fellowship


Tobias Hauser receives LeverhulmeTrust Prize in Psychology



Mr Hani Marcus receiving the receiving the
World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies Young Neurosurgeons Award 

Congratulations to all our recent graduates!

Grants over £500k

Wellcome Trust

• Professor Neil Burgess, Dept. of Clinical & Experimental Epilepsy Awarded £2,864,125.00    

Principal Research Fellowship Renewal, ‘Neural mechanisms of memory & prediction, finding structure in experience’ Many congratulations on your successful application for the renewal of your Principal Research Fellowship. I am writing to confirm that Wellcome has agreed to extend your Fellowship for a further 60 months and that a grant of up to £2,864,125 will be made to University College London for this purpose. The proposed start date is 01 October 2021.

Focus: Education

During term 2 we have been able to offer the majority of lectures in person, and have continued to live stream for students who are unable to come on campus for whatever reason. Applications for new students closes soon, and we are delighted that we can offer more scholarships for our PGT students (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ion/study/postgraduate-taught-degrees).

For this academic year (2021/22) we split our PGR students into 3 cohorts depending on when they started their PhD (September, February & April) and offer all new students a comprehensive in person programme of workshops, covering a range of useful, generic skills. We hope to increase our offering in the next year and also to include more opportunities to meet in a social setting.

The Education Team is delighted that Ms Monica Fonseca has joined the team and will be working with us until the end of June.  

PGR update 



Dean’s List of top performing students for 2020/21 is announced

Every year the Dean recognises the top 5% of students, in terms of academic performance, from across the Faculty. The ION aims to prepare its students to go on to become world leaders in their fields, and it is a fantastic achievement to graduate in the top 5%. Congratulations to all of you.

MRes Neurosurgery
Our new MRes in Neurosurgery course prepares medicine grads & early career clinicians for a career in neurosurgery. We offer hands-on skills training, cutting-edge facilities and unparalleled research opportunities with world-leading experts  https://twitter.com/UCLBrainScience/status/1501218631916699648
 

UCL Education Conference on Wednesday 6 April 2022
Dr Caroline Selai and Tahmina Uddin presented their abstract on "Inclusivity: reflections from Queen Square" 

• Welcome address: Prof. Alan Thompson, Faculty Dean
• Keynote Speaker: Prof. Sanjay Sisodiya, ION Deputy Director Sustainability & Climate Change & Consultant Neurologist

Focus: Health, Safety & Lab Operations

New IoN H&S objectives:
New IoN H&S Objectives for 2021/22 have been agreed at the last H&S Committee meeting. More information can be found on the IoN H&S Intranet pages  

H&S Intranet pages: 
The IoN H&S Intranet pages are currently being renewed. Relevant safety information and IoN related safety documentation will be updated more frequently and presented in an easily accessible format.

Safety Training Reminder:

• This a reminder that UCL Fire and Safety Training courses  are mandatory for all staff and both modules should be completed as soon as possible. 
• In addition to this all PIs, managers and supervisors must complete the Safety Risk Management training programme
• All IoN new starters must receive a local new starter safety induction using the checklist available on the IoN Intranet  

Focus:  Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)

Mentoring at the ION: visit our new website 
The QSIoN Mentoring Scheme was implemented by the Athena SWAN Committee in 2013 to support the career progression of female scientists at the IoN. Since its implementation, the scheme has been expanded to support all members of staff, irrespective of gender. For the past 9 years, this scheme has proved to be a professional and personal development experience benefiting mentees and mentors alike. To assess the impact of the programme, we surveyed the participants of the scheme in 2021. More than 90% of mentees agreed that the mentoring scheme had a positive impact on their career development​, while 78% of mentors think being a mentor had a positive impact on their own career.

To improve the reach of the different mentoring offerings at the IoN, we have launched a new IoN Mentoring website, which can be visited here. To further support those taking part in one of our mentoring offerings, we have prepared supportive training materials for mentors and mentees to view on demand: specifically, the new training on Mentoring Relationships and the new IoN Mentoring Handbook.

We have also launched the Under-Represented Student Mentorship Scheme (URSM): a new mentoring offering to support Master Students from under-represented groups, who are considering applying for PhD studies in Neuroscience at UCL. This new scheme also represents an opportunity for our PhD students and junior postdocs to gain experience as mentors. For more information and to learn how you can participate in the URSM scheme, please visit our website. 
 
 ION Academic Mentoring Scheme and the ION Under-Represented Student Mentorship Scheme are now accepting expressions of interest for mentors and mentees

We are now accepting expressions of interest for mentors and mentees for the IoN Academic Mentoring Scheme and for the Under-Represented Student Mentorship Scheme (URSM).
Anyone can be a mentor! PhD students and Research Assistants can mentor Masters Student. Junior Postdocs can mentor PhD students. You are never too junior to be a mentor, and you will always have relevant information to share with those who are less advanced in their career path.
 
The IoN Academic Mentoring Scheme is open to all clinical and non-clinical Academics, Researchers and final year PhD students at the IoN. Offerings of placements for mentees are dependent on availability from mentors and will be made on a first-come first-serve basis. 
If you are interested in becoming a mentor/mentee within this scheme, please contact Bilal Malik or Ed Wild.
 
The IoN Under-Represented Student Mentorship Scheme aims to support Master Students from under-represented groups, who are considering applying for PhD studies in Neuroscience at UCL. If you are interested in becoming a mentor/mentee within the URSM scheme, please contact Laura Convertino or Michael Moutoussis. 

If you would like to join one of IoN Mentoring schemes as a mentor or mentee, please register your interest by filling out this form.

ION has a new pregnancy and parental leave handbook to support all parents-to-be and new parents
The EDI Committee Parents and Carers workgroup has worked hard to bring together a new resource to provide information and procedures to help managers and individuals who are planning on taking leave to have or adopt a child.
The new IoN Pregnancy and Parental Leave Handbook has been prepared to:  

• help those with managing responsibilities supporting their members of staff;
• improve the experience of those taking leave before, during and following the leave period.

• A summary of all rights and procedures around taking parental leave at UCL;
• A guide to support a structured conversation between the leave-taker and the line manager to better plan for the forthcoming leave period;
• A guide to support those responsible for conducting a risk assessment for pregnant workers and new mothers.

This document was compiled with the collaboration of several members of staff working at the IoN and at UCL. While we tried to be as thorough as possible, there will always be room for improvement and develop the content for future versions. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to contact IoN EDI Project Manager, Ana Faro (a.faro@ucl.ac.uk) or HR Manager, Laura Allum (l.allum@ucl.ac.uk).

ION Leadership Programme for technicians and research assistants launched on the 30th March 2022

Leadership is an enabling and transferable skill recognised in the UCL Academic Careers Framework and in the UCL Ways of Working Framework as an imperative to progress in your career at UCL.

While developing one’s leadership skills is essential to support career development at UCL, members of staff in junior roles have not been given many opportunities to leadership training due to lack of centrally provided offerings at UCL. An analysis on diversity key indicators reveals a grade gap, with women, people with reported disabilities and staff from minoritized groups being highly represented at lower grades, but less so in managerial roles. Therefore, granting training opportunities to members of staff in junior roles is an EDI imperative.

At the Institute of Neurology, we recognize the lack of opportunities for continuous personal and professional development on offer to Research Assistants or Technicians at UCL. To address this, we have decided to partner up with expert external consultant and coach Dr. Magdalena Bak-Maier of ‘Make Time Count’ to develop a bespoke pilot programme, specifically designed to support members of staff in research supporting roles.

We have started the IoN Leadership Programme with the first full day training session on the 30th of March, welcoming a cohort of 10 participants.

We are proud to say that we are the first Department in UCL offering a bespoke training for people in these professional groups. Our efforts did not go unnoticed and received interest from Faculty and elsewhere in the university. We hope we will be able to expand to other departments in UCL in 2023.

Read more about the ION Leadership Programme for technicians and research assistants
 

To celebrate International Women's Day (8 March), we interviewed 7 members of our community who lead by example of commitment, kindness and work ethic and help make IoN an inspiring workplace. We took this opportunity to learn more about what drives them, who are their female role models and what advise they would give to their younger selves. The impact of their actions and work, both locally and more widely, is truly inspiring. 
 
Read all the IWD interviews and learn more about these 7 amazing colleagues that contribute to our community, 
 
There is also a display in Queen Square Library to mark International Women’s Day 2022  - https://queensquare.org.uk/archives/visiting/exhibitions

UCL announces appointment of new Director of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)

After an extensive international search, we are delighted to announce the appointment of UCL’s next Director of EDI, Aloma Onyemah.

UCL to launch LGBTQ+ Equality Implementation Group

UCL is in the process of setting up an LGBTQ+ Equality Implementation Group (LEIG), to ensure that we provide a fully inclusive and equitable environment for all members of our LGBTQ+ community.

The Faculty Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) team is establishing a new EDI Research Centre and Hub.

The aim is to bring researchers that conduct research on Mental Health, Neuroscience, and EDI within the Faculty into one network and also provide them with common resources and other facilitations. 

We would like to kindly call all researchers within the Faculty, as well as all staff and students with an interest in the area, to express their interest in joining our network by completing the following very short survey. 

An info session and workshop on ECR and Teaching staff promotions at IoN, delivered by Professor Helene Plun-Favreau, aimed at all Early Career Research and Teaching staff interested in finding out more about promotions (to Grades 7 and 8). Also suitable for those managing/mentoring ECRs and Teaching staff.

• Recording

Join the first Away Day for Professional Services and Technical staff from the Faculty of Brain Sciences on Monday 27 June, 10:00 -16:00.

Results from the Faculty of Brain Sciences staff survey revealed only 36% of Professional Services and Technical Staff feel they have the same career development support as academic staff, and only 40% feel they are treated with the same fairness and respect.

Colleagues from across the Faculty The aim of this Away Day will be to encourage and facilitate:

1. Networking among all staff

2. Discussion of career progression opportunities

We hope you’ll join us, and look forward to seeing as many of you as possible on the day! 

Please register here.

This event will take place in person, but some of the talks and panel discussions will possibly be made available online (details to be confirmed). 

This year’s Professional Services Conference is an opportunity for the community to reconnect and look towards the future together.

The conference is open to all staff and we’re looking forward to seeing central Professional Services, Faculty PS, VP Office, technical, manual and craft, and contracted colleagues from every corner of UCL.

The event will take place from 10-4pm on 26 May in the IOE. If you’re unable to join us in person then please join us remotely for a livestream of the event and further opportunities to speak with each of the presenters on the day. 

Registration and further information

Share your ideas

Do you have an idea that you think could help improve our hybrid working experience and bring the UCL community together?

Share your initiative with us for the chance to win £1,000 budget and the support of a senior sponsor. The deadline for submissions is 25 April.

• Mental Health Awareness Week 2022 will take place 9-15 May 2022 on the topic of Loneliness.

• Events including a WIld Bloomsbury walk with the ION Green Champions

Please keep an eye on IoN Intranet wellbeing pages for further information.

• Support for staff and students affected by the war in Ukraine

If you are struggling with your mental health and wellbeing, please get in touch with us to speak to an adviser.

• Our Employee Assistance Programme provider Care First offers 24/7 emotional support that can be accessed confidentially by calling 0800 197 4510.  They are also running webinars

ION yoga: online sessions

ION continue to organise online yoga sessions. Please see IoN Intranet wellbeing pages for further information.

Please keep an eye on IoN Intranet wellbeing pages for updates, as well as the list of resources from UCL Health and Wellbeing Human Resources  including the Your Wellbeing survey     

Wellbeing champions at Queen Square


      

Learning & Development have launched three brand new online self-paced courses for our Wellbeing portfolio. Take a look here:

• Supporting Others
• Guidance for Managers on having Wellbeing Conversations
• Managing Your Own Self-Care and Wellbeing

April is stress awareness month

SilverCloud is an online platform that offers wellbeing support through a range of interactive programmes that you can self-select.

• Each programme consists of six or seven modules, which take approximately six to eight weeks to complete.
• Each module contains text, video, and audio clips as well as activities and quizzes that you can complete as you go along.
• SilverCloud is entirely self-paced and is available 24/7 from your computer, tablet, or phone.

If you’re doing something that you’d like to share, we want to hear about it!

• IoN wellbeing Teams is a space to chat with colleagues, take a break and share tips and photographs, including Pets Corner.
• or write to Sandra Porteous s.porteous@ucl.ac.uk or tweet and tag us @UCL

Anyone can send a quick email to send a special thanks to an IoN Professional Services staff member - there is no right or wrong reason to say thanks, it is quick and easy, and highly motivational. The sender can ask for it to be anonymous also. Send an email, with a short message and name of the addressee(s) to Sandra Porteous s.porteous@ucl.ac.uk before 12 noon on the first Friday of each month.

 April 1st  2022 Thank yous
 

Focus: Sustainability

• IoN Sustainable travel policy effective 15th February 2022: air travel for all UK-based business travel and any business travel to Northern Europe that is supported by Eurostar/ train links will no longer be reimbursed or permitted.
•  All of our events will now be vegetarian catering and we will avoid plastic water bottles
• Achieve Green Impact Silver Office Award
• Organise an IoN green day
• Co-ordinate an IoN wide LEAF group
• Make waste and sustainability part of the IoN Labs induction
• Set up a Lab equipment repair service for IoN buildings

We are pleased to introduce Heather Sampson, our Student Sustainability Ambassador

As the new Student Sustainability Ambassador for the IoN, Heather (MSc Clinical Neuroscience) will be working with the IoN Green Champions to improve student engagement and participation as well as help shape and build new sustainability projects. Heather Sampson can be contacted on heather.sampson.21@ucl.ac.uk

'We all have a responsibility to address the climate emergency, one of the biggest challenges of our time. The actions we take today to decrease our negative impact on the environment will directly influence the future of our planet. Together we can make change happen, so join us in creating a more sustainable IoN and UCL! I am very excited to work with the IoN Green Champions and encourage greater sustainability in the department'.

Sustainability at UCL

Greening spaces on campus
Complete the  UCL's green infrastructure form and contact us to report any spaces which could be greened, or spaces which have greenery. 

Office Green Impact

The office workbook  submission deadline is 17th May 2022, followed by audits on 25th/26th May. Please contact sarah.lawson@ucl.ac.uk if you would like to join the ION Green Office team.

Lab Sustainability (LEAF)
The deadline for Lab Sustainability awards is 18th May. There will be one award submission per IoN Department and local teams and representatives are currently working through the LEAF criteria.

 If you would like to participate in IoN’s labs sustainability team please get in touch with s.czieso@ucl.ac.uk  

Find out more about Sustainability at ION on our intranet - https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ion/intranet/green-impact and website - https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ion/sustainability

Thank you to everyone who pledged to Switch Off this Christmas. We are delighted to announce that ION is a joint winner of the pledging competition: alongside UCL Department of Mathematics. We will each receive £100 towards sustainable projects!

Thanks to you, this year's Switch Off saved 173 tonnes of carbon - that's equivalent to planting 2,883 trees, and saved UCL an impressive £114, 374 over the festive period! This just goes to show the incredible changes we are capable of here at UCL, if we all combine our efforts. What a great way to start 2022. Read more about the Switch Off results.

UCL Easter Switch off

Help UCL reach its goal of reducing energy consumption by 40% and for its buildings to become net zero carbon by 2024 by SWITCHING OFF this Easter!

Make your pledge via this form by the 13th of April, and be in with a chance to win prizes for ION!

There are prizes up for grabs for the egg-cellent department or division which has collectively made the most pledges! 

Please follow Easter Switch Off Checklist for Offices

Lab Managers (or other representative attending campus) should ensure that, unless essential:

• All lights, heaters and computers are switched off in their department
• All gas and water taps are turned off and that hoses connecting apparatus to water taps are securely wired both to the water supply and to the apparatus
• Wester switch off resources and lab and office checklists can be found here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/sustainable/easter-switch-resources

Thanks to a £15,000 funding boost from Alzheimer’s Research UK’s flagship public outreach scheme, the Inspire Fund, a new science-art exhibition is planned for the Cooper Gallery in Barnsley, with interactive exhibits created through a series of workshops with the local community

“What’s it like to hallucinate?”


Watch this remarkable new short film "Another Presence! about visual hallucinations in Lewy Body Dementia made with Rimona Weil and featuring members of Rare Dementia’s Lewy body support group. 

Do you want to know the impact of UCL's World Stroke Day Forum 2021?


In October, the UCL WSD forum brought together stroke researchers, charities, stroke survivors and loved ones.

Read the highlights & challenges of this event in our new Impact Report and new magazine

New project funded to co-develop resources for young people living with OCD & their parents

Dr Tobias Hauser, Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, and Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, has received £83,500 in funding from Wellcome to develop accessible toolkits for young people and parents



Patterns of Perception in Parkinson's Dementia
An exciting multidisciplinary & collaborative Public Engagement project aiming to explore fears & concerns around discussing dementia in the Parkinson’s community & produce supporting resources

Shell Shock beyond the War – A European perspective 25 April 2022, 4pm-8pm

The symposium will provide an opportunity for academic staff, clinical staff and students to discuss the psychological consequences of war, a fascinating and multidisciplinary topic with huge relevance for historical and contemporary debates. 

Grace Agbo's visit to Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging

New Starters and staffing news   

ION DAs and Team Managers enjoyed seeing each other face to face over lunch in Ciao Bella! 

IoN Handbook

Recent Queen Square events

Virtual: Neurology 2022: leading edge neurology for the practising clinician: 23rd-25th March 2022

The course is designed for Consultants and senior trainees in neurology and other neuroscience specialties, from the UK, Europe and worldwide, and aims to provide a practical update on the hospital management of neurological diseases.

Upcoming Queen Square events

• Virtual: UK Neuromuscular Translational Research Conference: 26-27th April 2022

• Virtual: Update in Neuromuscular Disorders: 3rd-4th May 2022

• Biomarkers in neurodegenerative diseases: 16th-20th May 2022

• UCL Queen Square Movement Disorders Centre Quinquennial Symposium 9th June 2022

• 20th Annual Course: Neuroradiology & Functional Neuroanatomy: 4-7th July 2022

• The 3rd Queen Square Movement Disorders Short Course: 6-7th October 2022

Queen Square Inaugural Lectures 2022

Lectures will take place virtually. Please RSVP to qsioneventsrsvp@ucl.ac.uk

• 28th June 2022: Professor David Choi, Professor Parashkev Nachev, Dept. of Brain Repair & Rehabilitation
• 19th July 2022:  Professor Sonia Gandhi, Dept of Clinical & Movement Neurosciences, Professor Ed Wild, Dept of Neurodegenerative Disease
• 13th September 2022:  Professor Kirill Volysnski Dept. of Clinical & Experimental Epilepsy; Professor Vladimir Litvak, Dept. of Imaging Neuroscience
• 18 October 2022: Professor Helene Plun-Favreau, Dept of Neurodegenerative Disease; Professor Pietro Fratta, Dept of Neuromuscular Diseases
• 29 November 2022 : Professor Antonella Spinazzola, Dept of Clinical & and Movement Neurosciences; Professor Christos Proukakis, Dept of Clinical & and Movement Neurosciences

• UCL Strategic Plan 2022-27
• A consultation with our community – staff, students, alumni, key partners – to develop a strategic plan for the next five years.

UKRI open access policy

Research Publications Service videos

UCL COVID-19 research and resources

Covid-19 vaccines can be given to people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases

It is safe and effective to vaccinate people with inflammatory or autoimmune rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases such as arthritis and lupus, a study led by UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology has found.

Room booking policy

UCL meeting rooms have re-opened with full capacity. 33QS Lecture Theatre remains under UCLH ICP guidelines so only teaching events are allowed, and no catering/ use of the foyer space, until further notice. ION staff can now use the CMISGo room booking system to book centrally bookable rooms.

Please see ION intranet for further information. 

• Doing your part to stop the spread of COVID-19
• When you’re on campus there are a number of things you can do to stop the spread of COVID-19 and better protect yourself and others from the virus.
•  The Keeping Safe on Campus webpages provide information about what we’re doing to protect our staff and students and how you can help keep campus as safe as possible.
• UCL Connect to Protect reporting tool and a step-by-step guide on how to report or respond to potential cases.
• Please see also IoN wellbeing and H&S sections above.