UCL Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences

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UCL Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences
DeanProfessor Jennifer Hudson
Academic staff
777 (as of December 2018)[1]
Administrative staff
291 (as of December 2018)[1]
Students5,951[2]
Undergraduates3,527
Postgraduates2,424
Address
Andrew Huxley Building
,
London
,
United Kingdom
Websiteucl.ac.uk/shs

The UCL Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences is one of the 11 constituent faculties of University College London (UCL).[3] The current Executive Dean of the Faculty is Professor Jennifer Hudson, having been appointed from September 2022.[4]

History

William Stanley Jevons

19th century

The Chair of Political Economy at UCL was created in 1827 in memory of David Ricardo, establishing the first Department of Economics in England.[5] The first holder of the chair was John Ramsay McCulloch.[5] In 1833 Alexander Maconochie was appointed as Professor of Geography at UCL, the first such appointment in the British Isles.[6][7] In 1853 Gottfried Kinkel gave a series of lectures on medieval art at UCL.[8] William Stanley Jevons held a professorship of Economics at UCL between 1876 and 1880.[5]

20th century

In 1922

The Constitution Unit was established in April 1995.[15] The School of Slavonic and East European Studies merged with UCL in 1999.[16]

21st century

In May 2003, a team from the Department of Anthropology published a major piece of research on the possible link between the amount of food that a mother has to eat and the gender of her children.

global warming co-authored by Mark Maslin, the Director of the Environment Institute, was published.[20] In January 2010 Simon Corcoran and Benet Salway of the History Department discovered fragments of the Gregorian Codex, an important Roman law code that previously had been thought lost forever.[21]

Departments

UCL Department of Economics, Drayton House

The Faculty currently comprises the following nine Departments and Institutes:[22]

  • UCL Anthropology
  • UCL Department of Economics
  • UCL Department of Geography
  • UCL History Department
  • UCL History of Art Department
  • UCL Institute of the Americas
  • UCL Institute of Archaeology
  • UCL Department of Political Science & School of Public Policy
  • UCL Institute of Advanced Studies

Research

University College London

The Faculty is closely involved with the following research centres and institutes:

  • Centre for Applied Archaeology
  • Centre for Audio-Visual Study and Practice in Archaeology
  • Centre for Digital Anthropology
  • Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
  • Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice
  • Centre for Museums, Heritage and Material Culture Studies
  • Centre for Research on the Dynamics of Civilisation (CREDOC)
  • Centre for Terrestrial Carbon Dynamics
  • Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies
  • Centre for Transnational History
  • China Centre for Health & Humanity
  • Climate and Water Research Unit
  • Coastal and Estuarine Research Centre
  • Constitution Unit
  • Environment Institute
  • Environmental Change Research Centre
  • Institute for Subjectivity and the Cultural Imagination
  • International Centre for Chinese Heritage and Archaeology
  • Laboratory for the Ethnography of the UK
  • Migration Research Unit
  • The Equiano Centre
  • Urban Lab

Rankings

In the 2020 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, UCL is ranked 11th in the world (and 4th in Europe) for Social Sciences,[23] and sixth globally (third in Europe) in Arts and Humanities.[24]

In the 2020 QS World University Rankings by subject, UCL is ranked eighth (fourth in Europe) for Geography, 17th (fifth in Europe) for Economics & Econometrics, 17th for History, and 44th for Politics and International Studies.[25]

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Student statistics". [UCL]. 1 December 2019.
  3. ^ "The Academic Units of UCL". University College London. Retrieved 12 September 2010.
  4. ^ "UCL announces two new faculty deans". UCL. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
  5. ^ a b c "London and the early history of economics and statistics" (PDF). Institute for Fiscal Studies. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
  6. ^ "Biography of Alexander Maconochie". ACT Corrective Services. Archived from the original on 14 September 2009. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
  7. ^ "A Very Brief History of the Department". UCL Department of Geography. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
  8. ^ a b c "History of the Department". UCL History of Art Department. Archived from the original on 21 November 2010. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
  9. ^ "Obituary: Sir Ernst Gombrich OM". The Telegraph. 6 November 2001. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
  10. ^ Box, Joan Fisher (1978). R. A. Fisher: The Life of a Scientist. New York: Wiley.
  11. ^ "Obituary: Professor Ian R. Christie". The Independent. 5 December 1998. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
  12. ^ "Professor Peter Ucko". The Independent. 21 June 2007. Archived from the original on 31 May 2008. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
  13. ^ "Professor Sir Rees Davies". The Telegraph. 25 May 2005. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
  14. ^ "The merger and the man". The Guardian. 22 October 2002. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
  15. ^ "Sift, stir and reconstitute". Times Higher Education. 25 July 1997. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
  16. ^ "Blessings of union". Times Higher Education. 30 April 2004. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
  17. ^ "Famine link to girl births". BBC News. 21 May 2003. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
  18. ^ "We are healthier than US, but the weight gap may be closing". The Times. 3 May 2006. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
  19. ^ "Obituary: Lindsey Hughes". The Guardian. 16 May 2007. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
  20. ^ "Professor Anthony Costello: climate change biggest threat to humans". The Times. 14 May 2009. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
  21. ^ "Cracking the codex: Long lost Roman legal document discovered". The Independent. 28 January 2010. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
  22. ^ "Academic Departments by Faculty". University College London. Retrieved 12 September 2010.
  23. ^ "THE World University Rankings 2020 by subject: social sciences". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  24. ^ "THE World University Rankings 2020 by subject: arts and humanities". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  25. ^ "QS World University Rankings by Subject 2020". QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited. Retrieved 23 March 2020.

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