Information for Staff
Lunch Hour Lectures
Lunch Hour Lectures are an opportunity for anyone to sample the exceptional research work taking place at UCL,
in bite sized chunks. Speakers are drawn from across the university, and lectures frequently showcase new research
and recent academic publications.
Lunch Hour Lectures take place 13:10 - 13:55, are free, and are open to anyone on a first-come, first-served basis.
All lectures are streamed live online and can be watched by clicking on the
Watch Lunch Hour Lectures online link above. Lectures can also
be watched from one week after the event on our YouTube channel where all lectures will be subtitled.
Tuesday 13 November 2018
Lunch Hour Lecture: The Impact of the First World War on UCL
13:10 — 13:55
The First World War had a significant impact on life at UCL, as at other universities in the UK. Over 2,600 members and former members of College served during the war. The UCL community…
Tuesday 20 November 2018
Lunch Hour Lecture: Tracing Desert Sand over Months to Millions of Years
13:10 — 13:55
Northern Chad’s Bodele Depression is home to the world’s largest and fastest moving barchan (crescentic) dunes. These dunes are not made of sand but of diatom fossils. The migration…
Tuesday 27 November 2018
Lunch Hour Lecture: What Can the ONS Longitudinal Study Tell Us about Time Travel and about the Force?
13:10 — 13:55
The ONS Longitudinal Study is a sample of around 1% of persons in England and Wales, drawn from the decennial census. The sample comprises all people born on four (undisclosed) days…
Tuesday 4 December 2018
Lunch Hour Lecture: The Revolutionary Striptease, 1968
13:10 — 13:55
Viva Maria!, Louis’s Malle’s film comedy of 1965, starring Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau, seems an unlikely catalyst for world revolution. At first sight, this story stands out…
