Government scientist who has advocated for more Covid controls is member of the Communist party
She has reportedly been a member for over 40 years
25 April 2021 • 9:30pm
A scientist who advises the Government and has advocated for more coronavirus controls is a member of the Communist Party.
Professor Susan Michie, Director of the Centre for Behaviour Change at University College London, sits on a sub-group for the Government’s SAGE advisory body.
She is a frequent contributor on the BBC and ITV but is also a member of the Communist Party of Britain and has been for more than 40 years.
Earlier this month she co-authored an article which called for further restrictions on life in the UK and “maximum suppression” of the virus around the world.
Students must learn how to disagree in order to beat cancel culture , says vice-chancellor
Undergraduates must learn the art of polite discourse as part of their degree, according to president and provost of UCL
25 April 2021 • 5:00pm
Dr Michael Spence, of UCL, said the main problem on campus was students inability to engage in courteous debate with their peers and fellow academics
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Students need to be taught how to disagree with one another to tackle cancel culture , a leading vice-chancellor said as he warned that society has forgotten how to debate.
Undergraduates must learn the art of polite discourse as part of their degree, according to Dr Michael Spence, the president and provost of University College London (UCL).
Sir Derek Roberts, semiconductor expert and two-times Provost of University College London – obituary
A leader in integrated circuit technology, he restored the finances of UCL but caused a revolt with plans to merge with Imperial College
12 April 2021 • 7:00am
Sir Derek Roberts at UCL, in front of the mummified body of Jeremy Bentham
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Sir Derek Roberts, who has died aged 88, was an industrial scientist who served two terms as Provost of University College London, from 1989 to 99 and 2002 to 03, but discovered during his second term that business and academe make uncomfortable bedfellows.
UCL broke with tradition in appointing an industrialist (Roberts was joint deputy managing director of Arnold Weinstock’s GEC), to the Provostship. The philosopher Jeremy Bentham had been a previous holder of the office, his mummified body on display in a college corridor reminding passers-by of the college’s proud traditions.
Cambridge University asks public to pull faces at their phones to expose flawed emotion recognition technology
Users can pull faces at their cameras as part of a game that tries to make technology recognise six different emotions
4 April 2021 • 5:12pm
Researchers from Cambridge University and UCL have built a website called Emojify to help people to understand how computers can be used to scan facial expressions to detect emotion
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The public has been asked to pull faces at their smartphones by Cambridge University in a bid to expose flawed emotion recognition technology.
A new website called Emojify has been designed by Cambridge and University College London researchers to help people to understand how computers can detect emotions by scanning faces.