Win! Review of UCL’s research and other ties

1 Feb 2025

UCL council has agreed to support the motion presented by staff and students to review UCL’s research partnerships and other links with states, institutions and companies who have violated fundamental international law. 

This comes after UCL council agreed to review UCL’s investments in November.

Both of these wins follow the overwhelming support by the Academic Board of a paper proposing the investigation of UCL’s links to states, institutions, companies and other bodies involved in genocide and crimes against humanity. 

We applaud this decision by UCL council and remain committed to ensuring that this review culminates in the severing of research and other partnerships with bodies that are complicit in crimes against humanity in Palestine and others around the world. 

These wins are the outcome of the organising and actions of students and staff at UCL over the past fifteen months including a 34 day occupation of the Jeremy Bentham room, an encampment and countless direct actions demanding an end to complicity. This is a joint effort from across the UCL community including academic board members who supported, presented and overwhelmingly voted in favour of these motions. 

As we welcome a ceasefire in Gaza, Israel is expanding its genocidal actions to the West Bank, including holding Jenin under a brutal siege. This is just one reminder that Israel continues its occupation, apartheid and violence against Palestinians as it has since 1948 and the movement must remain steadfast and committed to Palestinian liberation. 

We will continue to take action until UCL cuts all ties with states, institutions, companies, and other bodies complicit in genocide.