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Feb 16, 2024
Upcoming Built Environment Laboratory Trials
As part of our ongoing research project in partnership with Guide Dogs, we are conducting research into the impact of design trends that...
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Feb 3, 2024
Bus Stop Design for Disabled People
In partnership with Guide Dogs, we are conducting research into the impact of design trends that are on the increase within the built...
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Jan 22, 2024
Urban Green Spaces for Adolescents
Urban green spaces can play a pivotal role in shaping the experiences of adolescents as they navigate the transitional period from...
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Jan 10, 2024
Is PEARL a Large Neuron Collider, or a Large Synapse Elider?
Although many people think PEARL is large, PEARL is not as large as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, which is a circular tube about 27...
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Oct 24, 2023
How Life-Sized Environmental Simulation can help your City
This presentation aims to provide an overview of how PEARL (UCL's Person-Environment-Activity Research Lab) can help cities to understand...
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Sep 29, 2023
Open House Festival 2023: Update
For the third consecutive year, we proudly participated in London's Open House Festival. Our open days, Friday September 8th, and...
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Sep 3, 2023
Why would you use PEARL? Why should you?
Why would you use PEARL? It is easy to think of PEARL as a massive building with lots of exciting kit inside - but why would you ever...
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Aug 31, 2023
Open House 2023
On 8th and 9th September PEARL will be running guided tours of the space including live demos as part of the annual open house festival!...
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Aug 21, 2023
Call for Participants: Visual Behaviour of Pedestrians at an Unsignalised Crossing
Hi! There will be an experiment at UCL PEARL from 25th September to 5th October I wanted to bring to your attention. The experiment is...
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Aug 18, 2023
Measuring Audience Response to Sound-based Work in Immersive Installations
We are soon to commence research at PEARL into measuring audience responses to the sound-based work within an immersive installation and...
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Jul 31, 2023
NON LINEAR Film School: Applications Now Open!
We are excited to announce that we are part of a brand new 13-week multi-disciplinary intensive training course in creative careers. This...
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Jul 28, 2023
Updated Call for Participants: Public Transport and Working Beyond Age 65
PLEASE NOTE: the eligibility criteria for the final focus group has been widened to include more age groups. See below. At PEARL we are...
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Jul 28, 2023
Reflecting on the Past, Embracing the Present, and Shaping the Future in Dagenham
Event Poster for the event series from https://exhibitions.weebly.com/project-overview.html This year saw the local community come...
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Jul 11, 2023
Brook Academy Ambassadors Round Out the Year by Getting Hands-On
By Craig Smith craig-smith@ucl.ac.uk We proudly run an ambassador’s programme at PEARL that provides local secondary school students from...
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Jun 30, 2023
Light & Sound International Visit PEARL
Making and Production Team From left to right. Top: Steve Mayo and Beky Stoddart. Bottom: Ben Paveley, Matt Vile, Ralph Stokeld, and...
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Jun 27, 2023
Call for Participants: Stress and Crowding on the London Underground
At PEARL we are carrying out research to simulate people’s body reaction to stress at different levels of crowding while commuting on the...
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Jun 21, 2023
Call for Participants: Step Heights on the London Underground
We are currently conducting research at PEARL to determine the most suitable stair height for reducing the risk of falls on the London...
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May 13, 2023
PEARL wins RIBA London Regional Award!
PEARL has won yet another award: this time, it is the London Regional Award from the Royal Institution of British Architects! This is an...
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Apr 17, 2023
Call for Participants: an Autonomous Shuttle Experiment
We are currently seeking participants to take part in experiments on the interaction between an autonomous shuttle and pedestrians,...
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Apr 16, 2023
Synchronising the vibe: how we know something is happening
When PEARL was asked to create a sound for the acoustic vehicle alert system (AVAS) being required for e-scooters in London, it was...
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Apr 2, 2023
Why changing the world is so important
PEARL is all about learning and understanding how people interact with their immediate environment. We study this by looking at how...
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Feb 18, 2023
Designing for Experience Rather Than Appearance
We are currently conducting research at PEARL into reintroducing nature into cities and the resulting impact this can have on well-being....
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Jan 16, 2023
Music Futures grants to conduct music-related research at UCL PEARL: now open!
UCL Music Futures is offering two grants of £5,000 to conduct music-related research at UCL PEARL (Person-Environment-Activity Research...
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Nov 24, 2022
Join our Making & Production Team now!
Are you a creative hands-on technician? Want to work across arts, science and engineering? PEARL's Making & Production Team works with...
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