Yale UCL Collaborative

Yale University, Yale School of Medicine, Yale-New Haven Hospital, UCL (University College London) and UCL Partners have entered into a unique collaboration called the Yale UCL Collaborative.

The working mission of the Yale UCL Collaborative is to educate to enable positive contribution, interpret complex issues for wider society and solve important issues through collaborative research and its implementation.

Three key enabling domains have been identified as strategically import to deliver the core mission. These are fundraising to support activity, communication within and outside the organizations involved and developing the Collaborative so that it can fulfill its potential. 

Educating to Enable

Both Yale and UCL explicitly recognize the value of education for the individual and wider society. Yale and UCL have a long tradition of providing a "liberal education", which encourages critical thinking and exposes students to a wide range of influences and ideas (Levin). The Collaborative is currently developing split Ph.D.s and undergraduate exchanges to support this agenda, which will allow students to experience and gain confidence in a different academic setting and will continue to benefit them after their education is completed.

Interpreting the World

It is imperative that universities use their knowledge to work within local and globalized societies as useful citizens. As the factors which impact on populations grow more complex, so the responsibility of universities to help provide analysis and understanding increases. 

Solving important issues

One way that universities contribute to society is by undertaking research which generates knowledge and creates wealth outside the university. The Collaborative offers an unprecedented scale of opportunity to solve problems, that is, discover solutions to pressing issues through research, and consider and assist rational implementation of these solutions. Healthcare, biomedicine, computational biomedicine, arts, humanities and science, together provide understanding of the human condition and the wider environment. The Collaborative has already attained joint grants, with others prepared for submission. We are also seeking to generate our own grant fund.