Project X London
Ronald Gruzinsky
Since 1987, the London Project Center has conducted over 500 student research projects with more than 100 organizations in Greater London, including many borough councils (local government authorities), museums, and heritage sites and other nonprofit organizations.
Recent projects with museums and heritage sites range from studies of visitor behavior in the galleries to the development of prototype exhibits, especially those involving digital technologies. Museum and heritage sites hosting our students have included the British Museum, the Dickens Museum, the Design Museum, the Postal Museum, the Tower of London, Tower Bridge, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the London Transport Museum.
Students have also conducted projects with the London Boroughs of Brent, Camden, Croydon, Greenwich, Hounslow, Kingston, Lambeth, Lewisham, and Merton. Projects with the Boroughs have focused on environmental sustainability in general, but cover a diverse array of topics, such as carbon reduction in buildings, the use of photovoltaic systems in social housing, emergency planning and response to hazards, and the promotion of bicycles and other modes of transportation to reduce carbon emissions.
All the projects (and the entire student experience in London) offer wonderful, real-world opportunities for WPI students and provide our project hosts with valuable data and perspectives on pressing problems in and around the metropolis.
Accomplish your goal of crossing the finish line with the Project Purple team in the 2025 London Marathon. Being on the Project Purple Team will enable you to accomplish personal goals, while supporting research and raising awareness for pancreatic cancer.
Please note that you will be asked to sign this application upon completion. This only serves to verify that you have answered to the best of your abilities. It does not guarantee you a spot on the team or bind you to any contract.
Upon completion of this application, a member of the Project Purple team will reach out to you to review. If you are extended an invitation to join the Project Purple team you will have 48 hours to complete a waiver and set up your fundraising page, or you may lose your spot to someone else based solely on demand. If you have any questions, please reach out to Vin at v...@projectpurple.org or (475) 351-9768.
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Right now, you have the opportunity to make your mark in the Museum gardens like never before. From sponsoring a square metre of garden to dedicating a bench to a loved one, a donation to the Urban Nature Project is the perfect way to be a part of this historic project.
School groups will also be able to explore the gardens and take part in a programme that focuses on building a connection with nature, valuing biodiversity and what actions they can do to help nature.
We welcome students from all over the world. You'll find plenty of courses to choose from, historic campuses, and fellow students from more than 150 countries. Find out how we can help you join our friendly community.
Our research provides innovative solutions that benefit business, industry and communities in the UK and across the world and has won a series of awards. Funding is available for postgraduate research studies.
The Innocence Project London aims to undertake thorough and objective investigations into alleged wrongful convictions of individuals who maintain their innocence and have exhausted the criminal appeals process.
The Innocence Project London (IPL) was established in 2010, it became a registered charity in 2020. Run by Director Dr Louise Hewitt, law and criminology students work in small groups alongside a practising lawyer, to review and investigate claims of innocence from convicted individuals who have exhausted the criminal appeals process. In January 2016, the IPL became a member of the Innocence Network, which is based in the United States of America. The global Innocence Network (IN) also based in the USA, is an affiliation of 67 innocence organisations from several different countries, all of which offer pro-bono legal and investigative services to convicted individuals who have maintained their innocence.
The majority of clients that apply to the IPL will have already appealed their conviction or sentence, so the aim of our work is to submit an application to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC). The CCRC is an independent body which reviews possible miscarriages of justice in the United Kingdom. They have the ability to decide whether a conviction or sentence should be referred back to the Court of Appeal. The CCRC will only refer a case back to the Court of Appeal if they find a new piece of evidence or a new legal argument that was not put forward at the time of the trial, which would render the conviction unsafe in the context that it would have changed the decision of the jury had they had been aware of it.
The innocence project model has been adapted to be used with the English criminal justice system where individuals have their convictions found unsafe, unlike in the USA where individuals are exonerated.
Working on the IPL, students deconstruct the criminal cases, analyse the evidence that led to conviction, develop legal theories that could reopen the case and search for factual evidence of innocence. Globally, the deconstruction of a conviction to support a claim of innocence operates at the end of the criminal justice system, unlike clinical legal education in its traditional form. The process identifies the evidence that convicted the client and searches for gaps in the evidence provides a significant opportunity to develop reflective practice, alongside creative problem solving.
The IPL provides students with a unique opportunity to critically reflect on how the criminal justice system has worked, and how it might work differently and more effectively. The learning pedagogy that has been developed combines experiential or practical learning as a result of direct involvement with a case, with elements of work-based learning to create an employer/ employee environment for students. The learning activities students experience are the same as that found in the legal workplace such as performance related tasks, solving problems, learning from work activities, work teams and enhancing performance, which reflected the learning from putting together bundles under the constraints of time, drafting directions to experts and sorting through case files .
The IPL currently only accepts student volunteers from the University of Greenwich. Students from other universities should consider applying for an unpaid internship more detail can be found on the IPL website.
There is a two- part application process. The first part consists of the submission of a CV and investigative report. There will then be a shortlisting process and the successful candidates from part one will proceed to part two and be asked to take part in an interview where they will present their investigation.
Restart is a people-powered project. Together with our growing network, we run community repair events around the world and use the stories we collect to help demand better, more sustainable products for all.
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Network Rail also selected Bechtel as its delivery partner for managing the extensive upgrades to the existing rail network outside London to make it compatible with the new line. Our integrated teams manage the extensive engineering and construction programs to build this much needed new railway.
The new railway is forecast to carry 200m passengers a year, providing a ten percent increase in central London's rail capacity. Not only will it provide more frequent and reliable train journeys for London's growing population, but it will also add an estimated 42bn to the UK's economy.
One of the biggest challenges was tunneling. The running tunnels, which were completed in 2015, included 42km of tunnels beneath London. Huge tunnel-boring machines worked around the clock, moving through ground honeycombed with networks of sewer lines, water and gas mains, building foundations and London Underground tunnels dating to the 1860s.
Years of careful study, planning and ground reinforcement efforts minimized the risk of ground settlement affecting buildings and infrastructure above the tunnels. More than 2000 structures above the new twin-bore tunnels running beneath central London were monitored for stability. Major utility relocations also took place across London to protect vital services for residents and businesses.
Bechtel built a moving replica of a tunnel boring machine from 50,000 LEGO bricks. The 6.5-foot- (2-meter-) long model shows all the components of a working tunnel boring machine and demonstrates how these mechanical moles dig and build tunnels all over the world. The model was created to celebrate Bechtel's involvement with FIRST LEGO League, an international robotics tournament for students ages 9 to 16.
Crossrail has set new standards in sustainability practices. For example, as a result of collaboratively working with the Building Research Establishment, BREEAM assessment criteria for environmental performance in underground stations have been developed. An ambitious community investment program, with legacy driven objectives, has also been established.
Dedicated to advancing the practice of sustainability, the Crossrail project team piloted the use of hybrid diesel-electric excavators, hydrogen fuel cell-powered lighting and noise monitoring stations, and used LED lighting instead of traditional halogen or fluorescent lights to reduce energy consumption.
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