About Faculti
What Faculti is
Faculti is a research media and technology platform, publishing expert insights with leading researchers and building tools that help institutions discover and use evidence.
Alongside our digital library, the research platform connects users to millions of academic papers—supporting faster discovery, deeper reading, and citable, evidence-based work across scholarship and policy.
DOI support and academic citation
Faculti assigns DOI support to its interviews so they can be referenced in the same way as other scholarly outputs. Each video is professionally produced and published with structured metadata, summaries, and citations—making the content searchable, verifiable, and suitable for use in teaching, research, and institutional settings. This ensures expert insight is not just watchable, but properly documented, attributable, and citable.
How it started
Founded by a British schoolteacher in London, the journey began when the founder approached Professor John Ellis at CERN and King's College London to speak about the discovery of the Higgs boson. Professor Ellis's enthusiasm and support led to the first-ever Faculti interview. The aim was to allow researchers to speak for themselves, about their research directly to the audience. With nothing but a single video camera and determination, the founder began filming academic interviews across London—capturing stories, insights, and research from leading thinkers.
In 2014, Faculti was selected for UCL Advances, University College London's flagship entrepreneurship programme—an achievement that provided access to top-tier mentoring, facilities, and support from one of the world's leading academic institutions. Thereafter, a UK university steering group helped shape the platform's direction, encouraging a sustainability model rooted in academic values and public trust.
How Faculti works
Every video on Faculti can be viewed freely and unlimited for research, teaching, and public benefit. Only after watching several different videos do we ask users to sign up, helping us transparently cover staff, technical and operational costs. This ethical, balanced model keeps content accessible while ensuring long-term sustainability.
Where we are today
Today, Faculti is a research media and technology platform. We publish over 10000 global expert insights annually, and we now pair that library with our discovery and reading platform built on millions of academic papers, enabling users to search across the literature, follow concepts, surface related work, and move from expert explanation to underlying evidence quickly and reliably. This research layer is now embedded into the Faculti viewing experience, so every video becomes a structured entry point into the wider academic record—supporting deeper reading, stronger citation, and evidence-based work across scholarship, teaching, and policy.
Faculti is delivered at hundreds of institutions worldwide, including the London School of Economics, University College London, Imperial College, The Open University, Duke University, UCSD, the University of Melbourne, the National University of Singapore, and UClouvain. In addition to universities, Faculti is used by central banks, law firms, school districts, and policy institutions such as the Bank of Korea and De Nederlandsche Bank.
Our principles
Faculti is built on academic integrity and public trust. We protect user privacy and focus on making research discoverable, contextual, and genuinely useful for learning and professional work.
Independence
Faculti is an independent, non-partisan platform for scholarly and policy discussion. Our interviews and research tools present academic work in a neutral editorial format; any analysis or interpretations reflect the underlying research and contributing authors, and are provided without political endorsement.
Use of AI technology
Faculti uses assistive AI technologies to enhance discovery and search. Faculti does not ingest, train, or feed any academic content, interviews, or materials into third-party AI or large language models (LLMs). Learn more in our AI and Data Use Policy on our Support Centre.
“Faculti is a Public Good.”
“A nice interview... giving me time to say things, rather than the typical 2-minute piece on the radio or tv.”
“I hadn't heard of Faculti until my younger colleagues recommended it. I don't have the time—or the inclination—to follow academics on Google Scholar, Reddit or Bluesky. I couldn't think of anything worse. But I have watched hundreds of Faculti videos.”
“Our module leader added dozens of Faculti videos to the course reading list. I went off and watched even more on my own. I ended up with a First, and I can honestly say Faculti played a part in that. I'm now preparing for the Bar Course, on track to become a barrister in London.”
“Faculti is an invaluable resource for students, academics, professionals and the public exploring disciplines and issues. It is also an important platform for researchers to share their ideas and thinking with internal and broader audiences, and for universities to showcase their academic staff and research strengths.”
“Faculti is an excellent platform to articulate ideas on important policy issues. As a former Provost and Dean of Faculties at Columbia University, I was able to answer a set of questions on the challenges to our universities in the future and the policy changes I would like to see. Very professionally run.”
“Working with Faculti was a pleasure. The videographer was talented and well-informed, and the interview was painless – even pleasant. I have received nothing but compliments about the video.”
“My paper has had an increase in reads, Faculti has a lot to do with that.”
“Faculti's videos are professionally made and the participants present their ideas clearly in an unadorned, simple way, largely relying on direct, to camera communication, without any other audiovisual aids. A simple idea, well executed.”