UCL Press News & Views

To celebrate this week’s British Educational Research Association (BERA) Conference in Brighton, we’ve curated a selection of must-read open access books and journals from UCL Press.

August is traditionally a time to relax – but we haven’t slowed down! Six brand new open access books have landed this month, covering everything from blindness to Soviet youth games, historical travel to democracy.

July’s sunny weather wasn’t an excuse to relax at UCL Press – we’ve been busier than ever with five new open access books! Covering topics from historical memory and mental health to kinship, sensory heritage, and literary masculinity, these titles a…

Have you downloaded Encountering Pain? Would you be happy to take part in a short survey about the impact of this work? If so, we’re looking for your help!

History Education Research Journal (HERJ) invites scholars, educators, and researchers to contribute to a new open access special series set for publication from mid-2026: Narrative Competence, History & Responsibility.

We are delighted to share that UCL Open Environment has been accepted for indexing in Scopus, one of the world’s leading abstract and citation databases. This milestone follows a rigorous evaluation process and marks a significant step in the journal…

The International Journal of Social Pedagogy (IJSP) invites practitioners, researchers and educators to contribute to a new special series: ‘The Loss of the ‘Social’ in Social Pedagogy and Social Work?’

UCL Press is inviting applications for the role of Editor-in-Chief of UCL Open Environment, an open access journal dedicated to publishing high-quality, peer-reviewed research that addresses the world’s most pressing environmental challenges.

To mark the ICCEES 2025 World Congress at UCL in London this week, we’ve put together a reading list of essential open access books from UCL Press. If you’re attending, Dr Chris Penfold, our commissioning editor, will be there to talk you through our…