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UCL Press publishes high-quality research monographs and edited volumes, primarily for the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Across 10 years of publishing growth, we have built particular strengths in Anthropology, Archaeology and Museum Studies, Architecture and the Built Environment, Comparative Literature, Education, History and Social Sciences. We are actively building our Law and Criminology lists and focusing new attention on our already vibrant publishing for History and Philosophy of Science. Informed by the principles and research interests at UCL, themes of social justice, community engagement, global networking and ‘disruptive thinking’ are characteristic in books across the subjects we publish. Interdisciplinarity is fostered and we encourage collaborations between scholars at different points in their career.

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Global Development

Explore a diverse range of open access books on global development, written to help address the world’s global challenges. Readers might also be interested in open access books in sustainability and development.

Why not take a look at  UCL Open: Environment, a unique, fully non-commercial, open science journal that is dedicated to publishing for the benefit of humanity, across all environment-related subjects.

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Extra/ordinary Johannesburg

Lindsay Blair Howe,

22 January 2026

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Co-production of Knowledge in Action

Cassidy Johnson, Vanesa Castán Broto, Wilbard Kombe, Catalina Ortiz, Barbara Lipietz, Emmanuel Osuteye, Caren Levy,

15 September 2025

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Lahore in Motion

Ammara Maqsood, Chris Moffat, Fizzah Sajjad,

18 February 2025

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Urban Transformations in Sierra Leone

Joseph M. Macarthy, Braima Koroma, Andrea Rigon, Alexandre Apsan Frediani, Andrea Klingel,

05 December 2024

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An Introduction to Waste Management and Circular Economy

Stijn van Ewijk, Julia Stegemann,

05 December 2023

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Research in Global Learning

Douglas Bourn,

08 November 2023

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Prosperity in the Twenty-First Century

Henrietta L. Moore, Matthew Davies, Nikolay Mintchev, Saffron Woodcraft,

22 June 2023

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Invisible Reconstruction

Lucia Patrizio Gunning, Paola Rizzi,

12 December 2022

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Obstacles to Environmental Progress

Peter C. Schulze,

22 August 2022

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Financing Prosperity by Dealing with Debt

Christopher Harker, Amy Horton,

14 June 2022

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Antarcticness

Ilan Kelman,

08 February 2022

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Rethinking Urban Risk and Resettlement in the Global South

Cassidy Johnson, Garima Jain, Allan Lavell,

10 June 2021

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Urban Claims and the Right to the City

Julian Walker, Marcos Bau Carvalho, Ilinca Diaconescu,

16 March 2020

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