UCL Press News & Views

Learn more about the academics who join Professor Philip Schofield to discuss their work in the first season of UCL Press Play.

UCL Press Head of Publishing Lara Speicher recently attended the OASPA Conference 2025, where open access advocates, publishers, librarians and researchers from around the world gathered to explore the future of scholarly communication. The conferenc…

Join Anna Shadrina at UCL SSEES for the launch of The Babushka Phenomenon: Older Women and the Political Sociology of Ageing in Russia, her new open access book published by UCL Press.

UCL Press is delighted to share a call for papers for a forthcoming special series in the International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning (IJDEGL): ‘Reimagining teachers’ work and teacher education for our futures – Global perspect…

Join Thomas Kador, author of the new textbook Object-based Learning: Exploring Museums and Collections in Education for an afternoon and evening of events and activities, centring on UCL’s museums and their unique collections.

UCL Press Production Manager Jaimee Biggins recently attended the Independent Publishers Guild (IPG) Autumn Conference at the Shaw Theatre in London, where over 300 publishers from across the academic and trade sectors came together for a day of disc…

September marks the start of a new academic year, and UCL Press welcomed it with a selection of five new open access titles. September’s releases spanned museum studies, pedagogy, urban knowledge co-production, Victorian collecting, and children’s we…

What can a preserved animal specimen tell us about colonialism, extinction and even genocide? In this blog post, Thomas Kador reflects on the themes of his recent book Object-Based Learning: Exploring Museums and Collections in Education and consider…

mark European Day of Languages, Kasia Łanucha and Alexander Bleistein consider the changing needs of ab initio language learners in UK universities in this excerpt from their chapter in Ab Initio Language Teaching in British Higher Education: The Cas…