UCL Press News & Views

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…

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…