UCL Press News & Views

To mark Peer Review Week 2024, Amy Lynn caught up with Claire Cameron and Gabriel Eichsteller, editors of the International Journal of Social Pedagogy to discuss the importance, challenges and considerations of peer review.

To celebrate Peer Review Week, Sunbul Akhtar caught up with the editors of History Education Research Journal (HERJ) about how they handle the complexities of editing a peer-reviewed journal.

To celebrate Peer review week, UCL Press Journals Manager Ian Caswell asks: ‘Open peer review: what is it and what is UCL Press doing?’

Heritage is everywhere, from politics to popular culture. Heritage is also everywhere in higher education as we see a boom in academic programmes aimed at training heritage students in leading-edge issues that include digital public engagement, susta…

UCL Open Environment, a fully non-commercial, Open Science journal dedicated to high-impact, multi-disciplinary research on real-world environmental issues, has announced the publication of the first article in a special series on moisture in buildin…

Daniel Noboa’s victory in the second round of the presidential elections on 15 October 2023 was perplexing for supporters of the former president, Rafael Correa. How did a right-wing candidate with a similar neoliberal agenda to the deeply unpopular…

To mark International Literacy Day, Sinéad Harmey and Bobbie Kabuto share the importance of thoughtful professional support for literacy educators and the ethos that guides their new open access book, Teaching Literacies in Diverse Contexts…

As the Summer continued to hurtle towards Autumn, we published three fantastic (and very different) new open access books in August.

In this intriguing post, which originally appeared on the UCL European Institute blog, Seb Coxon explains what got him interested in researching how beards are portrayed in medieval German literary texts, and how we make make sense of this. His book,…