UCL Press News & Views

In today’s guest post, Maria Rubins talks about Redefining Russian Literary Diaspora, 1920-2020, which resulted from an international research project uniting leading experts on Russian culture from British and American universities.

View of Downtown Brooklyn’s Fabric with Infill Housing Spatially Integrating the Farragut Housing Towers (indicated by use of brown roof) For much of the 20th century, the image of cities was defined by the skyline of corporate office towers. The dis…

Just what is it like to be an ethnographer in your own community? Jayaseelan Raj shares his experiences in this excerpt from Plantation Crisis: Ruptures of Dalit life in the Indian tea belt.

On A-Level results day, we bring you an except from the introduction to Mary Richardson’s excellent open access book Rebuilding Public Confidence in Educational Assessment,  which explores the nature of trust in assessment discourses.

History Education Research Journal (HERJ) invites academics to submit their papers for a special series titled ‘Democratic resilience and regression in history education since 1945’. This exciting special series, edited by Jan Löfstrom and Heather Sh…

On International Day of World’s Indigenous Peoples, we bring you an except from Zeremariam Fre’s superb Knowledge Sovereignty among African Cattle Herders, which argues that there is much to learn from established indigenous knowledge, challenging th…

We are happy to announce the newest addition to the editorial team of the Design Research in Architecture series, Professor Andong Lu. Currently Professor in Architecture and Urbanism at Nanjing University, China, he joins Professor Murray Fraser fro…

Summer might have been a bit of a wash out (again!) but July has been a fertile month for new publications. In July we published a bumper crop of SIX new open access books, including the second publication from our new open access textbook programme!

We are delighted to announce that the open access book Parliament Buildings: The architecture of politics in Europe has been shortlisted for the prestigious Colvin Prize.