UCL Press News & Views
International Literacy Day: The importance of thoughtful professional support for literacy educators
September 8, 2024
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…
Open access books published in August 2024
September 5, 2024
As the Summer continued to hurtle towards Autumn, we published three fantastic (and very different) new open access books in August.
World Beard Day: Reading images of masculinity in medieval German literature
September 3, 2024
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,…
Diaspora and Homeland: Alternative Worlds of Russian Literature?
August 28, 2024
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.
Housing’s Critical Position for the Future of Cities
August 22, 2024
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…
Fieldwork in a time of crisis
August 20, 2024
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.
Confidence issues in educational assessment
August 15, 2024
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.
Call for Papers: Exploring Democratic Resilience and Regression in History Education since 1945
August 13, 2024
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…
The importance of indigenous knowledge
August 9, 2024
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…