UCL Press News & Views

London Review of Education marks UCL IOE’s 120th year with special issue
August 25, 2022
London Review of Education (LRE), marks IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society’s 120th year with a special issue celebrating the past and ongoing influence of the faculty in educational and social thought, practice and development. Edited by Pro…

Expected or not? The UK’s exceptional record-breaking weather
July 25, 2022
Today’s guest post is by Professor Dan Osborn, who is Chair of Human Ecology, Earth Sciences, at UCL (University College London, UK) and Editor-in-Chief of the UCL Press journal UCL Open: Environment

Is Inclusion an illusion?
July 7, 2022
This week saw the publication of an important new open access book for anyone interested in inclusive education: The Inclusion Illusion: How children with special educational needs experience mainstream schools. In an excerpt from the foreword, Prof…

A Tribute to Professor Marcelle BouDagher-Fadel
July 4, 2022
UCL Press is saddened by the recent death of Professor Marcelle BouDagher-Fadel, whose landmark books Biostratigraphic and Geological Significance of Planktonic Foraminifera and Evolution and Geological Significance of Larger Benthic Foraminifera wer…

UCL Press participates in OpenUP ECR (Early Career Researcher) monograph initiative
May 27, 2022
UCL Press has joined a collaborative pilot project with five other well-established, quality-led University Presses from the UK to seek funding for a number of first books by UK-based early career researchers each year. OpenUP has been approved as a…

The Antarcticness of mental health and wellbeing
February 10, 2022
Today’s guest post is by Ilan Kelman, editor of Antarctiness, which published this week. Its companion volume, Arcticness, published in 2017.

UCL Press Open Access Textbooks: Call for Proposals
May 16, 2017
Following the successful open access publications of Textbook of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Key Concepts in Public Archaeology, UCL Press is expanding its textbook publishing programme. It now invites applications from UCL academics to su…

UCL Press to host biennial University Press Redux conference
November 30, 2016
UCL Press is delighted to announce that it will host the next University Press Redux conference, to be held in Spring 2018. Following the success of the founding conference, organised by Liverpool University Press (LUP) and held in March 2016,…

A Tribute to Lisa Jardine (12 April 1944–25 October 2015)
October 26, 2015
Today’s guest post, which celebrates the life and legacy of the late Lisa Jardine, is written by Lara Speicher, UCL Press Publishing Manager.