UCL Press News & Views

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,…

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…