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UCL Open: Environment now indexed in PubMed Central!

November 10, 2023

We are delighted to announce that, following a rigorous evaluation process, UCL Open Environment has been accepted for indexing in PubMed Central. Researchers wishing to publish in the journal and funded by the Wellcome Trust, MRC and BBSRC, NIHR and…

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New vacancy for Journal Editor-in-Chief (London Review of Education)

June 26, 2023

The London Review of Education, IOE’s flagship open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by UCL Press, is currently seeking a new Editor-in-Chief to lead the journal in its next phase.  

1.5 degrees looks to be inevitable in the next few years – weren’t we supposed to stay below it?

June 15, 2023

How does the media read climate science and present it to the public and consequently to decision-makers? In this guest post, UCL Open: Environment Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dan Osborn highlights the way scientific climate research is disseminated for p…

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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…

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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

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.

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